Archive for September, 2009

We’re not invited to play their gay games

image courtesy the Gay Games & Betty Lark Ross Cheer team for the 7th Gay Games WKYC-tv is reporting that their city of Cleveland has won the bid to host the 2014 Gay Games and the Washington Blade confirms. So despite the best efforts of local officials back in August, Washington will not be hosting.  [...]

Careful with that Omni100 item

Durian, courtesy of Perantau Sepi Lodge The Smithsonian blog has an entry today about durian and its potential interaction with alcohol. They report that Japanese researchers believe they’ve found evidence that durian inhibits the liver’s ability to metabolize the toxins resulting from the consumption of alcohol. Put down the stinky fruit, frat boy: that’s the [...]

Local Dance Troupe Rocks It Out on Oprah

This is (at least until Oprah’s people have it pulled down) a video of local Bollywood dance troupe Dhoonya Dance performing on yesterday’s Oprah Winfrey Show. Only, what Oprah didn’t tell them was that Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, the two most famous Bollywood stars currently living, were also appearing on the show that [...]

So Where Does Your illy Take You?

‘Day 218: Andrea’ courtesy of ‘InspirationDC’ Okay area photogs, another contest for you to consider. Caffé at the Renaissance M Street Hotel is holding a photography contest in celebration of the upcoming FotoWeek. The contest calls for creative snapshots of where people have been with their cup of illy coffee, called “Where Does Your illy [...]

Calling All Amateur Pundits

Another Reason to Play Hooky

I Can Haz $100 for My Bus?!?

Awesome photo courtesy of Karl Johnson I don’t know if these signs have made it into the District, but they are EVERYWHERE around the Ballston area in Arlington. At least before the monsoon hit on Saturday and potentially washed some of them away into the Chesapeake Bay, there were literally 4 on every pole at every intersection. [...]

We Love Food: Cheesetique

‘Cheesetique’ courtesy of ‘angela n.’ In my humble opinion, cheese shops are too few and far between. Americans settle for the lactic crap that comes in baggies at super markets and fail to enjoy the finer aspects of one of God’s greatest creations. Sure, cheddar melted over tortilla chips has its place, but there’s so [...]

New Smoking Ban Proposed

WMATA announces weekend maintenance schedule

‘Sidewalk Closed’ courtesy of ‘Kevin H.’ Metro has put out a schedule listing the maintenance they’ll be doing on four out of the five next weekends. If you intend to take the metro at all in that time – which includes Friday evenings – you should make sure to check it out. Columbus Day Weekend [...]

Major Parking Changes Coming to Arlington

” courtesy of ‘LaTur’ Arlington is planning to make some major changes to its parking policies in November to better match parking availability and demand in the county. Among the changes, they plan to discourage employers and residential buildings from subsidizing parking and from using monthly or yearly plans.  Arlington plans to extend parking meter [...]

What’s Your Favorite Suburban Metro Station?

‘Bethesda at night’ courtesy of ‘InspirationDC’ BeyondDC has a great post up today about the best suburban transit-oriented development (TOD) in the area.  The Washington region has some of the best examples of TOD, and places like Arlington and Bethesda have become national examples of how to create walkable, mixed-use districts in the suburbs.  BeyondDC thinks [...]

National Book Festival Recap

‘(269/365)’ courtesy of ‘kimberlyfaye’ Last Saturday, book lovers of all ages braved the rain for the Library of Congress National Book Festival on the National Mall. The Book Fest is always a great way to see a bunch of the biggest authors around, but this year they encouraged people to tweet from the festival and [...]

WUSA Says Graham is Target of FBI Investigation

WEAVE Collects Enough To Stay Open!

It was delightful to get the note this morning that WEAVE managed to raise $85,000 last week to keep the organization alive.  They’ll be continuing to raise operating funds, so if you haven’t had a chance to donate to the cause, you can still help them maintain their dedication to stopping the brutal effects of [...]

Safeway Gets Web Savvy

‘New Social Safeway Coming Soon to Burleith’ courtesy of ‘TreyDanger’ The Social Safeway has gone all social media on us, and got themselves a website.  Yes, we’re still only about half way through the nine month long renovation, but now we can track progress and developments. The site offers a real time WEBCAM with time [...]

Sports Fix: 1-2 Edition

‘Skins vs. Rams – 09-20-2009′ courtesy of ‘carldunniii’ Redskins Record: 1-2 Last Two Weeks: 1-1 Place: Last in the NFC East Hooboy. What can you possibly say after the Redskins gave Detroit their first victory in 20 games? In 18 months? What can you possibly say about the squad? Well, for one, you could say [...]

Zorn’s Fate

‘Jim Zorn’ courtesy of ‘Keith Allison’ Let’s face it: the 09 Redskins are abysmal. The play calling is bad, the team is vapid, and theoretically good players aren’t living up to their potential. Last year’s mediocre performance and the mess that this season is shaping up to be are leading many to call for the [...]

He Said, She Said

Ever wondered what it’s like to be a ballpark groundskeeper?

‘Removing the Field Tarp’ courtesy of ‘InspirationDC Slate‘s Human Guinea Pig column tackled what it’s like to be on the grounds crew of a baseball stadium recently. Writer Emily Yoffe got to spend a day with the grounds crew at Nationals Park combing the dirt, scrubbing the bases, mowing stripes into the lawn, and- bonus!- [...]