D C restaurants are returning to full dining capacity Here s how the first night went washingtonpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from washingtonpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Ready or not, D.C. restaurants are returning to full capacity. Here’s how the first night went. Emily Heil, Tim Carman India Rice, right, and Derrick Edwards have drinks and wings at the main bar at Old Ebbitt Grill on Friday. (Robb Hill for The Washington Post) Jason Lukacs strode the length of the main bar at the Old Ebbitt Grill, pumping a fist in the air. “Ya ready, ya ready, ya ready?” he asked. The question was meant not just for his colleagues who were cutting orange wedges and lengths of celery but also, it seemed, for the empty dining room beyond.
The rise of online media has been devastating for community newspapers print publications that often serve as the only homegrown information source in small towns across the country, including many in Colorado. By one recent estimate, over 1,800 newspapers have closed across the United States since 2004, including about 1,700 weeklies.
The 24 newspapers and two advertising-based shoppers in the Colorado Community Media chain could have easily wound up suffering the same fate. For co-owners Jerry and Ann Healey, keeping the operation going has been a work-intensive labor of love for nearly a decade, but they ve reached a stage in their lives when they want more free time. The odds of finding a buyer for CCM seemed small, and without one, operations such as the