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Bravo Says Adios to DC Housewives
‘wine and trash tv’ courtesy of ‘staceyviera’ Do you hate reality TV about DC as much as I do? Great news: looks like Housewives of DC is going the way of Blonde Charity Mafia: Bethesda-based Half Yard Productions contacted the cast to let them know Washington’s contribution to Bravo’s hot docu-soap franchise would not be [...]
More »This Ain’t Atlanta and the 4/6 Sports Ticker
Lead Item: Sports Ticker Wheel of Morality turn, turn, turn, tell us the lesson that this Nats fan should learn. I’m giving a pass for a poor April Fools’ joke by the fellas over at Nationals Enquirer for dragging up this clip of a Nationals Park patron making a bit of a fool of himself [...]
More »Bryce Harper To See Field in Hagerstown Exhibition
‘Bryce Harper’ courtesy of ‘Scott Ableman’ The human superlative himself, aka Washington Nationals prospect Bryce Harper, will not join the short list of players who jumped right into the major leagues. After picking up seven hits, two doubles and five RBI in 18 spring training at bats, Harper was shipped down to the farm and [...]
More »Nationals Still Against Spell Check
It’s a happy day when I get to use to Natinals tag here at We Love DC. A pair of spelling errors were caught by a few folks over at Mr Irrelevant this morning. A video board for player intros left John Lannon (neé and actually Lannan) with a name change, and the Nats’ also [...]
More »VCU is Today’s Tom Sawyer and the Sports Ticker 3/30
‘Superhero Run’ courtesy of ‘terren in Virginia’ It’s been a few weeks since we’ve talked about some of the Virginia-based* teams that have broken the laws of probability in the men’s NCAA tournament during the past two weekends. While Richmond’s bid ended last Friday, Virginia Commonwealth has continued its impressive run of being the first [...]
More »Pedestrians and DC: Infographic of the Day
Here’s your infographic of the day, courtesy of Hipmunk: visual street signs to work as a helpful tool for pedestrians in various cities. The call out about DC is above, and the full guide (for those of you visiting other cities) is in the post. Fair assessment? Anything other than diagonal streets that visiting walkers in [...]
More »The Puck Buddys Bring You a Caps Game Watch
We haven’t given due attention to a great new Caps blog that has taken an innovative position on fandom in the District - Puck Buddys. Carving out a new audience in the hockey blogosphere isn’t easy, but in writing “for boys who like boys who like hockey,” the guys over there have added a really awesome, [...]
More »Low Points for the Wizards and the 3/16 Sports Ticker
‘Wizards’ courtesy of ‘erin m’ Lead Item: At 16-50, the Wizards sit in 14th place in the Eastern conference, two full games off the pace of the 13th slotted Toronto Raptors. They’ve lost nine of ten, five in a row and were shellacked in the last week by the Clippers, the Western Conference cellar dwellers [...]
More »WaPo’s Stubbed Feeds Get Better
‘Washington Post box’ courtesy of ‘Joe in DC’ I know what you’re thinking since reading John’s post yesterday – since WaPo truncated all of the RSS feeds on its blogs, how could consuming local news possibly get any better?! Well, my friends, I have good news. When the feeds first went live on Sunday evening, [...]
More »That Georgetown Knock Off of “The OC”? It’s Being Filmed in Brooklyn
” courtesy of ‘Violette79′ Early last month, we shared the news that the delightful corridor surrounding Wisconsin Ave and M St was set to get its due in scripted, dramatic, television form. Somewhere along the way to creating a show about Georgetown, though, the production company decided to look outside of the narrow, one-way streets [...]
More »It’s Bryce Harper’s World and the 3/9 Sports Ticker
‘The Nats drafted Bryce Harper’ courtesy of ‘afagen’ Lead Item: I’ve mocked it at least once during the last few weeks of the Sports Ticker, but it’s now gotten to the point where I don’t want to ignore the Bryce Harper-Spring Training stories. Come on, a Google News search from the last month gave me [...]
More »Will the Redskins Play in 2011? Still To Be Determined
‘chain lock’ courtesy of ‘philliefan99′ It’s been top of mind (or at least Sportscenter) since Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers hoisted the Lombardi Trophy in the first week of February, the impending sense of doom that a lockout between the NFL players union and the owners could prevent the 2011 NFL season. Will [...]
More »You Can Dodge a Wrench, But Can You Dodge Diabetes?
Photo of the author, circa 2009, provided by Dodging Diabetes. (Yeah, the organizers put this in their media kit to me. Smart PR.) Who doesn’t love a good playground game? While I may mock kickball at really every opportunity, I have come to embrace dodgeball over the last years, especially if it is an organized [...]
More »Where March Madness Doesn’t Involve Charlie Sheen and the 3/2 Sports Ticker
Lead Item: Ah, March, you and your craziness. “Madness” if you will. Just because the concept is currently being redefined by Charlie Sheen, it doesn’t mean we can’t take a moment in the lead item today to talk about the local and semi-local hoops teams to the DMV. While the list of regional teams through [...]
More »Clinton Portis Released By Redskins
‘Portis on Jumbo Tron’ courtesy of ‘littlerottenrobin’ With the trade deadline for the Caps, not to mention that whole Mike Bibby buy-out, today is apparently all about “players who used to play for DC teams.” One more to add to that list: the Redskins announced that they are releasing running back Clinton Portis. From the team’s [...]
More »Terrapin Crime and Punishment?
‘Tucker’ courtesy of ‘borman818′ A double-item for the folks in College Park, today. I wish it was good news. It’s not. The University of Maryland has many notable alumni, ranging from Jim Henson through Nobel Laureates. In the sports side of things, there are pro athletes like Vernon Davis and Darius Heyward-Bey; potentially even more [...]
More »The American Prospect Gets A New Editor in Kit Rachlis
‘News Stand in HDR’ courtesy of ‘JPott’ After yesterday, today seemed like a good day for good news in local journalism. The American Prospect announced this morning they are bringing 30-year journalism veteran Kit Rachlis to helm the publication. From the release: Rachlis’ career in journalism spans almost 30 years, during which time he has [...]
More »Wizards Send Hinrich to Atlanta for Bibby, Draft Pick in Five-Player Deal
‘Trevor Booker, Tony Parker and Kirk Hinrich’ courtesy of ‘Keith Allison’ Last night, the Wizards pulled the trigger on another “building for the future” trade, sending Kirk Hinrich and Hilton Armstrong to the Atlanta Hawks in exchange for Mike Bibby, Maurice Evans, Jordan Crawford and a first-round pick. Not only does Crawford have good upside, [...]
More »Caps, Points on the Road and the 2/23 Sports Ticker
Lead Item: The Caps are at just about the 3/4 post of the season, and with 21 games left to play, they are still in play for the division title and one of the top three seeds in the Eastern Conference. As of last week’s ticker, the Caps were looking up at Tampa to the [...]
More »Running For President
‘Dave and his alter ego 3′ courtesy of ‘tbridge’ For about 15 minutes this President’s Day Weekend, I managed to fulfill one of my Kindergarten aspirations – I was one of the Presidents of the United States. You know, kind of. Background: it’s become a bit of a President’s Day tradition that the Nationals host [...]
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