Archive for March, 2011
We Love Music: Crystal Castles @ 9:30 Club, 3/15/11
All images courtesy of Crystal Castles
Crystal Castles is a band I haven’t quite wrapped my head around yet. They’re a duet that plays slightly off-kilter, dark, noisy electronic music. It’s a pretty strange mix of Vegas slot-machine ambience, Gameboy bleeps and bloops, and ghostly vocals. Why do people like this? Maybe because it’s so weird. [...]
Campaign Update: 39 days to Election Day
‘Flip Flops’courtesy of ‘Chris Rief aka Spodie Odie’
The public petition challenge portion of the At-Large council campaign came to completion this week, with Patrick Mara and Bryan Weaver remaining on the ballot, and Jacque Patterson being denied ballot access due to lack of signatures. While DCBOEE did forward on the 8 pages of signatures from [...]
We Love Arts: An Ideal Husband
Cameron Folmar as Lord Goring in the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s production of An Ideal Husband, directed by Keith Baxter.
Photo by Scott Suchman.
It’s easy to write a negative review. Nothing provides material like anger and loathing. Excellent stuff is somewhat harder – there’s a lot of ways something can be good. If you want a real [...]
We Love (Irish) Arts: Penelope
Madly poetic men in speedos, trapped with a broken grill in an abandoned swimming pool. Above them is an unobtainable beauty in a blue dress. While waiting for her to say yes or no to their proposals of love, they’ve gotten fat and old. Now her husband is coming back to barbecue them all.
Did I [...]
This Week in Food
‘Hank’s Oyster Bar’
courtesy of ‘jichen2′
Running Indefinitely: Kushi Izakaya & Sushi will donate 100% of the sales of its popular Buta Bara Kushiyaki (Pork Belly Kushiyaki) to the Japanese Red Cross to support earthquake and tsunami disaster relief in Japan. The Pork Belly Kushiyaki, made with North Carolina pigs and cooked sous vide for several hours, is Kushi’s [...]
Borders closing out two stores this weekend
‘books tell stories’courtesy of ‘erin m’
Borders is closing out a pair of their stores this weekend, leading to a massive selloff in two stores, one up at Friendship Heights and one downtown (18th & L), and the cuts are deep. So if you’ve not dove head first into the realm of the Kindle and the [...]
We Love Drinks: Jeff Faile
All photos by the author
We Love Drinks continues our series where we look behind the bar, profiling the many people – from mixologists to bartenders, sommeliers to publicans – who make your drinks experience happen.
“You could just write a short little paragraph: ‘Jeff hates vodka.’ That would sum it up perfectly.”
On a recent afternoon I [...]
New Chef at Central: Jason Maddens
‘cheeseburger @ Central, Michel Richard’
courtesy of ‘PlantainsandKimchi.com’
A little while ago, Ashley brought you the news that Michel Richard is now offering buckets of fried chicken. And now the latest news from Central is the appointment of a new executive chef, Jason Maddens.
Not entirely new to the Michel Richard empire, Maddens was previously the sous chef [...]
DC United 2011 Season Preview
‘10/23/2010 DC United vs Toronto FC’courtesy of ‘Paul Frederiksen’
While for most people the arrival of March means looking ahead to whether the Nationals and Orioles will lose 95 or 97 games, for others, it beckons the start of the season for D.C. United, the most successful franchise in Major League Soccer.
Entering their 16th season of [...]
Capitals revamped defense: Stanley Cup worthy?
‘IMG_6246.jpg’
courtesy of ‘bridgetds’
Nine straight games.
Pretty good for a team that folk said was in complete disarray and out of the Stanley Cup picture three months ago. The Caps current streak now exceeds its lowest point of the season, the eight-game losing streak in December that led up to the Winter Classic. The highest high is [...]
Low Points for the Wizards and the 3/16 Sports Ticker
‘Wizards’
courtesy of ‘erin m’
Lead Item: At 16-50, the Wizards sit in 14th place in the Eastern conference, two full games off the pace of the 13th slotted Toronto Raptors. They’ve lost nine of ten, five in a row and were shellacked in the last week by the Clippers, the Western Conference cellar dwellers and perennial [...]
Comedy in DC: Nikki Glaser
I got a chance to speak with Nikki Glaser on the phone while she was cruising over to Sara Schaefer’s apartment to record their hit podcast, You Had to Be There. If you haven’t heard about them then you should go to the Velvet Lounge this Friday and see them perform live for the Cool Dudes Hanging Out Comedy Showcase to get a [...]
More »Irish Book Day
‘a book for the commute’
courtesy of ‘maria jpeg’
Tomorrow is the 6th Annual Irish Book Day! Chances are you’ll run into one of the hundred volunteers Irish arts organization Solas Nua will place at metro stops around the city, giving away free books from the wee hours of the morning commute into the evening rush.
Current Irish [...]
We Love Music: The Ex @ Black Cat, 3/12/11
all photos by author.
On Saturday night at the Black Cat, legendary Dutch post-punk group The Ex treated DC fans to an energetic run through of most of the songs off their latest album, “Catch My Shoe”, a Hungarian folk song they used to do with Tom Cora, and a cover of the Konono No.1 song [...]
Luck of the Irish: Metro to stay open until 1 Thursday
‘The Town Of Bray – The Ardmore Pub’courtesy of ‘infomatique’
No, it’s not officially staying open until 1am for St. Patrick’s Day, though that is a nice little side benefit. Metro will be staying open for March Madness at Verizon Center. As the Phone Booth will play host to four games tomorrow, with the start time [...]
