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Thursday, September 2, 2010
Go Home Already: Rock Out
Photo by pablo.raw. To recap today's developments from the investigation of Discovery hostage-taker James Jay Lee: Lee was only armed with starter pistols, but the explosives he had in his possession could have been deadly. Police searched Jay's residence in Wheaton today, and found several…
WH Press Office's Mistake Within a Correction
The White House Press Office needs to host an internal spelling bee. Yesterday we brought you the news that they spelled Israel wrong (like this: "Isreal") in a release on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's meeting with President Obama and speaking engagement in the Rose Garden. …
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Popcorn & Candy: Misdirected
DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. The Tillman Story In 2002, Pat Tillman made headlines when he turned down millions of dollars to continue as a highly regarded NFL linebacker in order to enlist in…
Our Cirque Du Soleil Prize Winner is...
Joseph Curl, former White House correspondent for TWT. Congratulations Curl! You win two tickets to the "Ovo" performance of Cirque Du Soleil on Sept. 8. The show, we've learned, is an immersion into the world of insects. The question: What does "Ovo" mean? The answer: "egg" in…
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Puppy Dogs Blew Up the WTC, Apparently
1998-throwback site Bare-Naked Islam treats the Muslim issue with smart commentary and reasoned discourse. Haha, just kidding, it’s just the worst batshit-crazy paranoid trash-dump of truly bizarre xenophobic bullshit you’re likely to see. Just remember, Islamaphobia isn’t real,…
The Mysterious Case of the Smashed Bus Shelter
If you've been on the north side of Adams Morgan at any point during the last two days, you probably noticed the severely damaged bus shelter near the intersection of Calvert Street and Adams Mill Road NW. The damage occurred on Tuesday night, which is when DCist received the…
Dentist Releases First Hillary Ad of 2012 Campaign
“When asked why he put the ad up, DeJean told CNN Thursday that ‘I’m a dentist and I don’t think this country is headed in the right direction.’” THANK YOU, WILLIAM DEJEAN. That’s what we’ve all been thinking. We are dentists and we don’t think…
Suspicious Package Does Italy, Meets Mr. Universe
Italy got a taste of Washington's favorite journo band, Suspicious Package last week when the crew played Arena Gigli in Porto Recanati (on the Adriatic Coast). Organizers estimated there were 1,000 or so people out to hear our hometown's rocking reporters. Confirmed in the audience:…
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Seeing What the Buzz is All About at Woolly's Vibrator
Eric Hissom, Sarah Marshall, Kimberly Gilbert in Woolly Mammoth's 'In the Next Room, or the vibrator play' Photo Credit: Stan Barouh In the late 1880s, electricity was still a curiosity. Not every home was wired, and as the debate over Edison's direct current and Tesla's alternating current…
American Flag Troll Attacks Socialist Signs
A very nerdy-voiced Marxist was savagely grabbed at by a crazed American flag fetishist last weekend because he KNOWINGLY trespassed on the Restoring Honor Ralley’s sacred no-sign holy ground. This heroic rascal-less woman was clearly in the right, as these blatant Muslims flagrantly broke…
Miniter Puts Out Release Saying 'Miniter v. Moon Settles'
This just in... Richard Miniter, who was also involved in a domestic violence dispute this summer, has released a statement saying his other lawsuit, the one against TWT, has settled. He says he's pleased, ie., "very, very happy." What that means isn't clear. In his release, he won't spill…
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Ben Smith Uncovers Vicious Smear Campaign Against Trig
Trig Palin is a hot commodity, and when you say he’s at places he’s definitely not, you have to answer to Ben Smith! Ben Smith did not care for the Journalism in that Vanity Fair Sarah Palin piece, as we noted yesterday, but now he has done some digging and found out Trig wasn’t…
CONTEST: Win Free Cirque Du Soleil Tickets...
Want to win a pair of Cirque Du Soleil tickets? FishbowlDC has a pair of tickets to give away to one lucky reader. Here's how we're going to play this. Be the first to answer our question correctly, and you're the winner. Details: Cirque Du Soleil's new show, "Ovo" is raising the Grand…
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WBJ's Women Who Mean Business Award Noms Open
Do you know an influential business woman in the Greater Washington area? The Washington Business Journal is looking for their 2010 class of Women Who Mean Business. They are looking for women from any industry and profession who are leaving a mark on DC business. Nominations are open until…
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Which Pols Should Publicly Boogie?
Politico's Patrick Gavin presents readers with a "dream team" of politicians who should be on "Dancing With the Stars." It's purely a hypothetical, since Season 11's cast has already been chosen with Bristol Palin and Jersey Shore's "The Situation" in the lineup - Bristol's the closest…
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Three Stars: Connect the Dots (La La Lala)
Two-person bands tend to evoke images of spare songs, usually performed by gritty punk bands. Then an act like Connect the Dots comes along, creating soundscapes that sound like far more people are needed in their production: backing beats inspired by a combination of math rock and Afrobeat,…
Michele (and Marcus) Bachmann Will Cure Your Nasty Case of the Gays
It is a Well-Known Fact that Michele Bachmann hates all the gays. But did you know that her husband is a Christian mental-health-therapist-helper-counselor who can wash that gay right out of your hair? This is a rumor, on the Internets. It IS true that he is a therapist and that he provided some…
Miami Herald's Reinhard to National Journal
Miami Herald political reporter Beth Reinhard is joining National Journal as Chief Political Correspondent. A Herald reporter since 1999, Reinhard is currently the paper's lead political writer, weekly columnist and contributor to the Herald's "Naked Politics" blog. She previously worked at the…
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September Museum Roundup
Marie Watt (Seneca), In the Garden (Corn, Beans, and Squash) (detail). 2003. Reclaimed wool blankets, satin bindings, thread. 26/5807. Photo by Ernest Amoroso, NMAI. Living in and around our nation's capital, we always have our pick of numerous free museums. So it's slightly hard to get too…
Quinn and Tannen on Female Communication
WaPo's Sally Quinn and author and Georgetown University Linguistics Professor Deborah Tannen will be the panel on Sept. 23 for an event highlighting how women communicate at a downtown D.C. hotel. Tickets are $45. Don't hold this queasy phrasing against Bisnow, whose hosting the event, but they're…
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Junkie Gulf of Mexico Gets Some More of That Oil It Craves So Much
It’s only been a couple of months since the Gulf of Mexico stopped injecting itself with that luscious BP oil, and now, after another offshore platform explosion off the coast of Louisiana, the Gulf has fallen off the wagon again. Hey, BRO, that oil is ours and is very expensive. Get your…
United's Lost Season Drags On With Crushing 2-1 Open Cup Loss
&n bsp; Every time I think that this D.C. United season couldn't get any worse, well, it just does. The lone chance that United had to salvage anything from this awful year dissipated last night, as they lost in the…
Mitch McConnell Announces He Will Be Senate Party Leader 4 Life
HE HAS THE VOTES. In the musical that will be made about Mitch McConnell’s life, this will be one of the songs: “He Has the Votes.” It will be a neo-Negro-spiritual song. YES, Mitch McConnell said he’s already locked up the votes to keep his minority (MAJORITY?) leader job…