Archive for September, 2010

We Love Music: Music Marathon Overload! @ 2010 Sonic Circuits Festival

“Fuse Ensemble” – all photos by author.
With the 2010 Sonic Circuits Festival of Experimental Music and Beyond quietly raging across our region this week, I felt compelled to sample at least one of their outsider music showcases. On Sunday, I found myself in the Old Town Hall of Fairfax, a brilliantly restored old building, watching [...]

Salahi No Longer Housewife

‘wine and trash tv’
courtesy of ’staceyviera’
According to the New York Post,  if Bravo’s “Real Housewives of D.C.” is picked up for a second season, Michaele Salahi will not be included in the cast.
Michaele Salahi and her husband Tareq are best known for crashing the 2009 U.S. state dinner at the White House.
Apparently, the Salahi duo are not [...]

Did the Bag Tax Change District Behavior?

‘100%pcw, Made Carbon Neutral Postcards Ban The Bag 1′
courtesy of ‘Plan It Green Printing’
For the last nine months, getting a plastic bag to carry home your groceries, lunch or liquor store purchase has run you an extra nickel on your final bill. As a report from the Wall Street Journal indicates this morning, that small [...]

Fenty Declines GOP Nom

‘DC’s Mayor Adrian Fenty’courtesy of ‘Sprezzatura Images’
On Friday, Mayor Fenty declined the Republican nomination for Mayor stating that “While I am humbled by the nomination, I will not accept it.” He pledged his support to work with Chariman Gray. Fenty won the Republican nomination with 822 write-in votes. It is unknown how many Republicans and [...]

Featured Photo

‘DC Streets’
courtesy of ‘pnzr242′
The few elements of this photo that shine out from the darkness tell us everything we need to know: a man,  a train station, a grim expression, head bowed. We’ve all been there, isolated as we trudge from the Metro to the office or back again.
Photography is a game of precision timing [...]

Nats take night off against Houston, drop game 8-2

Photo by Cheryl Nichols/Nats News Network
The Nationals appeared to have left their collective team heart elsewhere Monday night when playing the Houston Astros in Washington. It’s painfully obvious at this point in September that whatever underdog grit this team had after going 20-15 to start the season is long gone.
Livan Hernandez looked sharp on the [...]

First Look: Carmine’s

When I first started with We Love DC, we had 11 authors. (I also hiked to school uphill both ways.) Now, we have a food and drink team of seven writers, and more fabulous authors than I can name in a sitting. We’ve grown into a big family, and so we were invited to Carmine’s [...]

Sly Fox Beer Dinner at Birch & Barley

‘Hops (Day 296)’
courtesy of ‘ewilfong’
Are you so over fancy meals paired with wine? How about a great meal paired with…beer? Sounds much more my style. On Monday, September 27th at 7pm, Birch & Barley is holding a beer dinner featuring exclusive beers from Sly Fox Brewery. And diners can learn a little something about the [...]

10/02: DC Rollergirls 2010 Season Kick Off

‘Roller Girls’
courtesy of ‘Edward Hoover’
On Saturday, October 2nd, the DC Rollergirls kick off their 2010 season with the Cherry Blossom Bombshells taking on the DC Demoncats at 4pm. For those of you who haven’t yet experienced some girl-on-girl rollerderby action, what the heck are you waiting for?!!
There’s campy player names (Miso Knotty, Ridin Dirty, Ovary [...]

Sports Fix Ticker

‘IMG_5217′
courtesy of ‘techsports’
We Love DC’s Sports Fix runs every other Monday. To keep you in the loop on the odd week, here’s a quick ticker on what’s going on around DC, Maryland and Virginia Sports.
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We Love Music: No Age w/ Holy Fuck @ Black Cat 9/17/10

courtesy of No Age.

While most of DC’s indie-music listeners were reliving past glories watching Superchunk over at 9:30 Club on Friday night, a decent-sized and enthusiastic crowd were dancing the night away to the two of indie-rock’s new breed: junk-techno technicians Holy Fuck and noise-pop purveyors No Age. This show was one of the [...]

Dismemberment Plan adds 2nd 9:30 Club show

‘travis morrison hellfighters’courtesy of ‘rodolfo herrera’
If you weren’t one of the lucky clickers last week for Dismemberment Plan tickets at Black Cat or 9:30 Club, you have another chance, but it involves obsessively refreshing the band’s Facebook Page obsessively.  They’re opening up a third show on their tour for DC.  It’ll be at 9:30 Club, [...]

Baltimore Rock Opera Society throws goat at H St. Fest

‘Baltimore Rock Opera Society’
courtesy of ‘mediaslave’
On Saturday, the H Street Festival introduced me to, as a friend put it, “the greatest thing since things became good.” What is this wonder of awesomeness you ask? The Baltimore Rock Opera Society, my friends. They write and perform original rock operas in venues around the Baltimore area. Yes, [...]

Food Truck Tracker

‘District Taco Truck’
courtesy of ‘foodtruckapp’
Food truck time!
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Week 2 Recap: Skins vs. Texans

‘Our seats in the upper deck’
courtesy of ‘BrianMKA’
One thing is certain about the Redskins: they are rarely boring to watch. After giving up a 17-point lead in the second half and nearly 500 yards passing, the Skins fell to the Texans 30-27 in overtime. Both teams played very well for the most part but a [...]

Gray vs the Meters

‘Pay for time’courtesy of ‘afagen’
The first battle of the Gray administration is to…walk back meter fees?  Really?  In a week when the deficit could be rising to $100M? I mean, I hate the fact that I have to carry a couple rolls of quarters at any given point, but the answer here isn’t dialing back [...]

Weekend Flashback: 9/17 – 9/19/10

‘The Lights Converge’
courtesy of ‘Paul Frederiksen’
Another excellent weekend in the area. From the Flickr pool, it seems most of our contributors spent the weekend enjoying the H Street Festival, so if today’s Flashback isn’t enough for you, we encourage you to skim the pool for more highlights.
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Redskins Cheat Sheet: Week 2 vs. Houston

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courtesy of ‘Chris Rief aka Spodie Odie’
Welcome to a new weekly series here at We Love DC, the Redskins Cheat Sheet. Whether celebrating triumphs or swearing profusely over frustrating defeats, the Redskins take up a lot of the Monday Morning water cooler chatter in offices around town. Of course, lots of people have better things [...]

Men’s Health unfairly slams Five Guys

‘When life gives you lemons…’
courtesy of ‘mosley.brian’
It wouldn’t be so unfair if Men’s Health called their list “The Worst Foods in America to Overeat” but they left off the last bit. Instead they call the Five Guys large fries a bad choice without ever admitting that their “eat this instead” is exactly the same recommendation [...]

We Love Arts: Circle Mirror Transformation

Finding humor in the mundane lives of others has been one of the key reasons why shows like The Office and Community are hits. A show about the 9-5 of a workplace is something we can all relate to. Community created a small-town, village feel within the student body of a community college. Annie Baker’s [...]