Stories by Warren Rojas:
Feb. 22, 2012
The four remaining GOP presidential hopefuls will take their mesmerizing floor show to Mesa, Ariz., tonight for the eleventy-billionth televised debate. And if we were going to pick the buzzword guaranteed to get us wasted — if one were going to engage in a totally inappropriate drinking-oriented game — it would absolutely be “abortion.”
Feb. 21, 2012
Updated 7:55 p.m. | Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is off on a whirlwind tour of the post-Arab Spring Middle East, hobnobbing with high-profile Egyptian pols — save for one protocol-abiding party pooper.
Feb. 17, 2012
A trio of local restaurants hosted some pretty powerful folks this week, welcoming high-ranking administration officials, the first family and champion tennis stars.
Feb. 16, 2012
Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) is obviously a student of the “you catch more flies with sugar than vinegar” school of thought. And he put that philosophy into practice last week by slippingHouse Foreign Affairs Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) a little something sweet that’s temporarily paved over their political differences.
Feb. 15, 2012
Having devoted their first quarter-century exclusively to filling rumbling Congressional bellies with oversized helpings of bean-laced burritos and face-puckering, Technicolor frozen margaritas, the new team behind Tortilla Coast decided to try something different at its Logan Circle spinoff.
Feb. 15, 2012
Jeremy Lin, the buzzer-beating basketball phenom who has sparked a genealogical tug-of-war between his ancestral homes of Taiwan and China, is dominating scoreboards, sports desk highlight reels and cash registers at replica jersey-hawking retail outlets.
Feb. 13, 2012
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) got her haute couture on this morning, popping by Lincoln Center to gawk at the trend-setting frocks as models sashayed down the runway at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week.
Feb. 13, 2012
“Saturday Night Live” latched onto Clint Eastwood’s buzzy Super Bowl ad, granting the former mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea and Tinsel Town auteur carte blanche to let his true feelings totally hang out.
Feb. 13, 2012
Until last week, Rep. Billy Long (R-Mo.) couldn’t get arrested in this town.
Feb. 10, 2012
Some argue that conservatives can’t hold a candle to liberals when it comes to delivering yuk-yuks.
Feb. 10, 2012
It’s CPAC time in Washington once again, and HOH is all over the conservative confab.
Feb. 9, 2012
Live Funny or Die is having its way with former-Representative-cum-Senate-hopeful Pete Hoekstra’s widely reviled Super Bowl spot:
Feb. 8, 2012
Cheflebrity Spike Mendelsohn, one of the local burgermeisters actively sought out by certain residents of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., is rolling out new gourmet chocolate bars modeled after the signature milkshakes mixed up at Good Stuff Eatery.
Feb. 7, 2012
Whether the world blinks out this December (go Mayan calendar!) or further down the line, respondents to a new poll conducted on behalf of the National Geographic Channel suspect Republicans will be in charge when our fellow man decides to screw us over.
Feb. 7, 2012
Amid its ill-fated attempt to cut off Planned Parenthood and the issuance of its somehow even more polarizing about-face, the brain trust at Susan G. Komen for the Cure solicited for someone — anyone — to help skipper it through stormy weather in the future.
Feb. 6, 2012
Rep. John Fleming was up in arms this weekend about the whole Susan G. Komen-Planned Parenthood dust up, larding up his official Facebook page with several abortion-related links — including a preposterous one from those masters of subtlety at the Onion.
Feb. 3, 2012
Rocky Twyman is no lobbyist. But he claims to have friends in high places.
Feb. 3, 2012
Think you’re having a hectic Friday?
Feb. 1, 2012
Around D.C., only the would-be powerful or tearfully apologetic elect to slide behind lecterns in the harsh light of day and do the public address thing. But come Wednesday, Congress’ closeted crooners climb down from their mountain and make a beeline for Hill Country, where they loudly and proudly belt out their personal anthems with a little help from the HariKaraoke Band.
Feb. 1, 2012
The Humane Society of the United States will today name Sen. Mary Landrieu the “Humane Horseman of the Year” for 2011, an honor to be bestowed, as best as we can figure, for riding a bill that’s only lost traction during the past seven years.
Feb. 1, 2012
Documentary filmmaker Josh Fox was arrested by Capitol Police this morning after attempting to turn his lens on a House Science, Space and Technology Committee hearing on the controversial drilling practice known as “fracking.”
Jan. 31, 2012
Sens. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) are all in for the big game on Sunday, betting a round of craft brews from their home states on the outcome of the New York Giants-New England Patriots Super Bowl.
Jan. 27, 2012
While the rest of the universe remains consumed with moon base relocation plans, the quaint little voting bloc known as the Cuban-American community is muy bravo with GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich’s painfully obvious pandering.
Jan. 27, 2012
Fear not, Capitol Hill denizens. The slow-moving, ravenous masses you’ll likely encounter ambling around town next week — their lips and chins perma-smeared with sanguine sauces, their bellies distended from consuming epic amounts of animal flesh — are not zombie hordes.
Jan. 26, 2012
After a tearful morning of accepting resignations and chiding sartorially challenged colleagues, Speaker John Boehner and his staff retired Wednesday night to Carmine’s to feast on family-style Italian and chew on their 2012 agenda.
