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Bartender Sam returns to Washington
Nikki Schwab
Updated: 22 hr ago
Bartender Sambonn Lek was something of a fixture at the Mayflower Hotel's Town & Country bar. He poured strong drinks and did magic tricks for his patrons. But then, in January 2011, Town & Country closed its doors, and it wasn't until this March that another bar, Edgar Bar &...
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Speakeasy: Carol Burnett's reaction to winning Mark Twain Prize
Nikki Schwab
Updated: 22 hr ago
"It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington." - What Carol Burnett had to say upon hearing the news that she was to be awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor from the Kennedy Center. Burnett will be feted Oct. 20 in Washington, with the gala performance being...
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'Saturday Night Live's' Obama impersonator approves of Arlington audiences
Alicia M. Cohn
Updated: 22 hr ago
According to "SNL's" Jay Pharoah, Arlington residents aren't "too sensitive" to enjoy his kind of comedy. "People in Arlington don't have sticks up their butts. It's great," the comedian told The Washingtonian. He is returning for his third time to the Arlington Cinema N Drafthouse for three...
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In Washington, D.C., Tea Party activists spend lunch hour protesting at the IRS
Gabriella Morrongiello
Published: Tue, May 21, 2013
An estimated 75 Tea Partiers gave up lunch Tuesday afternoon to instead participate in a “flash rally” to protest the Internal Revenue Services’s targeting of conservatives and Tea Party groups seeking tax-exempt status during the 2010 and 2012 election campaigns. “We called it a flash...
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Jay Carney: ‘It’s not about me’
Brian Hughes
Updated: 23 hr ago
Amid revelations that the Justice Department monitored both Associated Press journalists and Fox News’ James Rosen, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, a former reporter, was asked Tuesday if he had ever received classified information when writing about the inner workings of government.
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Big Government strikes in NYC: Hotels win, consumers and small businesses lose
Timothy P. Carney
Published: Tue, May 21, 2013
AirBnB is a service that allows you to rent out a spare room in your apartment or home. In other words, it’s a startup competitor to established hotels. So, naturally, the hotel industry has supported the government in cracking down on AirBnB. And industry has won.
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Why low-skill immigration is different than free trade
Conn Carroll
Yesterday
McClatchy Newspapers has an excellent story on immigration Tuesday, reporting on how farmers are framing the debate to their representatives: Walk the aisles of any neighborhood grocery store today and you’re as likely to find tomatoes picked in Sinaloa, Mexico, as Central California or...
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White House to reporters: You didn’t ask!
Joel Gehrke
Yesterday
President Obama’s spokesman, to the irritation of the White House press corps, accounted for the shifting narrative about the White House team’s knowledge of the IRS scandal by pointing the finger back at the media for failing ask the right questions to get more information.
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