Matt Sedlar

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• Posted Album Review: Laura Tsaggaris' Keep Talking to DCist
  Despite what they say about first impressions, in music it's the second impression that can be the most important. Call it what you want, the sophomore jinx or the sophomore slump, the second album determines whether an artist can match his or her first effort or even grow beyond it. D.C.-based artist Laura Tsaggaris (suh Gair iss) must've spent the four years between her 2005 debut Proof and her newest record, Keep Talking, thinking...
• Posted Update on Marissa to DCist
  Last August, we wrote about Marissa, a 19-month-old baby girl living in Annandale, Virginia, who was diagnosed at two months with a rare pediatric condition called Infantile Spasms (IS). IS is a type of epilepsy experienced in infancy that causes clusters of seizures and can lead to development problems. Marissa's father, Mike, who spearheaded a global online effort for IS awareness, recently e-mailed us with the sad news that Marissa has "taken a turn...
• Commented on Suspected Dognapping Outside P Street Whole Foods
  DCist ran a story about something that happened in D.C.?! The nerve. Seriously, though. I can't believe the comments on here. You can't compare leaving a dog tied up in front of a store to leaving a kid tied up....
• Posted Aliens to Invade D.C. in The Conduit to DCist
  There must be a lot of angry D.C.-area commuters working as video game developers these days. In last year's Fallout 3, Bethesda Softworks turned the greater D.C. area into a wasteland, reducing a transit system closely resembling Metro to a series of ghoul-infested tunnels. Now Sega is releasing The Conduit (hat tip to unsuckdcmetro), in which Metro is reduced to a series of alien-infested tunnels. Nothing says system-wide delay like a raygun shoot-out at Metro...
• Commented on Gawker Editor Thinks D.C. Sucks; In Other News, Dog Bites Man
  I'll never understand these feuds. I love D.C. (and I seriously miss living there now that I've relocated to the Alexandria Neighborhood.) New York is awesome. San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle — all great cities. But they're so different...