Archive for December, 2009
Three-fifths of the budget gone… anyone tell the snow?
‘Plowing Snow in Petworth’ courtesy of ‘Wayan Vota’ At the end of this WTOP article about the District using inmates on work release to clear snow there’s a rather disturbing fact mentioned: The District spent $4 million of its $6.2 million snow removal budget cleaning up after the storm. That’s some serious scratch and 60% [...]
More »We Love Weekends, January 1-3
” courtesy of ‘erin m’ Happy New Year, everyone. We hope you have plans for a fantastic start to 2010. If you need some ideas, here’s what we’re up to this weekend. Max: I’m headed to NYC this weekend for the first time in over two years. I seriously can’t wait to experience the chaos [...]
More »Guess Metro’s 1/1 Ridership, Win $25 SmarTrip
” courtesy of ‘Chris Rief aka Spodie Odie’ You can win a $25 SmarTrip card from Metro by guessing their New Year’s Day ridership number as closely as possible without going over. Enter online, providing a valid email address (so they can contact you if you win). The deadline to enter is “midnight New Year’s [...]
More »Population On The Rise
‘_DSC0463′ courtesy of ‘Eric Gilliland’ Good news! The DC population is at its highest in over 20 years … and it’s still growing! The city’s population set to break 600,000 in 2010. How do we know that? The Census Bureau had a head count of 599,657 residents as of July 1 which means DC is [...]
More »2009, A Glass Half Full
When I inaugurated the We Love Drinks feature back in September 2008, I really didn’t give it much thought to start with, honestly. We founding writers were tossing around feature ideas, and I said, “hey, what about drinks? I go out a fair amount.” That simple. It began mostly with bar reviews, with some coffee [...]
More »Truth or Panda? Real World Suddenly Watchable
‘MTV’s “Real World” House in DC for 2010′ courtesy of ‘dbking’ Hey, you! Admit it. Just admit it. Your wildest dreams came true at precisely 10:00pm Wednesday night. That’s when MTV aired the world premiere of Real World DC. The District, The USA and the whole freaking world became a better place to live when [...]
More »RWDC Drinking Game
‘beers’ courtesy of ‘Amberture’ Currently, my cohorts and I are live blogging the Real World and have come to the unanimous conclusion that this season will be impossible to get through sans alcohol. So, dear readers, it has fallen to me to create a drinking game. Unfortunately, in the course of watching the Real World, [...]
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More »Area Stores Help You Avoid the Bag Tax
‘If Poop Grew On Trees’ courtesy of ‘maxedaperture’ The bag tax is going into effect on Friday, and you’ll be paying 5 cents for every disposable bag you use. But to take the sting out of the tax while still getting shoppers to use reusable bags (which is the point of all this anyway), several [...]
More »Meta: Your Photos on We Love DC
‘Self-portrait #214′ courtesy of ‘andertho’ Here at We Love DC, we post about 100 photos per week on our site. Some are press-kit images, some are taken by the authors specifically for their articles, but the vast majority of them are contributed by local photographers. We’ve been asked a few times by our readers how [...]
More »The Five Best Concerts In And Around DC For 2009
courtesy of ‘bormang2′ One of the things that I am most excited about my return to blogging is that I have the opportunity to continue my year-end tradition of recapping the best concerts that I saw in and around the DC area. For the uninitiated, this is a list of the best performances by musical [...]
More »Three Caps on Russian Olympic Squad
‘Semin Reaches’ courtesy of ‘clydeorama’ This kinda slipped under my hockey radar (sorry, been focused on the Winter Classic in two days), but better late than never, right? Three prominent Capitals players were announced to the Russian 2010 Olympic hockey squad on Christmas Day: Alexander Ovechkin, Alexander Semin, and Semyon Varlamov. I know, not a [...]
More »A trend number we’re happy to see decline
‘Ukin puukko’ courtesy of ‘hagge’ D.C.’s homicide numbers, in a trend that mirrors the rest of the nation, are on track to hit a 45 year low, the Washington Times reports. It’s certainly a surprising thing to hear after a year of news about small children shot through a door, but we’ve only logged 132 [...]
More »Comedy in DC, on CD
Today we’re going to talk about DC comics whose work you can purchase, to listen to in the privacy of your own home. Why? Two reasons: 1. The holidays cause a lull when there aren’t that many shows, but I’ve still got a regularly-scheduled column to write, and: 2. Hampton is going to record a [...]
More »New Years Eve’s Blue Moon
‘The Moon on November 27, 2009′ courtesy of ’37Hz’ It appears we have a special treat in-store for us at the close of this decade. There will be a “blue moon” on New Years Eve — which hasn’t happened in the District for 19 years. Despite popular belief, a blue moon has nothing to do [...]
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