Stories by Jason Dick:
Aug. 2, 2013
What do you get when you extend a long lunch into happy hour? Luppy Hour!
Aug. 1, 2013
Lettuce, cantaloupes — it was a good day to be a vegetarian on Capitol Hill.
Aug. 1, 2013
CNN Films is rolling out the documentary “Our Nixon,” a view of the 37th president taken primarily from Super 8 mm home movies filmed by White House aides H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and Dwight Chapin that were in federal custody until recently.
Aug. 1, 2013
“Our Nixon,” Penny Lane’s home-movie documentary about the 37th president, gets star billing on CNN starting today, giving new meaning to one of the great political slogans, “President Nixon. Now more than ever.”
July 31, 2013
By now, you’ve likely heard the news that Capitol Hill watering hole 18th Amendment (613 Pennsylvania Ave. SE) has closed its doors.
July 31, 2013
The five finalists for this week’s caption contest are ready for your votes.
July 31, 2013
As Congress continues its seemingly no-sum game of political brinkmanship over government funding, Obamacare and other issues, what better movie might illustrate the current public policy nihilism than last year’s breakout film “The Hunger Games”?
July 30, 2013
“Norma Rae,” the 1979 pro-union film that won Sally Field a Best Actress Oscar for the title role as a union organizer in a textile mill, was the featured Screen on the Green film on Monday night, just a few short hours before the Senate would break a years-long logjam to start filling the National Labor Relations Board.
July 30, 2013
Robert Getzoff, a longtime Capitol Hill staffer with deep community ties, died July 15, and the tributes to him offer an insider’s view of how closely people work together on the Hill, as well as how important humor can be in forging workplace bonds.
July 30, 2013
Wil Haygood discusses his new book “The Butler: A Witness to History” as well as the upcoming film, “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” based on Haygood’s writings about White House butler Eugene Allen, at Politics and Prose tonight.
July 29, 2013
Tennis, declining in popularity elsewhere in the United States, seems to be holding strong in Washington, with one of the longest running U.S. pro tennis tournaments getting going this week and another championship season for the city’s World Team Tennis team, the Washington Kastles.
July 28, 2013
Thanks to the many readers who contributed captions for last week’s Capitol Quip contest. Here’s the winning entry as voted by readers of Heard on the Hill.
July 26, 2013
Recess is in the air. With no debt limit fight or other some-such-ness, Congress is free to move about the country by the end of the week and is not set to return until Sept. 9. That’ll be five weeks of Congress-free existence, a time when staffers and the people who make their living around the Capitol orbit disembark and Washington gets a little less hectic. In the intervening week, though, here’s a to-do list of only-in-Washington things to hold you over until everyone’s back in the fold after Labor Day.
July 26, 2013
It’s that time again! Time for the countdown to recess — ahem, district work period — when members of Congress carefully take the pulse of their constituencies at reasonable and polite town halls, and the invisible hand of the democratic process works its magic.
July 26, 2013
Congress is gone, clearing out of town Thursday night and opening up the opportunity for hardworking Washingtonians to check out early and have some fun.
July 25, 2013
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, the most excellent movie venue that combines awesome cult movies and a full bar and food with Texas swagger (and which recently expanded into the D.C. area with a venue in Ashburn, Va.) has what can only be described as a most excellent public service announcement about behaving in an uncool manner during the movie.
July 25, 2013
Rep. Mark Sanford can’t seem to escape the Appalachian Trail, even in the Speaker’s Lobby.
July 25, 2013
Want to feel like a kid again? Then ditch work today to catch the Washington Nationals-Pittsburgh Pirates matinee, which starts at 12:35 p.m. at Nats Park.
July 25, 2013
When is a cantaloupe no longer a cantaloupe? When Rep. Steve King uses it to describe the calves of underweight, drug-running border crossers.
July 24, 2013
The five finalists for this week’s caption contest are ready for your votes.
July 24, 2013
HOH favorite Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, ignited a prairie fire with his recent comments to Newsmax about the physical attributes of immigrants who traipse through the desert with illicit substances: “For everyone who’s a valedictorian, there’s another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds — and they’ve got calves the size of cantaloupes because they’re hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert.”
July 24, 2013
Happy National Tequila Day!
July 23, 2013
Mark Leibovich heads into the belly of the beast tonight.
July 22, 2013
Actor Dennis Farina, the former Chicago cop who rose to fame as an actor in movies such as “Thief” and “Midnight Run” and television shows such as “Law and Order” died Monday.
