Archive for November, 2010
Capital Bikeshare Opens In Glover Park
‘Do my nails clash with the red?’
courtesy of ‘fromcaliw/love’
After a lengthy community discussion about where to place the new Capital Bikeshare station, the latest addition to the operation has opened in the Northwest neighborhood of Glover Park in the parking lot of the Guy Mason Recreation Center.
According the Glover Park resident listserv, residents are hopeful [...]
Arlington County Police To Ticket Jaywalkers This Morning In Rosslyn
‘Rosslyn’
courtesy of ‘M.V. Jantzen’
If you live in the DC Metro Area, or if you have been a pedestrian any time of your life, then you probably have crossed the street when you weren’t supposed to. Maybe you were impatient for the lights to change and there weren’t any cars in the street. Perhaps you enjoy living a [...]
WPA’s Catalyst: A 35 Year Retrospective
Alan Sonneman, The Last Washington Painting (Premonitions of the Corporate Wars), 1980. Oil on canvas, 54 x 102 inches. Courtesy of the artist. Collection of Tim Egert.
It’s common for people to move to DC, make their mark, then ride off into the sunset. For many people this town is merely a stepping stone for their [...]
Gay Veterans Honored at Congressional Cemetery
‘Sgt. Leonard Matlovich’
courtesy of ‘dbking’
For members of the Arlington Gay & Lesbian Alliance, Veterans Day came a little early. Yesterday, the group honored LGBT veterans at Congressional Cemetery, where they held a small service at the grave of Sgt. Leonard Matlovich. After serving three tours of duty in Vietnam, Sgt. Matlovich made waves in the [...]
Your credit card debt is your college’s revenue
‘90B #3′
courtesy of ‘Chris Rief aka Spodie Odie’
Well, it is if you’re a student from Catholic or American who got a branded credit card. Otherwise it’s just your debt.
The CARD Act passed Congress last year and requires higher education institutions to disclose the terms of their agreements with credit card providers when they involve promoting [...]
Mapnificent revolutionizes collaborative alcohol consumption
‘Alien Discovers Gallery Place – Chinatown Metro Stop’
courtesy of ‘[F]oxymoron’
Mapnificent is possibly the coolest thing I’ve seen in a week. Using Google Maps and transit data, it highlights all the places you can get to from a given position in a specified number of minutes, and then lets you search the highlighted area with Google. [...]
Slurpee Me!
‘frozen treat’
courtesy of ‘philliefan99′
Thanks to President Obama’s shout out last week, the 7-Eleven Slurpee truck brigade is en route from Dallas, TX to Washington, DC in what’s being billed as the “Slurpee Unity Tour 2010.” The trucks are making pit stops to hand out free samples of the newly launched, bi-partisan beverage “Purple for the [...]
What’s it take to get appointed to Kwame Brown’s seat?
‘Brown for Council Chair’
courtesy of ‘philliefan99′
With the results of the election now pretty clear, Kwame Brown’s At-Large council seat will need to be filled by special election. Of course, in the meantime, someone will need to be the At-Large councilman in his seat, and that’s where the DC Democratic Party comes in. They’ll be handling [...]
Sports Fix: Bye Week Edition
CapitalsRecord: 10-4Last Two Weeks:Place: 5-1 First in the Southeast, 20 points
A four-game winning streak. A trio of capable young goalies. Undefeated in Overtime. That’s not a bad first month of the season for the Capitals. Perfect? No, they’ve made some mistakes, but they’ve had a pretty good start, and that’s all that [...]
AT&T’s “Rollercoaster” spot inexplicably gets Metro wrong
Tom’s mention of Bones and Anacostia reminded me of an odd thing I noticed in AT&T’s “Rollercoaster” spot over the weekend.
In the very first vignette in the ad, a rollercoaster pulls into a subway station and all the suits board it. The sign on the wall of the subway station reads “Gallery Place-Chinatown Station-DC.” But the [...]
Food Truck Tracker
‘Dangerously Delicious Pies Food Truck’
courtesy of ‘justgrimes’
Food trucks, it’s what’s for lunch.
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We Love Arts: Oklahoma!
The company of the Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!Photo by Carol Rosegg.
Arena Stage’s Oklahoma! – their first production since their return to their proper home – isn’t perfect, but it doesn’t need to be. The dramatic misses are made-up for in [...]
Sculpture Garden Ice Rink Opens on Saturday
‘Friends’
courtesy of ‘kimberlyfaye’
Well, it’s Monday. That sucks. But here’s some happy news to help you make it through the work week: the Sculpture Garden Ice Rink opens this Saturday. All your wintry date planning worries have been solved! If you make it out on the ice this Saturday or Sunday, you’ll also receive free hot [...]
Skins Mid-Season Report
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courtesy of ‘dbking’
After half a season, the Redskins seem to have almost as many questions marks as they did during training camp. However, there is reason to believe things can come together and the team can make a run towards the playoffs. 4 wins matches the win total from last season, and there are significant [...]
Metro’s weekend maintenance successful
‘Film – Canon A-1 – Morning At Cheverly Station’courtesy of ‘mosley.brian’
This weekend’s station closures on the Orange Line and split of the Blue Line in Maryland may have been a major inconvenience for riders, but it allowed Metro to replace just under a mile of track, over 2000 rail ties, two track switches at Cheverly [...]
Bones fails the “Local” test
‘dino-snow’courtesy of ‘philliefan99′
NBC Washington got caught up on the Anacostia misrepresentation on last week’s Bones and highlighted some of the delightfully laughable problems with their characterization of the neighborhood as prostitution-heavy, gang-violence-heavy and “seedy”:
“It’s also a historic neighborhood that is in the midst of a renaissance, with new businesses opening and new housing coming in, [...]
Cheat Sheet: Bye Week Edition
It’s Monday morning, and there’s a water cooler to talk at, but the Redskins are off this week. “Crap!” I can hear you thinking, “with no Redskins, I know that Darryl from Accounting is going to talk about the Wizards,” or “Roger from Marketing wants to talk about the Capitals!” Fear not, DC, we have [...]
More »Caps notch Overtime win against Philly, 3-2
Sunday night’s early evening game against the Flyers was full of opportunities for the Capitals to assert their dominance, but it was Philly that struck first. Nikolay Zherdev scored on the breakaway against Braden Holtby in his first NHL start. Holtby would block 23 of 25 and earn the second star tonight, including three beautiful [...]
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