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November 15, 2007

When posters appeared on the GW campus early last month bearing the message, "Hate Muslims? So Do We!", some people laughed, others got offended, and the university got a ton of media coverage unrelated to its exorbitant tuition. Today the GW Hatchet reports that the students responsible for the posters have each received a $25 fine and probation. As you all may recall, the posters were part of a campaign to mock Islamo-Facism Awareness Week,......

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October 9, 2007

Take a look at the poster on the right. Does it strike you as patently offensive, or does the preponderance of exclamation points tell you it's certainly satire? That's what students at George Washington University are arguing about today, as the posters, hung up around campus overnight, have caused quite an uproar. The GW Hatchet has the story, which has since been picked up by the AP and the Post. The posters falsely advertise "Islamo-Fascism......

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July 30, 2007

>> Fort Reno's got Garland of Hours, Aerialist, and Lady in the Radiator. 7:15 p.m., call 703-318-2197 for rain updates. >> Screen on the Green has the excellent, often overlooked thriller Wait Until Dark, which stars Audrey Hepburn as a recently blinded woman who is terrorized by a group of criminals while they try to get to a doll stuffed with heroin they believe is in her apartment. Films start at sunset, call 877-262-5866 for......

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May 18, 2007

Dine Out for Eastern Market on Monday The outpouring of support for Eastern Market continues. On Monday, May 21, several restaurants on Capitol Hill will participate in Dining Out for Eastern Market, a "Dining Out for Life" style charity event where the restaurants will donate a portion of their proceeds to the Capitol Hill Community Foundation's Eastern Market fund, which has raised $238,000 so far to assist the South Hall merchants while a temporary market......

Continue Reading "The Weekly Feed: Frenching Edition"

April 24, 2007

When we arrived at Adams Morgan bar Felix last Tuesday to catch a Justin Jones show, we found Jones himself standing in the doorway as Felix's de facto bouncer. "Can I see some I.D.?" asked the stubbled 27-year-old. Then, with a wry grin and a "Nah, I'm just messing with you," Jones waved us inside. Offstage, it's tough to tell when Jones is just messing with you. Which is ironic, because as soon as he......

Continue Reading "Three Stars: Justin Jones and the Driving Rain"

April 13, 2007

FRIDAY: >> It's Friday the 13th. Scaaary? Nah. We laugh in the face of danger. Or at least, you might if you swing by HR-57 tonight for all the DC Comedy Fest events happening on their stages. We gave you the rundown on the festival yesterday, and we'd especially recommend heading over later on to catch the 11 p.m. Leno-Letterman Audition Highlights, which features some of the fest's funnier comedians in longer sets than usual.......

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February 20, 2007

TUESDAY Got someone in your life who neatly fits within the Young Adult demographic? They’d be pleased as punch to meet China Mieville, whose new fantasy novel, Un Lun Dun, reads like a Pan’s Labyrinth without all the blood-spatter and heavy overtones of European fascism. And, yeah, you grown-ups will probably dig it as well. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave NW, 7 p.m. WEDNESDAY There was a time when “hooking up” really meant something.......

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January 19, 2007

Along with ripped jeans and an appetite for destruction, a roguish stage name is a prerequisite for membership in a punk band. There’s Iggy Pop, Sid Vicious, and the frontmen for the four acts playing at the Rock and Roll Hotel on Sunday: Andy Vandal from The Riptides, not to be confused with Conley Chlamydia of The RipOuts. Then there’s Haircut (of The Heart Attacks), and Joe Queer (of The Queers). Since 1982, The Queers......

Continue Reading "Concert Preview: The Queers @ R'n'R Hotel"

July 18, 2006

So yesterday was pretty miserable, huh? When temperatures in the shade come just short of triple digits, you know we've hit the part of the D.C. summer that sends Capitol Hill and the rest of the city's transient population scurrying off to their August vacation getaways. We wish we could say the worst is over. But... Heat, Air Quality To Get Worse: Amidst some banal man-on-the-street meteorology (alternate headline: "Some Dislike Heat, Others Don't"), the......

Continue Reading "Morning Roundup: Yes, It's Hot Enough For Me Edition"

May 31, 2006

Written by DCist Contributor E.K. Eckert. DCist's angst-ridden inner teenager was summoned last night to the Verizon Center to party with the only grunge band from the mid-90s to have managed to avoid heroin overdoses and general disintegration. Pearl Jam, in short, rocked. Opening with “Release,” an atmospheric track off their first album Ten, Eddie Vedder’s iconic voice soared through the indoor stadium and never sounded better. After such a soothing opening, they jumped......

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April 30, 2006

Houstonist reports on cross-dressing thieves and undressing educators this week. A Peeping Tom defends himself with a papaya and an outraged onlooker asks Ken Lay, "TATER TOTS OR FRIES?" Also, FEMA wants it's money back. LAist are a bug bunch of geeks. They're Star Trek geeks, David Duchovny geeks and Frank Gehry geeks. During their Cochella preview their readers reveal themselves to be Depeche Mode geeks. Seattlest saw their basketball team preparing to leave for......

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December 9, 2004

Now that the massive intelligence overhaul has passed the House and Senate, the last stumbling block preventing Congress from going home for the year has been removed. And you know what that means: Adjournment. It's a time most of the city lets democracy and world affairs run on auto-pilot. People in D.C. are more interested in plotting out their holiday party social agendas, wear jeans to the office because it's Tuesday, take long lunches......

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August 23, 2004

The Shenandoah Valley has beautiful scenery, but an ugly problem: methamphetamines. The Post says that Viriginia officials are trying to get a better understanding of the use of "poor man's cocaine" in the area. In the past five years, meth has become the No. 1 drug seized along the north-south corridor between Winchester and Harrisonburg, a belt that parallels Skyline Drive as well as Interstate 81. What stumps local authorities is that the deadly wave......

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