Typically behind the times politically I had been hearing some rumblings lately about a couple buzzwords you may have heard, the “unitary executive” theory of presidential power and President Bush’s practice of issuing “signing statements” when he signs bills into law. (I have to thank in part Diane Rehm’s Feb. 7th show) Some simple googling […]
Blog Panel
I’m participating in a panel discussion about blogs tomorrow for an association of museums, venues, and other cultural organizations here in DC. Although it’s designed for their members’ PR people, the info is after the jump if you’re curious. I’m looking forward to participating.
Our Historical Heroes
Tonight I talked with a U-M student named Jared Press. He actually got in touch with me through a professor friend to talk about jobs (He’s interested in urban planning and thinking about moving back to DC) but in the course of the conversation I found out he helps run a t-shirt company with a […]
Books About DC I Want To Read
Hopefully this will be an evolving list. The Secret City: A History of Race Relations in the Nation’s Capital by Constance Green The Hidden History of Washington, DC by Tingba Apidta Between Justice and Beauty: Race, Planning, and the Failure of Urban Policy in Washington, D.C. by Howard F., Jr. Gillette Urban Odyssey: A Multicultural […]
Tasting the “Delicious Frappe of Executive Priviledge”
But we are facing a deadly enemy that wants to hit us again. And hit us hard. And as President, I’ve got to stop all the hitting. We celebrate tonight the confirmation of Justice Ah-leet-toe. He’s going to be a powerful ally in the war on terror. Because he’s going to let me hit whoever […]
Skydome Report
As promised, I checked out a DC memorial to the 1970s I notice every time I cross the 14th Street bridge to Virginia. What icon is that? Why, the Crystal City Doubletree’s rotating lounge, of course. In an earlier era it seemed no self-respecting city lacked a rotating restaurant, preferably lodged high up in a […]
DC’s Most Shagadelic Bar?
The Arlington Doubletree Crystal City Hotel‘s Skydome Lounge opened in 1972 and today remains DC’s only rotating restaurant/lounge. A 1998 Washington Post review panned the place as having little “worth mentioning” beyond the view, quipping, “Picture a small town where the hotel bar is the only place to go. A DJ station sits in the […]