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Jun 14, 2016

D.C. Woman Says Her Photos Were Used In Porn Recruitment Scam

A Seattle man made a fake Facebook profile to trick women into having sex with him. “I feel like he’s stolen my face from me,” says Lauren McGrath.

Sep 15, 2006

Campaign 2010 Already Heating Up…in Ward 3

We’re barely getting over the September 12 Democratic primary and already we’re hearing whispers of the 2010 election. Jonathan Rees, the Ward 3 candidate known for his, let’s say, “creative” use of online resources to run his campaign, may be smarting from his trouncing on Tuesday (he mustered 29 votes for the council seat, or 0.21 percent of the total votes cast), but he’s not out. Not at all. In a posting on a DCPages.com…

Apr 25, 2006

Newsflash: New Yorkers Are Full of S**t

The District is always being sized up and weighed against its neighbor to the northeast — New York. And in most regards, New Yorkers or New York transplants view D.C. as a quaint, backwards little town made important only by the presence of the federal government within its boundaries. That may be so. But at least our toilets don’t clog as often. In some of the stranger news we have read today, a study sponsored…

Apr 10, 2006

Characters Contend For “Crazy” Title in Gigli Concert

Who will win the Battle of the Batty? In Woolly Mammoth Theater’s production of The Gigli Concert, each character is a contender. In one corner we have the fidgety, self-absorbed and ultimately nutty J.P.W. King (Howard Shalwitz), practitioner of Dynamatology, a pseudoscience never fully explained, which comes off as a nonsensical marriage of philosophy and psychology. There’s Mona (Kimberly Schraf), the sexually aggressive adulteress chatting with a young girl who doesn’t appear to be there….

 
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