Archive for January, 2009
Thrifty District: Furnishing Your Humble Abode
‘Fausti Mobili – Lago Point XL a terni’ courtesy of ‘Design Conversation’ So, you need furniture. You don’t have a lot of money, but even so, you’d like something a little nicer than the disposable Swedish particleboard options of Ikea. That can mean only one thing: Consignment!! You’ll probably have to travel a bit, though. [...]
More »Backstrom Out of YoungStars Game
‘Nicklas Backstrom’ courtesy of ‘pimguy’ Nicklas Backstrom announced he was withdrawing from participating in the NHL YoungStars game during the All-Star Break festivities this weekend in Montreal. “This year I felt like it made more sense for me to give someone else that opportunity and use this time to rest and prepare for the second [...]
More »Obama Bazaar @ Union Station
‘Concert on the Mall’ courtesy of ‘Alex Barth’ Leaving work yesterday, I walked up Massachusetts to Union Station, and wound up pushing my way through a barrage of Obama swag, and screaming sellers. One seller was on his cell phone telling another person “come down here, there are tons more people here!” I was offered [...]
More »Talkin’ Transit: Rules of the Road
‘follow your path’ courtesy of ‘philliefan99′ There’s lots of news everywhere regarding Metro and Inaugupocalypse, so I don’t see a need to rehash all that here. Instead, I’ve been intrigued with a lot of referencing lately to cycling in the District, especially as an alternate form of travel. I was thinking it might be a [...]
More »The Record That Won’t Fall: 1,120,000 Metrorail Trips
Metro PlatformOriginally uploaded by tbridge Before last week, the best day on Metro came this past Summer, with 854,000 riders. Yesterday smashed that record. Metro has now released the numbers for yesterday’s totals and they’re astronomical. 1.12M riders on the Metro. Another 423,000 rode Metrobus yesterday, leading to a total public transit ridership of 1.54M [...]
More »It’s always the right time…
DC ResidentsOriginally uploaded by acaben …to agitate for DC representation, but especially so when there are thousands of out-of-town guests in one place. Guests from places that HAVE a full complement of Senators and Representatives. These citizens were at the “We Are One” concert on Sunday afternoon, proudly displaying their “Taxation Without Representation” stickers on [...]
More »Weekend Flashback: Inauguration 2009
‘look!’ courtesy of ‘erin m’ In case you were under a rock yesterday, we had us an Inauguration yesterday. Our 44th President was sworn in on the steps of the Capitol while an estimated two million people witnessed it and the following parade. Our prolific area photographers were out in force yesterday; many of them [...]
More »Finding the cheap eats
‘Eat Bar’ courtesy of ‘voteprime’ I’m not 100% convinced; the selection seems a little slim and contains suggestions I could live without, like “Potbelly.” But Lifehacker recently spotlighted the website UEatCheap.com which purports to find you food for under $10 and not all the suggeestions are bad. You can check out the DC area listing [...]
More »‘Inside a game of Operation’ courtesy of ‘Matt Biddulph’ The fourth quarter of today’s Kojo Nnamdi show – 1:30pm – is about a resurgance in American tinkering with electronics. The guests are going to be people associated with MAKE, but we’ve got a local group dedicated to fiddling and a few friends of WLDC are [...]
More »Sports Fix: Caps Continue Dominance
IMG_1380 by jonlarge Capitals Record: 29-14 Place: 1st in the Southeast, 12 points ahead of the Panthers. Last 2 Weeks: 3-3 The Caps may want to avoid any political holidays in the future, especially those involving the Senators. You know, the ones up in Ottawa. Last night’s 3-2 loss was a tough one, as the [...]
More »The Scene at Union Station
With most of Union Station’s Grand Hall reserved for tonight’s inaugural ball, and the Metro station and rail concourse already packed to capacity, the crowd entering Union Station had to be divided into Metro, Amtrak, and MARC/VRE riders. Confusion reigned outside as the Columbus Circle road was closed off, forcing people to circle around sidewalks [...]
More »Metro On Pace to Crush Record
585,281 people had ridden Metro as of 1pm today, which means we’ll probably eclipse the record some time around 7pm today, if my math is right. I would bet we’ll clear 1.3M people by the time that Metro closes tonight. Update: The 4pm graphs are out for the Metro, and they’re up to 806,000 riders [...]
More »Brand New Whitehouse.gov
There’s a Brand New WhiteHouse.gov this afternoon. The transition hit right as the clock struck noon, and the place is already pretty mobbed. Be the first to like. Like Unlike
More »A New Capital
Wordle on the text of the Inaugural Congratulations, President Obama, and welcome to your new home. Today, it’s a new Capital, though all the streets are the same. The Wordle above is a representation of the prepared text of your First Inaugural Address, which I enjoyed deeply. Here are the three paragraphs that we should [...]
More »We Love Food: Brunch @ Boulevard Woodgrill
Brunch at Boulevard Woodgrill courtesy of Needlessspaces I have an odd relationship with breakfast. I don’t care for eggs – gasp – so there’s not tons of breakfast foods that appeal to me. I enjoy the pancakes, and french toast. I love hash browns, grits, bacon, sausage… but most of breakfast is centered around eggs, [...]
More »24 in DC: Episode 3 (12:00 to 1:00)
Jack Bauer IV and 24 by Browserd We’re a little late getting started, sorry for that, we were hanging out with some inaugural guests. 24 picks up this week right at the safe room where Prime Minister Baku is hanging out, which, supposedly, is up in Northwest off Foxhall Road. The house itself looks more [...]
More »Parking Rates Skyrocket
As a friend of our twittered this afternoon, he spent $80 on 5 hours worth of parking for a meeting in Northwest DC. While supply & demand are certainly market forces at work in our fair town this week, I can certainly see this being a bad case of usury. Ouch! Any other sky-high prices [...]
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