Archive for June, 2005

Take It To The Field, Boys…

The 44th Annual Roll Call Congressional Baseball Game is tonight at RFK Stadium, pitting legislators from the Republican and Democratic parties against one another in a true battle for dominance in the House. Last year’s MVP was Rep. Bill Shuster (R-PA) and he is coming back for another shot after going 3 for 3 [...]

Smoke Free DC Please

Smoke free DC because I value my health. I swim, bike, and run daily not always because I like it, no I do it for my health (and the looks the girlies give me), my health that you injure when you light up next to me. Lets not be overpaid tobacco lawyers here, [...]

Alcohol Ban?

Proving that DC’s City Council can be as infantile as any high school student government, Carol Schwartz introduced an alcohol ban at last night’s City Council, extending the smoking ban to it’s least likely next step.
The problem here is thus: alcohol, when administered properly and responsibly, affects only the person it’s served to. [...]

Fairfax: No Cars? No Problem!

Fresh off the intense discussion earlier in the week regarding the “No Car” lifestyle, it seems that Fairfax County planners want you not to have a car in the burbs either:
In a place where cars and growth have always gone together, the county wants to offer incentives to the residents and workers in the planned [...]

Missing: One Crown Vic…

You know, I’m sure that car theft is a serious business. I sure know I wouldn’t want anyone stealing my wheels. It’s a real pain to deal with insurance companies, the police, all of that jazz. Except of course, when you’re the Police Chief. That’s right, Chief Ramsey’s own black Crown [...]

Three Ways to Tell Time in DC

From too many late nights at work, if you hear the street cleaner going down I (Eye) Street at 15th Street, it’s Monday night around 11:30pm and you need to leave the office already.

From too many drink-a-thons happy hours, if you are on the patio of Fox and Hounds or Trio Restaurant and you see [...]

Mini Missed Connections

You: Street preacher, ragged white t-shirt, jeans, shrill voice, obnoxious megaphone. Screaming damnation and brimstone at the metro-bound commuters. Your rhetoric was smooth and polished like a stone worn under water; your steely eyes boring a hole in me from a distance.
Me: Metro-bound pedestrian without a care in the world, nice pants, messenger [...]

Weekends Past

If you live in a city long enough you can literally travel through your past in a weekend.
I began at the 9:30 Club, and ended at the old one.
Friday we started off watching a friend perform on a stage where I’ve seen so many kicked-up and diverse shows through the years. Every time [...]

Meet Jack

Meet Jack

Originally uploaded by tjbax.

This is Jack. Tom and I adopted him on Saturday from Last Chance Animal Rescue, via the Petsmart Luv-A-Pet Adoption Center at Petsmart’s Alexandria store.
It’s springtime, which means shelters are being inundated with huge numbers of kittens and puppies, sometimes [...]

How do you do it? Drive I mean

Really, how can you? I drove to Charlottesville this weekend for a triathlon, and it took me two hours just to get to Fredericksburg on I-95. It would’ve taken me two more hours had I not jumped into the HOV lane. Coming back, I went to Korea Town in Annandale for tasty [...]

Orange Announces Candidacy

And then there were two.
Vincent Orange, councilman for Ward 5, has announced his candidacy for mayor, joining councilman Adrian Fenty (Ward 4)as candidates for next fall’s primary. Right, we’re 15 months out, still. 15 months. And we’ve got two candidates for mayor. Of course, Orange seems to be doing [...]

Good party, great music, lame guy.

I went out to shake my booty at Right Round last night. It’s a little bit outside the sort of socializing I ordinarily do, but I’m all about broadening my horizons, and besides, lil’ e assured me before my first outing that I wouldn’t be out of place, there’s all kinds of people there, [...]

Fireflies

Little points of yellow light are popping up in my yard tonight, dancing in the twilight. The little bugs are dancing their mating ritual, not entirely like the folks in the clubs and bars of DC. The signs of summer are multiplying, the sidewalk cafes, the teeming masses of tour buses and tourists, [...]

DC Metblogs’ Favorites: Desserts

La Dolce Vita. The sweet life. It’s the summertime, when culinary thoughts lean toward the decadent and rich choices we are offered when the dessert menus are passed around at the restaurant. Give these choices a look, they’re our favorites.
This post appeared in its original form at DC Metblogs

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Oysters on Q

After spending almost the entire week in bed due to bronchitis, at about 5pm yesterday I was stir-crazy. I called my husband and convinced him to meet me for dinner at a halfway point between our house and his office. We decided on Hank’s Oyster Bar at Q & 17th in the old Trio’s Pizza [...]

Cellphone Taxes, Entertainment Taxes…

Alexandria, fresh off a real estate tax rate decrease, will be adding a few more taxes to spread the net a little wider. Since folks are moving away from landlines ($7.50, to the city’s coffers, each and every month), and to cellphones, the city has enacted a $3/mo charge on all cellphone bills over [...]

Escape

It’s about this time each year that I start thinking, “You know, I’ve been in DC for X years, and that’s a pretty long time. Maybe it’s time I thought about somewhere else. What’s it like to be in Seattle? What’s it like to be in LA?” I’m eventually snatched from [...]

Sipping Time on Sundays at the Spanish Safeway

Hello all, I am a new handy-dandy writer on MetroBlogging DC and this, my first post, is telling on what I’m gonna write about. Not one to fool with Hill types or even cross the Potomac to NoVa, I’m down with what matters
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Worried for a city’s soul?!

There’s a bit in today’s Post about Silver Spring including a bizarro headline that reads: “Worries for Silver Spring’s Soul”
Right. The Soul. Of a Burbclave.
People are complaining that Silver Spring is becoming hip, what with the new AFI Silver theatre, and the restaurants and a burgeoning commercial community, that the city itself [...]

Smoking Ban Up For Grabs

Now, I’ll be the first to say this: I am deeply anti-smoking, and for a ban on smoking in bars. However, I’ll also say that I would not vote for a ban, but would support a ban placed by the Council. I like my smoker friends, but I hate smelling like I [...]