marion-barry

Penis Stimulants, and Other Great Tips From Marion Barry's New Memoir

Adam Weinstein · 06/16/14 03:20PM

Marion Barry was mayor of Washington D.C. He's currently a council member in the District. In between, he did a stretch in a federal pen for smoking crack on camera. Now, in his new memoir, he can finally tell you about smacking a woman "upside the head" and what cocaine does to his dick.

Hamilton Nolan · 05/01/14 03:57PM

The Washington City Paper reports that ex-DC mayor Marion Barry wants to make his own biopic about himself before HBO does, because he is "unhappy with how [HBO's screenwriter] planned to portray his arrest at the Vista Hotel for smoking crack."

D.C. Opera Hero Hung Out To Dry By 'WaPo' Editor, Crackhead

Choire · 11/13/07 09:20AM

So Wired editor Chris Anderson can publicly name and excoriate "lazy flacks" who waste his oh-so-precious time with their emails—but Tim Page, the Washington Post classical music critic, is not allowed to send private emails trashing idiot publicists. Last Wednesday, in response to a dumb email blast on behalf of D.C.'s second and fourth mayor Marion Barry, Page wrote back: "Must we hear about it every time this Crack Addict attempts to rehabilitate himself with some new—and typically half witted—political grandstanding?" Page has been "disciplined," says the Post, and also publicly shamed by Executive Editor Len Downie. In addition, Marion Barry employs the worst communications director working in politics today. When a question was posed to him about the Page situation via email, his first response was: "Who are you and why are sending emails to me?" Now that's talent.