When this year’s General Assembly kicked off, there were around 120 bills that would have had a negative impact on the state’s immigrant communities as local politicians responded to the national, and in some places local, hysteria over illegal immigration. Many of those bills died in subcommittee, but according to Tim Freilich, legal director of […]
When this year’s General Assembly kicked off, there were around 120 bills that would have had a negative impact on the state’s immigrant communities as local politicians responded to the national, and in some places local, hysteria over illegal immigration. Many of those bills died in subcommittee, but according to Tim Freilich, legal director of […]
Proposals to ban smoking in public places such as restaurants, stores and offices came to a dead end once again in the Virginia House of Delegates, reports The Washington Post today.
Sexshuns, a sneaker and apparel store on the Downtown Mall, was raided by federal agents yesterday.
Barack Obama and John McCain swept the Potomac Primaries yesterday, winning Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Virginia.
Somehow it seems right that an art show hosted by a tattoo parlor would have a quality of lightness about it—not because being tattooed is an inconsequential thing, but because mostly what people have inked onto their bodies are fantasies. As I strolled up and down the long red wall backing Ben Around’s current group […]
There’s a business listed as “Happiness Consultant” in the White Pages. What’s the deal, Ace?—Sadie Sack Sadie: Do something for Ace. Take three deep breaths, in through your nose and out through your mouth. After you’ve done that, at your own pace, resume your normal breathing and say to yourself, “I am surrounded by love. […]
“Turn it up,” says Will Anderson as the silver Ford E350 van rolls along Route 20 towards Fredericksburg. Alex Hargrave takes one hand off the wheel and cranks the volume on the stereo, which is tuned to 106.1 The Corner. “It’s Mejias,” Will says, referring to local pop singer-songwriter Alex Mejias, who’s playing a live […]
“Communism and socialism are alive and well in the Board of Supervisors,” shouted Clara Belle Wheeler in the hallway on her way out of the County Office Building from the February 6 Board of Supervisors meeting. Just a few minutes earlier, the newly reconstituted Board—with Democrat Ann Mallek replacing Republican David Wyant—had voted for three […]
Billy Sites and Anthony Ray Shifflett have known each other since they were kids. Their lives have also intersected in that they both share the same ex-wife, Whitney. And now they have been in court together, after one allegedly threw a cinder block at the other. The following accounts are from testimony at a preliminary […]