Life in a Northern Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. B.M.A.T.C., and Etruscan typewriter erasers. Blogged by David Gorsline.
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Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center will screen the 6-part Broadway: The American Musical October 7 through 12, in advance of its airing on PBS nationwide. Even if you plan to watch the documentary on TV, the episode guide is helpful. (Thanks to Bruce.) posted: 11:21:35 PM |
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Well, it'll be fun to have a major league baseball team just a 20-minute drive and 14 Metro stops away from home. When the Braves are in town, my loyalty will be divided. I'm less than pleased about the sweetheart financing deal that the city agreed to, and that will be approved by a partly lame-duck council; this past summer I worked across the street from the city's most recent publicly-funded boondoggle.
"There's a social safety net provided for professional sports that we don't
see in other businesses," said Robert A. Baade, a sports economics professor
at Lake Forest College in Illinois. "Other businesses take risks. What
exactly is the risk here for the team?"
I do like Mayor Williams' idea of naming the team the Grays, in honor of D.C.'s Negro Leagues team. It would certainly be a more respectful name than the one the football team uses. But with the high-handed, disgraceful election-year grandstanding in the House of Representatives, overturning the city's gun control legislation (via the ironically-named D.C. Personal Protection Act), who can blame Washington citizens for going a little crazy over baseball? posted: 10:33:58 AM |
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