I didn’t note last week, but I was quoted by the Post in an article about neighborhood listservs: Many Neighborhoods Find a Voice Online. … A few sites seek a broader view of the city, including DCist, a Web site that features a daily news and sports roundup and reviews of rock bands, trendy restaurants […]
Conservatives Planning March on Washington
The website RightMarch.com is planning a protest to support John Roberts in September, on the date when his hearing is scheduled to begin: RightMarch.com is now a leading sponsor of this HUGE counter-protest, which will take place on September 6, 7, 8 and 9, 2005 in our nation’s capital. … All of these hundreds of […]
DCist: We Name Pandas
A Bloomberg news service article cites DCist (specifically, Catherine Andrews’ post) as the inventor of the nickname “Butterstick” for the National Zoo’s baby panda: Web logs, such as dcist.com, nicknamed the cub “Butterstick” because zookeepers described him at birth as being “about the size of a stick of butter.” According to Chinese tradition, the cub […]
D.C. Blogger Meetup Report
Tonight was the monthly blogger meetup I’ve been hosting for almost a year now, and it was by far the best event yet with about 18 people turning out. We met at Pharaoh’s Bar and Grill, an Adams Morgan bar I like quite a bit that’s both centrally located but also a bit out of […]
Town Hall Opens Next Week
A new restaurant in Glover Park called Town Hall is opening next week – the private “soft” opening is Monday. I am not sure when they’ll be open to the public. Although I have not seen the inside, the outside remodeling looks sharp. Read more about Town Hall on this old Glover Park index.
DC Blogger Meetup Wednesday
An unprecedented 16 people have RSVP’d for this Wednesday’s blogger meetup at Pharaoh’s Bar and Grill in Adams Morgan. Pharaoh’s is pretty cool (check out the DCist profile), so you should RSVP.
“Busboys and Poets”
This was posted on Joe Trippi’s blog: One of the gentlemen who also came was Anas (Andy) Shallal who is an Iraqi-American peace activist from Washington, DC. I talked to him briefly after he addressed the crowd of supporters under the tent. It took a while to pull him away from the crowd as everyone […]