Archive for November, 2010
Sports Fix: The Fog of November edition
‘00209054′courtesy of ‘Keith Allison’
WizardsRecord: 4-8Last Two Weeks: 3-4Place: Fifth in the Southeast
It’s amazing that the Wizards managed to win three games considering John Wall didn’t play in two of them. The franchise player has been out four straight games with a left foot sprain. Wizards fan can breathe a sigh of relief however, Wall is [...]
Ingmar Guandique found guilty on all counts for murder of Chandra Levy
‘DC Courthouse’courtesy of ‘Joe in DC’
Ingmar Guandique has been convicted of two counts of felony first degree murder that carry a life sentence. TBD TV’s reporter Stephen Tschida on the scene said that Mrs. Levy started at Guandique with a look of anguish and happiness while the verdict was read and the jury was polled.
At [...]
Food Truck Tracker
‘Curbside Cookoff 2010 Lobster Truck’
courtesy of ‘Mr. T in DC’
It’s a short week for our food truck friends, so take advantage while you still can.
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Week 10 Recap – Skins vs. Titans
‘39322-14′
courtesy of ‘furcafe’
Everything seemed hopeless after the Redskins’ Monday night debacle against the Eagles. Then, they took their gold pants to Nashville and beat the Titans 19-16 in overtime. I guess this proves that the Eagle game was an anomaly. The Skins were scrappy against the Titans, the defense forced a couple of turnovers, and [...]
DC barely makes least safe cities list
‘Thumbs Up Chuck, Chuck Brown, Godfather of GoGo’courtesy of ‘Photos by Chip Py’
Two decades ago, DC was the murder capital of the year. This year? We barely made the violent crime list, and we’re ranked behind St Louis (#1, sorry Chris), Detroit (#3), Oakland (#5), Baltimore (#11), and New Orleans (#13). DC is currently at [...]
HR-57 moving to H Street
‘Music………..’courtesy of ‘LaTur’
If you love Jazz, you’ve been to HR-57 on 14th street. It means you probably also heard the news this weekend that they’re moving out of their location on 14th and are headed to greener pastures on H Street NE at 9th Street, according to the City Paper and owner Tony Puesan. The [...]
Weekend Flashback: 11/19 – 11/21/10
‘Kodak Bullet Camera 1936′
courtesy of ‘Mr. T in DC’
Short work week for most of us this week! In fact, I’m betting most of us at work are already finding ways to not work just to get through these three days before food, football, and yet more food. So to give you yet more excuses to [...]
Redskins Cheat Sheet Week 11: @ Tennessee
‘Donovan McNabb, Washington Redskins’
courtesy of ‘the extinction blues’
Some Redskins fans may still be smarting from last Monday, but the team’s season wasn’t officially over: they still had seven games left. The first of the last seven was yesterday afternoon, and in case you missed it or tuned it out in hopes that the ‘Skins would [...]
We Love Music: Trans-Siberian Orchestra – Winter Tour 2010
Photo by Rachel Levitin
The Washington Post once compared watching Trans-Siberian Orchestra to watching the spacecraft at the end of “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” touchdown for 2.5 hours.
The Independent of London pointed out that TSO concerts unleash enough pyrotechnics to barbecue an entire school of blue whales.
The Chicago Tribune, then, gracefully reminded us that [...]
Flyers Edge Caps in Shootout
‘Green Gets Powed #1′
courtesy of ‘clydeorama’
For only the second time this season, the Capitals lost their second straight game with a 5-4 shootout loss to the visiting Philadelphia Flyers. The loss was a tough one, though the Caps fought hard in the third to send the game into overtime.
Rookie Marcus Johnasson opened the scoring in [...]
Wizards Improve to 4-9 With Win Over Grizzlies
Luke Russert said it best on Twitter: the roster for the Memphis Grizzlies read like an NCAA All-Star Team.
Between a starting line-up that featured O.J. Mayo, Rudy Gay, and Mike Conley along with Hasheem Thabeet and Acie Law on the bench and I didn’t know if I was watching an NBA game or a March [...]
MPD Suspends Assistant Chief over testing misconduct issue
‘Taking a Test.’courtesy of ‘peruisay’
Assistant Police Chief Diane Groomes was placed on administrative leave late yesterday over allegations of corruption related to promotion tests. Asst. Chief Alfred Durham will take over her duties until the investigation is complete. Groomes is alleged to have helped commanders who did not take their National Incident Management System test, [...]
Atlanta Strikes Early, Stones Caps
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courtesy of ‘bridgetds’
The Washington Capitals suffered their first regulation loss in ten games last night, dropping a 5-0 decision to their division opponents in Atlanta. The Thrashers have handed the Caps two of their five regulation losses this season.
Atlanta led 3-0 after the first, with Ben Eager opening the scoring less than three minutes in. [...]
Last Chance: Monday brings the Aquabats and RBF
‘Aquabat Sticker’courtesy of ‘bernard.rodriguez’
It’s Friday, and all you can think about is the weekend, and frankly, after this week, who can blame you? I mean, DC’s been obsessing about Wal-Mart, the TSA, and the leadership of the House all week long. Who doesn’t want to stop for a few days, drink some Four Loko with [...]
More Wal-Mart details emerging
‘Maholo for choosing you Honolulu Wal-Mart’courtesy of ‘mathrock’
The three new Wal-marts planned for the District made news early in the week, and additional details have started to flow from the press as we’ve gotten more information. This afternoon I talked with Steve Restivo at Wal-mart about the proposed stores.
Each of the stores will closely resemble [...]
Transit enthusiasts, fire up your RSS readers
‘10 October 2010 – No 085′
courtesy of ‘B Jones Jr’
A friend casually mentioned last night that it looks like Metro’s planning office seemed to have a blog, but he wasn’t sure if it was real. DCist reminded me to check it out today, and it’s clearly far too straitlaced to be a hoax.
PlanItMetro.com is from [...]
Q&A with Paul Oakenfold
photo courtesy of MSOPR.
Paul Oakenfold is arguably the biggest dance music DJ and producer in the world. The closest thing to a household name that the hardcore dance world is likely to ever produce, Oakenfold has been a major force in electronic dance music for twenty years. Rising from a basement bar in Covent Garden [...]
Food Truck Tracker
‘Bada Bing Truck’
courtesy of ‘foodtruckapp’
Well today’s winner in food truck roulette is the State Department, which has three — yes three! — trucks in the ‘hood.
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We Love Music: Simian Mobile Disco @ U Street Music Hall 11/17/10
Photo courtesy of Motormouthmedia.
I love U Street Music Hall.
and
I love Simian Mobile Disco.
The two combined for one of the most fun nights of electronic dance music that I have had in Washington DC since the heydey of 90’s techno at Trax or Capital Ballroom/Nation. It was so much fun, I can hardly believe that [...]
Rocket Scientist student at AU tells press he’s stockpiling, selling Four Loko
‘four loko’courtesy of ‘ghostdad’
One has to admire how a student living in “dry” campus housing at American University would brag to the Washington Post about stockpiling the soon-to-be-banned Four Loko beverage and use his actual name and major. That’s Greg Gerlach (see below, the Post’s identification may be incorrect), according to the article, a sophomore [...]
