I can’t believe I even have to say this.
“It is a refuge in the middle of the city. We don’t really have anything else like it.”
What to pack and where to go to dine al fresco.
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Washington, D.C. is a tourism mecca, from its free museums to its vast collection of monuments and memorials. Here are the places tourists and locals alike should visit.
Flickr user philliefan_99 has become our resident birder, catching some amazing views of our local eagles, ospreys, and herons — like this gorgeous one taking a dip off Roosevelt Island. The questioning pose of the great water bird and the awesome green reflecting off the water make for a spot-on nature shot. EXIF. Philliefan_99 was at our last DCist Photographer’s Meet-Up; will you be at our next one? Join us at Solly’s at the…
SFist commeters pose for before and aftershocks when the mayor commemorates a 1906 earthquake…at 4:30 in the morning. A hot tip on the Chronicle vending machines comes in and the SFist war correspondent risks life and limb to post this dispatch from the frontlines. Houstonist announces their new Cops spinoff “World’s Funniest Tazer Videos” and the possible cancellation of their pervs’ “World’s Grossest Bathroom Videos” and PBS trains cams on cows at, uhg, Mootube. Also,…
Rep. Richard Pombo (R-Ca.) is just one of those guys you wish you just wouldn’t hear from anymore. First he comes along and tries to sneak legislation through that would have allowed the sale of Theodore Roosevelt Island Park to private developers, only to be shamed into removing the offending provision. Now the Post informs us that Pombo — never an enemy of corporate interests and private developers — is trying to allow the…
Our love for The Amazing Race: Family Edition may not come as news to regular readers. We were quite disappointed that the Black family from Woodbridge, VA was the first team to be eliminated this season, though we believe that they were much too functional and supportive of each other for reality TV success. However, we are particularly looking forward to tonight’s episode, as the nine remaining families race through our backyard. An AOL preview…
D.C. being the place that it is, big protests such as those that took place this last weekend are a dime a dozen. Complaints of excessive use of force by police officers are just as recurrent, with protestors often charging that overzealous police officers step in to make arrests too quickly and offer few apologies or admissions of wrongdoing thereafter. This weekend seems to have been different in that regard — WJLA is reporting that…
