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May 05, 2006

The Weekly Feed: Gene Wilder is the Best Wonka Edition

They’ll Turn You Into Marshmallows I know we posted about this earlier this week, but it’s totally worth revisiting. Sing to the Tune of “I Want it Now” by Veruca Salt in ‘Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory’ I want a feast! I want a ball feast! Free beer and bull’s nuts Crown royal and bull’s nuts, Can’t eat enough bull’s nuts, Give them to me now. Fifteen’s the fee Saturday at eight Testicle Fair…

Oct 14, 2005

Out and About: Weekend Picks

FRIDAY: >> A little over a week ago, a couple of us DCists were sitting around drinking beer and contemplating strange movies in the wake of having caught Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory on Direct TV. A friend who has spent some time living in England (and who we suppose must therefore be infinitely cooler than us) suggested the The Wicker Man was probably the best weird movie he’d ever seen. We’ve never seen…

May 27, 2005

‘Just Press a Button and Zing! You’re Off’

Perhaps we’re all too hard in our criticisms of visitors to our city. They do pump millions of dollars into local food courts, restaurants, hotels and stores, but we’re all well aware of the baggage they drag along with them to the nation’s capital: themselves and their children, many unversed in standard rules of urban etiquette. There are the simple mistakes which we should not fault them on. Then there are the instances where we…

 
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