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America’s Mayor: Gotta Dance

Monday, January 8th, 2007

To the hundreds of people standing outside the Covention Center last Saturday, MORE »


CNN.com Now Run By Pre-Schoolers

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

Hooray for dumb-ass Chinese bears that should be extinct! - Wonkette
Hooray for Take Your Child To Work and Let Them Edit CNN.com Day. Also, it’s a story we made fun of two weeks ago. As Susan B. Anthony said, America will not be free until the last congressman is strangled with the entrails of the last panda. MORE »


Down With Butterstick: Japanese Panda Has Twins

Tuesday, December 26th, 2006

So fuckin' stupid .... - WonketteNow we’re officially scraping the bottom of the holiday news barrel, because we’re going to invoke that goddamned National Zoo baby panda we hate so much, Sun Myung Moon or whatever it’s called. MORE »


Democrats Also Hate Zoo Patrons

Friday, November 24th, 2006

Sorry, butterfuck! - WonketteWe can’t prove the incoming Democratic leadership has anything to do this — nobody will return e-mails today, for some reason — but it’s likely the National Zoo’s new total ban on smoking has Nancy Pelosi’s meddling fingerprints all over it. MORE »


To Do: Abuse a Man in a Panda Suit

Friday, October 13th, 2006

Friday

  • “Late last week, one of the bartenders from the Argonaut was shot in the head and critically wounded on his way home from work. The Argonaut is hosting a benefit for Quike (pronounced Key-K) on Friday October 13, 7pm-late at the Argonaut, located at 1433 H St NE. There will be a silent auction and a DJ.” [The Going Out Gurus]

  • GET READY FOR THE PANDA MOTORCADE. If you are very good and wander around DC all weekend, a man dressed as Butterstick may bring you down the Asia Trail and then give you a quarter. [National Zoo]
  • Howard Homecoming party at Felix. Free before 11PM with RSVP. Free food before 10PM. Possible free drinks. Dress nicely. [Upcoming]
  • 1973’s The Day the Music Died at the LOC. If you thought Woodstock 1999 was a laugh riot, you’ll love this. Performances by Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Country Joe & The Fish, Jim Morrison, Van Morrison, Mountain, Dionne Warwick, Steppenwolf, Jan and Dean, Otis Redding, etc. Free at 7PM. [LOC]

Saturday

  • HerbDay! at the beautiful US Botanic Gardens. Learn how to promote the diversity and potency of your home cannabis strains. HerbDay! Festival]

  • Bob Mould DJ’s shirtless at the 9:30 Club. $12 at 11:30PM. [9:30 Club]
  • AFI is showing new films from France through the 22nd. Saturday features beaucoup de choix: Riviera, The Case of the Grinning Cat, In Paris, Comedy of Power and Le Petit Lieutenant. Vous êtes autorisé pour fumer des cigarettes dans le théâtre. [AFI]
  • Andrew Soul-livan at Politics & Prose talking about The Conservative Soul. We suggest visiting HerbDay! beforehand as Mr. Sullivan’s talk involves the Bible. [P&P]

Sunday

  • 39th Annual Dupont Circle House Tour. It’s a self-guided tour of 12 homes, and then a Victorian tea party at the Washington Club. $30 from 12PM- 5PM. [Dupont Circle Citizens Association]

  • Telograph, Black Tie Revue and Velvet at the Black Cat. $8 at 9PM to benefit the DC Coalition Against Domestic Violence. [Black Cat]

Lame Atlanta Panda Gives Birth To Non-Butterstick Panda Baby

Thursday, September 7th, 2006

Ashamed at having such a lame-ass non-Butterstick panda baby - WonketteWhat else do you need to know? Some zoo down in CNN-ville has some low-level pandas that make even average pandas seem like Lindsey Lohan. MORE »


Commie Libs Finally Go Too Far

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006

Well whaddya expect from communist San Francisco???Republicans learned long ago that Democrats are big meanies, so the latest outrage out of “Moscow by the Bay” really shouldn’t come as a shock.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the city zoo has named one of its horses “Coulter” — a direct attack on the beauty of best-selling humorist Ann Coulter!

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To Do: You’re Wild

Thursday, July 6th, 2006
  • DCist hosts Butterstick birthday party at Chief Ike’s. 7PM. [DCist]

  • AFI’s Altman festival ends tonight with The Wedding: “stuffing 48 roles into a sprawling farce. Standouts include Carol Burnett as the mother of the bride and Mia Farrow as the sister; plus Lillian Gish, Vittorio Gassman and Altman regulars Geraldine Chaplin, Bert Remsen and Nina Van Pallandt.” 7PM. [AFI Silver]
  • French Toast, Antelope, Baby Killer Estelle at Fort Reno. 7:15PM. Free. [Fort Reno]
  • Incursion in to the Mountains: The Afromestizo Naturalism. 2005 documentary by Rafael Rebollar about folk music and oral traditions in the Costa Chica of Guerrero and Oaxaca. 6:30PM. Free. [Cultural Institute of Mexico]
  • Nigerian drummer, Tosin Aribisala, leads The Hallelujazz Project at Twins Jazz. [Twins Jazz]
  • Kelly Clarkson at Nissan Pavillion, in Bristow, VA. That’s 20 miles past a metro station (Vienna), which is fine by us. $25- $75. [Live Nation]

Sweet 60, Never Been Kissed

Thursday, July 6th, 2006


It’s safe to say that this won’t be the last tribute to our beloved President’s entry to sexy sexagenarianism that you’ll see today. Be a nice boy and play with your cake, Georgie, and maybe if you’re extra-good we’ll take you to the zoo this weekend to visit an even more popular birthday boy… who else but Butterstick, the adorable panda! MORE »


Metro Section: A Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Grass Chewing, Inc.

Tuesday, June 20th, 2006

* What does Butterstick want for his birthday? A few less corporate sponsors and a lot more bamboo. [National Zoo] MORE »