NuSoul Wednesdays – Happy Hour & Live Music – Every Wednesday
We would like for you to encourage all your family and friends to come out and support your local artists. Each week we are growing as a family and want people to really enjoy the venue and entertainment.
LoEntertainment is valued to bring you the best in live Jazz, R&B, Funk, Neo Soul, Old School [...]
Tattoo Party & Cookout – This Saturday, May 31st
Tattoo Party & Cookout
Three Professional Tattoo Artists on hand ready to provide quality and safe discounted tattoos.
10am – 5pm
Alexandria, VA (you must RVSP or email info@foreverdc.com for location)
Free food will be provided straight from the grill as we cookout for our guests.
Also available: Top shelf drinks ($4), wine ($2), and beer ($2) all heavily discounted.
For [...]
Lakers hand Spurs first home loss in playoffs, set up chance to win series in L.A.
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Kobe Bryant looked back and found himself all alone. All but guaranteed the basket, he went up and slammed the ball with a little extra oomph, just for good measure.
One more win, and Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers will be all alone in the Western Conference and on their way [...]
China quake death toll soars past 50,000
BEIJING, China (CNN) — The death toll from the devastating earthquake in southwestern China has leaped to 51,151 — an increase of almost 10,000 — government officials reported on Thursday.
The 7.9-magnitude quake injured 288,431 people, with another 29,328 missing, authorities said.
As of midday Thursday, domestic and international donations to China’s earthquake zone had reached $3 [...]
Kobe scores 25 in second half as Lakers shock Spurs with rally
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers waited until the third quarter to get going. Once they did, the San Antonio Spurs couldn’t stop them.
And the defending NBA champions contributed to their own demise with a brutal, uncharacteristic fourth-period performance.
Bryant scored all but two of his 27 points after halftime, including [...]
Principal quits over gay club
A principal ordered to allow the creation of a Gay-Straight Alliance club at his school quits his job. WIS reports.
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‘Necklace’ lynching returns to South Africa
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (CNN) — More than 40 people have been killed and 28,000 made homeless in anti-immigrant violence that has rocked the nation during the past week, authorities say.
Hundreds of people were also arrested as burning, looting and violence flared in townships in the city’s poorest areas.
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Jumping the Gun: A repealed firearms ban presents a chance to cash in.
About halfway through James Wiggins Jr.’s handgun safety class in Rockville, he sends around a 9 mm Glock. His students—four from Virginia and two from D.C.—have already watched a video and handled magazines and bullets of different calibers. The hollow bullets, they’re told, expand inside the body, causing greater blood loss. The students grip the [...]
Basketball star, football phenom, fighter pilot: The unsung story of D.C. native Wilmeth Sidat-Singh
In October 1937, Syracuse University’s undefeated football team traveled to Baltimore to face the Maryland Terrapins. The visitors’ rising star heading into the game was Wilmeth Sidat-Singh, a junior halfback playing his first season of organized football.
Over the next few years, on all sorts of playing fields, Sidat-Singh would build a case for himself as [...]
Walk the Lie: A teenage prostitute…an inexperience pimp…two different stories
By the summer of 2006, Levar Simms wanted out of Washington. His hometown offered nothing but stress. Childhood friends kept getting locked up, or killed. Because of a neglected speeding ticket, he says he was fired from his job driving disabled people around the District. Things got so bad he had to ask his mom [...]
