September 2009

  • Designs by Tashia SennBy Dot Johnson Unless it’s about politics, Washington, D.C. can often feel like a revolving door. Politicos, academics stay, the rest seem to go away, but that idiom is changing with the emergence of D.C.’s own bustling fashion scene. Designer Tashia Senn is a D.C. native who always knew she would return home to launch…

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  • World’s most random panel hosted by actor/director Robert Townsend included Billy Dee Williams, Richard Roundtree and Leon at the CBC ALC.In my brief break from my usual obsessive pop-politics blogging (as I’m back East for work yet again), I’ve been scampering all around the place covering events and shuttling from one place to another. I

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  • While on my trip I don’t have as much time to blog 😦 I know. It blows. Mostly because I’m trying to keep an eye on the news while doing my job covering events here at the CBC conference here in Washington, D.C. So I missed Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi in his finest of Gadhfi-esque

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  • In a case of it’s always funny until someone gets killed we have the odd case of one Bill Sparkman, a teacher and part-time census worker in rural Clay County, Kentucky. He was found, dead, of apparent homicide on Sept. 12 in a remote part of Daniel Boone National Forest, hanging from a tree. The…

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  • Back in D.C., a town of which I’m becoming quickly acquainted. I love it. It seems to keep pitching woo right back at me. Maybe it’s time to stop the running around and settle down for a commitment … of blogger and city. Make this thing formal. But for now I’m a visitor and a

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  • The Snob will be speaking on a New Media panel at Howard University Oct. 15th as part of the Howard University School of Communications Job Fair. (And I always wanted to go to HU! I settled for a state school instead. Oh well. One can dream.) I’ll be sitting on a panel of other media

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  • So today is going to be a slow news day on the blog. So will tomorrow as I spend most of the day trying to get to Washington, D.C. But I will poke my head in to let you all know how things are going. I’m working on two book reviews so I’ll also be

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