MARY ELLEN HENDERSON Middle School students took the limelight this past weekend with the spring production of “Seussical, Jr.,” a musical medley of famous children’s author Dr. Seuss’s classic characters. George DeMars (center photo) brought life to the Cat in the Hat, alongside energetic and entertaining performances from Ryan Fields […]
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The Peak Oil Crisis: Edging Towards Reality
Last week the International Energy Agency (IEA) in Paris released their annual report on the state of the world’s energy resources — World Energy Review 2008.
Jody’s Jam of The Week
thingstododc.com’s Pre-St. Patricks Day Drafts and Darts, Sunday, March 16 from 4 – 6 p.m. at Ireland’s Four Fields, Washington, DC

Northern Virginia Art Beat
‘Personal Geometry’ Through February 23 at McLean Project for the Arts (second floor of the McLean Community Center, 1234 Ingleside Ave., McLean). Gallery Hours are Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., and Saturdays 1 – 5 p.m. For more information, call 703-790-1953, or see www.mpaart.org.
The Peak Oil Crisis: Looking at 2008
Let’s start with the obvious. Unless something very bad happens this year – a big meteor strikes the earth, a good sized war in the Middle East, or a major sabotage operation– we are likely to consume another 31 billion barrels of oil or, as we call it these days, […]
Helen Thomas: Iraqis Wrangle Over Their Oil Reserves
WASHINGTON — Iraq’s politicians are trying to figure out how to share the country’s oil wealth, estimated to be the second or third largest petroleum cache in the world.
Jim Moran
This week, House Democrats are taking the first of many steps during the 110th Congress to implement an Innovation Agenda that will spur economic growth and unleash the next generation of discovery.
The Peak Oil Crisis: Connecting the Dots
In the months after 9/11 there was much discussion about the American government’s failure to “connect the dots.” Hints and clues that Al Qaida was about to launch airborne suicide attacks inside the US abounded but nobody put the bits and pieces together into a convincing warning.
Our Man in Arlington
I finally got around to reading our Senator-elect’s novel Fields of Fire this week. To put it into a nutshell, it is a fine book, and you should put it on your holiday reading list.
News Briefs
News Briefs for October 12 – 18