Happy New Year’s Eve, bammas! Hook ‘em 2009 woo! » McClatchy ran a public service announcement earlier that month about the real reason for the season. “Right before New Year’s Eve is our highest sales peak,” testified a rep from Trojan make condoms. Stock up before...

By Paul Kane With just six days till the start of the 111th Congress, the Illinois corruption scandal has complicated what was already shaping up to be an uncommonly dramatic start for the United States Senate. Senate Democrats — who have been rejoicing that four members of their caucus were departing...

Some 3,000 protesters and activists marched from the State office across structure Avenue and down to Chinatown to voice their disapproval of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, a campaign now into its fifth day. NBC4 reports that activists — organized by the D.C.–based Act Now to Stop War...

Number one. (By Preston Keres - TWP) Author’s note: that is the third straight year I’ve done that, but the first date I’ve remembered to do it during the actual year. For past years, see 2007 and 2006. plus, I will be chatting on that subject Monday at 11 a.m.; submit your questions...

Maybe you decided to say fuck it that year and not construct any plans. Or possibly the host of the party you were going to attend got food poisoning. Or perhaps you just moved to D.C. and need something to do final minute. At any rate, in a few hours the panic might start setting in as you feel the...

Despite ccandumplins’s protestations regarding her talent and experience at street photography, she caught something quite interesting here. The late afternoon orange tones; the line-up of spying shadow public; and the expression, posture, and slight overexposure of her subject all support...

By Nelson Hernandez CRAWFORD, Tex. — President Bush promised to “sprint to the finish” of his term in office, which ends Jan. 20, but when the ball drops at midnight, the commander in chief is probably going to be catching some Z’s. Bush, an early riser who stopped drinking years...

Who doesn’t!? Just ran across a grand post on Craigslist: a girl in Purcellville is looking for empty Skoal cans considering her boyfriend wants to construct a table out of them. Sounds kind of like college where somebody made furniture out of pizza boxes, but with more spit and mouth cancer. But...

Sorry to get your New Year’s Eve hopes up, but the offer covers amoxicillin, penicillin, ciprofloxacin — antibiotics that should not be mixed with champagne. Still, consider it a true escalation in the Grocery Wars: The Washington Post reports that Giant Food, in an effort to lure customers,...

This is why we can’t have snow. If your place of occupancy falls within one of the affected areas, you might not be able to read that. Though readers in D.C. and NoVA neighborhoods reported only a fleeting come across with that morning’s wintry-mix squall, gentle outages have been reported...