Archive for February, 2011
EXCLUSIVE: The Red Cross’ Rogue Tweeter Talks To We Love DC
As a social media professional, I fully understand the risks of my job. It is a job that doesn’t end after 5 PM or when you walk out of the office. We remain connected at all times through Blackberry devices or iPhones. Yesterday morning my alarm went off and I rolled over to my bed stand for [...]
More »India Comes to the Kennedy Center in March
As part of the Kennedy Center’s maximum INDIA festival, some special menu items will be available at Roof Terrace Restaurant and KC Café throughout the month of March to coincide with several exhibitions and performances.
It’s billed as “East meets West.” Twelve chefs from India led by Chef Hemant Oberoi, the Executive Grand Chef of the [...]
Projecting the 2011 Nationals and the 2/16 Sports Ticker
Screengrab nabbed by Carriage Clock Rock
The above is presented with minimal comment.
Lead Item: Pitchers and Catchers have reported and it’s supposed to be about 68 degrees on Friday. It feels like spring, my friends. With that, it’s only appropriate that both necessary and unnecessary prognostication gets going. In terms of the latter, we get to say [...]
Comedy in D.C.: Brad Ryan and Ralph Cooper’s Awesome Thursdays
I was in the part of town that has Chinese letters beside English ones hanging with Brad Ryan and Ralph Cooper who are the founders of Awesome Thursdays at the R.F.D. in Chinatown. We had a good chat on a Saturday afternoon in the Chinatown Coffee Company and were lucky to be at a table. It took me about twenty minutes to [...]
More »Catania moves to make birth control pills available without prescription
‘ritual’
courtesy of ‘M.Markus’
Council Member David Catania (I-At Large) introduced a bill yesterday to allow pharmacists to dispense oral contraceptives to patients without a prescription from a doctor. The bill is intended to increase access to contraception among patient populations who may not be able to afford the office visit to have a doctor [...]
Food Truck Tracker
‘20100825_fojol_0018′courtesy of ‘Amber Wilkie Photography’
Happy hump day! Need something delicious or a shot of sugar to get you through the rest of the rest of the week? Or maybe just an excuse to get out of the office for an hour?
Click on through for our ThestrEATS-powered lunch map to find your favorite food [...]
We Love Spoken Word: Rollins @ 50 @ Grosvenor Auditorium, 2/13/11
courtesy of Henry Rollins.
Henry Rollins turned 50 years old on Sunday. To celebrate he performed two spoken word concerts at National Geographic’s Grosvenor Auditorium. I went to the late show that kicked off around 9:45 and ended at about midnight. The two and hours in between were filled with words; thousands of words; flying out [...]
Haute Pizza at POV
Mushroom pizza at POV
Courtesy of BrandLinkDC/POV
It’s not often that pizza is regarded as a beacon for haute cuisine. But when it’s served under Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s name while you take in a view of DC from POV’s rooftop, you’ll see why their new pizza is a far cry from delivery.
The W Hotel’s POV recently added three [...]
The Winning Ticket: Drive-By Truckers
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 »NPR’s take on Anacostia: Whitey Is Coming
Most mornings, my radio is tuned to WAMU for Morning Edition, and of course it’s the one morning I need XM that I miss an interesting story centered on DC. Alex Kellogg from NPR reported a piece titled “D.C., Long ‘Chocolate City,’ Becoming More Vanilla” all about the recent census numbers, gentrification in Anacostia, and [...]
More »Comedy in DC: Cool Dudes Hanging Out
The comedy show for cool dudes is back, and as we have already established, you are a cool dude, in the unisex, non-gendered sense of the word, so it seems this comedy show is for you.
On Friday night, 7 PM at the Velvet Lounge on U Street, 5 measly bucks gets you an evening of [...]
Civil rights are a budget issue
‘Superior Court Detail’
courtesy of ‘roarofthefour’
More accurately, they are a budget issue when you fail to honor them. That’s not a new lesson for our area: improper arrests during Charles Ramsey’s tenure as police chief cost the city well over a million bucks. But it seems to be one lesson officials aren’t taking seriously: as DCist’s [...]
Virginia to alter stop light laws?
‘STOP’courtesy of ‘fromcaliw/love’
Virginia is considering a bill (actually, it’s most of the way through the system) that would allow the police to charge anyone who makes a California stop at a red light with a class one misdemeanor that could add six points to their license, suspend it for six months, fine you $2,500 or [...]
We Love Arts: On the Razzle
Imagine polishing off several bottles of bubbly with your ditzy old Aunt. That’s the kind of delightfully dizzy night you’re in for with Constellation Theatre Company’s madcap production of Tom Stoppard’s On the Razzle. There are more groaning puns and twisted tongues here than I can possibly quote. The completely ridiculous wordplay seems endless, gorging itself [...]
More »We Love Food: Vace Italian Delicatessen
‘Vace Italian Deli’
courtesy of ‘Mr. T in DC’
Vace in Cleveland Park isn’t just an Italian market, it’s a way of life. The best way to explain this is with this little story. A friend of mine loved the pizza from Vace so much that every time he ordered it, he never made it home without eating [...]
More »DC’s Coconut Cake Challenge
‘Whole Foods Cakes -5856′
courtesy of ‘Joe Tresh’
Contests come and go in this city, but this is one I can really get behind. Eatonville and Church Lady Cake Diaries are teaming up to host a coconut cake challenge. Fire up the KitchenAid mixer, call your grandma and pry the family recipe out of her, use the [...]
A Round With … Katie Nelson
Katie Nelson
Photo by the author.
The drinks team decided that this concept from the Flickr blog would be a fun way to get to know some local bartenders. So we stole it. We’re passionate about spotlighting D.C.’s finest behind the bar. Our first round is with Katie Nelson from the Columbia Room.
1. Introduce yourself. What’s [...]
Food Truck Tracker
‘Big Cheese truck’
courtesy of ‘BrianMKA’
Looking for something better than that chain restaurant with goofy stuff on the walls and mozzarella sticks?
Click on through for our ThestrEATS-powered lunch map to find your favorite food truck (although you will have to find your litrecola somewhere else) and have a terrific tasty Tuesday!
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Think Spring with an Urban Garden
‘Great Lettuce Harvest of 2009′
courtesy of ‘Wayan Vota’
Though it may seem months away, spring is fast approaching. With it comes puddles, unpredictable clothing needs and pollen. But it also means finally having fresh vegetables that aren’t of the kale variety, and if you’re a go-getter and an urban dweller, the best way to get those [...]
Featured Photo
Dupont Underground Continues by MikaAltskan
While most photographers tend to focus on the prettier aspects of DC such as the monuments, the cherry blossoms, or the wildlife, others like to explore the underbelly of our city with their cameras. Urban exploration, sometimes known as “urban spelunking” or “urban caving”, involves going to forgotten places that are [...]
