Archive for December, 2004
He’s like Bill Nye the Science Guy, but for your kitchen.
Coming to the DC area on the 18th of January, your favorite TV chef and mine (well, mine anyway): Alton Brown!
AB will be at the Clarendon Barnes & Noble at noon on the 18th, and the Bailey’s Crossroads Borders at 7:30 PM for signing, Q&A and general kitchen geekery. Get all the details [...]
The New Great Compromise
Is it possible that DC might get baseball after all?
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Person Stuck Under Orange Line Train
WASHINGTON – Authorities at Metro are reporting a person is trapped under an Orange line train at the Metro Center station in the District.
– Via WTOP News.
This sounds deeply deeply unpleasant. I took the Metro over to Farragut West today and the trains were running slowly, I’m amazed no one’s been killed.
[Update]
Blue and Orange [...]
Oh Baby It’s Cold Outside.
Dude. It is butt-ass cold out there.
Sean, are there any openings at blogging.la? Please? It’s just too cold for this Californian to take.
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The Metroblogging DC Carol Singers Present….
A little something we’ve been working on to entertain you, our beloved readers.
The Twelve Days of Christmas in DC
On the twelfth day of Christmas that I spent in DC….
Twelve metbloggers blogging*
Eleven drunk Hill interns
Ten streets a-closing
Nine trains a-crashing,
Eight snipers sniping,
Seven protesters protesting,
Six monuments jutting,
Five traffic tickets!
Four AOL nerds
Three squabbling bus drivers
Two raging bums
and they lit [...]
DC Convention Center to be Imploded Tomorrow
Explosion junkie? Looking for a good loud time?
Tomorrow at 7:30, they’re imploding the old convention center.
I for one welcome the destruction of this eyesore.
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Drop Cropp! (And Avoid Stadium Taxes!)
There’s now an Official Campaign to Recall Linda Cropp.
Now, the path to a recall is no cakewalk, they’d have to get 10% of the DC electorate, plus another 10% of people in 5 of the 8 wards, to oust her. But, really, I expect we could find that many baseball fans in [...]
An Open Letter
Dear Anti-Bush protester type people:
I realize that you are especially discontented with the outcome of this election, and feel that as a result, you must protest at the inauguration. Democracy thrives on the presence of many voices, so good for you. Dress warmly, and wear layers. But I have one simple request.
Don’t [...]
Cropp Stuns Mayor With Baseball Package
Council Chairman Linda Cropp stunned Mayor Williams with a late amendment to change the requirements for funding to include a requirement for 50% private funding for the new baseball stadium.
This does, however, jeopardize MLB’s return to the District. The deal that MLB had with the Mayor was for a new stadium, built with public [...]
DC’s Bastard Child of an Airport
Washington Dulles, a bizarre concoction of an airport, provides this town with the majority of its international travel, and according to a columnist from the Financial Times, “an airport in chaos – think Calcutta, Nairobi or any other erstwhile Third World hell hole, where to get on or off a flight was often an achievement [...]
More »Hat
My Nationals hat arrived today.
Awesome!
How many days til Pitchers and Catchers report?
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Pentagon Metro Evacuated…
According to the WMATA Site and DC Alerts, the Pentagon Metro Station and Bus Terminal is closed to investigate a potential Hazmat situation:
The Pentagon station is closed to investigate a potential hazmat situation. Hazmat experts are responding to the scene. No trains are permitted to go through the station. Trains are turning back at Arlington [...]
International Political Celebrities
Abdelhaleem Ashqar has been certified as a candidate in the upcoming Palestinian elections to choose a successor to Yasser Arafat.
What does this have to do with DC?
Ashqar will be campaigning from Alexandria, VA, where he’s currently under house arrest on racketeering charges.
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Nationals’ Move is Official!
Major League Baseball’s owners have voted to approve the move of the Expos to Washington, DC for the 2005 season, over the objection of Orioles’ owner (and chief sour-grapes consumer) Peter Angelos. Full Season ticket packages are currently on sale, and single-game and partial-season packages are expected to go on sale early in the [...]
More »Metroblogging Up For An Award!
We’re up for a Weblog Award! Get out that voting mouse pointer and get to work! You can vote once a day until December 12th. No reason we shouldn’t finish in the top five!
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A New Stadium
The City Council, in a pitched debate, approved the initial steps toward a new baseball-only stadium in Southeast along the Anacostia Riverfront yesterday. The council voted 6-4 in favor of the new stadium, but a final vote in mid-December will keep the Mayor on his toes. It’s a half billion dollar package that [...]
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