Your guide to the region's top events, mixed with some commentary about life, media, gossip and politics in Washington, DC.
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Good morning, Washington! Here's what we're reading around the web this AM.
Photo by Flickr user Poldavo. Tuesday means Todd—Kliman, that is. At 11 AM today, he'll be taking all your food and dining questions (maybe you have some Restaurant Week queries?) so submit your Qs now. He's also got a great contest running right now, so make sure to enter it! Could Tim Kaine, Virginia governor, be our next Vice President? Turns out he's in serious talks with Obama's team. Did you know there's such a thing as a Cardboard Tube Fighting League? Well, there is, and they're coming to the Mall this weekend.
PQ Living catches the TV show "Bones" filming in Penn Quarter. 14th and You thinks the AlertDC function might be to liberal with its "alerts."
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Garrett M. Graff
A series of dispatches from Washington and the campaign trail.
There’s been a lot of conversation in the presidential race so far about the impact of the Internet. From online videos and online fund-raising to social networking sites and blogs, this race is being shaped at every level by what takes place online. Much of this attention, rightly so, has gone to Barack Obama, whose campaign more than any other in history has been funded and powered by online organization. But the subject of the Internet may have just as big an impact on John McCain’s campaign.
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Good morning, Washington! Here's what we're reading around the web this AM.
Photo by Flickr user mborowick Happy Monday, Washington! Miss some of our online content from last week? Worry not—we've got our most popular blog posts right here. Mayor Fenty is going to the Olympics! Not as an athlete, obviously—but just on a trip with his family. Some relief for drivers—DC gas prices have fallen below $4 (for now). A new wine and tapas bar will be opening in Columbia Heights from the folks who brought you the Warehouse Theater. The Post has a fascinating article on the hunt for a serial rapist that ended when the prime suspect killed himself last week.
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Miss out on some of our blog posts from this week? Worry not—we're here to fill you in on what the most popular blog posts were from the past seven days. See below for our top five.
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Harry Jaffe
Harry Jaffe vlogs about his Katharine Weymouth article (and why you should absolutely read it—no bias here!) and why she might very well succeed in her position at the Post.
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Kellie Bramlet
Every Friday, for some fun reading, we bring you the area's best Missed Connections on Craigslist.
So here’s the drill: Making eyes at a certain someone while waiting in line for tickets to “The Dark Knight”? Yeah, you and everyone else. But just in case you couldn’t muster the courage to get their name and number, there’s Craigslist’s Missed Connections, a kind of personals service that allows users to post about someone they recently met but aren’t sure how to contact. Who said there’s no such thing as second chances?
And without further ado here’s a look at five of the best, worst, most interesting and just plain funny of the Missed Connections from the DC area.
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Scott Sode
It was a Helen Thomas lovefest at the National Press Club Wednesday night. The journalism elite convened to watch an advance screening of Rory Kennedy’s documentary on the venerable White House reporter, who has covered nine(!) presidents from her front-row seat in the White House press room since 1961. “Thank You Mr. President: Helen Thomas at the White House” is a breezy, light-hearted interview with the news legend; the frequently outspoken correspondent reflects candidly on the people and events she witnessed covering the highest office of the United States: Vietnam, Watergate, and even what she says was Reagan’s inability to answer a question without the consent of his “troika”—Ed Meese, Mike Deaver, and James Baker III. The audience erupted in laughter several times, but the documentary is really must-see for the brief exchange Kennedy and Thomas have on the latter’s sex appeal. Let’s just say it casts the perpetual Bill O’Reilly target (see her remark, “The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I’ll kill myself”) in a more endearing light.
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