Archive for January, 2011
We Love Music: The Dismemberment Plan @ Black Cat, 1/21/11
If you interviewed for a job at the Twitter corporate headquarters some time in 2008, you were likely asked to name your “theme song” – the song that should play in the background as you walked on screen or into a room. The question was not just one of taste or tip-of-the-tongue recall, though it [...]
More »TheFashionMagpie: DC Readers Leery of the New “Sunday Style” Section in The Post
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courtesy of ‘Chris Rief aka Spodie Odie’
You may have noticed a change to your Washington Post this past weekend, and if you are like any of the Washingtonians that have commented on this modification, you are probably not happy about it. The paper has split its arts and style sections, and D.C. residents will now [...]
Comedy in DC: Brian Kerns
It was a cold Saturday evening in DC for me while Brian Kerns was chatting me up on the phone from the cozy climate in the city of Angels. This working comedian grew up in Manassas, Virginia and has the longest commute to get to his job. Most comedians that live in the area take a [...]
More »Dismemberment Plan: a weekend in tweets
When Dismemberment Plan’s “Emergency & I” was first released in 1999, “tweet” was the sound a bird made. This weekend, as they played three reunion shows in our city’s finest venues (check back at 3 for Brittany’s review!), it became an often hilarious and sometimes poignant way for some fans to experience the event. Many [...]
More »We Love Music: Kylesa @ Black Cat Backstage, 1/20/11
All photos by Michael Darpino
Obviously, last week in DC’s music scene was all about Dismemberment Plan. Except for on Thursday night when a hundred or so dedicated metal fans packed the backstage at Black Cat, oblivious to any legendary reunions, for one of metal’s best new bands. Kylesa brought a set full of huge metal [...]
First Look: DC Empanadas Food Truck
DC Empanadas Truck
Courtesy of Bonappetitfoodie
Here’s what I really love about the food truck scene: one day I can get Indian curry, the next day an all-American, New England lobster roll and the next a delicious selection of Latin American empanadas. And even within the menu at DC Empanadas there’s diversity in the fillings–fruit and cheese, beans and [...]
Wall’s Last Second Shot Clinches A Shocker Over Celtics
Photo courtesy Patrick Pho
Yesterday I said the Wizards didn’t possess the perseverance to overcome a deficit in a Friday night loss to the Suns.
Last night they found it, and hung around to upset the Celtics in a thrilling 85-83 win.
There weren’t that many As to put up on the “Great Wall of Assists” (Wall had only four [...]
Wiz Can’t Stop Frye In Loss To Suns
Photo courtesy John Powell
You look at the roster of the Phoenix Suns and there are a few familiar names: Steve Nash, Grant Hill, Vince Carter. Combined the three have 41 years of NBA experience. Of course there are older teams in the league (tonight the Wizards take on the Celtics) but the point is that the Wizards are a [...]
Friday Happy Hour: West Islayer
It’s time for Friday Happy Hour, highlighting a drink we’ve recently enjoyed, every Friday at 4pm! Please share your favorites as well.
One of my besties, Heidi, wanted celebrate her birthday with a low-key, grown-up sort of celebration in which a group of us went out for a nice dinner and cocktails at a nicer sort [...]
All Your 2011 Restaurant Openings To Look Forward To (Part 2)
‘Funny fro-zen-yo Signage’
courtesy of ‘Mr. T in DC’
Yesterday we previewed half of the upcoming restaurants of 2011. Here’s the second half.
District Commons and Burger, Tap & Shake
Don’t you just love the whole restaurant within a restaurant idea? Well, whether you do or not, Passion Food Hospitality (Acadiana and DC Coast) will soon open their [...]
We Love Music: The Magician @ U Street Music Hall, 1/19/11
courtesy of The Magician.
On Wednesday night Belgian DJ, Stephen Fasano a/k/a The Magician made a southern swing on his “Magical Winter Tour in America” to spin at U Street Music Hall. What could have been a sleepy, mid-week party on a freezing cold night was instead the hottest place in town as body temperatures warmed [...]
First Look: Big Cheese Truck
‘347/365′
courtesy of ‘BrianMKA’
Food on wheels has been (and I’m thinking it will be continue to be) all the rage in DC. And with each new truck’s appearance, I get giddy about the prospects of expanding my lunch horizons. Big Cheese Truck launched in mid-December and I finally caught up with them to give them a [...]
Food Truck Tracker
‘Empanadas’
courtesy of ‘Philip Fibiger’
Looks like the trucks are employing a zone defense today — they’re all over town. Logan Circle, way up 14th St., Friendship Heights…seriously, what will the people of K St. do today?? Your deal of the day comes from D.C. Empanadas, where you’ll get half off your meal. Does that mean eat [...]
Hawk in the LoC
The Library of Congress Main Reading Room has been invaded by a Cooper’s Hawk! First noticed Wednesday afternoon, the bird has been flapping about the dome of the Reading Room, and seems to be unable to locate an exit. LoC staff tried getting its attention with a hawk call from a bird-identifying app, to no [...]
More »Ted’s Bulletin Eyes Bethesda
A while ago, I heard that the owners of Ted’s Bulletin were scouting for locations in Virginia — Tysons Corner to be exact. WRONG…unless you count that they recently signed a lease for a fourth DC-area Matchbox at Lee Highway and Gallows Road in Virginia.
But I’ve come to realize that there’s always a bit of [...]
Five Favorites: Tools for Getting Around DC
‘He matches the bus!!!’
courtesy of ‘fromcaliw/love’
We’ve come a long way from the days of highlighting a route on a paper map to get from Point A to Point B. And in a big city like Washington, there are so many ways to get around: walking, biking (your own or a shared bike), taking transit, driving, [...]
Get your violent discourse fix tonight
image excerpted from Anti-Walmart flyer as seen on RedState
If you think that we should still be using crosshairs and targets on promotional materials for rallies, and think that threats of violence and intimidation make good community activism, then join the folks outside Dick Knapp’s house tonight in Woodley Park. Knapp works with Foulger Pratt Development, [...]
