Archive for August, 2010
Our DC has superheroes too.
I know what you’re thinking. You want to volunteer in your community, to be a good citizen, but you ALSO want to dress up in perhaps a mask or tights without your fellow volunteers judging your or edging slowly away to the other end of the senior center community room. Fortunately, there is a solution [...]
More »Free for all – you know, for kids.
Images courtesy of the Shakespeare Theater Company
As we told you earlier, Free for All starts tomorrow and you can put your name in the hat starting at midnight. Which doesn’t get you any more of a shot at winning than putting it in tomorrow at 12:59p right before the drawing, so get some sleep, huh?
If [...]
Daily Show in DC in October: More Tickets Made Available and Then Gone in a Flash
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courtesy of ‘Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff’
On Monday, a sneaky link on the Daily Show website let everyone know about special tapings of Jon Stewart’s show here in DC, and the free tickets went like hot cakes. I know some people were bummed that they missed their chance. Well, out of nowhere, more [...]
Mod Madness Tonight at the Textile Museum
Has the rain got you down? Do you just want to curl up on the couch in your sweats and watch Mad Men reruns? Well don’t, because only boring people get bored. Tonight is your chance to show off your own mod style as the Textile Museum hosts its second “PM @ the TM” with [...]
More »The Winning Ticket (Ska Day Bonus): The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
The Ska fans here at We Love DC are so stoked about this weekend’s plethora of Ska concert options that we decided one giveaway to celebrate this good-time genre just wasn’t enough! So I got on the horn with my good buddies The Mighty Mighty Bosstones and finagled a pair of tickets to give away [...]
More »Food Truck Tracker
‘217/365′
courtesy of ‘BrianMKA’
There’s a fair amount of food truck closings/different locations due to today’s weather. We’ve moved those trucks that are closed/not operating today to the middle of the Potomac, because let’s face it, we’re all under water right now.
If you are going to brave the weather and head out to a food truck, best [...]
Run in the Rain with Michael Wardian
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courtesy of ‘Chris Rief aka Spodie Odie’
Tonight at 6:30pm, The Georgetown North Face’s weekly run features ultra-marathoner Michael Wardian. Wardian has competed a races all over the world, including four wins in DC’s National Marathon, and is a fantastic resource for those interested in marathon running. So despite this dreary wet weather, get your running [...]
New poll shows Gray with razor thin lead over Fenty
‘vince gray blogger roundtable’
courtesy of ‘Dave Stroup’
The web is buzzing with the results of a new independent poll of the race for mayor. The poll, conducted independently by Clarus Research Group, has challenger Vincent Gray with a slim 3-point lead over incumbent Mayor Adrian Fenty. In a sampling of 501 registered Democrats, Gray comes away [...]
The Rain is Making Your WLDC Authors Crazy
‘Giddy #1′
courtesy of ‘Chris Rief aka Spodie Odie’
We’ve all been talking about the weather. For nine months, we’ve been talking about the weather. Shannon Mythbusted the weather yesterday. And it’s starting to get to us. Please see the following e-mail chain going around among the We Love DC authors:
Dave L.: Right now, I have this feeling that [...]
Grab Your Ark For This Morning’s Commute
Dulles Access Road, taken by We Love DC’s Max Cook
This isn’t a post to tell you it’s raining (although, man, is it ever), but to make sure you get to work or wherever you may be going this morning safely. Stories are coming in from around the city that heavy standing water is affecting many [...]
We Love Music: Dragonette @ Rock & Roll Hotel 8/15/10
photo by author.
Electro good time gal Martina Sorbara and her synth-savvy husband Dan Kurtz brought their attitude drenched, dance-pop band Dragonette to Rock & Roll Hotel on Sunday night to keep a party-packed weekend rocking into Monday morning. Joined by beat-maker and human time-piece, drummer Joel Stouffer, the husband and wife team wowed the small [...]
What Bryce Harper Means For The Nats Fanbase
Photo by Rachel Levitin
The Washington Post’s Thomas Boswell raised a pretty good point this morning. “Baseball fans can win two ways,” he wrote. “Their team can be great. Or a player can be so sublime that his performance, year after year, almost every day for six months at a time, gives so much accumulated pleasure [...]
Donovan McNabb Willing to Play for Wizards if NFL Locks Out
‘213/365′
courtesy of ‘Danilo.Lewis|Fotography’
There’s been some talk in the sports circle about a looming lock out in the NFL if the owners and players’ association can’t reach a deal after this season. One of the reasons for a lot of chatter is that several NFL players – most vocally, Brandon Marshall of the Miami Dolphins – [...]
DC Mythbusting: Most Extreme Weather Ever
’seems so long ago’
courtesy of ‘philliefan99′
We’ve seen fire, and we’ve seen rain. We’ve also seen earthquakes, heat waves, blizzards, floods, and, of course, thundersnow. The DC region has seen more than its fair share of crazy weather this year, leading many people to say that this is the most extreme year of weather [...]
College Class of 2014 Has Never Known a Congress Of Which The Nation Approves
’state of despair’
courtesy of ‘redjoe’
One of my favorite lists that comes out every year is from researchers at Beloit College in Wisconsin. Based on pop culture research, the academians up north compile a list of things that incoming college freshmen have grown up understanding as truths. These include all of those television or technology trends [...]
