Archive for December, 2010

John Kelly’s Washington Obscura

‘Sabre Raised’courtesy of ‘tbridge’ John Kelly is the human interest writer for the Post, with a special eye on DC, and his column today takes the form of a quiz designed to test your DC Knowledge.  I had to do some educated guessing, but I came away with a 15 of 22, and I’ve been [...]

Weekend Flashback: 12/24 – 12/26/10

Redskins Cheat Sheet: Week 16 at Jacksonville

Ok, so the office is probably empty between the holidays and the quarter-inch of snow that is crippling the entire region (no, I’m not bitter at all at this reaction). Still, maybe you will have to have a conversation or two about the Redskins, so we offer the penultimate Cheat Sheet of the season to [...]

Ovechkin Snaps Drought With Game Winner

Merry Christmas, DC

‘Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays To My Panda & Flickr Pals :)’ courtesy of ‘Dan Dan The Binary Man’ We know you don’t all celebrate Christmas. We don’t even all celebrate Christmas. But we all wish you a happy one, filled with the people you love and lots of joy and peace. See you Monday. [...]

Skating in the Outfield?

Caps Lose Tight Game to Pens in Shootout

It wasn’t everything the Caps wanted for Christmas, but it came pretty close. The Washington Capitals lost in the shootout last night to the visiting Pittsburgh Penguins. Drama filled? This game had it in spades. You’d think a game like that would be a great centerpiece for a sports reality show or something… Maybe HBO [...]

We Love Arts: The Kinsey Sicks

What says the holiday season better than a Dragapella Beautyshop Quartet? Rambling, raunchy, rude dragapella, with no pesky plot or fourth wall realism! Singing, dancing, kvetching dragapella – the perfect antidote to any holiday-induced blues you may be harboring. Through January 2nd at Theater J you can catch The Kinsey Sicks, who’ve been fabulously hilarious [...]

We Love Holiday Weekends, December 24-26 (and more?)

‘White House Christmas 12′ courtesy of ‘afagen’ Rebecca: The day after Christmas will involve a trip to Two Amys for some simple mozzarella pizza done to perfection. Throw in some oven-roasted olives, deviled eggs with green sauce, salt cod croquettes and this will be one helluva holiday leftovers break. After the meal, I’ll stroll over to [...]

Stuff a Truck supports CAFB to the tune of $126,000

The Stuff-A-Truck event on December 10th, sponsored by Giant and local Fox TV and CBS Radio stations raised $126,000+ for the Capital Area Food Bank and collected more than 25 tons of food for the bank.  In these difficult times, to see such generosity from the public is touching, and to see it go to [...]

Four pickup petitions for At-Large council run

‘District #45′courtesy of ‘Chris Rief aka Spodie Odie’ This morning was the first day that interested parties could pickup petitions to be on the ballot for the special election to replace Kwame Brown’s At-Large council seat.  Four people picked up petitions as of 11am: Sekou Biddle, Ward 4 School Board Member Stanley Mayes, Ward 1 [...]

Assistant Chief Diane Groomes restored to duty

After a month’s suspension related to test-taking inside the Police Department, MPD Assistant Chief Diane Groomes has been reinstated after an investigation into the allegation.  Groomes was vindicated when the investigators found the test to have been open book and that no one had compromised the answer key to the test, according to the Post’s [...]

Pressed into service as a Metrobus navigator

‘taking the bus’ courtesy of ‘philliefan99′ Or, One More Thing an iPad is Good For There I was, waiting at the bus stop after work, staring at my phone while waiting for Nextbus to load. Nextbus said the H1 bus would arrive in 2 minutes, though the H1 tends to run on Inception time, so [...]

Wizards stymied in second half, dropped by Bulls

‘Nick Young’ courtesy of ‘Keith Allison’ The Wizards looked good in the first quarter. That was about it. The Bulls blew in to Verizon Center on Wednesday and stole the wand from the Wizards en route to a 87-80 victory behind solid performances from Carlos Boozer  who had 30 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists. [...]

Quotes from A Benched Redskins Quarterback

‘IMG_7667′ courtesy of ‘dbking’ I could wax poetic on the whole quarterback situation for the 5-9 Redskins. Could. I think it’s more fun just to reprint these gems from Donovan McNabb from his interview on ESPN890 yesterday, the first public comments since losing the starting quarterback job for the Washington Redskins slightly less than a [...]

Serious Fire at Takoma Education Campus

‘DC Fire Department’ courtesy of ‘Gersemalina’ This morning, DC Fire/EMS responded to a fire at the Takoma Education Campus on Piney Branch Road, which is currently believed to have started near some roofing work that was going on during the break.  As it is winter break, no students were currently in session, and what staff [...]

At-Large Councilmember Michael Brown considering At-Large run

‘dc election day’ courtesy of ‘Paige Weaver’ Yes, you read that correctly. D.C. Councilmember Michael A. Brown (I-at Large) is considering running for D.C. Council in the upcoming special election to fill Kwame Brown’s soon-to-be-vacant at-large seat. Brown, who was elected to the Council as an independent in 2008 has been itching to switch his [...]

Favorite Albums Of 2010

While I consider my Best Concerts list to be a pretty definitive guide to what concerts totally rocked socks in the DC area in the past year, I think that top album lists are a bit more vague and really only serve as guides to albums the reader may have missed. I am much more [...]

Talkin’ Transit: Zimmerman’s View

Gray appoints education, economic positions

‘DC Flag on Bus Stop Crop’ courtesy of ‘Mr. T in DC’ This afternoon in a press conference at the Reeves Center, Vince Gray announced five appointees to administration positions.  The first two were education-oriented positions, with Gray appointing De’Shawn A. Wright to Deputy Mayor for Education, and Hosanna Mahaley to the Office of the [...]