Archive for November, 2010
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
‘for poorer and for richer’
courtesy of ‘philliefan99′
Tired of surveys yet? Me neither. Today’s Survey of the Day is brought to you by the American Human Development Project, which ranked DC number one out of the country’s 10 largest cities in terms of well-being. Rankings were based on education, health and income. While at first glance [...]
Ben & Jerry’s Giving Away Ice Cream in Support of Dreamgirls
‘ice cream sandwiches!’
courtesy of ‘urban farmgirl’
Get your buttocks out of your seat and run over to the Ben & Jerry’s of Georgetown (3135 M St, NW) so you can test out their new handmade ice cream sandwiches, “Dreamwiches,” in honor of the Duke Ellington School of the Arts’ December production of Broadway’s Dreamgirls.
Pose for a [...]
Food Truck Tracker
‘District Taco Truck’
courtesy of ‘foodtruckapp’
Northwest-ers, you’re in luck! Not only is the Lobster Truck hitting up Friendship Heights today, but eatWonky is making an appearance in much-underserved Van Ness. Show them how much you need them, and maybe they’ll make their trek uptown a regular occurrence.
And if you’re not in the mood to chase down [...]
We Love Arts: House of Gold
Images taken by Stan Barouh, courtesy of Woolly Mammoth
Woolly’s House of Gold succeeds spectacularly at creating a unique experience in the theater that couldn’t be replicated in another medium. Whether it succeeds in any other way is a difficult question.
I’ve spent much of the last year concerned about whether the theater experiences available to us [...]
DC-3 Opens Today
I’m clearly a food cart convert, but there are some days when you want your hot dog to come from a place with a front door. Enter DC-3. From the folks behind Matchbox, the newest edition to Barracks Row is all hot dog, all the time. The dogs are all based on regional favorites, from [...]
More »MoCo To Serve Booze On Sundays
‘LIQUOR at Kenny’s and Kovak’s…’
courtesy of ‘ellievanhoutte’
Before today, if you were looking to buy booze on a Sunday, then Montgomery County was not your friend as it tightly controlled the 24 county-owned liquor stores and prohibited the sale of alcohol on Sundays.
Now in an executive order from County Executive Ike Leggett, that should pass today [...]
The Winning Ticket: Medeski Martin & Wood
As a way to say thanks to our loyal readers, We Love DC will be giving away a pair of tickets to a 9:30 Club concert to one lucky reader each week. Check back here every Wednesday morning at 9am to find out what tickets we’re giving away and leave a comment for your chance [...]
More »Happy Birthday, USMC
’sunset’courtesy of ‘choofly’
The Marine Barracks at Eighth and I Streets Southeast and the Marine Corps Memorial at Iwo Jima will be abuzz today with birthday celebrations for the United States Marine Corps, which was formed on this day in 1775 to assist Colonial ships as infantry-at-sea. The Marines that are posted to the Barracks are [...]
Travel + Leisure Thinks We’re Ugly
‘fugly duckling.’
courtesy of ‘JASON ANFINSEN’
As WTOP depressingly reported, DC was ranked as the sixth least attractive city in the nation by Travel + Leisure’s America’s Favorite Cities survey. This poor showing should come as a surprise to absolutely no one who has lived here for more than five minutes. As someone once told me, Washington [...]
Attempted murder, harassment. Tomato tomatoeh, eh?
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courtesy of ‘julianne’s’
If you yell at someone in a convenience store till they try to flee on their moped, then chase them in your Lincoln Navigator and ram them… what would you call that?
If you’re the Virginia legal system you call it attempted murder.
If you’re a Washington Post writer, you call it “harassment.”
I can’t help [...]
TEAISM to be Carrotmobbed
‘Every Food Fits: “What’s Up, Doc?”‘
courtesy of ’staceyviera’
This Saturday, November 13th starting at 10am at TEAISM’s Penn Quarter location, the Restaurant Opportunities Center of DC (ROCDC) is organizing DC’s first ever Carrotmob to promote paid sick days for DC restaurant workers.
You might say: “But Rebecca, what the heck is a carrotmob?” And up until 15 [...]
We Love Arts: The War of the Worlds
As a child one of my favorite Halloween activities was listening to a taped radio rebroadcast of The War of the Worlds. In my memory it’s always during a power outage, candles flickering, my father scaring us kids even more by playing scratchy old records afterwards on a creepy vintage Victrola. Though the voice of [...]
More »Support Women Photojournalists Tonight
KEN_011_082003_N041-22_WFP-Vanessa_Vick by Peter Casier
If you hadn’t noticed by now, we’re smack dab in the middle of FotoWeek. While the number of photography shows, lectures, portfolio reviews, night projections and parties is rather daunting, it’s a no-brainer to check out an exhibit that is full of great work and is raising money for a good [...]
Think Spring – and Planting Cherry Trees
‘DSC_2489′
courtesy of ‘bhrome’
Ever wanted to do more than just wander among the cherry trees during the National Cherry Blossom Festival (NCBF)? A new partnership between the NCBF and Casey Trees will now let you do just that.
Community groups who are interested in adding ten or more trees to public property in their neighborhood – property [...]
DC Mythbusting: Deep Blue DC
‘elephant or donkey?’
courtesy of ‘ekelly80′
DC is a special place: it’s the center of the country’s political power, but it has little to no political power of its own. And every election season, our city is cast as just about the worst possible place in the world. The District is notoriously left-leaning, but we’re about to [...]
Food Truck Tracker
‘Sweetbites & DC Slices Trucks’
courtesy of ‘Mr. T in DC’
Food. Truck. Time. I don’t know what it is, but it looks like SW is starting to take over the food truck epicenter crown from K St. Times they are a-changin’.
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Unsuck: Metro knew about the brake pads
‘Beware the Jaws that Bite, the Claws that Catch…’
courtesy of ‘Kevin H.’
You might have missed it in all the kerfuffle yesterday, but Unsuck DC Metro broke some major news yesterday: Metro knew that its escalators could fail under heavy weight and freewheel to the bottom, sending all those on the escalator to a pile at [...]
DC Water’s Blue Plains: A look into DC’s high tech treatment system
‘DC Water’courtesy of ‘erin m’
Big physical systems are some of my favorite things. Giant factories with conveyor belts and robots, pneumatically-driven pipe organs, and physical engineering projects. These are some of the most amazing things to me, because they combine human ingenuity and back-breaking labor to massively alter an original product and make of it [...]
Everyone Loves Email and Cupcakes
‘Curbside Cupcake Truck’
courtesy of ‘foodtruckapp’
Overwhelmed with all the food truck choices these days? Do you really just want a cupcake sometimes, but don’t want to have to do any Googling to find it? Well Curbside Cupcakes has got you covered. They have a nifty new program on their website that does the work for you. [...]
