Ice Cream Tasting & Animal Charity Benefit, March 22, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m., at Asylum, Washington, D.C.
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A Penny For Your Thoughts: The News of Greater Falls Church
A McMansion? Or a McHotel? That’s the question facing our community as a property owner in the Seven Corners area has applied for a building permit to construct a new “house” with 13 bedrooms and 13 bathrooms on a lot that currently holds a 1950s-style brick and frame rambler. The […]
Nicholas F. Benton: Deconstructing Karl Rove
The most shocking thing about Bush advisor Karl Rove’s “exit interview” with Meet the Press’ David Gregory last Sunday was nothing from the briefing notes that Rove rattled off during the half hour. It came right at the end, when Gregory aired a video clip showing Rove as a college […]
Press Pass: The Frames
“I don’t love rock songs so much,” The Frames’ Glen Hansard says over the phone prior to a Tuesday night show in Minneapolis. “I know I should … I’m in a rock band.”
Anything But Straight: The Perils of Public Religion
When a devout Muslim taxi driver refuses to take you where you want to go because you have luggage containing alcohol, the only appropriate response is, “shut up and drive.”
Press Pass: Hem
It doesn’t seem to fit. It simply doesn’t follow that New York City, the city that gave the world The Ramones and the Beastie Boys would be home to a band that features a glockenspiel. It doesn’t seem possible that these pastoral songs befitting a Willa Cather novel would be […]
Jody’s Jam of the Week: Gangsters and Con Men – The Bad Olde Days of 19th Century Washington, D.C.
It’s Labor Day weekend and, like always, there’s not a whole heckuva lot to do. It’s the last weekend before the NFL returns to action, school has yet to start— the only real action is Jerry Lewis’ telethon and that doesn’t get going until Sunday night.
