Archive for November, 2009
It’s December Holiday Season Already?
What is up with all the Christmas/Hanukkah decorations?!! It was like I blinked my eyes on Halloween, and the holiday elves turned everything from orange/black to red/white, and moved all orange and black candy and creepy motion activated cackling wall mounts into the $.05 bin.
I’m not an Ebenezer Scrooge, but seriously, give us consumers some [...]
Mad Hungry? Hooks Books Event at Zola Fills You Up
‘Artomatic 2009 Kerrin’s Appetizers’
courtesy of ‘Mr. T in DC’
Zola Wine & Kitchen is hosting a Cookbook Author Series with this Thursday’s author being Lucinda Scala Quinn, formally the food editor of Martha Stewart Living Television.
On November 12 from 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m., the nationally renowned culinary author will discuss her new book, Mad Hungry: [...]
World Series Finalist from MD
Royal flush, in spades.Originally uploaded by tbridge
I’ll leave the spoilers for the WSOP below the cut, but suffice it to say one of the November Nine is from the Baltimore area, and he’s playing pretty solid. Darvin Moon of Oakland, Maryland (well west of the Baltimore Beltway) has had an incredible WSOP, taking his [...]
Weekend Flashback: 11/6 – 11/8/2009
‘Chinatown Arch #2′
courtesy of ‘Frank Hale’
Did someone switch a weekend in April with this past weekend? Because seriously, this was an awesome weekend. And many, many of our wonderful local photographers captured all kinds of views.
Aside from Fotoweek, cheering on deer, pretending the Redskins didn’t exist, thanking heaven for the Capitals, reminiscing about the fall [...]
Deer Takes On Lions at the National Zoo
‘Wild DC – O Hai! – 6-12-09′
courtesy of ‘mosley.brian’
You can’t make this stuff up. A deer, a resident of Rock Creek Park, made a very unwise decision on Sunday. This poor deer decided to take one small step for deer…and one giant leap for deerkind – right into the lion exhibit at the National Zoo. [...]
WMATA Changes Mind – AGAIN
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courtesy of ‘Chris Rief aka Spodie Odie’
So it’s looking like Metro GM Catoe is backing off the planned SmartBenefits changes that WMATA originally announced last month. Apparently WMATA’s had a lot of questions tossed at them about the changes and how highly screwed up it is. During his noontime chat today, the following question and [...]
Women Chefs in DC Area Win in a Landslide
This past Sunday was the Women Chefs and Restaurateur’s awards dinner titled “Women who Inspire.” Emceed by Top Chef finalist (and stand-up comedian – or at least she should be) Carla Hall, the dinner honored many DC women chefs. Often teetering between an association dinner and the Oscars, dozens of women chefs, including those who [...]
More »Happy Birthday, John
John Philip Sousa was born in our fair city on this day in 1854 and he also spent time here leading the Marine Band. While he didn’t write the highly recognizable Stars and Stripes Forever till after he’d left the President’s Own Band he did write a march for the Washington Post while he held [...]
More »FotoWeek DC 2009: What to See
FotoWeek Projections by coolmarie
Before last year there was a huge void in DC’s photography world. Despite being the home of National Geographic, the Newseum, the Washington Post, and many award winning photographers, we were missing an event to bring everyone together, to celebrate photography. Sure, some of the galleries in town would have a photography [...]
New SmarTrip reload locations
‘NO SMARTRIP -6480′
courtesy of ‘Joe Tresh’
We still don’t have online loading but WMATA has announced the addition of 42 more SmarTrip purchase & reload locations. They have a listing of all the locations on their website but continue not to map the locations.
Well, I grabbed the addresses and slapped them into an [...]
Food Aromas of DC
‘02 pan frying bacon’
courtesy of ‘jasonlam’
What is it about walking cities and the various food aromas wafting around?
Growing up on the Upper West Side of New York City, it was the smell of freshly baked and doughy H&H Bagels. In highschool at soccer practice, the ladyfingers and swiss fudge cookies of nearby Stella D’oro made [...]
A look at WMATA’s plans to challenge arbitration
‘HDR Union Station Metro’
courtesy of ‘Cazimiro’
WMATA has a press release out announcing their intention to appeal the labor arbitration that has returned a 9% pay increase for Metro employees. I haven’t gotten my hands on the arbitration findings yet but I have looked at the law WMATA is referencing.
They assert in the press release that [...]
Metro Delays This Weekend
Metro is planning track work this weekend that will affect the Orange, Blue, and Yellow lines. If you’re traveling on the Orange line between Cheverly and Stadium-Armory, add half an hour to your trip because they’re single-tracking. On the Blue line, add half an hour of travel time to your trip because of single tracking [...]
More »So David Baldacci is the inspiration for Castle?
‘unmounted’
courtesy of ‘philliefan99′
WTOP has an article up about the traits of MPD Chief Cathy Lanier that made their way into David Baldacci’s new book, True Blue. Just like Castle, Baldacci intends to produce more books in a series about D.C. Police Chief Beth Perry. Unlike Castle there is no mention of Baldacci making his one [...]
Young@Heart Coming to DC
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courtesy of ‘CielChen’
There’s not much better than a good rock ‘n roll show, in my opinion. And yet, Young@Heart does us one better: they’re a chorus of delightful senior citizens who perform the pop and rock songs. I saw the documentary on these guys a few months ago, and I’m not afraid to admit [...]
