If you don’t have the money to market your museum, how do you drive attendance? Close it.
The City Museum of Washington has closed after 15 months of operation due to lack of funding and low attendance.
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By Tom Bridge
Matt Drudge (yes, I’ve taken my grain of salt) is reporting a brawl at the unveiling of the DC Nationals’ new logo. Apparently the Green candidate for mayor tried to break up the event and instead found himself on the receiving end of some whupass.
[Update] The Post now has it as well:
The gathering was preceded by a brief protest of the deal Williams brokered with MLB to bring baseball to Washington. District resident Adam Eidinger, 31, stormed to the podium on stage and yelled, “This is a bad deal, people,” before the microphone was turned off. Eidinger remained on-stage yelling before several officials — including District Councilman Harold Brazil (D-At Large) — wrestled him off-stage. He was led to a back hall by security, where police spoke with him.
“I said free speech,” Eidinger said after being escorted away from the event. “It’s a half-baked deal, a rip off. They know it.”
All in all, a good day for DC Baseball!
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By Tom Bridge
The long awaited Metro Station at New York Avenue will open tomorrow, and the Washington Post has some photos available for viewing.
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DC Cabbies are striking today to protest proposed changes to the way taxis are regulated in the District.
Oh, there’s an industry that’ll be missed. You mean I won’t be able to flag down a crappy old Crown Vic driven by a guy who doesn’t speak English and doesn’t know anything about DC geography and who as a worse sense of direction than I do? What ever shall I do?
(I guess I’ve just been spoiled after a week of London cabbies.)
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By Tom Bridge
Last night, on our way back from St. Martin-in-the-Fields here in London, we met with a Tube situation that many DC residents like ourselves were certainly used to: The Central (Red) Line was delayed, crammed full of people, and uninhabitable by man or beast.
We cabbed it home instead.
And unlike DC, our cabbie knew where he was going, didn’t charge an arm and a leg, and actually spoke decent English.
It’s a shame that London cabbies can’t be as universal as Red Line disasters.
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By Tom Bridge
So, the City Paper has pretty much declared war on the Sunday Source this past weeek. They ran an article called 15 minutes of fume, mocking the 15 minute craft projects that Sunday Source frequently has. Let the hostilities commence!
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By Tom Bridge
So I went up to Tom Tom for an Inside Source event. Because the Dupont Metro station is still closed due to the train accident, I made the decision to drive. Once in Adams Morgan, however, it took me 30 minutes, some industrial lubricant and a shoehorn to finally get parked somewhere within a couple of blocks or ten of the location.
How the hell do you park in Adams Morgan without going crazy?!
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Via DCFoodies, check out the listing for the Scotch Whiskey Festival (scroll down). On second thought, all the relevant details about the festival (except the $75 admission fee) are available at DCFoodies, and just go to the TasteDC page for a a whole list of interesting food-related events in the area.
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By Tom Bridge
In a hideous Metro accident this afternoon, two trains collided head on in a station on the Red Line:
When the car pulled into the station and stopped, the conductor began screaming for people to get off the train, and the passengers started running, according to Harnice.
Clingerman said in a matter of seconds a second train hit their train head-on and went on top of the first train, sending debris flying.
I’m so glad we just gave Metro more money, now they can use it to crash more trains!
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By Tom Bridge
I couldn’t have asked for better weather this morning as I left the house to vote. Crisp and autumnal, with bright sunshine over the horizon. The line stretched the length of the football field and track next to the school, around 300 feet or so. I arrived on at the corner of 29th and the parking lot at 7:05am this morning. I would estimate between two and four hundred people in the line ahead of me, had I thought ahead, I might have counted bodies, but I was busy deciding who would get my vote.
I was given the option of taking the Democratic and Republican sample ballot from some party flacks that were handing them out, but I passed. I did, however, buy a cup of coffee from the PTA of the Abingdon School who were selling coffee and pastry at the end of the lot.
An election official came by and told us we’d have about a 70 minute wait to vote from where we were standing. Would that her prediction were true! I waited with a jubilant Red Sox Fan and a young couple who were late for work, each glad to be there, but none glad to wait for what turned out to be 90 minutes.
Though tempted to drop trou as Sean Suggested, I kept clothed, held my nose, and voted. I voted in position 167 (on the A-K roster, the shorter of the lines) at 8:38am this morning. We vote in Arlington County on WINvote touch screens. My request for a paper ballot was denied. So I voted on the touchscreen, tapped in my write-in for the president, and hoped. Who knows if it will get counted?
Thankfully, traffic was light on the 395 into DC, so I was only 30 minutes late for work.
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