26 Miles Is Far From Typical Female Fare
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A scene from Round House’s 26 Miles . Round House Theatre’s production of 26 Miles will lose potential audience members with its plot synopsis, which features the words “mother,” “daughter” and “heart-warming,” and conjures up thoughts of Steel Magnolias...
Overheard in D.C.: A Strange World
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Photo by lovedc There’s a lot of weird things in the world: Snuggies, hairless cats, Glenn Beck’s Christmas book for kids , for example. And some things just defy explanation. Overheard of the Week Wednesday Night at at Duffy’s Irish bar: Guy 1: “If he were as broke as he said...
Another Guilty Plea in OCTO Case
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Yusuf Acar Yusuf Acar, the former D.C. computer security official who was arrested and charged in March for his part in a bribery scheme that allegedly funneled phony contracts and pay checks through the District’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer, is expected to plead guilty, the Examiner...
Morning Roundup: Local Ties Edition
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Photo by JOkazaki On a sad day after the killing of 13 people at Ft. Hood in Texas, the Post is delving into the local ties of suspected shooter Maj. Nidal M. Hasan. He was born in Arlington, graduated from Virginia Tech, prayed at a mosque in Silver Spring and spent the better part of his professional...
Go Home Already: Senselessness
Posted by Tom in DC Life on 11 5th, 2009 | No Comments
Photo by erin m The Associated Press has the best information we’ve seen coming out of Fort Hood. An officer who’s been identified as Army Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan allegedly opened fire at this military base, leaving 12 people dead and 31 wounded. Authorities killed the gunman and apprehended...
Girls & Real Estate @ The Black Cat
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Girls @ the Black Cat. Photo by Holly Le. You’d be forgiven for thinking that the Real Estate / Girls show Tuesday night at the Black Cat was an extended tribute to The Clean, an open-mic homage to the under-known but influential Kiwi punk band. Hell, the show might have been a two-set-long cover...
Michael A. Brown Wanted an Investigation Before He Didn’t
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D.C. Council member Michael A. Brown (I-At Large) As the political fracas continues over the $82 million in parks and rec contracts that D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty quietly funneled through the D.C. Housing Authority (much of it handed to contractors with cozy ties to the mayor), members of the D.C. Council...
Popcorn & Candy: Continental Drift
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DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Michelle Williams and Gael García Bernal in Lukas Moodysson’s ‘Mammoth’. 2009 AFI European Union Film Showcase Tonight is the kickoff of the AFI and...
New Discount Bus Option to Philly, Wilmington, Boston
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New York businessman Joel Azumah wrote to DCist today to let us know that his discount bus line, modestly dubbed TransportAzumah , will be launching several new routes servicing D.C. this month. Refreshingly, these routes will not be servicing New York. Instead, Azumah plans to offer non-stop bus service...
A Cate Blanchett DuBois-powered Streetcar
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There’s a huge star at the center of the Sydney Theatre Company’s much-hyped, Liv Ullman-directed, wholly satisfying new staging of A Streetcar Named Desire, which sold out its Kennedy Center run before the curtain rose on the first preview. I speak, of course, of the dramatist Tennessee...


