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Aug 07, 2007

Care to Touch Up D.C.?

If you’ve never visited our sister site Londonist and checked out their fantastic Photoshop-based feature, Touch Up London, you really should right this minute. Every week, Londonist editors ask their photo editing-skilled readers to take an iconic image of their city and “touch it up” into something funny, freakish, or just plain wonderful. There have been 55 selected Touch Up London images already, but this one, by Londonist reader Andy Fisher, is one of…

Mar 16, 2007

Good News For People Who Like Bad Weather

All right, all right. We’ll admit that we may have been jumping the gun slightly when, ten days ago, we called the evening’s winter weather advisory our “last chance” for snow. But c’mon! It was already March, and beautiful weather was just around the corner. We were sick of hoarding bread, milk and toilet paper; tired of wondering what the hell “liberal leave” meant; and weary from the toll exacted by churning out an…

Oct 06, 2004

Georgetown, Ohio

DCist is on to you, Jon Stewart, et al. On last night’s show “Daily Show” correspondent Samantha Bee was “reporting” live from Cleveland after the vice presidential debate with a busy street scene behind her. We all know that “Daily Show” correspondents do their thing in front of a blue screen in New York, but Bee’s backdrop was not Cleveland, but Georgetown. If you spied the golden dome of the Riggs Bank at Wisconsin Avenue…

 
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