Archive for December, 2005
Restaurant Week in DC is coming!
That’s right, the Winter Restaurant Week is coming, starting January 9th and running through the 15th. Dinner will run $30.06 for a prix fixe 3 courses, and Lunch will will be $20.06 for a prix fixe 3 courses. The List of Restaurants is now available and is fairly comprehensive. Many of the [...]
More »Driving in DC today? Take heart….
…for no matter how bad the pre-Xmas trafic is, its way better than in Beirut.
As a legacy of their civil war, where kidnappings from your were common, and car bombs now claim ministers, Beiruties don’t stop for nuttin. Not stop signs, not traffic lights, not even for one-way streets. You read [...]
Christmas Cross-Town DC Airport Dash
I dare you to top this trans-Atlantic trip home for the holidays:
While Jenn got lucky and just cruised through DCA yesterday, I’m about to attempt the mad Xmas Airport Scrum in not just one, but two DC airports.
With a last minute trip to Lebanon just now ending, I’m currently in Charles du Gaulle airport awaiting [...]
More Stadium Drama
If you’re as tired as I am of this whole stadium drama, today’s news was just insult to injury. Apparently, Mayor-for-Life Barry decided he hadn’t messed with the system enough, and so he decided to collude with an owner-candidate for the Nationals:
Barry said yesterday that he had intended for D.C. entrepreneur Jonathan Ledecky, who [...]
Better ask Santa for a cellphone cuz 35 cents won’t get you squat
Once I noticed this dead police callbox over on 11th and H, NW, I started keeping my eyes out for others. So far the only other one I have seen is on 8th and I, SE, but I am sure there’s more. The light no longer lights to draw attention to itself, there’s no phone [...]
More »Holiday Transport
I’ve made it to sunny (somewhat) Florida to spend the week with my parents, and I thought I’d let you know that at 5:30am on a Tuesday morning, DCA was relatively crowded…
I flew AirTran, which goes out of the “old” terminal, and they’ve taken the huge clunky luggage security machine out of the ticketing area [...]
Protein Fix
To send me off to Florida and the land of the all-you-can-eat 4pm dinner buffet, my husband and I went to the District Chophouse for dinner Monday night. We hadn’t been there in a while – we’d gone a few times when it was a pioneer on the Seventh Street revitalization project, and had liked [...]
More »Let the Coffee Wars Begin
Monday night I was rushing up Seventh Street, having left my DC Metblogs compatriots at a (very enjoyable!) Elephant & Castle happy hour and on my way to the District Chophouse. As I neared the corner of 7th and E Streets, I noticed an amusing instance of corporate fiefdoms. On one side of the corner [...]
More »Two New Cities!
I know I have been lax in my posting of new cities, so I wanted to take a moment to welcome Paris and Singapore to the Metroblogging Family! If you’re interested in what life in Paris or Singaore is like, click on over. We’re up to 39 cities, networkwide now, and it’s entirely [...]
More »Kerry to the Nats?
Well, the Nats have got a quandary: what to do at second base? Sure, we’ve got 9 men on the roster who can play the position, and that’s looking like 6 too many. The latest rumor? Vidro and Church to the Cubs for Kerry Wood. Sure, we’d be losing a gold [...]
More »An Alternative To Firearms
Now, while I may be against gun-bans in general, I have to admire the ingenuity of mankind for making other arrangements.
Enter “En Garde“, the end table that turns into a shillelagh and buckler. No word as to whether or not the top has a bulletproof kevlar coated core yet…
Still, perhaps for nervous folks this [...]
Our Sympathies to New York
Our hearts go out to all the folks marooned by the Transit Strike in New York. It’s 23F in New York this morning and people were shown walking across the Brooklyn Bridge on the way to work this morning. The strike is costing the city of New York $400M per day. Ouch. [...]
More »Lease Delay?! WTF?!
After a rally on Freedom Plaza today to round up support for the new stadium and a vote from the council tomorrow, apparently Mayor Williams pushed off the vote until the new year in order to get some technicalities taken care of before the vote.
Uhm, Mister Mayor, we may be rookies at this whole politics [...]
Noontime Rally Draws Hundreds
As laborers and fans and opponents streamed up Pennsylvania Avenue and 12th St. and 14th St. to a blustery and windswept Freedom Plaza, the brassy soundtrack played out over rented speakers. They can in day-glo vests and workers’ boots, in fur coats and snazzy hats, and many in Nats regalia, all out on their [...]
More »White Marsh: Where Xbox Gets Ugly
As the Xbox 360 shortage continues and Christmas gets closer and closer, desperation abounds for the purchase of an Xbox 360, leading to a near riot at the White Marsh Best Buy this weekend, according to a comment on Gizmodo’s latest Xbox story:
At the White Marsh, Maryland Best Buy people began gathering for the 12/18 [...]
Are you man enough for a mani-pedi?
That’s right, can you commit to a manicure and pedicure? Can you allow a woman to cut, shape, and massage your nails and hands the way they should be? If so, you should go to Today’s Look at the corner of 17th and L Streets NW.
Not only do they have good nail care, [...]
Party with the Office?
Office Holiday Parties. ‘Tis the season. You know, where you get dressed up and socialize with your co-workers at an official gathering. Perhaps you’re an old hand at the office mingling, perhaps you already bond with your cubemates after work. But perhaps you don’t, or you hate mixing work with pleasure. For my part, I [...]
More »Half Price Galileo
DC Foodies has the scoop on the return of half price dinner at Galileo, but in order to take advantage of the event, you have to be on the Galileo email list, so take a moment to email them and ask to be put on the email list. Better yet, tell them DC Metblogs [...]
More »Showdown on Freedom Plaza
At noon today, on Freedom Plaza, there will be a pair of rallies. One to support the building of the stadium, led by Nats fans and the Mayor and half the DC council, one to protest the building of the stadium, led by fans of the current businesses in Southeast, and environmental groups. [...]
More »“Have a Super Saturnalia!”
Saturday we stormed Tysons Mall!
The last shopping weekend before Christmas, and though my family presents are finished (hurrah for online shopping!), my husband’s are not. “Bah humbug, I hate Christmas!” he moaned, but alas, it must be done. So off to Tysons we went, definitely naive and unprepared for the MOB SCENE that greeted us. [...]
