Archive for January, 2011
We Love Arts: The Foreigner
Bill Largess, Rena Cherry Brown and Sean McComas in Bay Theatre Company’s The Foreigner (Photo courtesy Bay Theatre Company)
Outside the city limits of the District is a small gem that is a literal underground player in the DC Metro theatre scene. Located 45 minutes away in Annapolis, the Bay Theatre Company can be found in a [...]
DC Empanadas Launches Today
Though it maybe frigid outside, that doesn’t stop the few, the proud, the new food trucks from rolling out. After months of going through the oft-mentioned permit process, the DC Empanadas truck is finally fully operational and ready to serve.
DC Empanadas is brought to you by the husband and wife team of Anna Bran-Leis and [...]
JaVale McGee To Enter Dunk Contest That Blake Griffin Will Win
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courtesy of ‘Keith Allison’
Word on the street is that the Wizards’ JaVale McGee has accepted an invitation to join next month’s Slam Dunk Contest as part of the NBA’s All-Star Game festivities in Los Angeles. He’s going against one of the hometown guys – and John Wall’s main competition for Rookie of the Year – [...]
Comedy in DC: Reggie Melbrough
I spent a rainy Sunday afternoon at the Columbia Heights Coffee House chatting with Reggie Melbrough, because he is a DC comic you need to know about. He grew up in Boise, Idaho and moved to the nation’s capital in March of 2007. He teaches U.S. History by day, but at night, or at least [...]
More »Drafting Bryan Weaver?
The tweets started yesterday morning from occasional contributor to We Love DC Dave Stroup. The point was immediately clear: If Bryan Weaver wasn’t going to throw his name into the hat for At-Large Council, Stroup was going to throw him into the ring himself. Organizing online, Stroup has gathered Tweet Signatures, Online Petition Signatures, and [...]
More »Food Truck Tracker
‘Food Truck’
courtesy of ‘M.V. Jantzen’
Holy food truck time. Capitol Southers — try out the latest and greatest truck, DC Empanadas today.
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Holiday Leftovers
While covering the mayoral inauguration on Sunday, Tom snapped this photo of Ward 8 Council Member and Mayor-for-Life Marion Barry. We think it’s begging for a caption. Some ideas to get you started from our Flickr friends:
“What, you mean I have to pay those taxes AGAIN this year?”
“Obama makes it to the White House, and [...]
Why is Maryland still requiring Phone Books to be delivered?
”courtesy of ‘Chris Rief aka Spodie Odie’
If you’ve not yet seen the great 70s comedy The Jerk with Steve Martin, perhaps this snippet should inspire you? This moment, where Navin Johnson notes that because he’s in the phone book, something good will happen to him now, is the height of irony, even in 1979. Here [...]
The Winning Ticket: Virginia Coalition
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 »St. Louis sparks Lightning over Caps, Tampa retains first place
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courtesy of ‘bridgetds’
The Capitals and Lightning battled for first place in the Southeast Division on Tuesday. Just about halfway through the season and both teams had 51 points and compare well to each other in prominent statistical categories. After Tuesday is there any doubt that Tampa Bay and Washington will battle for the division all [...]
RFK and the Winter Classic
I got lots of great responses to today’s earlier post about where DC could host a Winter Classic, and because the discussion was good, I figured I’d take a crack at laying down the ice at RFK. I was a little surprised by the clamor from commenters and on Twitter for the exclusion of using [...]
More »License plate tragedy
‘Eat the kids first!’
courtesy of ‘gotgenes’
Gawker network (motto: “all your passwords are fit to print”) site Jalopnik breaks the news: the best VA license plate ever has been revoked by the DMV. It’s not so shocking that they’d revoke the plate – the humorlessness and kowtowing to the Imsooffended Brigade of DMVs everywhere is well-established [...]
ICYMI: January 4th 2011
Today’s edition of ICYMI is powered by 1990s flashbacks, the awesome power of the animated .gif, the idea of Mary Cheh hunting parking ticket scofflaws like vermin, and the fact that it’s still light outside at 4:55pm. Enjoy the hysterical Ovechkin ad on ESPN, above, and click through for a few more great things to [...]
More »Is Restaurant Expansion Always a Good Thing?
‘Komi’
courtesy of ‘M.V. Jantzen’
There’s no doubt about it that one of my most hated conversations is one that ends with, “we’ll have a table ready for you in 45 minutes.” But I’m hungry now. So it would seem like a little more space for me to plant my hungry butt would be a good thing. [...]
Sports Fix: Delayed Gratification Edition
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Capitals
Record: 23-12-5, 51 points
Last Two Weeks: 4-0-1
Place: Tied for first in the Southeast, Fifth in the East
We’re pretty much at the halfway point of the 2010-2011 Season, and the Caps have settled into a winning groove after their brutal losing streak in early December. They’re about to be tested, though, as January [...]
The Fashion Magpie: Tari DC, A Different Kind of Consignment
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courtesy of ‘erin m’
When Julep–a well-stocked consignment shop in Georgetown–closed its doors in the spring of 2010, I was thoroughly disappointed. I had been peddling my clothes there (with great success) for months, an arrangement that had come to be handy in my bi-monthly “closet-cleaning” practice, not to mention useful in funding the purchase of [...]
We Love Food: Ted’s Bulletin
‘Dine-In At Ted’s Bulletin’
courtesy of ‘[F]oxymoron’
Growing up on the mean streets of suburban Maryland, I ate at my fair share of diners. Silver Diner, Broadway Diner, Hoffberg’s Deli…the list goes on. There are obvious benefits to diner eating – major portions, the food you wish your mom made all the time (and made well), and [...]
Dispatches from Ward 5
‘Brookland Hardware’
courtesy of ‘mediaslave’
First in a series where we bring you the best from neighborhood mailing lists, ANC and civic association meetings, and other neighborhood news sources.*
In Brookland, the Patel family reopened the Newton Food Market on 12th Street on New Year’s Eve. The father, Raj Patel, was killed during an attempted robbery on December [...]
Food Truck Tracker
‘347/365′
courtesy of ‘BrianMKA’
Have you already given up on your New Year’s resolution to eat more healthfully? Me too. Now let’s all celebrate with pizza and lobster rolls.
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Where Would a Washington Winter Classic Be?
All screengrabs from Google Maps, photo editing by D. Levy, in scale to fit this column.
I’ve spent a lot of time tracking the Winter Classic, both this year (station break, go read all three of Ben H. Rome’s awesome posts about the Caps’ WC debut and win; they’re really good) and last when the Bruins [...]
