Archive for July, 2010
Kelly Clarkson is a class act
‘Kelly Clarkson’
courtesy of ‘vagueonthehow’
A group of us got together on Saturday to celebrate our friend Jaimie’s birthday and decided to start with dinner at Gordon Biersch – not least because they were okay with us bringing in an ice cream cake.
They’ve also got an open-door policy on celebrity as well, it seems. After the fourth [...]
Fringe 2010: Darfur The Greatest Show on Earth!
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courtesy of ‘erin m’
I’m reviewing eight plays over eight days for the 2010 Capital Fringe Festival, in collaboration with DC Theatre Scene. Get your button and join me!
One of the challenges of reviewing Fringe theater is determining how much weight to give earnest performance over clumsy material. But with so many productions to choose from, [...]
Support Columbia Heights Day While Eating and Drinking
‘Wonderland Ballroom’
courtesy of ’scottahb’
I’m not really in to car washes, dance marathons or date auctions. I am, however, in to eating. So what better way to raise money for Columbia Heights Day than by doing just that. This Thursday, July 15th, you’ll be able to do that too. From 6pm-10pm, certain Columbia Heights restaurants and [...]
Capital Chefs: Munehiro Yonemoto of Kushi (Part II)
‘Cathy’s Japanese Chicken-Mint Skewers’
courtesy of ‘CathyLovesDC’
This is going to be the easiest post I’ve ever written.
I think writing that sentence will be longer than the ingredients for our recipe. Let’s try:
Chicken. Mint. Salt. Plum Sauce. Shichimi.
Yep. (Wait, what was that last one?) Well, finding the correct ingredients for this one might take longer than a trip [...]
Matt Capps: An All-Around All-Star
‘a closer’s windup’
courtesy of ‘philliefan99′
This is the fifth straight year the Washington Nationals have sent just one player to the All-Star Game. Other than that, they had a pair featuring Livan Hernandez and Chad Cordero that participated in the All-Star Game during the Nats inaugural 2005 season.
Matt Capps is the lone Nats All-Star in 2010.
The [...]
Redskins Gear Up Promotion for 2010 Season: “R You In?”
With the global version of football now out of the way (congratulations to Spain, of course), it’s time to turn our attention to the fact that we are really only about six weeks away from the return of the American version. Up at FedEx field, a very different looking team will be appearing out of [...]
More »Capital Chefs: Chef Yonemoto of Kushi (Part I)
You gotta respect a man with a headband and lean, mean butchering skills, right? Chef Yonemoto of Kushi Izakaya and Sushi is bent over a cutting board chiseling away at a raw chicken, effortlessly slicing up breast strips for us to grill. Cathy and I are standing in the open grill kitchen (if you want [...]
More »Fringe 2010: Medea
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courtesy of ‘erin m’
I’m reviewing eight plays over eight days for the 2010 Capital Fringe Festival, in collaboration with DC Theatre Scene. Get your button and join me!
If you want to know why Greek tragedy is still vital to modern theater, go see paperStrangers Performance Group’s adaptation of Medea. Striking use of movement and multimedia [...]
Metro’s got the Mondays
It’s been a fun (i.e. not fun) morning on Metro, with backups from multiple sick customers on Orange/Blue and Green/Yellow Lines at Rosslyn and L’Enfant Plaza, broken escalators at Dupont Circle, and the standard parade of nonworking air conditioners. Update: Oh, and a switch malfunction at Rosslyn. And a family stuck in the Cleveland Park [...]
More »Weekend Flashback: 7/9 – 7/11/10
‘Vuvuzela’
courtesy of ‘ep_jhu’
And a weekend it was. Spain wins, an octopus goes undefeated, we finally get rain, then back to heat, and as usual, our awesome Flickrati were out in force. Be sure to check out a new feature here on WLDC, and if you’re interested in being spotlighted, drop me a line.
Meanwhile, time to [...]
Author Stephen Salny on Francis Elkins
‘Lonely Lady’
courtesy of ‘Hoffmann’
Author Stephen Salny will be giving a talk on Tuesday night at the Corcoran (7PM) about his critically-acclaimed book, Francis Elkins: Interior Design (Norton, 2005). Francis Elkins is best known for her avant-garde style, pushing the boundaries of Interior Design for the first half of the 20th century, and ultimately still [...]
Nats drop finale to the Giants
On a picturesque July Sunday, the Giants came out swinging. With the series on the line in the last game before the All Star Break, they’d get a pair of walks and a pair of singles off Livan Hernandez to jump out to a 2-0 lead. Livo was reaching for the corners but not finding [...]
More »Fringe 2010: Handbook for Hosts
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courtesy of ‘erin m’
I’m reviewing eight plays over eight days for the 2010 Capital Fringe Festival, in collaboration with DC Theatre Scene. Get your button and join me!
There’s not much point to Happenstance Theater & Banished Productions’s Handbook for Hosts except to create an atmosphere. But what an atmosphere! From the moment the ensemble begins [...]
Photographer says DC cops detained him
‘Nacho #24′
courtesy of ‘Chris Rief aka Spodie Odie’
My pet project involves making sure photographers in the DC area are free to shoot without idiotic restrictions imposed by a sometimes-security-crazed bureaucracy. So it’s with some interest and outrage that I came across this blog post by local photographer Jerome Vorus detailing an incident last Saturday in Georgetown. Vorus [...]
Fringe 2010: Secret Obscenities
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courtesy of ‘erin m’
I’m reviewing eight plays over the next eight days for the 2010 Capital Fringe Festival, in collaboration with DC Theatre Scene. Get your button and join me!
Two perverted men in raincoats. On a park bench. Outside a girls’ school. Think you know what’s going on? Just wait til they start calling each [...]
Strasburg Gets A Song
‘Strasburg’
courtesy of ‘Max Cook’
The media saturation regarding Stephen Strasburg, as anyone living in D.C. or elsewhere can tell you, has maintained a heavy and steady flow since he signed on as the first round draft pick last year by the Nationals.
He’s been immortalized by newspapers, magazines, and by Major League baseball itself. As if that [...]
Meridian Hill Park construction to impact 16th Street
‘Meridian Hill Park’
courtesy of ‘ Jomo’
The National Park Service announced today that construction work will begin July 12 on the western retaining wall of Meridian Hill Park. The work will impact both vehicular and pedestrian traffic along 16th Street for roughly three months. From the NPS press release:
Beginning the week of Monday, July 12th, the [...]
