Archive for January, 2006
Out of the Frying Pan…
A DC inmate was killed while trying to escape today. He managed to escape the bus he was being transported on…but got run over when he fell from the undercarriage into traffic in the third street and was killed. So, if you were stuck in traffic, that’s why.
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The Fabric of Our Lives
When your birthday week is a stressful mess and your mood is swinging violently from abject misery to manic panic, it isn’t time for Fantasy Shopping. It’s time for actual Spend Money Like There’s No Tomorrow Shopping. So off I went for a long lunch and in the course of helping the economy out, discovered [...]
More »All Aboard Variable Pricing
Once upon a time amtrak was different. Unlike airlines, who discouraged last minute tickets and one way trips, amtrak charged the same if you bought one month or one day ahead. Well that is about to change: Amtrak is introducing “Revenue Management”
What does that mean you ask? Starting next week, if you [...]
Your unnecessary P offends me
The bar-restaurant Champps seems to be all over the metro area, what with one close to my girl’s home at Pentagon Row and one near my workplace over in Reston. In reality there are only five of them, but it seems like more since I can feel the eyecancer growing every time I look upon [...]
More »Monday Night MC Trivia Fight
You fancy yourself a MC? You think you can be a real-life VJ? How about one who can handle a crowd? A drunk, trivia-demanding crowd? A Commander Microphone if you will? Is that you?
If so, you need to find your calling. A calling that will get you free drinks, [...]
Yahoo to your traffic rescue!
While its Bars & Clubs search needs refinement, Yahoo Maps Beta is a new & improved Yahoo Maps that now sports a handy “Live Traffic” function. Click that and you can see an assortment of traffic bottlenecks in real time. This would be good to check before that morning commute.
I just checked it [...]
If you’re going to be rude to your customers…
… you’d better not be drunk.
A cashier at the Gallery Gourmet Market in the basement of Ivory Tower was detained Sunday night after University Police was called due to inappropriate remarks he made to customers. GW spokeswoman Tracy Schario said the man was “clearly very drunk.”
I look forward to this level of policing extending past [...]
One More on the Mall
The Board of Regents of the Smithsonian have announced the new site for the National Museum of African American History and Culture. It will be located at the corner of 14th and Constitution, on a five acre plot located about 1000 feet from the Washington Monument. Though the Mall is already crowded, and [...]
More »Lunching Walk
The weather today is nothing short of outstanding, a taste of spring in the midst of winter here, and so several of my cohorts and I took a walk at lunch. DC is such a walkable city, with broad sidewalks and gorgeous façades (okay, okay, not all of them, but more here, I’d say, [...]
More »100% of the yum at 50% of the price
My dinner on Thursday was at a DC restaurant I have taken a real shine to, Galileo. This was my second experience there and they showed consistency with my last visit. Part of this is good: everything we had was at the worst very good, and more often excellent. The other half of that consistency [...]
More »Behind the Red Door
Yesterday afternoon I joined a glowing friend of mine for a spa afternoon – the perfect Sunday indulgence. She chose Elizabeth Arden’s Red Door in Friendship Heights, to which I’d never been.
Spas are strange places. It seems to me there’s a lot of effort that goes into relaxing, and sometimes, a lot of attitude.
My [...]
Resiliency of Community
Yesterday morning there was a serious fire at the Falls Church Presbyterian Church on Broad St. in Falls Church. Flames leapt from the trashcans between the buildings into the building itself and the church was nearly lost. The FCFD were amazing in their response and saved the church from what would be a [...]
More »Choo-choo-choose this
“This is Lisa Simpson and when I grow up I’m going to marry her!!” What better way to kick off the weekend before Valentine’s Day than proving to the one you love just how big of a geek you really are?
Fantom Comics is celebrating their grand opening with a Simpsons Trivia Contest over the [...]
More Hellers Treats
more hellers treats
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How tasty does this look? A whole gingerbread house just waiting for you to destroy one bite at a time.
And how cool was the way I made this post – direct from cell phone to DC Metblog, without a laptop involved. [...]
That’s a lot of Craic…
Out and about in Clarendon this morning, looking for a spot of lunch before engaging in rampant consumerism, I walked past the hollowed out corpse of Virginia Hardware, which sat between Fillmore and Highland on Wilson Blvd in the heart of Clarendon. There was a new liquor license application, and a hiring sign…hmm, what’s [...]
More »V-Day Treats from Hellers
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Originally uploaded by DCMetbloger.
Hellers Bakery – the new and improved one that is – is cranking out Valentines Day cookies and cakes already. Check out this tasty treat staring Disney’s mice and get your own soon.
It’s just too bad I’ll be outta town on Feb 14.
This [...]
More »Has the Mayor been Cheating?
Many Thanks to DCist for pointing out that the Mayor’s got his blog on again, and that he’s desperate for comments. I’ve read some of the Mayor’s entries, and I came to one that has me awfully befuddled:
I’ve never made New Year’s resolutions before but here goes. Two thousand six will see me: recognize [...]
More on the Shooting in Germantown
Hello, MoCo is all over the bail hearing for John L. Hall, whose 8 year old son shot a 7 year old girl at daycare earlier this week. Apparently the 8 year old has a bit of a mouth on him:
Assistant State’s Attorney Karyn McAuliffe alleges that the eight-year-old boy said:
“Give me your [...]
Jimmy Bo and the Nats
I paid up my season seats today with the Nats this morning, shelling out an extra $20 for my 21 game plan to keep my yellow seat over in Section 511. What’s that going to buy me this season? 21 games of watching Jimmy Bo and his crazy Nats try to finish out [...]
More »Waterworks
Everyone knows about the geyser in Yosemite Park. But did you know that DC has it’s very own Old Faithful? It’s right downtown, and I discovered it last night in an explosive geological event that’s sure to get my name into the National Geographic Society.
The adventure began innocently enough, while enjoying a few pints [...]
