Archive for March, 2006
Heightened Police Presence on Metro on Wednesday
Tomorrow morning, at a station that WMATA has not disclosed, transit police and a special K9 team will surveil the Metro platform during morning rush. There may be as many as 20 officers on the platform at any given time during the 90 minute rush hour that begins at 7:30am tomorrow. No word on whether [...]
More »Scott Bakula at the Washington Post?!
That’s right, Dr. Sam Beckett himself is doing an online chat at the Washington Post tomorrow at 1pm, with the subject being his performance in the musical Shenandoah which is at Ford’s Theatre through April 30th. Me, I’m dying to know about his Quantum Leap experiences, but I’ve got a feeling he won’t be too [...]
More »Real Estate Tax Hike in DC?
WTOP News is reporting on their radio broadcast that the District may be adding a few taxes to real estate closings in the coming months that would add up to $2000 to the closing costs of any real estate deal in DC. I know that people are talking about a real estate bubble, and a [...]
More »Safeway: Where are the hotdogs?!
Where are the hotdogs?! Originally uploaded by tbridge. Every once in a while I get this craving. You know the one I’m talking about. You stare out the window on a gorgeous day, and dream of grabbing a half-smoke from the hotdog vendor on the corner, with extra onions and mustard. Sitting on a park [...]
More »I’m wrong but Verizon still isn’t right
not clean So Verizon’s graffiti is washable chalk, not spray paint, as I originally thought. But its not easily washable chalk – it took me a good 5 minutes of scrubbing just to take off a “F” and it’s the actual act, more than the paint, that should piss us off. Here is Verizon, a [...]
More »Verizon Sidewalk Graffiti
graffiti While we can debate if bOrf was an artist or a vandal, there can be no mistaking the stencils I noticed on my walk to work today. Those spray-painted ads for Verizon’s Yellow Pages along the K Street sidewalk – that would be graffiti, straight up and ugly. Now I wanna know – how [...]
More »15th street closed
15th street closed Good luck on that drive home tonight. Bush is at a meeting on 15th street and its closed between K and M streets NW. As you might expect, downtown is a parking lot as a result. This post appeared in its original form at DC Metblogs Be the first to like. Like [...]
More »Maryland Drivers Bear Brunt of Speed Camera Program
The Washington Times, in an occasional piece of halfway decent journalism, has a great article about DC’s speed camera program, which raises a boatload of money for the District, mostly on the driving habits of Marylanders, and doesn’t seem to curb any of the traffic issues. According to the article, traffic fatalities went up to [...]
More »like a record, baby
Friend of Metroblogging DC (yeah, I said it) and occasional MBDC contributor Erin Myers was featured in the Sunday Source this weekend as one of five local DJs profiled for the Source’s cover story. DJ Lil’e, as the kids call her, spins an 80s alt-pop dance party called “Right Round” at the Black Cat monthly, [...]
More »If the Slipper fits…
George Mason University has WON their game against number 1 seeded University of Connecticut Huskies, in an Overtime Thriller at the Verizon Center. Tied at 74 after regulation, the Patriots charged through the Overtime period, beating Connecticut 86-84, becoming the first double-digit seed to ever make the Final Four. The big story? Mason’s distance attack. [...]
More »Just another Saturday night…
Some random observations from last night: 1) The downstairs bar at Local 16 on a Saturday night is packed so full it’s impossible to navigate with a full martini. 2) Everyone at the inexplicably packed bar looked exactly the same. No diversity. I was even the only girl with short hair. 3) Despite said fetchingly [...]
More »Only at Pentagon City…
…Would you find a Maternity-wear store, next to a tobacconist. Only in Virginia. This post appeared in its original form at DC Metblogs Be the first to like. Like Unlike
More »Market Season? Not Yet…
I went out to the Farmer’s Market in Courthouse to check out my options for some good local produce and products. I love the idea of a farmer’s market, allowing me to buy direct from the producer with no middle man; my inner capitalist does a little dance whenever I go. Sadly, though, I wasn’t [...]
More »Mason Advances!
GMU has triumphed over Wichita State to bring them into the Elite Eight for the first time in the school’s history. Though all of our brackets are completely wrecked, Darpino was seen rejoicing in the streets, shirtless, covered in gold and green. At the half, the Hoyas are up by two over Florida, but the [...]
More »Red America Author Domenech Resigns
Amid allegations of plagiarism, Ben Domenech resigned his blog, Red America, at the Washington Post today. For the last several years, Ben’s been a close friend of mine, and has offered counsel, humor and help that I have appreciated on many levels. However, if the allegations are true, and the research done by many in [...]
More »My Very First Protest
When I got the invitation from my friends Jeff and Cam to go to a protest at the Afghan Embassy on Wyoming Ave in Northwest, I didn’t quite know what to do. See, I’ve always had this dislike for protestors, dating back to the last round of really anarchic WTO/IMF/WorldBank protests which obstructed me from [...]
More »Restaurantblogging: Seafood
Personally I prefer my seafood uncooked. Growing up in Miami there was just so much fresh seafood to be had that I got good and spoiled. So now I’m very finicky about seafood and most places just don’t measure up, so I usually pick sushi over seafood. My darling girlfriend, however, didn’t come to this [...]
More »it’s like the teddy bear hospital, but for stylish grownups…
While reading about Jenn L’s adventures in finding the perfect pair of jeans, I decided that a nice pair of high-end jeans would be just the thing to treat myself to after a few months of workin’ it at the gym. After all, what better way is there to celebrate your new, cuter ass than [...]
More »When Cops Get Real
Yesterday’s Post highlighted some fun comments from MoCo police: August 2004: “In their country [in Africa] they would get shot for talking back to the police. By the way the international sign for ‘get the [expletive] on the ground’ is a gun pointed at you by a uniform police officer.” The comments were made on [...]
More »2004 Metro Accident Was Driver Error
This train accident from November 2004, which left one train literally atop another at the Woodley Park Metro, caused all manner of conflagration in DC when it happened. The NTSB has finally released their report on this incident, and are citing “Operator Error” as the cause of the incident that injured 20 people and destroyed [...]
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