Yesterday, the Washington Post finally decided to cover the Murky Coffee shutdown story. There’s even a separate piece in one of their blogs. As far as the Post’s coverage goes, there’s not much is new there except for one thing: the owner’s financial problems also led to the end of his marriage. Queue the soap opera music.
I’m bringing back my mini-news roundups. Today’s headlines of interest to me:
A blogger in Silver Spring spotted a Washington Post vending machine that now takes credit cards. (via DCist)
Eastern Market is a one-of-a-kind D.C. landmark — the last standing public market still in use, that is, until today. A fire tore through Eastern Market early this morning, destroying the historic building.
Although I don’t get to visit it often, I’m deeply saddened by the loss; hopefully, it’ll only be a temporary one. Nearby residents fought to keep it open when big-chain supermarkets began moving to the area. If the comments on Marc Fisher’s Washington Post blog entry are any indication, they’ll fight to rebuild it too.
And that can’t happen soon enough.
See also: My photos of Eastern Market (pre-fire) on Flickr.
Here’s another moment of self-promotion. Bear with me, please.
I previously mentioned that I’m performing in the Arlington Players’ production of A Man for All Seasons. We had a decent opening weekend considering the show isn’t particularly well-known and, at three hours, is notably long for the modern attention span.
At last night’s brush-up rehearsal (better described as a speed-run: no costumes, no staging, just the spitting out of lines), I found out that our production was reviewed. Twice.
The Washington Post’s Michael J. Toscano calls our production “a much more interesting portrait” than any historical record on Sir Thomas More, one of the play’s lead characters.
Matt Reville of the Arlington Sun Gazette says our show is “a solid, warming toddy for the chills of mid-winter.”
So there you have it. It’s a good production, but then I didn’t need any review to tell me that.
Oh, and I’m in tights.
(Photo by Michael Deblois via the Washington Post.)
The Washington Post has a little fun with severe weather alerts by issuing a humorous alert. Hey, after several days of 100°+ weather, you’d want to laugh too, if only to keep from weeping… or suffering heat stroke.
Those of you who need direction on how you can help Katrina’s victims will be happy to know that both the Washington Post and the New York Times have you covered. You know who you are.
Anyone who’s followed news on Washington, DC’s, local media lately has probably heard about a pending lawsuit between a Frederick, MD, woman and rock radio station.
Cynthia Hollander runs a website on which she poses nude; as I understand it, more explicit shots are available for $10 or so. The radio station in question is Clear Channel’s DC101, home to the soon-to-be-syndicated Elliot in the Morning. The nutshell synopsis: Elliot called Cynthia a whore, alleged she ran an escort service, and encouraged people to go to her husband’s auto shop to see her. Cynthia’s suing for defamation of character and invasion of privacy.
On one hand, I kinda-sorta-but-not-totally feel sorry for her; although I didn’t hear the broadcast, I think Elliot did go too far in his accusations and whatnot. He has a history of it. On the other, she really did it to herself; you don’t set up a web site and expect it to be just a private thing, especially if you’re going to prance about it in your birthday suit. It’s been proven time and again that word on the Internet spreads pretty quickly.
DUH!
