Archive for November, 2010
Just a Reminder: Major Metro work this weekend on Blue and Orange
‘106/365: Backwards motion’courtesy of ‘Amber Wilkie Photography’
Metro closed three stations over Columbus Day weekend, five stations over Labor Day weekend, and this weekend, five stations on the Orange line are closed and the Blue line is split into two pieces between Stadium/Armory and Benning Road. Greater Greater has a good map for the weekend’s disruptions.
This [...]
Chick-fil-A Celebrates Their Grand Opening with Freebies
‘Chick-Fil-A – St. Augustine, FL’
courtesy of ‘adamjackson1984′
It may be over a week away, but folks are already buzzing about the November 17th grand opening of the Arlington location of Chick-fil-A (2200 Crystal Drive). Not only for their so-bad-it’s-good, not open on Sundays, weird cow spokesman ways, but because they are welcoming themselves to town with a [...]
Charges dismissed against DC9 5
‘DC9 Memorial Ali, The Morning After’
courtesy of ‘Chris DiGiamo’
The US Attorney’s office has dismissed the charges against the 5 DC9 employees who were accused of assaulting Ali Ahmed Mohammed outside the club in connection with Muhammad’s death.
The charges were dismissed “without prejudice,” which means the US Attorney has the ability to re-file the charges at [...]
New parking meter installation progresses
‘New DC Parking Meters’
courtesy of ‘Mr. T in DC’
DDOT announced today that it’s in the process of installing 1150 new single-space, solar-powered, credit card–accepting parking meters around the city. The solar meters were the first of several pilots DDOT has used to prepare to upgrade the city’s parking infrastructure.
DDOT tells us that you can expect [...]
Photographing the President
Photographs. They’re a common form of expression in media today; they’re everywhere. To many, none are more relevant or as communicative as those taken of the President of the United States. We see them every day in the paper, on websites, on television. “Pictures are worth a thousand words,” says the old adage; none more [...]
More »Hot Ticket: The Beatdown – Indie Life Edition @ U Street Music Hall 11/7/10
This Sunday marks the return of DC’s premier Hip Hop producer event The Beatdown at U Street Music Hall. To kick off the show Twenty20’s SmCity and Studio 43’s Ra the MC will perform both backed by live bands. Throughout the night, DJ Marc Nfinit wlll be spinning music to keep the party going.
The Beatdown’s [...]
We Love Music: Interpol @ DAR Constitution Hall 11/3/10
Photo by author.
Well, wasn’t this just about the biggest disappointment of the year?*
Interpol have returned after a several year hiatus with a mediocre fourth album and a new bass player. They performed at DAR Constitution Hall on Wednesday night to a 3/4 full house. Their performance was a lame mess of disjointed sonic elements that [...]
Food News at City Vista
‘New on K’
courtesy of ‘M.V. Jantzen’
The retail space in the City Vista building at 5th St. and K St. NW has been drawing some D.C. favorites since opening in 2007, and it doesn’t look like they’ll be slowing down any time soon. With news this week that the Michael Landrum-owned space opening in the building would [...]
Food Truck Tracker
‘DC Slices Truck’
courtesy of ‘foodtruckapp’
Food trucks, get ‘em while they’re hot.
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We Love Music: MoogFest 2010 (Night Three)
All photos by the author.
Also check out my MoogFest 2010 (Night One) coverage.
Also check out my MoogFest 2010 (Night Two) coverage.
Night three of MoogFest 2010 quickly flew by in a festival fatigue blur of Halloween costumes and great preformances. I slept right through the Sunday afternoon panels and slowly made my way downtown intending to [...]
SmarTrips for sale at local universities, and who cares?
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courtesy of ‘Chris Rief aka Spodie Odie’
The latest press release out of WMATA trumpets “Metro is making it easier for area university students to take advantage of SmarTrip® convenience and savings with cards now being sold at the American University campus bookstore.” The buzzkill is in the second sentence, stating that adding value [...]
Two trains collide in NE
‘DSC_0128b’
courtesy of ‘D©Bloom’
According to DC Fire & EMS Twitter, a freight train and an empty MARC train collided (WTOP describes it as a “bump”) near the 900 block of 2nd Street NE around 9:20 this morning, causing a derailment. While the freight train appears to be empty too, HAZMAT, tech rescue, and mass casualty units [...]
Do we have to treat every abandoned package like it’s a bomb?
‘matt’s suspicious package returns from lunch’courtesy of ‘wetwebwork’
As I write this, 14th street is FUBAR between Rhode Island Ave NW and Q St NW because someone forgot to take their backpack, or their box of paper napkins, or threw out a small sealed box. Have we gone too far with our treatment of these abandoned [...]
We Love Music: The Singing Capital Chorus
It was just after five on a Monday afternoon and Jim Cullen decided to lay down for a little nap. It felt so good to rest his eyes, he recalled, that he let them stay shut until eight. That’s when he woke up in a hurry.
“Oh my god,” he said. “I’m missing my Monday night.”
Over [...]
Just a Reminder…
‘National Christmas Tree’
courtesy of ‘Murmurmel’
…that the lottery for the National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony begins tonight at 12:01 a.m. and will run through 11:59 p.m. on Sunday. With daylight saving this weekend, you have a whole extra hour to enter the drawing…and so does everyone else, which actually probably hurts your chances. But let’s focus [...]
Arena stage decides they need MORE COWBELL
‘High-wire’
courtesy of ‘afagen’
If I ever stop enjoying the odd press releases that roll into my mailbox I’ll know it’s time to stop writing here. Today’s gem is from Arena Stage and they’re courting the farm aficionado in their new marketing effort.
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater announces that a petting zoo provided [...]
Mayor-Elect Gray skips police funeral for lunch at 4th Estate
‘vince gray blogger roundtable’
courtesy of ‘Dave Stroup’
It’s going to be a long day for Vince Gray, Mayor-Elect of the District of Columbia. Instead of attending the funeral of Officer Paul Dittamo, who died last week in the line of duty, Gray was in the dining room at the 4th Estate, the restaurant in the National [...]
Phillips After 5: Photo Extravaganza
Union Station by NicoleHamam
Tonight the Phillips Collection (along with ReadysetDC, Worn Magazine, and Dandies and Quaintrelles) is throwing a pre-party and a post-party as a prelude to FotoWeek DC. Did that make any sense? Regardless, there’s a whole lot going on at Phillips After 5 tonight (5-8:30PM) that we encourage you to check out:
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