Archive for October, 2009
DC AIDS Funding Squandered, Post Reports
‘money’
courtesy of ‘Tony.L.Wong’
The Post has just started publishing a new investigative series on gross mismanagement of funding for services and housing for District residents with HIV/AIDS. Aside from the outrage over the squandering of money meant to help the sickest and most vulnerable of our neighbors, I find this to be a really sad example [...]
Public Media Camp
What would happen if you got 300+ people involved in digital media creation and curation, public media and news reporters, and even the public at large together to talk about the future of Public Media? Organizers Andy Carvin (who works in Social Media for NPR) and Peter Corbett (from iStrategyLabs) decided to put it [...]
More »The Strange Comfort of Brian Jungen
Opening today at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) is a new exhibition that will run through August 8, 2010. Brian Jungen: Strange Comfort is a major exhibit showcasing the critically acclaimed works of the Canadian-based artist and is his first exhibition organized by a Native American museum. Jungen’s work has been [...]
More »Get your bolly on November 7th
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courtesy of ‘erin m’
The Dhoonya Dance Performance Company’s annual Bolly B!end Showcase will be happening on November 7th at the Takoma Park/Silver Spring Performing Arts Center. The theme for this year’s event is “A Night at the Bollywood Film Awards,” so the program will feature an awards show theme, as well as some guest performers, [...]
Getaways: Philadelphia
City Hall by Corinne Whiting
The mention of Philly conjures different associations for different people. Some instantly envision mounds of steaming cheesesteak (“Get the whiz or they’ll mock you!” Philadelphians warn). Others think of the Founding Fathers, the Eagles and their die-hard fans, that famously cracked bell, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia or of a fist-pumping [...]
Petroleum Lobbyists Stop Watching Jon Stewart
‘Still Texting’
courtesy of ‘InspirationDC’
Ug. How did I not know John Oliver, from The Daily Show, was doing stand-up at the DC Improv!?! I need to pay more attention. We apparently missed a pretty entertaining show too. But not because of his routine, which I’m sure was great. But because of the interactions and jokes that [...]
Go Paperless: Recognize Gay Marriage
‘Traditional Japanese Wedding’
courtesy of ‘gwaar’
The most recent DC Register includes proposed law changes regarding what other regions that DC is establishing domestic partnership reciprocity with and man, it’s a doozy of a list. If you’ve registered a non-marriage union in any of these 10 US states or 16 countries it’ll be recognized in the District.
The [...]
Where Should Google Street View Go Next?
‘Google Maps Car’
courtesy of ‘Yzukerman’
I’m a big fan of Google Street View, and I love checking out parts of the city that I’ve never visited. DC has been on Street View for about a year now, but there are still some missing links that just aren’t accessible with Google’s camera car. Luckily, they’ve developed a [...]
First Look: Restaurant 3’s Bacon Week
‘pigs in a row’
courtesy of ’specialkrb’
Books have been written about it. Love songs. Poems. It’s salty. It’s crispy. It’s fatty. It’s bacon.
And Restaurant 3 knows about the beauty of the food, and the Clarendon neighborhood restaurant is celebrating the “Week of Bacon” from October 21-27, 2009. Each day for the duration of the week of [...]
