Archive for October, 2010
We Love Rallies: Our Reactions to Rally To Restore Sanity
‘Rally to Restore Sanity’ courtesy of ‘vpickering’ As the tourists head back home and the porta potties make their way off The Mall, a few We Love DC writers and I look back at yesterday’s event and offer our experiences and instant reactions. Be sure to also catch Karl’s reaction and discussion of the attendance [...]
More »Rally for Sanity breaks 19-year Metro Saturday ridership record
‘After the Game’ courtesy of ‘Karon’ If you thought yesterday was a zoo on Metro, you were right. Metro has announced preliminary ridership numbers for yesterday’s rally insanity, and they were through the roof. 825,437 Metrorail trips were taken yesterday by first count, eclipsing the record from the 1991 Desert Storm rally, which drew 786,358 [...]
More »Fright Night at the National Zoo
Krusty the Clown (and all other photos) by Max Cook Usually the scariest things at the National Zoo are the lions, tigers, and screaming little kids, but as the animals slept in their cages Friday night, a different type of terror infiltrated the wooded hillside. Clowns, zombies, skeletons, and other nightmarish creatures mingled together at [...]
More »Stewart’s Rally for Sanity Causes Crowd Size Insanity
Photos courtesy of Author 60,000 people were expected, according to the permit filed with the NPS by Comedy Central, yet 150,000 were planned for when it came to the uber-important decision as to how many portable toilets were needed. Jon Stewart started out the rally with his satirical people count swag of 10,000,000. But how [...]
More »We Love Music: A Date with Idina Menzel & The NSO Pops
’2009 05 17 – 6179 – Washington DC – Kennedy Center’ courtesy of ‘thisisbossi’ Tony award winner Idina Menzel — best known for her portrayal of Elphaba in the original cast of Wicked — is an undisputed face of Broadway today. Since her professional debut as Maureen in Rent over 15 years ago, Ms. Menzel’s voice, [...]
More »Emergency at Metro Center: person injured on the tracks
‘but of course…’ courtesy of ‘Barbara.K’ It’s not currently clear if the person currently underneath a red line train at Metro Center jumped or fell in front of the train, but the response has been the same: DC Fire & EMS is currently working with WMATA and WMATA Police to extract them from underneath the [...]
More »Carjacking, Shooting in Brightwood, Metro Access vehicle involved
‘Yafa #4′ courtesy of ‘Chris Rief aka Spodie Odie’ A Metro Access vehicle was stolen at gunpoint this afternoon in Brightwood on the 500 block of Shepherd Street NW, according to TBD, shortly after the suspect shot three people, including two children, in the 500 block of Madison Street NW. The car and the suspect [...]
More »A new act of security theater coming to a Metro near you?
‘Barbcue!’courtesy of ‘Dan Dan The Binary Man’ According to WTOP via Slate, this week’s foiled terrorist plot (though how much of a plot is some video and a diagram you could get from any metro station?) may have Metro Police starting random bag searches of riders on the system. I’m not sure how random searches [...]
More »Anthropologie Accessories Opens
The Anthropologie in Friendship Heights may have opened only a few months ago, but it seems to be having so much success that it’s spawned a next door shop dedicated solely to accessories. Opening today, Anthropolgie Accessories will feature shoes, jewelry, handbags, hats, scarves, sunglasses, small home furnishings and GALORE! Time to get your expensive [...]
More »We Love Arts: Philip Barlow
Philip Barlow and Simon Gouverneur’s ‘Welkin’ (and all other photos) by Max Cook Art is a strange beast that defies definition. It is everything you want it to be as well as everything others say it isn’t. You may see a painting at a garage sale and think, “Wow, that’s terrible,” but when it’s hung [...]
More »Zombies Invade Farragut North And The Mall
As part of a promotion for its new show “The Walking Dead,” which premieres Sunday night at 10pm, AMC released a horde of zombies around the Farragut North Metro Station on Tuesday morning. No word on if any brains were eaten. Be the first to like. Like Unlike
More »Obama’s Daily Show as President Among Most Watched Ever
’10.30.10′ courtesy of ‘ekelly80′ DC is Jon Stewart’s world this week. We’re just living in it. Proof? There were roughly 550 brave souls rewarded for spending nearly all of their Wednesday waiting outside the Harman Center for the Arts and granted admission into the taping of The Daily Show that featured President Barack Obama as [...]
More »Hot Ticket: Robert Randolph and the Family Band @ 9:30 Club 10/29 & 10/30
Pedal steel guitar master Robert Randolph and The Family Band is coming to town for two shows on Friday and Saturday night at 9:30 club. Ranked by Rolling Stone as one of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of all time, Randolph is touring to promote his latest studio album, “We Walk This Road”. “WWTR” mainly consists [...]
More »The Rally To Restore Sanity: Why We All Need To Stop Analyzing It And Just Enjoy It
Wednesday night I was having dinner at the Gordon Biersch in the Cleveland Airport when the gentleman at the table next to me decided to strike up a conversation. His name was Rocky Ray, and he worked for Michigan State University. He was on his way back to his home in Lansing but mentioned he [...]
More »Could a Republican House change DC for good?
‘Rep. Gohmert’ courtesy of ‘ryanjreilly’ Jeff Surrell believes that a GOP House win wouldn’t be all bad for the District, as many have claimed. Specifically, Surrell points to Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) who wants to remove the Federal Income Tax from District residents, putting them on par with Guam, Puerto Rico and other US Territories, [...]
More »Food Truck Tracker
‘TaKorean’ courtesy of ‘Joe in DC’ Truthiness. Sanity. Halloween. Marathons. Before the chaos of the weekend sets in, have one last moment of Zen with some food truck deliciousness. Be the first to like. Like Unlike
More »November’s Best at NMAI & SAAM
Some great stuff’s going on this month at the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum (SAAM) and the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI). While there’s a ton of events and exhibits happening at both locations, I’ve highlighted some of the more interesting things you may want to check out. Got a free afternoon or in [...]
More »Commander Salamander to Close. This Time For Realz
We’ve been covering the Commander Salamander store closing situation since January 20, 2010. At first it appeared the historic and nostalgic shop was closing, yet the “going out of business” remained in the windows and the doors remained opened. Then about a month ago, the signs disappeared leaving the fate of the shop unknown. Now, [...]
More »Win NatGeoLive Tickets!
Only a couple of hours left to register for a pair of tickets to a National Geographic Live event next month! There’s some really great stuff going on before the holidays, so don’t miss out. Be the first to like. Like Unlike
More »Wizards Drop Opener to Orlando
‘IMG_5387′ courtesy of ‘zugaldia’ The NBA’s Southeast Division, as mentioned in yesterday’s season preview, is not exactly a fun place to try and rebuild a team. The same can probably be said for how the team was forced to begin the 2010-2011 campaign against Dwight Howard, Jameer Nelson, Vince Carter and a Magic team opening a brand [...]
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