Archive for May, 2007
A bad sign at Bebo
Both Tom and I have discussed how much we love Bebo Tratoria, Roberto Donna’s restaurant in Crystal City. For those of us whose love for Galileo always exceeded our wallets, it was a real grodsend. It was also a nice change from the run-down look Galileo was sporting in its last [...]
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Coming off the Metro tonight at Stadium/Armory, I walked up to the most beautiful rendition of Take Me Out To the Ballgame, played by a man with the most amazing silver dreads and a sax that had seen many many notes played on its [...]
More »Photographing DC
Chris Scholl sent us his Guide to Shooting Washington DC, which in and of itself is interesting, both for what it chooses to recommend, and what it chooses to ignore.
It focuses primarily on the usual places, the Mall, Embassy Row, Dupont Circle, the Museums and the monuments. Where’s the love for places like Lincoln [...]
Deaf Pedestrian: Honk or Holler?
Photo by DC Metroblogger
What do you make of this sign: “Deaf Pedestrian”? What might that mean to you? Would you slow down? Would you be extra cautious? Would you even notice, or care if you did?
This deaf pedestrian sign is in my new Petworth neighbourhood and there [...]
A place to wait
If you and your notably shorter or taller significant other need somewhere in Alexandria to sit and wait for all your DC Metrobloggers to get back from vacation, consider this odd bench.
This post appeared in its original form at DC Metblogs
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Chihuly Boat
This here is a Chihuly boat installation sitting in the USBG National Garden regional pond. Dale Chihuly, a noted glass sculptor, has been doing glass-filled boats since 1995, inspired by Finnish children who would gather blown glass he had thrown into the Nuutajoki River.
You can view this particular blown glass boat in the National [...]
Spider Crane to the Office Move Rescue
Photo by DC Metroblogger
My company moved. We had much stuff, papers and files in metal cabinets. Hanging file folders I thought best for the shredder.
I was not in charge though, so now we have these file cabinets in our new office. “How did they get there?” You might [...]
Did you “suit up” today on E Street?
Like my Dad used to caution me, when it’s raining, you wear a raincoat. He didn’t mean a real raincoat, of course. Southerners speak in metaphor and I knew what he meant.
Someone apparently found it necessary to don a raincoat over on E Street NW. I suppose there are less romantic places to get busy [...]
Everyone’s got the Shakes, part two.
photo courtesy of Studio Theatre
Moving on from Shakespeare re-imagined into Shakespeare-inspired, the Studio Theater is staging Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. I’m excited to get a chance to see this performed on stage – I love the movie [...]
More »See Dave Attell or D.L. Hughley… for FREE
Dave Attell and D.L. Hughley are each taping HBO specials at the Lincoln Theater next weekend- Attell on Friday, June 1 and Hughley on Sunday, June 3rd. The production company is looking for audience members for both, and the tickets are FREE. The catch is, you have to win the ticket lottery to [...]
More »Everyone’s got the Shakes, part one.
photo courtesy of The Shakespeare Theatre
Most prominent of the current All Bard, All The Time phenomenon is the Shakespeare Theatre’s annual free-for-all, this year again presenting Love’s Labor Lost. I’m always a little skeptical of modernizations of Shake’s work, at [...]
More »Memoirs of the Cherry Blossom Festival
It’s been a while since I last wrote about a photo, due in part to laziness as well as not seeing any photos that really motivate my blogging fingers. Today I decided to put an end to my drought and make an effort to scour through the archives of Flickr.
This great shot by Flickrite [...]
Congressman Fights Crime. Literally.
Pickpocketed near his Georgetown home, Congressman Rodney Frelinghuysen went running after his robber. He managed to grab the attention of several DC Police officers, who joined in the hunt and apprehended an 18-year old suspect.
That’s what you get for messing with New Jersey, man, it’s a minor miracle the mugger-to-be didn’t find himself on [...]
Caption Contest Winner: Holmes & Fenty Photo
And we have a winner for the Metroblogging DC Caption Contest! By a very close vote that I may not completely understand, here is the photo/caption combo:
“I am not saying that there would be consequences for the failure for this legislation but tell me – do you really want to risk this? I mean [...]
More »Costco: Cardboard Box Connection
Photo by DC Metroblogger
While randomly shopping with the clock-stopping hottie, I came across this amazing find for anyone moving: Costco has mountains of boxes right by the cash registers, free for the taking.
When I was packing to move into the new abode, Costco became a cardboard box goldmine.
The Costco employees helped me dig [...]
Got Water?
The Washington Post is reporting today that it’s probably not a good idea to start a fire in D.C. any time soon, whether it’s on purpose or accidental. If, for example, you leave a candle burning in your living room and your damn cat knocks it over, the fire department will have to try [...]
More »Ditching Work for Sport
It’s a packed house over here at Ireland’s Four Courts as Liverpool and AC Milan face off in the finals of the Champions Leagues. Milan’s up 1-nil at the half, scoring a goal on a deflected penalty kick, causing half the bar to cheer and the other half to groan.
The last time [...]
It’s Ticket Time, Folks
Memorial Day Weekend. Blockbuster Movies. While everyone’s stuck in traffic tomorrow night getting an early start on the long weekend, I’ll be eating popcorn in the Balcony at the Uptown watching the new Pirates of the Carribean movie. You know you want to ditch the early escape traffic and do the same, [...]
More »19 Robberies in 1st District since Friday
Since Friday, there have been 19 robberies in the 1st Police District, which covers the area around the Capitol, and down to the Anacostia, and as far north as the junction of New York and Florida Avenues. The 19 robberies over the weekend add up to 60 robberies, without gun, and 19 armed [...]
More »Persistent pixels
photo courtesy of Jakk6
‘Lord Andrews’ says it much better than I ever could, so I will for the most part present without comment this excellent article about persistent MySpace and Facebook profiles for people who are now long dead, the Virginia Tech victims amongst them.
An excerpt:
I [...]
