AltWeeklies Wire
Media Matters Wants You to Drop Fox Like It’s Hotnew
Days before the Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert rallies, a bevy of advertisements for the campaign against Fox News Channel hit stations across the D.C. Metro system last night.
Washington City Paper |
Alex Baca |
10-26-2010 |
Media
PBR's BFFnew
A ride-along with Pabst Blue Ribbon's D.C. missionary.
Washington City Paper |
Jonathan L. Fischer |
10-15-2010 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Dan VanHoozer, PBR
Meet Jason Chaffetznew
He thinks D.C. autonomy is unconstitutional. He wants to roll back gay marriage. And if the GOP wins Congress, he's D.C.'s new boss on Capitol Hill.
Washington City Paper |
Dave Weigel |
09-30-2010 |
Politics
Tags: Dave Weigel, Jason Chaffetz
Inside D.C.'s Food-Truck Warsnew
How some of Washington's most powerful interests are trying to curb the city's most popular new cuisine.
Washington City Paper |
Tim Carman |
09-23-2010 |
Food+Drink
The Smart-Growth Setnew
How 32-year-old Google veteran David Alpert--and his band of bloggers--are shaping 21st -century D.C.
Washington City Paper |
Lydia DePillis |
09-03-2010 |
Policy Issues
D.C.: Where Reality TV Comes to Dienew
Think the new Real Housewives season stinks? Blame Washington.
Washington City Paper |
Mike Riggs |
08-05-2010 |
Culture
Tags: Real Housewives of DC
A ‘Fan’ Letter to National Eater.comnew
Over the weeks, I’ve become a huge fan of Eater.com's renegade editorial approach of poaching other people’s content and reposting it on their Web site for fun and profit.
Washington City Paper |
Tim Carman |
04-20-2010 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Eater.com, Sam Sifton
Is D.C. Shoving Go-Go Aside?new
Natalie Hopkinson’s article in last Sunday’s Washington Post Outlook section, “Go-go music is the soul of Washington, but it’s slipping,” has generated some discussion thanks to its provocative title, its subject and contentions. But some of the piece’s contentions, specifically those suggesting a causative relationship between gentrification and the diminished presence of go-go within the city, raised my eyebrows, and I wasn’t alone.
Washington City Paper |
Steve Kiviat |
04-16-2010 |
Music
Is Your Coffee In Season?new
You care when your beans were roasted. How about when they were harvested?
Washington City Paper |
Tim Carman |
04-15-2010 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Coffee
What’s In A Rape Kit?new
The D.C. SANE (Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner) program allowed Washington City Paper to document each component of a District rape kit in order to better understand the process.
Washington City Paper |
Amanda Hess |
04-07-2010 |
The War on Women
The $2,475 Grill of Your Dreamsnew
Is Ben Eisendrath's Argentine-style grill worth $2,475? Tom Brokaw says yes.
Washington City Paper |
Tim Carman |
04-01-2010 |
Food+Drink
KenCen’s Golden Age Offers an Overdose of Rococonew
Jeffrey Carlson’s Vincenzo Bellini isn't the only thing that's a mess in this play: Like too much of the art form it celebrates, Terrence McNally’s new comic drama Golden Age, about the heyday of bel canto opera, is overwritten and wildly overheated.
Washington City Paper |
Trey Graham |
03-26-2010 |
Theater
Tags: Golden Age, Terrence McNally
Gay Men Should Get HIV Tests Twice a Year, Says Washington, D.C.new
With new statistics showing alarming levels of HIV infection among the estimated 36,500 District men who have gay sex, the city is recommending that they be tested for the virus twice yearly.
Washington City Paper |
Mike DeBonis |
03-26-2010 |
LGBT
How Did Local Restaurants Stay Open During the Recent D.C. Snowstorm?new
Murat Uzuntepe admits to making a trip to the co-op just down the street to buy produce that he can’t get his hands on now. His suppliers simply can’t navigate the streets. Then he tells us about a woman who walked into his restaurant and wanted to buy eggs and bread.
Washington City Paper |
Tim Carman |
02-25-2010 |
Food+Drink
Loose Lips: Washington, D.C.'s Dwindling Coffers and DCision 2010new
How deep does the pain go? For the current budget year, which ends Sept. 30, Chief Financial Officer Natwar M. Gandhi is already projecting a $200 million-plus deficit... or enough to run the Department of Mental Health.
Washington City Paper |
Mike DeBonis |
02-25-2010 |
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