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Monday, Feb. 23: Last Lion is an anthology of Boston Globe articles about one of Boston’s top five-ish most famous All-Time Kennedys, Teddy Kennedy. The book’s editor Peter Canellos will be giving a talk at Politics & Prose, and hopefully the “Other” of the Kennedys, Caroline, will not be mentioned in any way, lest Canellos [...]
Well, that’s that: The only places you can now smoke in Virgina are on private property, in the outdoors, and in sin. [DC Examiner]
Nature vs. Nurture Debate: Solved! Convenient Baby Boomer Triumphalism! All This And More, In Books!
What’s happenin’ everyone? Besides America’s anniversary with its first wife, George Washington, we mean. Books, books are what’s happening. Lots of books about the military and its history, if that is your “thing.” Also some meta-novel about moving to Europe, and another new book that proves, with Science, that Obama is nothing more than an [...]
Here’s something you don’t see too often, these days, during the Great Big Depression: the launch of a new publication! It’s called Wonkabout, and it’s your guide to all that is fun and interesting and weird and tasty and boozey in Washington D.C., the new capital of the world. Yes We Can!
Bars and restaurants are possibly maybe finally going “smoke-free” in Virginia, the Philip Morris State. In the past Tim Kaine had stopped this from happening but now who knows. [DC Examiner] White powder and a dead fish were mailed to the Dept. of Homeland Security, meaning Rahm Emanuel is the Zodiac. [Washington Post] The journoterrorist [...]
O, reading! Lots of things relating to the books you read and the people who write them this week, right here in DC. Let’s see: there’s Chuck Todd, talking about Barry (who else, right?), and lots of South America-themed stuff mostly about revolutions and also drugs, and two equally despicable tales of Cheneys “Mamah” and [...]
‘Sup, readers? So many lectures and books this week, it’s like the platonic ideal of college before college actually started all over again. And speaking of late-adolescent fixations: there’s Malcolm Gladwell and also Howard Zinn talking about his new documentary, A People’s History of Howard Zinn, a stunning expose in which we, America, find out [...]
Hey welcome to this thing that’s going to start happening on Thursdays! It’s a special Friday edition of “Thursdays Are For Magazines,” in which Wonkette will be reading a different political or DC magazine each week and reviewing its contents, in fun capsule-list form.
If you were denied your basic human right to attend the Inauguration thanks to “severe logistical breakdowns,” you could be eligible to receive a photo of all the fun you missed on Barry’s special day! [DCist] Hey listen up hippies: your all-natural trail mix has diseases. [WTOP] Jill, Michelle and Fentys Adrian and “his wife” [...]
Good christ, how do you like this Economy — especially all you poor doomed media people? But at least “New Deal” Washington is immune to the national media meltdown, right? Not so much. Join us for what will probably be a not-fun new feature about Washington metro publications and journalists getting the axe. What should [...]
AMERICA’S NEW CAPITAL: “Like most everyone in D.C., I haven’t exactly been following the news since Tuesday. When you’re having sushi and champagne for breakfast, with Beyonce, you’re not really going to be checking up on Wolf Blitzer or Andrew Sullivan or whatever.” [AOL Political Machine]
Hey look our Liz Glover is all growed up! Now that she works for the Moonie Times her interviews have to be “serious,” so whereas before she might have asked the mayor some obnoxious question like, “Do you like balls?” she instead asked him how much money Washington DC made off the inauguration. Journalism! [TheNewsRoom]
Hey did you all realize that DC is so zeitgetist-y now? It’s true! The New York Times, your new DC alt-weekly, totally went to this one club and it was so cool. And now Obama is the new sixth borough. Celebrate your city all weekend long, by engaging its many many activities. And then Wednesday, [...]
First the riots, now the fires. Thanks a lot, Obama! Wonkette operative “Patrick W.” reports, “I guess there’s a fire inside union station RIGHT NOW, probably set by retreating tourist mobs. But don’t worry, it’s probably only garbage, that they disposed of in piles on the ground. Either that or the riots in SW have [...]
