Nighclub 9:30 is holding a free screening of “930 F Street,â€? a documentary about the club’s early history, this Friday at 9 p.m.: “Back by popular demand! An encore presentation of 930 F STREET, The 9:30 Club Documentary Come relive the last 25 years! Special retrospective DJ set. First 500 people get a FREE limited […]
Unbuckled is Tonight!
DCist’s first concert, Unbuckled, is tonight at the Black Cat. —–
Technorati, Live 8 Team Up
The folks at the blog search engine Technorati have teamed up with the organizers of the Live8 concerts to create an “Blog Centralâ€? where they’ll be aggregating blog posts about the concerts. I’m considering going to the Live8 Philly concert, but a friend of mine is in town that weekend so I am not sure […]
Data Mining: So Hot Right Now
> WaPo: “Pentagon Creating Student Database“ > NYTimes: “Age 16 to 25? The Pentagon Has Your Number, and More“ From the NYTimes story: The Defense Department and a private contractor have been building an extensive database of 30 million 16-to-25-year-olds, combining names with Social Security numbers, grade-point averages, e-mail addresses and phone numbers. The department […]
WaPo and Tina Brown
The Washington Post put this quote from today’s column by Tina Brown on the main page of their website: “Maybe it’s a secret fantasy of girl-on-girl action that makes Ed Klein obsess about Sen. Hillary Clinton’s supposed lesbian ethos.â€? What journalistic purpose is this serving? Couldn’t the space be better used? Actually, Why Tina in […]
Whose Neighborhood?
“Welcome to the Neighborhoodâ€? is a new reality TV program on ABC: Seven families arrive at the dream home – a 3300-square-foot house with four bedrooms and two-and-a-half bathrooms located on a prime piece of real estate in a cul-de-sac near Austin, Texas. The competing families, each in their own unique way, enthusiastically meet and […]
Morgan Spurlock’s ‘30 Days’ Premieres Tonight on FX
Yesterday I attended the premiere of a new series by Morgan Spurlock called “30 Days.â€? Created in the wake of Morgan’s success with “Super Size Me”, each episode is about when someone walks in someone else’s shoes for 30 days. In the first episode, Morgan and his fiance try to live in Columbus, Ohio on […]