Archive for May, 2008

Union Station Shuts Down Fox 5

We reported earlier that photography at Union Station, despite being Carl’s favorite space to take photos, was getting to be a real challenge, even though photography in the incredibly beautiful Union Station is allowed both by Amtrak and by LaSalle Partners who maintains the space. Fox 5 News has gotten involved, and interviewed [...]

The Spelling Bee

It’s Spelling Bee time again. It was on the TV at lunch today, and I couldn’t help but watch in shock, horror and awe as the various home-schooled kids hemmed and hawed, asked for definitions and origins, and definitions and origins and “oh, please, could you use it in a sentence.” What was [...]

Because I know you’re all DYING to buy tickets

…an ad on Washingtonpost.com alerts me that the New Kids on the Block Reunion Tour (otherwise known as the “Real estate market is in the toilet so Jon Knight finally agreed” tour) will be coming to our fair city on October 2.
The show will be at the Verizon Center, which seems like an [...]

FBI Raids Local State Senator’s Home

Agents of the FBI today raided the Prince George’s County home of State Senator Ulysses Currie (D-25 MD), as well as the headquarters of SUPERVALU’s Shoppers Food Warehouse in Lanham, MD. NBC 4 says that the raids are related, but can’t show a correlation. I’m sure we’re going to hear a lot [...]

Free energy audits for DC residents

The DC Department of the Environment has a Home Energy Rating System program they call HERS. In a nutshell, they come out to your home and give it the once-over to see where you might be expending more energy than you need to and provide some advice on how you might reduce your output.
Putting aside [...]

Strawberry desserts

I dug into my first round of farm share strawberries last night, but if you’re not signed up or prefer to have someone else do the preparations you could get on over to Food Matters on Saturday for their Strawberry Festival. “Join us for free samples of strawberry desserts, strawberry-inspired menu items, and strawberry cocktails.”
 
My [...]

WaPo & Marc Fisher think you should suffer for the children

That’s assuming that ‘you’ are a Marylander – or sometimes drink in Maryland – and like those fruity near-beers. No, when the WaPo ran this annoying editorial last week they called them ‘alcopops,’ which is evocative of popsicle to me, but presumably they mean it in the sense of ’soda pop.’ “But the truth is [...]

Tonight on Jonny’s Par-Tay

 
Unlike what mom said about no internet until 30 minutes after you eat, foodies and techies do mix. See tonight’s episode of Jonny’s Partay and chat with some socially minded foodie techie folks. Dig the description by DC’s very own favorite man about town Jonny Goldstein:

We are pleased to host Sean Shadmand and Isaac Mosquera, [...]

45 Years for Keith Washington

If the full sentence is served, Keith Washington won’t see the inside of his home again until 2053. He was sentenced today for the murder of Brandon Clark and the shooting of Robert White. He’ll be eligible for parole in 2028. Apparently, his attorneys are filing an appeal, but the grounds for [...]

Cracks in the Ice…

Remember this experience?
Well, I received a phone message last week while I was off gallivanting around Maine; the caller was from CSC’s corporate offices. [I had filled out their online customer comment card, pointing to the previous article so they could see for themselves what was going on. Thanks, by the way, for everyone's comments [...]

Rolling Thunder

It was pretty hard to miss all the bikers in town for this past weekend’s Rolling Thunder. We saw a whole bunch through Arlington on Friday and Saturday night, most likely missing Whitey’s that’s been gone a few years from its Washington Boulevard home.
The curb in front of Mexicali Blues was [...]

Staycation (All I Ever Wanted)

My plan was simple. Sacrifice a vacation for a staycation. While almost everyone else went off to a beach house for some R-n-R, I would remain dutifully at home, slavishly sketching to get a headstart on design deadlines. At least, that was the plan.
Thanks to a crippling mental block that led to hours of [...]

Oberon, and the Fruits of the Farm

Some of us need no season to barbeque, and choose to do it year round, but Memorial Day weekend is the official start of the summer and the barbeque season. Yesterday, we fired up the charcoals, cooked burgers and dogs, and toasted our country’s fallen heroes.
This delightful fellow in the photo, [...]

Have We Gotten to the Point Where This Needs to be Said?

I applaud the Post for stating the obvious, when it’s clear that the obvious needs stating, but did they really need to write a whole article when that one sentence would’ve been enough?
This post appeared in its original form at DC Metblogs
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A Very DC Question

From regular commenter Joseph Finn comes this question:
“Does the Librarian of Congress have to resign with each administration?”
Many political appointees to non-political posts do have to resign with each administration, only to be re-appointed by fiat of the new administration, but, as Librarian Billington has served as the Librarian of Congress since the Reagan [...]

Violence at 18th St Lounge?

Club violence is always something that kinda gives me the willies, and this example is no exception. Going in for my morning coffee this morning my bariista comrade was looking more forlorn than usual, and related to me that he’d seen the DJ stabbed at 18th Street Lounge last night. Said what had been [...]

Falcon Virgo

I just got a text message from the DC Alerts:
MPD reports / Falcon’s “Virgo” exercise is scheduled for late tonight 5/21/08 beginning at 2345 hours into tomorrow morning 5/22/08 ending at 0600 hours. This exercise comprises a series of training flights held in coordination with the Federal Aviation Administration, the National Capital Region Command Center, [...]

Recyclables Bins Debut in Bethesda

Bethesda is working with Coca Cola and Honest Tea and the Bethesda Urban District to add street level recycling to their downtown. Sure, there are a bunch of trash cans there all ready, but no recycling options. That was, until yesterday, when Honest Tea President Seth Goldman helped kick off the project that’s [...]

Vanity theft deterrants?

I get a mailing from Arlington county periodically with a report on crimes that have occurred in the area, and stolen cars are listed in there too, like this section from today’s report:

STOLEN AUTO 05/14/08, VA XWR7413, 2007 Honda Odyssey, blue, 1300 block N. Danville Street
STOLEN AUTO 05/15/08, DC BF6112, 1996 Mercedes C220, blue, [...]

Friday Pick: The Jones @ The Rock & Roll Hotel

Get ready folks. One of my favorite local bands, The Jones, is headlining at The Rock & Roll Hotel this Friday. Self described as “a kind of bluesy rock and roll”, this solid trio has a unique throwback sound and raw musical talent that is hard to come by nowadays. Think Stones. [...]