Results tagged “rehab”

Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.), who famously crashed his car near the U.S. Capitol three years ago while under the influence of prescription drugs, has checked into a rehabilitation facility, the Associated Press is reporting. "I have decided to temporarily step away from my normal routine to ensure that I am being as vigilant as possible in my recovery," Kennedy said in a statement today. His office isn't giving out any more information about exactly what he's being treated for, but the congressman has previously sought treatment for bipolar disorder, alcohol and prescription drug abuse.

Despite that avuncular beard, Lucas was not a kindly mentor (like Obi-Wan Kenobi), but instead kind of a dick (like Grand Moff Tarkin). He wouldn't let her wear a bra, explaining matter-of-factly that "there's no underwear in space." (That didn't stop him from dressing her in chainmail lingerie for Return of the Jedi in 1983, kicking off my sexual awakening a decade or so ahead of schedule.) Fisher weighed a decidedly un-Hutt-like 105 lbs. when Lucas cast her; he told her to drop ten. Hollywood is a cesspool of bantha poodoo, no? Dude actually owns Fisher's likeness, too, so, sez Fisher, "when I look in the mirror, I have to send him a couple of bucks." But even after all that, she doesn't hold a grudge.

Welcome back to work, Washington. We don't know about you, but we spent an awfully long time in the sun this weekend consuming too much food at various street festivals, so forgive us if we're still groggily pondering Saturday's news in WaPo that the fare change about to be proposed by Metro General Manager John Catoe is an "average increase" of 45 cents. That kind of increase would theoretically raise the base fare of a...

Sitting at your desk, bored, thinking it's high time to find a new job? Mayor Fenty is hosting a Citywide Job Fair at the Washington Convention Center today, and you've still got a few more hours to stop by before it closes up shop at 4 p.m. Head over with a stack of resumes, and apply for D.C. city government jobs like these: >> Paralegal Specialist in the Office of the D.C. Attorney General >>...

When DCist left the 9:30 Club last night, a homeless man on U Street told us to smile. That might best describe our experience with seeing The Libertines live. We expected a lot more, and in the end were disappointed, realizing that a band with such great potential had floundered and came up short. (Perhaps it was the co-mingling of Jamesons and Stella Artois that was shared on stage ... or was the Jamesons actually red wine, which the band has been known to enjoy while chain smoking in their blissful belligerence?)