Archive for January, 2008
Good Beer Comes To Town for the Weekend
Not that DC isn’t an awesome town for beer drinkers, but in mid-May, it’s going to be the Best Beer Town in America as Savor comes to town. Taking over the Mellon Auditorium for two days in May, bringing brews to town that we don’t normally get. The names are familiar, you’ll [...]
More »Find your booties
image courtesy of National Centers for Environmental Prediction.
Capital Weather passes on this bit of information: you’re going to get wet. Very.
It’s hard to imagine as I look out the window into a sunny and nice day, but projections indicate we’re going to get a metric ass-ton of rain dumped on us [...]
Inspection Facility to Make Way for Service Stations
Farmlab junker car garden for Parking Day LA
Originally uploaded by Rise Industries.
The next time your DC-garaged vehicle needs an inspection you may not have to trundle on down to the Inspection Facility in Southwest DC, a place reviled by my District-dwelling friends. Much like surrounding Maryland [...]
More »Congratulations, cousin.
Hooray! My google alert on “Elizabeth Whiteside” just barfed up this Army.MIL news release on the soldier I wrote about two months ago. Excellent news.
After reviewing the Article 32 report of investigation as well as recommendations from the investigating officer and the chain of command at the Walter Reed Army Medical [...]
Picking a farm share
image courtesy of MontanaRaven
Or in the case of my darling girlfriend and I, not picking one.
Not because we don’t want to, mind you. We both love veggies and would be happy to eat more of them. DG hates going grocery shopping but is un(willing|able) to let me do it for her, [...]
Night Dreams in Bethesda Caters to After-Church Crowd
Yep, Night Dreams is now open for your after-church porn needs. Visit this Sunday from 12-6. What? You are scared of looking like a sinner in front of your church pals you might encounter there? Good news – they also have an online store for the bashful heathen in all of us.
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The Morning News: Wednesday is for Drinking Early Edition
DC Charter School Closing in a Month, Stranding 250
The Washington Academy, which serves 250 area children, is set to close in 30 days. It’s not clear how those kids are supposed to be absorbed into the schools system, as many neighborhood schools in that region are set to close if the chancellor’s plan is [...]
Breath of Fresh Air
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During my weekend from hell, the Mysterious M and I managed to break away and get downtown to attend a great photo outing hosted by the Washington Photo Safari on Saturday afternoon. The subject was the historic Willard Hotel, which reopened in 1986 after being closed for nearly 18 years. Its renovations have maintained [...]
9:30 Club vs. The Black Cat – Ding! Ding!
Or should I say, “Kick ass concert venue versus a bar with a crappy stage?” Yes, I may indeed be comparing apples to oranges here, but they’re both fruit that I like to eat, so by God I’ll compare them if I want to.
OK, OK. I know I may be touching a raw [...]
Arlington Police use YouTube to Solicit Citizen Assistance
As I often do, I happened to find myself wandering around the Arlington County web site and stumbled onto this YouTube video of some asshat robbing a BB&T bank at Rosslyn. Way to go, Arlington Police, for using the obvious technologies for this important purpose. Many departments lag behind because nobody wants to bother learning [...]
More »The Morning News: SOTU Hangover Edition
Here’s hoping you didn’t play the SOTU drinking game last night, too. It seems the local news media is definitely on the fence about things today, including some contradictory stories.
Rep. Davis to Retire (?)
Rep. Tom Davis (R-Vienna) is set to retire after 14 years in the House, according to the Examiner. However, according [...]
Obama Rally Draws More Than 12,000.
It was cold this morning when I hit the lock button on my car and I shoved my hands deep into the pockets of my greatcoat. I’d forgotten my gloves on the table when I left the house and now I was kicking myself. I’d gone to grab my friend Jeff and I [...]
More »DC’s Getting Smart
As if DC wasn’t smart enough, we seem to be getting even smarter. Aren’t we considered to be the most educated city on the planet or sumthin’? Well leave it to us to be early adopters of the space saving, environmentally friendly Smart car. Made by Mercedes and starting at just $11,590, [...]
More »The Morning News: Obama in DC
Two big speeches in DC today. One by President Bush at 9pm tonight (street closures), and one by Senator Barack Obama at 11am this morning (doors at 10:30) Sadly, our tickets for the State of the Union never showed, but I did get an invite to see Senator Obama speak.
Virginia Scrambles to Save [...]
Seems fair
Well the snow day phone kerfuffle seems to be more or less done. WaPo is reporting that teen Devraj Kori will serve a Saturday detention for his crimes. Their headline unfortunately states “Fairfax Teen Will Serve Detention for Snow Day Call” which I would certainly hope is not the case – I continue to think [...]
More »Two Great Shows This Weekend
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Honor By August at 9:30
Saturday’s early-doors show at 9:30 Club is a great (almost) All DC show, featuring Jubeus and The Dreamscapes Project, as well as Folk-Rock act Justin Trawick (who we’ve seen before) before Honor By August headlines the show, their first at [...]
Good Takeout for the Flu?
I wonder what time Oprah comes on? I haven’t watched her show in years. I remember watching her when I was a kid and thinking she was soooo cool. Isn’t she like the richest woman on the planet now? I wonder if she’ll ever run for president? That would be [...]
More »Best Ways To Spend Your Rebate in DC?
It seems that a deal has been reached on an economic stimulus package (heh, I said stimulus package) that would put a bunch of fluid dollars into the hands of Americans everywhere. If you make less than $75k, look for a check around $600. Married couple? $1200.
So, if this is [...]
Carrying a Gun Into National: Totally Possible.
Just in case you still think TSA is a great group of people that Keep America Safeâ„¢ from the terrorists, please take note of this story from last Sunday, when a West Virginia man carried a loaded firearm undetected past security. And, when he realized what he was carrying, he went back to let [...]
More »You seem to be confused
image courtesy of B Tal
We’ve now discussed the Tistadt Audio Meltdown (sounds like the successor to Big Audio Dynamite, don’t it? (oops I think that dates me somewhat)) a few times and I was inclined to let it go.
Till I read Marc Fisher’s column about it in the print edition today.
And [...]
