Archive for February, 2005
Snow in the Forecast
We’re under a Winter Storm Watch again tonight through Monday, with a storm moving up from the Gulf into the cold front that’s sitting right over DC. Looks like it will begin around midnight tonight and should stop some time tomorrow evening, with expected totals around 4 to 8 inches. You wouldn’t want [...]
More »This is how we roll
Did you guys know there’s still a roller rink on Franconia Road in Alexandria?
We went to this place last night for a friend’s 30th birthday. It’s set back behind a gas station not far from the Kingstowne shopping center. I was excited, since I skating was one of my favorite things [...]
DC Housing Appraises Higher
DC Property Values are up 14.6% from last year, it seems. Data shows that most of the poor and working-class neighborhoods are showing some of the biggest gains. It should shock no one that DC property values are up, especially since we’re in the high-turnover post-election property sell-off and buy-up! To see [...]
More »Today’s Snow Adventures
With The Feds closing at 3:30, I was expecting pandemonium on 14th street shortly thereafter, to my pleasant surprise, the trip back into Northern Virginia was reasonable and measured. No word yet on if OPM will be shutting the doors in the morning, but they usually wait until the last second. Many of [...]
More »Cherries and Flakes
Looks like we’re due for yet another snowstorm, dropping around 3-5″ on the metro area tomorrow, sadly not in time to cancel school for tomorrow for most places. The winter hasn’t been as harsh as some, but certainly more snow than I’m used to. But there’s light at the end of the tunnel. [...]
More »Retro bonanza
Tonight at the Black Cat is the monthly “Right Round” 80’s Alt-pop dance party. It’ll be spun by the excruciatingly hip DJ lil’ e, and the cover is a measly $5. It starts at 9:30, and do yourself a favor: leave the jelly bracelets at home and don’t even think about requesting Michael [...]
More »Z104 to carry Nationals Games
And the winner is… Z104?!. Looks like that the pop-station owned by WTOP will be broadcasting 120 or so game, with the other Bonneville AM property 1050 AM will be broadcasting the other 40 games. Apparently deals with Clear Channel and Infinity both fell through.
This post appeared in its original form at DC [...]
Independence Air In Trouble, Plane Repossessed
I flew Independence Air this week to Chicago, and I had no idea they were in such bad financial shape. Hell, they had a plane repossessed on Sunday. My questions are, though, did they leave the safety message in the plane with Carville and Matalin? How did they distract the gate agents [...]
More »Tickets!
Partial Season Ticket Plans for the Washington Nationals are now on sale. If you were on their email list, they started to email folks with their special pin numbers around 9:30pm last night to log in, and sales for the public open on Monday at 12:01.
You will find me at Section 511, Row 2, [...]
No news is good news?
Our friends in New York got Mike Piazza, holding a press conference in which he did NOT come out of the closet.
Here in the national capital region (Okay, Baltimore, but close enough), we get a politician holding a press conferenc to announce that he is NOT cheating on his wife and that someone is spreading [...]
A Truly Washington Sight
This morning, I was sitting in C Terminal at Washington National, waiting for my flight to sunny Orlando, when who should I see but Senator Fred Thompson (aka District Attorney from Law and Order, aka Carrier Group Captain from Hunt from Red October) with his wife (?) and a small child in a stroller. [...]
More »DC Examiner Debuts
The DC Examiner is out on newsstands for the very first time today. Formerly the Journal newspapers, there’s a new daily on the streets as of this morning. I have yet to see a dispenser by my downtown office, but, for the PDF-inclined, they do offer downloads of their daily paper to view [...]
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