Luke Russert discusses his father’s memoir at Politics and Prose this Sunday.
The New York Post is reporting that Tim Russert, longtime host of Meet the Press and Washington Bureau Chief for NBC News, has died suddenly of an apparent heart attack. Incredibly sad. He was only 58. More as we hear it. UPDATE: The New York Times confirms Russert died this afternoon. WTOP has word that D.C. Fire and EMS responded to the NBC News Washington Bureau on Nebraska Ave. NW at 1:41 p.m. and found…
Just this week, GQ published their annual “50 Most Powerful People in D.C.” list. Populated by the likes of Condoleezza Rice, Nancy Pelosi, Karl Rove and Tim Russert, the list better describes the movers and shakers in “Washington”, but not the District. And since we’re snobs about local news and happenings, we threw together a little list of the people who really exercise influence in or over the lives of people who live and work…
Attending Saturday’s White House Correspondents dinner continues to get less and less appealing. First, it was announced that Rich Little, a comedian whose popularity peaked in the 1970s, would host. Compared to Stephen Colbert’s able hosting last year, we weren’t terribly excited about seeing Little’s famous Richard Nixon impression. Now it turns out that American Idol’s latest cast-off, the adorable yet dubiously talented Sanjaya Malakar, will be there too. In an apparent coup by People…
WEDNESDAY: What Al Gore has done for global climate change, Jeff Goodell is trying to do for coal consumption. The Rolling Stone and New York Times Magazine contributor is ready to scare the crap out of you as he reads from Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America’s Energy Future at Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. at 7 p.m. THURSDAY: Robert Sullivan went on a crazy road trip and all he got was…
We picked up this little tidbit via Laura Rozen’s blog, War and Piece. It seems that folks in a diplomat-heavy neighborhood in Upper Northwest are less than pleased that one of the chief architects — one Paul Wolfowitz — of the Iraq war is staging a very different sort of “invasion and occupation” in their neck o’ the woods, as the Post mentioned this past week. The reason? A not-so-secret romance with Arab feminist and…
It’s Election Night. The thousands of polls; the elevation of towns like Wausau, Wis., to the national stage; the negative natterings of the nabobs — it all comes down to this. Millions will be glued to the TV to (hopefully) watch the media put an endcap on what has seemed like the longest election campaign ever. And whether they come from Fox News to CNN, the great white board of Tim Russert at NBC to…
Major networks across the board will sacrifice a crucial night of the November sweeps period in the name of civic duty. Election Night coverage starts at 8 p.m. on most broadcast networks and presumably continues on through the wee hours of the morning. Here’s your handy-dandy guide to Election Night viewing. ABC News: Peter Jennings anchors Vote 2004 with the help of George Stephanopoulos and Terry Moran. Former Salon.com writer Jake Tapper will have regular…