Posted Bring the Noise (by Flatbed Truck) to DCist
View Larger Map Public Enemy has turned public friend #1 for their performance in the District. Tomorrow night, Long Island Music Hall of Fame inductees, rap-rock progenitors, and occasional television mugs Chuck D and Flavor Flav are playing GW's Lisner Auditorium – where you can advance to the front of the house for the price of admission plus a winter coat. If that deal's not enough, you can also catch PE playing on a flatbed...
Posted Click Click: D.C. Tweed Ride to DCist
A PUBLIC NOTICE REGARDING THE VELOCIPEDE ASSEMBLY IN OUR NATION'S CAPITAL Scores of well-met journeymen and women gathered yesterday in the northeast of the Capital city for an expedition to celebrate the latest in fashion, industry and whimsy. This peregrination saw fashionable fellows and dandizettes tour the city by bi-cycle and fixed-gear machine. A good time was had by all! Some 200 riders gathered at H Street in the Northeast for an Indian-summer afternoon traipse...
Posted Improper Burials at Arlington Cemetery to DCist
Photo of Arlington Cemetery from the 2008 DCist Exposed show by cstein96 The timing of the news is inadvertently tacky. Coming only days after Veterans' Day, U.S. Secretary of the Army John McHugh ordered an investigation into improper burials at Arlington Cemetery following a report by Salon that cemetery workers buried cremated remains in graves already in use. In its investigation, Salon revealed a negligence unbecoming servicemen and servicewomen deserving honor: On Jan. 28,...
Posted Send an Intern With the Official State Camera to DCist
Photo by maxedaperture No disrespect meant to Governor Tim Kaine, whom I'm sure is a competent storm chaser, but are there seriously not more qualified people in the Commonwealth of Virginia to do this sort of thing? While I'm certain that a helicopter tour of the state would have given Kaine a better impression of the damage done in Hampton Roads by storms, that helicopter tour might have informed any number of state employees...