AltWeeklies Wire
Why Are 'Green' Apartments So Rare in D.C.?new
"People say they want green, but they still want their SUV," says the CEO of DCRealEstate.com. "People want green when it comes to condominium apartments -- if they can have everything else for the same amount, they'll take it. But they often don't choose it."
Washington City Paper |
Ruth Samuelson |
11-20-2008 |
Housing & Development
The Return of Mingering Mikenew
For decades, D.C. songwriter Mingering Mike has refused to reveal his identity to the public. Given the right opportunity, though, he might just be ready.
Washington City Paper |
Jason Cherkis |
10-23-2008 |
Music
A Fake Campaign Turns a Bartender into a Real Candidate for D.C.'s Shadow Senate Seatnew
By using an obvious fraud -- the shadowy candidate -- as the mouthpiece for a sincere message -- the disenfranchisement of D.C. voters -- Damien Ober's videos poke fun at the duplicity of real politics. But the joke may have had the best of its makers.
Washington City Paper |
Angela Valdez |
08-21-2008 |
Politics
A Pelecanos Dictionarynew
George Pelecanos has spent more than 15 years writing 15 novels that, taken together, make for a panoramic story about Washington, D.C. We come to terms with D.C.'s most site-specific author.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Athikakis |
08-07-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Faraquet Had Novel Ideas About what Guitars Can Do, but Don't Call it Math Rocknew
Of course they could play in odd time signatures. And, yes, they were, at times, willfully obtuse. But at the heart of every Faraquet song is an actual song.
Washington City Paper |
Brent Burton |
07-24-2008 |
Reviews
One of the D.C. Police Dept's Top Informants Talks About a Decade on the Streetsnew
How to buy drugs without blowing your cover. How to gain the trust of old heads. And an insider's look at the carnage of D.C.'s Trinidad neighborhood.
Washington City Paper |
As told to Jason Cherkis |
07-10-2008 |
Crime & Justice
A Friend's Death and a Cop's Support Spawn a Go-Go Bandnew
Highly Respected wanted enough money to buy a headstone for a murdered friend. Enter Mitch Credle.
Washington City Paper |
Angela Valdez |
07-10-2008 |
Music
With His Gun-Case Majority Opinion, Scalia Proved He's a Fraudnew
This man who claims to have studied the Constitution his entire life and to have dedicated his professional career to upholding the document exactly as it was written has, through some of the clumsiest legal verbiage ever put down on paper, shown his true stripe, that of an opportunist laying in wait.
Tucson Weekly |
Tom Danehy |
07-03-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Taking a Shot at the Supreme Courtnew
This past week's Supreme Court ruling, invalidating Washington, DC's handgun ban, demonstrates just how far afield "movement conservatism" has taken our country.
Boston Phoenix |
Editorial |
07-03-2008 |
Civil Liberties
Ad Campaign Latest Effort to take Smithfield Foods to Tasknew
Faith leaders, elected officials and Smithfield workers will gather in D.C. to unveil a series of advertisements decrying working conditions at the company's sprawling hog processing plant in North Carolina. The ads will soon begin appearing on the sides of buses and metro station walls across the D.C. metropolitan area.
Port Folio Weekly |
Vernal Coleman |
06-18-2008 |
Business & Labor
Who Has the Better Cookie: NYC or D.C.?new
Although both cookies represent cities that occasionally indulge in comparison to each other, the salty oat and the black-and-white defy comparison. So let's not quibble about which city has the better cookie (we do) and start instead from the beginning.
Washington City Paper |
Jule Banville |
06-13-2008 |
Food+Drink
Why Don't the People of D.C. Have a Voice in Congress?new
D.C. Vote's Eugene Dewitt Kinlow and Ilir Zherka traveled to Jackson June 2, to talk with Mississippi voters about the issue.
Jackson Free Press |
Adam Lynch |
06-12-2008 |
Politics
The Anatomy of a Fatal Turf War in One D.C. Neighborhoodnew
The Shaw of yesteryear has disappeared, and yet its crew history is still evolving. The 7th Street crew perpetuates the neighborhood's intractable crime problem. Over the years, it has carried on feuds with groups in three directions, feuds whose origins no one can really pin down.
Washington City Paper |
Ruth Samuelson |
05-30-2008 |
Crime & Justice
A Teenage Prostitute, An Inept Pimp, and Two Versions of What Happenednew
The internet limits the risk of marketing sex with underage girls, whose youth can be more easily disguised on a website than on the street. But ignorance of a girl's age doesn't equal innocence. In Levar Simms' case, the charge of transporting a minor for the purposes of prostitution hinged on strict liability. He could be found guilty regardless of whether he knew Lynette was 16.
Washington City Paper |
Angela Valdez |
05-15-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Suicide and Silence at the D.C. Jailnew
How did the D.C. Jail let two troubled inmates kill themselves in their cells? Don't ask the D.C. Jail.
Washington City Paper |
Brendan Smith |
04-10-2008 |
Crime & Justice
