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The Weekly Feed: Ice Cold Edition
Dish of the Week: Frozen yogurt With the crazy heat, the line at Tangysweet should be long with their free promotion today. If you can't make it to the brand new Dupont frozen yogurt shop, we've got a couple of alternatives for you. Sweetgreen in Georgetown, City Market (bodega on the SW…
MSTRKRFT @ Bliss Pop / 9:30 Club
Last Saturday two of the most popular dance parties in town hit hard at the 9:30 Club as Will Eastman’s Bliss Pop hosted a guest set by Nouveau Riche DJs Gavin Holland, Nacey, and SteveLove. The guests of honor, MSTRKRFT, topped off the night with a crushing set played to a packed floor.…
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Today's Most Popular Stories
Washington Post: Carolyn Hax Live: Basement-Sleeping Husband, Miscarriages and Blame, and a City vs. Suburbs Standoff Washington Examiner: Police and FBI search for two men connected to kidnapping of boy N.Y. Times: Woman in Charge, Women Who Charge L.A. Times: Obama leads in battle for…
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White Rabbits @ Black Cat
When a band is finishing up their tour, one of two things tend to happen. The band will either completely cash in the performance due to exhaustion or really give the audience a set to remember. Honestly, Brooklyn's White Rabbits probably could've phoned in the performance and due to the…
Puns Aplenty In Measure For Pleasure
How well you enjoy David Grimm's Measure For Pleasure at Woolly Mammoth will largely be dictated by your tolerance of puns. Because boy, are there a lot of them here, mostly of the tawdry variety. In a way it's not surprising; the work is a satire of Restoration comedy, which relied heavily…
Thanks to This Week's Advertisers
We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on DCist. Sounds in the Square, the Thursday concert series in Farragut Square Park. American Apparel, where you can buy everything from T-shirts to swim wear. Busted Tees, which introduces three new designs a week. If you're…
Peace Rally
Flash Share by: vPIP Embed (copy & paste): close Some things never change… most things. The clock keeps going around and around. It’s funny how even the concept of country doesn’t learn from the past either. This video was prepared from more Super 8MM film shot in…
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Howard Kurtz Facebook Update
Howard Kurtz added a whopping 40 Facebook friends this week, bringing his total to 1,761. He also had three status updates, which included: Howard is done wondering. This thing is history. Time for rampant VP speculation to fill the void! Howard is wondering whether the endless campaign is…
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Out and About: Weekend Picks
FRIDAY: >> From 7 to 9 p.m., Meat Market Gallery opens Time Machine, an exhibit of video, time-based media and sound work by the online video collective Perpetual Art Machine curated by Amelia Winger-Bearskin. The opening will include a one-time interactive performance which “will utilize…
Round 1
Expanding my limited presence on the web, this blog serves a duel purpose. First, I will be able to share my perspective on current events, politics, business, the media and sports with the digital universe, and second, starting a blog is a requirement for the “New Media Practices and…
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Hillary Throws Huge Drunken Pool Party At Her Home
Tomorrow is quittin’ time for Hillary Clinton, so today she threw a big farewell bash for her 500-person staff at her Georgetown home, Whitehaven Manor Castle, “in the back yard by the swimming pool.” And although Hillary could’ve served the troops just fine, thank you,…
Concert Preview: The City Veins, Julie Ocean & Yell County
What better way to celebrate the release of your band's new album than by taking the stage at Iota? How about sharing that celebration with two other local bands who are doing the very same thing. Tonight, Arlington's great little venue is hosting the CD release parties for three very talented…
Andrea Mitchell Is Not Trash
...but she will , occasionally, report near the trash. TVNewser is on a clipping rampage today, thank goodness, and has captured this great clip of Mitchell from this morning: New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media
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The biggest news you HAVEN’T heard
Obama’s campaign manager David Plouffe just send out this email: Friend — In the excitement of the past few days, there’s some news you may have missed. John McCain and the Republican National Committee released their fundraising numbers for May, and we’ve got our work cut out for us. The…
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friday my:dc : monumental shadows
DC certainly has its share of monuments, some of them very popular. And then there are ones that are right in the thick of things, yet are largely ignored. Such is the case with Pershing Park, home to a lovely statute of Gen. John J. Pershing, commander of the U.S. Army in Europe during World…
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Update: Tale Of The Tape Of The Tale Of The Tape
An updated tally of the news organizations who get their breaking news alerts out fastest. Remember: First place nets three points, second place nets two, third place nets one. As of 6/5: MSNBC: 58 Politico: 55 CNN:31 Wall Street Journal: 28 L.A. Times: 25 USA Today: 23 ABC:10 N.Y.…
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THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTER
O.P. Formation Program Sees a Certain Kind of Priest BY STEPHEN MIRARCHI REGISTER CORRESPONDENT June 8-14, 2008 Issue | Posted 6/3/08 at 10:18 AM WASHINGTON — When five Dominicans were ordained on May 23 at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., it was the fruit of a long…
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Democratic Primary Endgame Plays Out in D.C.
So you didn't make your way to Nissan Pavilion yesterday evening to hear Sen. Barack Obama launch his national campaign as the presumptive Democratic nominee for president (and give VP nominee watchers a lot to chew on by gushing all over Virginia Sen. Jim Webb, as captured in the YouTube…
But a U.S. Treasury Official Says We’re Not In Total Financial Freefall!
The Dow is down 370 points (2.5%) while the NASDAQ and S&P500 make similar terrible plunges, unemployment shot up the most since 1986, oil hit $138 and gasoline costs $4.50 a gallon at the start of summer, teen-age unemployment hasn’t been this bad since 1948, the housing collapse is…
Sunday Show Preview
Meet the Press: NBC's Ron Allen, Lee Cowan, David Gregory, Andrea Mitchell, Kelly O'Donnell and Chuck Todd. Note that the program will air at 8 a.m. ET due to NBC's coverage of the French Open. Face the Nation: Clinton communications director Howard Wolfson, Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), Sen.…
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More NPC Award Winners
Although an official announcement is not expected until next week, FishbowlDC recently reported that CQ's Jonathan Allen had won this year's Sandy Hume Memorial Award. Now, FishbowlDC has learned a few more National Press Club award winners. The Washington Correspondence award will go to…
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Reminder: Greener by Design Conference is Next Week!
Heads up product designers and engineers, green business gurus, supply chain experts and product development pros: we want to remind you about the Greener by Design conference that's happening next week (Thursday and Friday, June 12 and 13) in Alexandria, VA -- we mentioned it before. Just across…
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1500
1500. That’s journalist Arthur Allen’s estimate of how many people were at Wednesday’s Green Our Vaccines rally; a bit smaller of a number than the “close to 10,000” elsewhere noted. Writing in today’s Washington Independent, Allen—-who’s won a bit more than the ire of the…
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District Cooling Centers Opened
It's hot, and it's going to get much, much hotter over the weekend. Hot enough that the District Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency opened its cooling centers for the first time this year today, from noon until 6 p.m. An Alert DC message sent around earlier points those needing…
Obama’s Former Jobs Include Killing White People In Riots
Here’s a new RNC ad that scans over Obama’s pithy resume, as any good potential employer would. While Obama claims he went to Chicago as a “community organizer,” the RNC takes away the Liberal Spin and rightly lists the job as “street organizer,” which is a…
All Things Bilderberg - 2008
Press Let Rip At Obama Spokesman Over Exclusion From Secret Meeting It has emerged that Obama’s press entourage were not informed of his secret meeting with Hillary Clinton in Northern Virginia until they were literally locked inside a plane that was taxiing down the runway on its way to…
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Police across the country watch as DC sets up a US police state
by Larry Geller Washington DC may soon become a state. A police state. This report from today's Democracy Now! sent chills up my spine, but you can bet that police departments across the country are watching eagerly. They want to see if Washington DC cops can successfully pull this off: D.C.…
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Explore DC Attractions for Zoo and Aquarium Month
If you didn’t already have it marked down in bold writing on your calendar, June is National Zoo and Aquarium month. If you don’t know much about zoo and aquarium month, this is as good a time as any to get out and explore the national exhibits right in your own town. Residents of…
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Jack Smith: The Wedding
The Politico's Jack Smith has a little feature on FOX's Philadelphia affiliate about his wedding this weekend. Click the image below to watch. (And to attendees: Major props to any pictures of Kenny Day doing The Worm on the dance floor.) New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs…
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Bobby Kennedy Remembered
Bobby Kennedy Remembered By newsroom | - 1:49 pm - Posted in Obituaries, Political News, US News Now, Washington DC The US is marking 40 years since the assassination of Robert F Kennedy, known as Bobby, as he campaigned for the Democratic presidential nomination. NNN- The 42-year-old was…
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