Breaking News: State Radio to Headline Fountain Fling

Late last night, Program Board announced via their Twitter account that Boston-based pop/rock band State Radio would headline thing year's Fountain Fling to be held on the Mount Vernon campus on April 24th.

State Radio opened for The Dave Matthews Band in 2008.

They recently sold out 3 shows at Washington's 9:30 club.

I dare the Colonialist -- put questions to the Hatchet

The Colonialist, a welcome and healthy part of the GW blog infrastructure, has been paying good attention to GWblogspot recently. They rightly pointed out James's catch:

GWBlogspot noticed something quite interesting about the most recent GWeekly email. Read their amazing catch, “John Ritter To Be Raised From The Dead, Perform At Fountain Day.”

And, of course, they gave themselves a pat on the back for leading (so far) in our poll on the left side of this blog. (Ahem, people, c'mon now...)

But aside from admiring themselves and chuckling at rather amusing event promo mess-ups, will they put their bully pulpit to work for the cause of transparency and accountability in the media, by helping us develop really good questions for our YouTube interview with Hatchet editor Jake Sherman? Colonialist readers, we welcome your questions. Just click here and put your questions in the comment section.

John Ritter to Be Raised from the Dead, Perform at Fountain Day

I would have shrugged off the latest GWeekly newsletter's mistake of naming John Ritter, the deceased actor, as the performer at Fountain Day if it wasn't the second time they'd done it.

Poor Josh Ritter (who is actually performing), I'm sure this happens to him all the time.

Ironically, the theme of Fountain Day is "Awareness" - like being aware that you get the name of the performer right?

This is Josh's video for "Girl in the War." Check it out, he's actually pretty good, even if he's not Jack Tripper from Three's Company.