Last week, we saw how a story was started and spread, but how the question of the truth of the original Tribune article on which the whole story is based was casually omitted. In the article, the reporter makes a number of allegations, and, as it turns out, very few of them really happened the […]
By Michael Hoffman Walking through the National Building Museum’s latest exhibit, Unbuilt Washington, it’s hard not to consider the debate about whether the city should allow the Washington Redskins to build their new headquarters and training facility in Capitol Hill East next to RFK stadium. Sketches hang on the walls of canals running through what […]
Kojo talks Reservation 13. DC Metrocentric shared pictures of the refurbishing of the Boilermaker Shops. Huff Post DC explained how it came to be that the dog walking community found a place at Congressional Cemetery. Prince of Petworth noted that a beauty battle may be coming to Barracks Row. I may need to update our […]
In researching my scandal book, I was surprised in how often the scandal, as generally told differed from the scandal as it was initially reported. To researchers of urban legends, those supposedly true stories that we tell each other to make a point, this would come as no surprise. Changing details to either improve the […]
Here we go again. Let’s plop some giant unworkable scheme down in Reservation 13. This morning, Washington awoke to a front page article in the Post entitled, “D.C. opens new drive to lure Redskins back.” So we’ve got to do this all over again. Let’s see how many ways this is a monumentally dumb idea: […]