“I would never want to live in D.C. or anywhere near it without a very strong incentive,” Kokesh says.
Good morning, D.C. If by any chance you’re a contractor with the city, you may be in for a rude awakening this morning, as City Manager Dan “The Man” Tangherlini and Chief Technology Officer Vivek Kundra have ordered your cell phone to be returned. Apparently some non-employee contractors have been getting a pretty sweet deal from the District for some time in the form of free cell phones, the end of which will save the…
MONDAY As a part of its ongoing “Face It: We Are Probably All Going To Die or at the Very Least, Suffer Immeasurably” Series, Politics and Prose kicks off the week with a visit from Stephen Flynn, author of The Edge of Disaster, which, apparently, we are teetering on (cf. “all going to die,” “suffer immeasurably”). Also: CSI: Miami is on tonight! 5015 Connecticut Avenue, NW, 7 p.m. TUESDAY The art of letter writing is…
We here in the Ist-A-Verse know that we’re sensational, but it’s very rare that we get a chance to be sensationalistic. This week, we’ve decided to have ourselves a little fun and try our hand at tacky tabloid headlines, using nothing more than our favorite posts from this week. Torontoist Special Report: Rosie to Trump: “Fire 300 Bicyclists for Fraud!” On DCist: Students Go Wild for Slogans, Secrets and Sexual Harassment The action was thick…
OK, one more time, can someone explain to us the shrewd scheduling of the Super Bowl for Sunday night every year? We wake up on Monday, still stuffed with unhealthy amounts of sausage and seven layer dip, and more than a little bit hungover. How are we expected to work under these conditions? So we’re making this proposal to The Man, right here, right now: make the day after the Super Bowl a holiday….
When we encountered cops parking illegally all over our fair city a few months back, we did what any self-respecting internet geek would: we blogged about it. Now, a resident of Arlington, a town notorious for an uncannily rapid response to illegally parked cars, was so steamed about a similar phenomenon that he created a blog devoted entirely to photo-documenting parking violations by the city’s parking enforcement staff. At first, we thought this site was…
And it was just beginning to look like the hopes and dreams of District bloggers and commenters everywhere were going to come true. Yesterday, the Examiner reported that the D.C. Taxicab Commission would release a report in the next few weeks expected to support ditching D.C.’s zone system in favor of regular old meters. The six-month study was conducted by George Washington University and pulls data from over 30,000 cab rides, comparing metered and…
FRIDAY: The Mozart Year is almost halfway over — the man’s birthday was January 27 — but classical concert programming continues to celebrate it. Opera Lafayette gets in the game tonight and tomorrow (June 2 and 3, 7:30 p.m.) with a concert performance of Mozart’s first important opera, Idomeneo, at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center in College Park. The vocal cast promises to be excellent, including an up-and-coming young singer named Millicent Scarlett, who…
MONDAY >> E.L. Doctorow has had a storied career — a National Book Award for 1986’s Ragtime, a pair of film adaptations, and a prestigious position at New York University. Keep this in mind and don’t ask him about whether that story you heard about your Spring Breaking friends getting pulled over in Atlanta and tossed in the clink for joking about General Sherman’s relative velocity is an urban legend or not. He’s just got…
Dino’s Getting Kudos Last week we reported that Dino in Cleveland Park was now open. And from the buzz around local food circles, this will be a place to watch in the coming months. Jason Storch of DCFoodies has been multiple times, with favorable reviews. Amanda of Metrocurean says the restaurant is “off to a promising start,” and the folks on Don Rockwell’s forum are overwhelmingly positive about the new kid in town. With Tom…
