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Jul 24, 2012

Ticket Giveaway: The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs

Two lucky DCist Daily subscribers have the chance to win a pair of tickets to the show.

Oct 19, 2011

Your Rendezvous With Siri Will Have To Wait

Were you thinking about taking a late lunch this afternoon and swinging by one of the Apple Stores in Georgetown, Pentagon City, Clarendon or Bethesda to pick up the phone you can talk to? Tough luck.

Oct 08, 2011

The Saturday Morning Post

Good morning, Washington. For those of you with an extended holiday weekend, it’s going to be a beautiful three days. For those of us looking at no more than our perfunctory time-off, relish Saturday and Sunday’s sunshine. Monday’s certain to arrive sooner than we’d like.

Oct 05, 2011

Steve Jobs, Technological Pioneer, Dies at 56

According to Apple, former CEO and company co-founder Steve Jobs has died. He was 56.

Sep 09, 2007

Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse

There was very little else for Londonist to be concerned with when the threat of a Tube strike became a very unpleasant reality. The inconvenience was extreme: there aren’t many alternatives to the Tube in London despite the best efforts of the Londonist team to get everyone from A to B. Brighter news came in the form of the first ever female Yeoman Warder, or Beefeater as the position is more commonly known, and…

Aug 31, 2007

Overheard in D.C.: Gentlemen and Scholars

This week at Overheard, we’d like to take a moment to give thanks for a segment of the population that we feel is unfairly maligned. That’s right, we’re talking about you, Mr. Stares Blatantly at Women’s Breasts on the Metro. And you, sir, who just nearly walked into a pole while leering at the woman who just walked past. We raise our glasses to the guy surreptitiously taking pictures of girls’ rear ends on the…

Aug 12, 2007

Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse

Londonist are starting to think their city is getting just a little bit too expensive, when even Christian Slater can’t afford to go out there. And there’s no escaping, as local singer Lily Allen discovered when she was barred entry to the US. The British mapping agency caused further bad karma, by blocking a 3-D representation of London in Google Earth. But the smiles returned to Londonist’s faces as they interviewed Baroness von Reichardt,…

Aug 25, 2005

Digitally Dubious

Okay, so D.C. may not be very sexy, but we certainly are wired. Our streets, cafes, and metro cars are replete with Blackberries, WiFi, iPods, and countless other icons of 21st century high-tech culture. While such electronic services and devices may have the ability to both enrich our lives and boost our productivity, let us never forget that behind any scientific or technological advance is the ever-present promise of profit. Steve Jobs may be a…

 
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