Friday, March 23, 2012

Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell explain Senate dysfunction

Quoted: Kim Kardashian’s celebvocacy strategy?Hey, isn’t that. . . ?: Taboo, Stanley Tucci, Rep. Joe WalshQuoted: Blago’s barber on his future in prisonGeorgetown mascot Jack the Bulldog headed for ACL surgeryEntries By CategoryCelebvocateFirst FamilyHeyIn other news...LovePartiesPoliticsQuotedRead ThisSurreal EstateUpdateWhite House Correspondents' Association DinnerWhite House State DinnerStories By DateFull Monthly Archive Posted at 11:59 PM ET, 03/22/2012TheWashingtonPostBy The Reliable Source



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Springfield Challenger Baseball opens 20th season

rules’ African American parents followMore adult kids living with parents and in no rush to departStories By DateFull Monthly Archive Posted at 12:22 PM ET, 03/23/2012TheWashingtonPostBy Mari-Jane Williams

Mari-Jane Williams is a news design editor at The Washington Post and a regular guest contributor to On Parenting. She lives in Northern Virginia with her husband and two children, one of whom has special needs.

The Springfield Challenger Baseball kicks off its 20th season Sunday at 2 p.m. at West Springfield High School. This league focuses less on runs and hits, and more on personal milestones and camaraderie, both for the players and their parents.

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Arthur Krystal: The excuses of a mean book critic

Mad Men’s’ pint-sized fashion icon: Kiernan ShipkaNew Van Gogh painting discoveredEntries By CategoryAboutJacqueline TrescottJazzNational Endowment for the Artsnational endowment for the humanitiesStories By DateFull Monthly Archive Posted at 01:49 PM ET, 03/23/2012TheWashingtonPostBy Ron Charles

A battle-scarred author lashed back at nasty book critics this week in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Arthur Krystal is an exceptional essayist whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s, the Washington Post and many other places. But 15 years ago, he says, he stopped reviewing books because he didn’t like the supercilious impulse such assignments inspired in him. He realized he was tired of hurting other authors. “Recipients of unfavorable reviews suffer heartburn for months, perhaps years.”

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D.C. area finalist heads to Pillsbury Bake-Off

Cooking Off the Cuff: A lamb lies down in ’krautThe cultural convergence of candy and dangerBeer Madness: Readers’ vs. judges’ picksMarket Roundup: March 22-25Entries By CategoryAll We Can EatBeerBooksChat LeftoversChefsComfort FoodFood PoliticsFood labelingHolidayIn SeasonMarkets This WeekMediaRecipesRestaurantsShoppingSmoke SignalsSpiritsSustainable FoodTales of the TestersTelevisionWineStories By DateFull Monthly Archive Posted at 01:30 PM ET, 03/23/2012TheWashingtonPostBy Bonnie S. Benwick



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Beer Madness: Readers’ vs. judges’ picks

Market Roundup: March 22-25Entries By CategoryAll We Can EatBeerBooksChat LeftoversChefsComfort FoodFood PoliticsFood labelingHolidayIn SeasonMarkets This WeekMediaRecipesRestaurantsShoppingSmoke SignalsSpiritsSustainable FoodTales of the TestersTelevisionWineStories By DateFull Monthly Archive Posted at 12:30 PM ET, 03/22/2012TheWashingtonPostBy Cara Kelly

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D.C. area finalist heads to Pillsbury Bake-Off

Cooking Off the Cuff: A lamb lies down in ’krautThe cultural convergence of candy and dangerBeer Madness: Readers’ vs. judges’ picksMarket Roundup: March 22-25Entries By CategoryAll We Can EatBeerBooksChat LeftoversChefsComfort FoodFood PoliticsFood labelingHolidayIn SeasonMarkets This WeekMediaRecipesRestaurantsShoppingSmoke SignalsSpiritsSustainable FoodTales of the TestersTelevisionWineStories By DateFull Monthly Archive Posted at 01:30 PM ET, 03/23/2012TheWashingtonPostBy Bonnie S. Benwick



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Thursday, March 22, 2012

From One Direction to Hanson: What makes a boy band a boy band?

Mad Men’: Choose your own adventureHarper’s: Don’t eat this magazineKim Jong Il painter Song Byeok to exhibit in D.C.Entries By CategoryAboutJacqueline TrescottJazzNational Endowment for the Artsnational endowment for the humanitiesStories By DateFull Monthly Archive Posted at 02:25 PM ET, 03/22/2012TheWashingtonPostBy Maura Judkis

Backstreet may not be back, but the boy band trend certainly is, with British group One Direction’s new album debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard charts. But when the Style team was putting together Thursday’s package about the return of the boy band, there was some debate over who would be included in the photo gallery chronicling the genre below.



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