DCist Interview: Mike Birbiglia
Posted by Tom in DC Life on 10 8th, 2009 | No Comments
Mike Birbiglia, dressed for success. Mike Birbiglia remembers when the room was a lot smaller. He’s headlining Saturday night at the Warner Theatre , where he’ll tell some stories he’s considering for inclusion in his next one-man show. But he cut his teeth at the DC Improv in the...
Photo of the Day: October 8, 2009
Posted by Tom in DC Life on 10 8th, 2009 | No Comments
Flickr user Jonathan Thorpe has a couple outstanding portraits in the pool , with doll narrowly edging out hitchhiker . The colors, patterns, and details are great, but mostly we couldn’t resist continuing with our freaky doll theme of late. Good luck falling asleep tonight!
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HHS Building Evacuated After Small Explosion
Posted by admin in DC Life on 08 20th, 2009 | No Comments
The Health and Human Services building at 200 Independence Ave. SW was evacuated shortly after 10 a.m. this morning after a small electrical explosion occurred in the building. No injuries and no fire resulted from the explosion, which happened in a penthouse electrical room and affected a transformer...
Md. Man With ‘Death to Obama’ Sign Detained
Posted by admin in DC Life on 08 13th, 2009 | No Comments
Truly charming news out of Hagerstown: the AP via WTOP reports that the Secret Service detained a Maryland man who showed up to one of Sen. Ben Cardin’s health care reform town hall meetings with a sign reading, “Death to Obama.” And wait, it gets even charming-er! The sign also reportedly...
I’m Waiting for My Man: President Obama
Posted by admin in DC Life on 08 2nd, 2009 | No Comments
Photo by bullneck Notice those posters around town that say “AIDS is DC’s Katrina” ? Maybe they ought to say that Obama’s AIDS policy is Bush’s AIDS policy. The poster features a concerned (discombobulated?) President George W. Bush staring from his window seat down at...
Click Click: Regina King, Keri Russell & Jessica Alba in Columbia Heights
Posted by Tom in DC Life on 05 8th, 2009 | No Comments
A number of Hollywood celebrities and other prominent women stopped by Unity Health Care in Columbia Heights on Thursday to speak with mothers of pediatric patients who have faced serious difficulties receiving health care. Jessica Alba, Keri Russell,...
District of Columbia Announces First Likely Cases of Swine Flu
Posted by Tom in DC Life on 05 1st, 2009 | No Comments
The official press release from the District regarding the two probable cases of swine flu at George Washington University is below. Unlike the Obama advance guy and the World Bank employee , both of whom live in Maryland, these two cases are being counted in the District proper. Note that the city...
World Bank Employee Swine Flu Case Would Be Counted in Md.
Posted by Tom in DC Life on 04 30th, 2009 | No Comments
Earlier today the World Bank announced that one of its D.C.-based employees had preliminarily tested positive for swine flu , but it turns out that should the case be confirmed by a second test, it wouldn’t actually be counted as the District’s first case. World Bank spokesperson David Theis...
Congressman Reads Long List of Sex Acts on House Floor
Posted by Tom in DC Life on 04 30th, 2009 | No Comments
With a hat tip to Huffington Post’s Ryan Grim , it seems that Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) got up to speak on the House floor yesterday about an amendment to the hate crimes bill, and ended reading off a very, very long list of peculiar sex acts. “I apologize to our transcriber,” he...
Ratatat @ 9:30 Club
Posted by Tom in DC Life on 04 17th, 2009 | No Comments
Ratatat I’m pretty sure this show was detrimental to my health. Someone let Ratatat crank the 9:30 Club’s sound system all the way up. The bass was throat-shaking. You could feel it in your lungs and knees. There were powerful strobes that lasted way too long. Some smoke. A green laser....


