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Posted Last Night's Action: Caps Up, Wizards Down to DCist
A pose fit for an action figure: Nicklas Backstrom beat Canadiens goaltender Carey Price glove side to win the overtime shootout in Montreal last night. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Graham Hughes) Capitals 4, Canadiens 3 (OT): The Caps let a two-goal lead after the first slip away, but managed to come back with strong goaltending by Semyon Varlamov, Eric Fehr's heroics, and Nicklas Backstrom's tricky move in the overtime shootout to win in Montreal....
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Posted Obamas At Smith Center For G.W. Basketball Game to DCist
President Obama, his mother-in-law Marian Robinson, first lady Michelle Obama and daughters Sasha and Malia watch Oregon State play George Washington at the Smith Center this afternoon. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) It's been a busy couple of weeks at the White House. The Obamas held their first state dinner complete with party crashers. The Commander-in-Chief pardoned his first turkey. The official White House Christmas tree arrived on Friday, and next Thursday, the Obamas are scheduled...
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Posted Saturday Thanks Don't End At Thanksgiving Photo: November 28, 2009 to DCist
Word that some of the District's homeless shelters are already at capacity is a reminder -- much like this nicely framed photograph of the breadline remembrance at the FDR Memorial by dstylezs/Fotography -- that every day with a warm meal and a roof over our heads is one to be grateful for, even after the fourth Thursday in November has passed....
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Posted Holocaust Museum Shooter's Medical Bills Top $50,000 to DCist
AP Photo/Talbot CountySheriff Office The medical bills of James von Brunn, the man charged with murdering security guard Stephen T. Johns at the National Holocaust Museum in June, tally a whopping $55,050 to date, according to the Associated Press. A Freedom of Information Act request to the D.C. Department of Corrections by the AP revealed that von Brunn -- who was shot by museum guards after opening fire and subsequently treated at George Washington...
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Posted In Vino Veritas to DCist
Photo by ellievanhoutte. Look, it's no secret that Maryland's laws governing booze are ludicrous, featuring a rigidity rivaled only by Pennsylvania and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. One particularly Puritanical section of the law does not allow tax-paying, law-abiding Marylanders to have wine shipped to their homes. Thankfully, there appear to be more level-headed individuals among those who produce and enjoy a good Pinot than in the state's General Assembly. The Baltimore Sun reported...
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Posted Car Pushed Into Anacostia River By Train to DCist
A vehicle which had parked on train tracks was pushed into the Anacostia River by a CSX locomotive in Southeast Washington early this morning. The incident occurred on the 1900 block of M Street SE -- the street runs parallel to the rail tracks, but stops short of crossing the river. Around 5:45 a.m., the vehicle was struck by an outbound freight train and nudged off the bridge, coming to rest in about 1-2 feet...
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Posted The Saturday Morning Post to DCist
Photo by Aziz ..Good morning, D.C. Are you really ready to reenter a world in which eating open-faced turkey sandwiches, watching college football rivalry games and hitting the recliner for numerous naps are not the top three things on your to do list? Of course you aren't. Fortunately for you, it's Saturday, and the aforementioned luxuries are still in sufficient supply. Don't worry, you can hide from the work-a-day world for a couple more...
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Posted Last Night's Action: Two In A Row to DCist
Dwyane Wade couldn't get around the defense of Nick Young [left]and center Brendan Haywood last night. The Wizards won 94-84.(AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) Wizards 94, Heat 84: The Wizards got key contributions from Antawn Jamison and Nick Young to lead them to a ten-point win over Miami last night, their second straight after the passing of Abe Pollin. The victory broke a six-game losing streak against the Heat. Big guns Gilbert Arenas (who had never...
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Posted Are the Redskins Actually Less Popular This Year? to DCist
Photo by frank.thorp. The first paragraph of Reed Albergotti's Wall Street Journal story today about the decline in popularity of the Washington Redskins tells you pretty much all you need to know about what he thinks, at least of our city.In a town drawn up by a Frenchman, a place brimming with people who hail from somewhere else and who don't agree about much of anything, the Washington Redskins managed to attain something any...
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Posted Last Night's Action: D'oh, Canada to DCist
Semyon Varlamov couldn't stop this Mike Fisher deflection as the Caps fell in overtime.(AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Fred Chartrand)Senators 4, Capitals 3 (OT): If you had cobbled together a team of professional hockey players from Eastern Canada and were looking for the opportune time to play the Washington Capitals, well, it's now. The Caps dropped their third straight game to a team from either Ontario or Quebec on Monday night, losing an overtime decision...
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Posted The Hi-Lo: Season Tip to DCist
Photo by ohad*. Leaves have fallen and Thanksgiving is right around the corner. You know what that means -- turkey! Also, it's time to get back to the hardwood. Welcome to the first edition of The Hi-Lo, DCist's new roundup of the week that was in DMV college hoops. College basketball -- unlike any other widely beloved American sport -- opens with such little fanfare that you could be forgiven for completely forgetting about...
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Posted Increased Urban Walkability For The Win to DCist
Walking to The Passenger last night, my mind drifted toward thoughts about the development of the area north of H Street along 7th Street NW. Perhaps it was destiny, then, that I stumbled over this photograph of Mt. Vernon Square taken in 1992 by Jack Boucher for the Historic American Buildings Survey of the Library of Congress, which DCist flickr contributor rockcreek shared with our image pool yesterday. It's a good reminder of how...
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Posted Early-Out/Easy-Out At Core Of Latest Fenty/Council Spat to DCist
Photo by LGography. Should the District's early-out/easy-out retirement payments be considered a "bonus"? This is the debate in the latest chapter of the overarching tiff between the Fenty administration and the D.C. Council. The Examiner's Michael Neibauer reports today that four District employees have been denied such exit payments by the Department of Human Resources, after the Council approved a 2010 budget which outlaws all "bonuses and special payments" to District employees. Employees enrolling...
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Posted You Think You've Got Problems to DCist
Even between the DPW fiasco, the WTOP/biking police escort kerfuffle, not being Superman, facing vital questions about crime, handling a significant legal tussle regarding policing strategies, dealing with his "all-purpose scandal-in-a-box" Sinclair Skinner, recognizing his struggles with the D.C. lottery contract, trying to rebuild OCTO after its bribery scandal, navigating the significant labor strife among teachers in our public schools, and drawing the general ire of the entire D.C. Council, it could always be worse...
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Posted D.C. United Icon Ben Olsen To Retire to DCist
Ben Olsen, seen here holding off Real Madrid's Kaka in an August 2009friendly, will reportedly announce his retirement next week.Photo by Kyle Gustafson / http://www.photokyle.com Steve Goff had the big soccer news from RFK Stadium yesterday: D.C. United midfielder Ben Olsen will announce his retirement next week. Olsen, a tenacious midfielder who played in the World Cup for the United States men's national team in 2006, is about as Washingtonian an athlete as you'll...
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Posted Report: CCDC Split From UDC Is "Critical To Success" to DCist
An independent report commissioned by DC Appleseed and the Brookings Institution has concluded that it is "critical to the success and sustainability of" the new Community College of the District of Columbia to sever ties with the University of the District of Columbia. UDC, which has always had plenty of problems balancing the hefty costs of a four-year university and its open-enrollment-assisted reputation as a two-year college, split focus in August into the University...
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Posted The Saturday Morning Post to DCist
Photo by Satirenoir. Good morning, Washington. The Brookland-CUA Metrorail station was closed for about ninety minutes last night after another person intentionally placed themselves on the tracks in front of an oncoming train. Last night's incident pushes the number of suicides in Metrorail stations this year into double digits. WMATA says that at about 9:18 p.m., a man who had gone on to the tracks was struck by a Red Line train heading in...
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Posted Emerging Details In Columbia Road Shooting to DCist
More disturbing information is rising to the surface in the wake of last night's awful murder of a child on Columbia Road NW. The Washington Post is now reporting that the victim was indeed a nine-year-old boy, killed while trying to flee from an attempted robbery. Shots were fired through the door of the boy's apartment, as the family rushed inside to escape. Some truly terrifying stuff. Three people were questioned last night by police,...
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Posted Third OCTO Guilty Plea Entered to DCist
Chalk up another guilty plea in the OCTO bribery and embezzlement case. Following in the footsteps of fellow ex-OCTO cohort Yusuf Acar, Farrukh Awan admitted his guilt in federal court on Friday, and will be sentenced to up to two-and-a-half years in prison for his part in the kickback scandal. Awan, who was arrested in March, is the third individual to plead guilty in the scheme, in which OCTO employees took kickbacks and falsified invoices...
