Archive for June, 2005
Credit where credit is due…
For all the bitching I do about Metro, I’m just going to take a moment and call attention to the very reasonable and sane decision Metro made to run 8-car trains on the Blue and Orange lines while they get this train-separation system glitch figured out. As much of a pain in the ass it [...]
More »Caribbean Breeze and South American Wine
As I’ve gotten a little older and my tastes have matured, I’ve become a bit of an amateur foodie- more of the cooking sort than the restaurant sort, though I do a fair bit of that as well (and regularly turn to Jason’s blog for guidance). But if you’re going to cook a nice meal, [...]
More »Run for Cover!
The Fourth Annual Run for Cover is at Black Cat on June 25th. The cover will be $8 and all proceeds will benefit the Fort Reno concert series. DC bands appearing in this orgy of tribute and parody will include: Sandinistas Girls on Film Just Oates, The Queen is Dead Another Man’s Sac I think [...]
More »Looking for a Few Good Writers
We’re looking for folks to write about DC. Not about the politics, but about the culture, the traffic, the sports, the arts, the life that is DC. Applicants must be willing to write 3 times a week, roughly 200 words per entry or so. While we don’t pay, we will allow anyone to apply for [...]
More »More on the U St. Corridor
Saturday night I took the Metro up to U St., dined at Saint-Ex, went to the 9:30 club, ogled the Ellington Condominiums and Sala Thai, and dreamt of living in such a cool neighborhood. Today I read in the Times that this will be a fiction for me, simply because of the incredibly booming property [...]
More »Mrmbmle City, Doors, Mrbmble Side
You know, just from the title, what I’m writing about. Recently, it was reported that DC Metro Drivers are getting speech lessons on how to properly say L’Enfant Plaza and Grosvenor. Personally, I think the problem is more with the speaker systems in the stations than the ones in the cars, but the point is [...]
More »Seeing the Secret
A few years ago I put my music degree to work, and I began to sing with a few local groups. Concerts and small venues are wonderful, so very personal, bringing the audience to within your gaze as you finish the end of Brahms’ Deutsches Requiem, tears in their eyes, each remembering a different loved [...]
More »Stratford on the Potomac
Hey gang, this is Jenn Larsen, new metroblogger… This weekend I saw Vanessa Redgrave in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of “Hecuba” at the Kennedy Center. This is the closing weekend, so it’s a litle late for a recommendation (sorry!), but the RSC is in the third year of their five-year summer residency so you [...]
More »Wandering DC at Dusk
It’s amazing how long you can live in DC and miss some of the museums. I’ve been here for about five years now, and I’m still just making it to the Smithsonians. Yesterday, my friend Dave and I met on the mall late in the day, hoping to take advantage of the summer hours at [...]
More »Low Numbered Plates
Ever seen those three and four digit license plates with DC logos and wonder how they’re given out? Turns out, they come straight from the DC City Council and the Mayor’s Office. This week, all 13 council members let loose their lists, but the Mayor won’t give it up, saying that violates the privacy of [...]
More »Ride, Watch, Report. Lather, Rinse, Repeat.
Did you miss us? We missed you… Those of you riding the MARC have surely seen the Soviet posters that the intarweb has been chattering about for a few days. DC Filmmaker and political rantster Bill Coughlan actually called MARC about it and they informed him that CSX, who owns the on a couple lines, [...]
More »We’re Back!
Sorry about this afternoon’s outage, our host suffered a severe outage at their facility and discovered some lingering issues in their power distribution model. We’re back now, though. While we were off, though, major complaints about RFK concessions were noted by W*USA 9, and Food Inspectors are expected to be out at RFK tonight or [...]
More »Lunch Anyone?
Jason Storch of DC Foodies has the scoop on Galileo Grill: Then each week, an email annoucement is sent out, telling you the days that The Grill will be open what the menu will be. If you like what you see, you call (202) 293-7191 to order the morning you plan to go (or you [...]
More »Election Next Week
Wait? We get to vote again? Already? Well, you do if you live in Northern Virginia, at least. Republican and Democratic primaries will take place next Tuesday, with polls opening early and closing before dark. Up for grabs are the party candidacies for Governor and Lt. Governor to be elected this Fall, Attorney General, and [...]
More »DC Flickr Group Event
It’s no secret that we’re a group of Flickr fans. We know that some of you are also fans. So let’s get our flickr on together at the DC Flickr party on 25 June at El Tamarindo. RSVP here. We’ll see you there. This post appeared in its original form at DC Metblogs Be the [...]
More »Fear and Loathing at RFK?
As I walked from the Metro to RFK for last night’s Nationals’ Game, I was greeted by the usual sights, ticket scalpers, the saxophone guy at the top of the escalators, the usual hotdog vendors, and the ubiquitous HomeStand folks, but last night added a new dimension: free phone cards? Sure enough, there were 50 [...]
More »No Filming!
You would think that after you paid all that cash to have your daughter (or son) study the ancient art of tap dance, you would at least be able to take video of the recital at the Lincoln Theatre. You would be wrong: Robert sez, “My daughter had her tap dance recital at the Lincoln [...]
More »Cameras, Cameras everywhere
Sure, in LA, they get freaked out by two cameras covering an Alley Market where some DVD pirating happens. They’ve never been to DC. I work downtown by Metro Center, surveillance cameras are no surprise to me. All throughout the city there are those ubiquitious black globes concealing a video camera likely controlled by remote [...]
More »Welcome to summer!
That’s right, it’s 87 out there, with some fairly hefty humidity, which means the start of the summer. The heat will envelop you when you walk outside, kind of like wearing a wet wool blanket around your neck, a feeling I was never ever acquainted with until I moved here. Not even in Ohio did [...]
More »Welcome
By the way, welcome Sunday Source readers. You’ll find our Atom and RSS feeds in the left column of the page, under the DC Metblogs button and the list of Metroblogging cities. If you’re looking for a good news reader, I hear Kinja, Bloglines, and NewsGator are good, and I use NetNewsWire (Mac only). If [...]
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