Results tagged “thehills”

The Washington City Paper's Angela Valdez provides a two-pronged update today to the monstrosity that could be the Late Night Shots reality TV show we told you about earlier this month.

All across the Ist-A-Verse (or at least the American parts thereof), writers and editors are in the midst of enjoying their three-day weekend. But after the week we've all had, we feel like the break is not only needed, but deserved. Just look at everything we've been doing! Gothamist headed into the Memorial Day weekend with a number of tasks accomplished. They worried about Long Islanders giving New Yorkers a bad name. They tried...

Hill staffers, it's your turn to bathe in the harsh glare of the reality TV spotlight. The new six-part Capitol Hill documentary series The Hill (not to be confused with the Laguna Beach spin off The Hills) shadows the young staff of Congressman Robert Wexler (D-Fla) as they navigate the slippery halls of political power. While a documentary about the wonky inner workings of a Hill office sounds mundane at best to us, we are...

We urban loyalists love to cry foul when we see our idea of the quintessential exurban commuter: affluent and white in massive SUVs, driving farther and farther out I-66 and I-270 in search of cheaper square footage and a bigger backyard. More than a few articles have wondered aloud whether a mini-mansion in exurbia is really a good thing. But the Post's Alec MacGillis chipped at our preconceptions yesterday by showing us a different kind of exurban commuter.

When the leaves are falling here in the east, we remember our former life on the warmer West Coast in California. We used to make the short drive from Santa Barbara through the San Marcos Pass and into the ridiculously bucolic Santa Ynez Valley to taste wines at the old clapboard wineries next to the horse farms. On the way back to town, we might have even stopped by Solvang -- the faux Danish town...

As Gothamist and Google reminded us, yesterday was Frank Lloyd Wright's birthday. The master American architect certainly shaped the way our nation viewed building and our relation with space. It's too bad that countless other builders hacked up his vision by creating cookie-cutter suburban split-levels and other such throw-away exurban homesteads. One thing this DCist misses about the Midwest is the close proximity to Wright's architecture. In Washington, we aren't as fortunate. Corinthian columns and pediments are the norm.