The Washington City Paper’s Angela Valdez provides a two-pronged update today to the monstrosity that could be the Late Night Shots reality TV show we told you about earlier this month. In a piece over at Campus Progress, she interviews Havva Eisenbaum, the producer of the pilot, who says that they’ve already had “nibbles of interest from networks” who might end up picking it up once the pilot is completed. Considering how many reality TV…
Happy Christmas Eve, Washington. With the frenzy of last-minute shopping and travel out of the city largely complete, folks staying here for the holiday are being treated to a quieter, gentler D.C. than normal, and it turns out in more ways than one. Over the weekend the Post took a look at a recent decline in the murder rate, reporting that only nine homicides have been logged in the District in the 37 days since…
FRIDAY: >> Tired of putting those great costume ideas on the back burner till October? Dying for a chance to wear a costume without wearing a jacket over top? Three Stars vets New Rock Church of Fire feel the same way. Tonight, join NRCOF, D.C.’s The Gaskets and Richmond’s The Invisibles at the Rock & Roll Hotel for July-O-Ween. Incognito fun, rip roaring rock from all three bands, DJ sets, drink specials, a costume contest…
What do you do when you, the dutiful copy editor, is are forced to adhere to an in-house style that flies in the face of the rules of grammar you hold in such high esteem? You blog about it. Andrew Beaujon, the City Paper’s Copy Editor, seems to have had enough. In a witheringly comical post he published on the paper’s blog yesterday, Beaujon takes issue with the “serial comma.” He writes: I hate the…
It was just a few weeks back that the Washington City Paper completed a long overdue overhaul to their website, and now they have followed many a mainstream media mainstay before them and jumped on the blogging bandwagon. It wasn’t long ago that the CPers were complaining about the prospect; in a March 17th piece on Washington Post blogging requirements without additional pay, City Paper editor Erik Wemple noted, “Full disclosure: The Washington City Paper…
Tired of chronicling your dating misadventures for only the handful of friends who read your Live Journal? Ready to make your sexploits public? Are you living the single life and schooled in the ways of Movable Type? Well, we think the City Paper would like a word with you. The weekly recently posted a “help wanted” ad for a Dating Blogger,someone to post (anonymously? or not?) about their every hook up, metro crush and wretched…
The Washington City Paper’s Department of Media column was interested to find out where the new Washington Examiner delivered. So they called 274 advisory neighborhood commissioners (receiving responses from 119) and scouted around town a bit. What did they find? According to the survey, majority-black neighborhoods are lucky to get even spotty service. The paper’s red plastic missives tend to land in exclusively white neighborhoods, with a some exceptions here and there. (Cleveland Park, for…
The Washington City Paper’s cover story this week examines the Adams Morgan phenomenon the Jumbo Slice in laudable detail. The article ranges from the origins of the slice (Chris Chishti, owner of Pizza Mart, claims to be the first), their nutrition (the slices contain over 1,000 calories), their economics (nobody’s getting rich), the volume (what does 900 pounds of a mozzarella-provolone mix look like?) and even, well, the culture (“You see people taking pictures of…