Archive for July, 2009
Weekend Flashback: 7/17 – 7/19/09
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courtesy of ‘erin m’
Wow, what a weekend! So much to do, so much to see…and so much to photograph. Take a minute to linger on the last moment of this past weekend and kick your week off right.
After coffee, of course…
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Vonage and Mix 107.3
‘Wait! Say you’ll stay, spend a lazy Sunday.’courtesy of ‘needlessspaces’
While the sourcing on the story is a little shaky, it appears that Mix 107.3 is denying a prize to a listener who tried to call in when they called her name, but found their cellphone and Vonage home phone blocked. The station was accepting [...]
Metro iPhone app, with bus times
Find a Metro DC
When I wrote about WaPo’s questionable iPhone app choice earlier, reader JW said he’d like to see Nextbus functionality incorporated into an app. Ask and ye shall receive – John popped up to say that he’d added exactly that into his app, Find a Metro DC, and it was just waiting on [...]
We Love Arts: Fringe picking 101
‘Noir City’
courtesy of ‘LaTur’
I know some of our readers are regular and devoted Fringe-goers (as well as some performers). Those of you who are have no doubt already dug through the marginally painful Fringe Festival online database of shows, read every description, plotted out what you want to see and when you can see it, [...]
A Fringe suggestion – you know, for the kids
I skipped it last year, but two years ago I had the pleasure of seeing the Gilbert and Sullivan Youth Company perform at Fringe. They’re back again this year and I have no doubt they’ll be just as enjoyable. You’ve only got a couple of hours to get to the Mt Vernon Place United Methodist [...]
More »Project Nur – “In Solidarity With Iran”
Project Nur Flashmobber
We got the alert about the roving Iran flashmob yesterday mostly from our various day job employers. Property management companies were sounding the alarm with their tenants- oh noes! Flash mobs have turned violent in other cities!
Their concern was, shall we say, overstated. I had to look hard for the Project Nur group [...]
Clothing Swap Tomorrow
‘Fashion in Motion’
courtesy of ‘maxedaperture’
Got cute things that you just don’t (or can’t) wear anymore? Fashion Fights Poverty, an organization dedicated to spreading awareness about poverty and the environment, will host a clothing swap tomorrow afternoon at the Mayflower Hotel. At some predetermined (and undisclosed) time between 12pm and 5pm, all the clothes people bring will [...]
McEnroe Brings Controversy and Defeat
photography by Max Cook
In the press conference prior to last night’s World TeamTennis match between the Washington Kastles and the New York Sportimes, John McEnroe was calm, cool, and collected. Some might say he even seemed bored. The fifty year old retired tennis legend, once ranked number one in the world and known for his [...]
WMATA seeks cyclist input
‘Bike Garage 1′
courtesy of ‘Tony DeFilippo’
WMATA is having a public session next Wednesday, the 22nd, about bicyclists and how they use Metro as well as what needs are and are not being met. The first line of the press release says the meeting’s purpose is “to obtain input from riders on how to improve bicycle [...]
Where We Live: Adams Morgan
‘Adams Morgan’
courtesy of ‘citron_smurf’
Welcome to another edition of Where We Live. This week we’ll be covering the ins and outs of one of the District’s coolest neighborhoods, Adams Morgan. Adams Morgan is unique in DC in that it actually feels like a neighborhood during the weekdays and weekend days, and completely changes character on weekend [...]
Foodie Round-Up (July 13-17th)
‘WINE. Not WHINE.’
courtesy of ’staceyviera’
Ms. Katie’s headin’ home early for the weekend and so it is my pleasure to make a meeger attempt at filling those big ol’ shoes of hers by pullin’ together a Foodie Roundup for all you (y’all, in Katie’s words) voracious eaters out there. You ready for this?
Just when I thought [...]
Flash Mob Warning
‘Funkin’ the War’courtesy of ‘IntangibleArts’
Tomorrow, at several times during the day, in different locations throughout the city, there will be a flash mob protest of the Iranian elections. Only in DC do we have flash mob protests, instead of San Francisco, where they have flash mob pillow fights (okay, so we had one in [...]
The “New” Ford’s Theatre Museum
‘DSC_3434′ courtesy of ‘Ghost_Bear’
Last night, Ford’s Theatre re-opened its museum after nearly two years of extensive renovation. The result is a transformed space that magnificently shows off the National Park Service and Ford’s Theater Society’s remarkable collection of artifacts of President Lincoln and the events surrounding his assassination on April 14, 1865.
The museum now tells [...]
Pepco Utilizing Federal Goverment for Utility Developments
‘P.E.P.Co’
courtesy of ‘Hoffmann’
The amount of mine and my roommate’s energy bill is a hotly discussed topic amongst our group of friends. Mainly, the fact that ours is often double theirs. They attribute it to us (read: me) watching inordinate amounts of TV on my big screen, air conditioning an empty apartment, and leaving lights on [...]
We Love Arts: Barack Stars
The full cast of Barack Stars
photo by Colin Hovde
Barack Stars isn’t a play or a musical – it’s almost two hours of sketch comedy that has a general but not terribly specific theme. I don’t say that as a judgment – I just want us to have our definitions in line. We can’t really talk [...]
Metro Union: Please Don’t Watch Us So Closely
‘don’t panic’courtesy of ‘nevermindtheend’
WTOP had the news this morning that the union of Metrobus and Metrorail employees would really prefer it if you didn’t video them not doing their jobs. While I can understand a bit of their frustration, in that they’ve been in the news lately for napping at the controls of a [...]
