• February 12, 2012

the gibson

Thursday, September 2: What to do now that it’s the end of America’s favorite war, in Iraq? Can you celebrate the end of something that’s not really over, and that may have accomplished nothing at all? Of course you can! Here’s a fun event, for celebrating, that has nothing to do with Iraq but that [...]

It’s here, the special long summer weekend when we pretend to love America and forget about the pesky wars — except for the War of Independence against British Petroleum — and constant disasters such as oil spills and other government failures. Although, courtesy of the World Cup, America has already been exalted four times already [...]

Speakeasies, once prevalent during the last run-up to a depression, are curiously popular again in our not-at-all-dry DC. Though it’s not always clear what distinguishes a “speakeasy” from some other empty, expensive bar, the Gibson on U Street is probably described as such more often than any other watering hole in DC.