Archive for March, 2011
Chinatown Coffee Co. + Food Trucks Happy Hours
Courtesy of Bravery Corporation
The scene: you work in the no-man’s land for food trucks. You watch with envy as all your friends get to take advantage of the food that’s rolling about, tweeting up and down about the latest and greatest dish they’ve gotten from a truck, while you’re stuck with a frozen TV dinner [...]
The Winning Ticket: Sweetlife Festival 2011
Check this out DC. The second annual Sweetlife Festival is happening at Merriweather Post Pavilion on Sunday, May 1st. It boasts a line-up that is “sweet life” personified in the form of the following bands:
The Strokes • Girl Talk • Lupe Fiasco • Crystal Castles • Cold War Kids • Ra Ra Riot • Walk [...]
More »Spring Training through the eyes of the fans
Spring Training is always an optimistic time in baseball. Fresh off a cold winter, and usually full of fresh faces, it’s easiest to have hope for even the most doomed club. Look at the throngs that travel from Chicago to Mesa, Arizona to HoHoKam Park and swear that this will finally be the year for [...]
More »First Look: Hill Country
As a DC native who spent one lovely year living in Wichita Falls, Texas, let me tell you that if I’m ever missing the Lone Star State, DC’s new Hill Country Barbecue will easily take me right back to Texas.
My caveat: I am super snotty and like going to a restaurant where the food comes [...]
WaPo’s Stubbed Feeds Get Better
‘Washington Post box’
courtesy of ‘Joe in DC’
I know what you’re thinking since reading John’s post yesterday – since WaPo truncated all of the RSS feeds on its blogs, how could consuming local news possibly get any better?! Well, my friends, I have good news.
When the feeds first went live on Sunday evening, the new shortened [...]
DC Kitty Cat Research Opportunity
’stretching kitty’
courtesy of ‘philliefan99′
Live near Glover Park/American University? Own an outdoors kitty? Then volunteer your feline to participate in an upcoming research study by Smithsonian Institution’s Migratory Bird Center. Starting this summer, the center will begin studying outdoor cats’ interactions with wildlife using miniature video cameras (aka “CatCams”) that oddly look like collars with cassette tapes.
The researchers [...]
We Love Food: Zorba’s Cafe
‘Zorba’s Cafe’
courtesy of ‘Mr. T in DC’
So now that it is sort of starting to get warmer (right? RIGHT?) all I can think about is eating and drinking outside. As a native Washingtonian, I know that the window of outdoor eating opportunity here in our nation’s capital is small, and I like to take advantage [...]
New Ireland Festival Kicks Off
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courtesy of ‘erin m’
Tonight the New Ireland: Enda Walsh Festival kicks off at Studio Theatre. Who is Enda Walsh? An amazing Irish playwright responsible for (among others) a brilliant play about disgruntled youth, Disco Pigs, and the co-screenwriter behind the excruciating film Hunger, about Bobby Sands’ hunger strike to protest British rule.
This Thursday you [...]
We Love Music: Meek Is Murder @ Firehouse Grill (Fairfax), 3/11/11
all photos by author.
There is nothing quite like the experience of discovering a new band that is obviously destined for great things. For one, it is pretty rare to get in on the ground floor with a band that is this good before their secret is already out. So when you are one of the [...]
That Georgetown Knock Off of “The OC”? It’s Being Filmed in Brooklyn
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courtesy of ‘Violette79′
Early last month, we shared the news that the delightful corridor surrounding Wisconsin Ave and M St was set to get its due in scripted, dramatic, television form. Somewhere along the way to creating a show about Georgetown, though, the production company decided to look outside of the narrow, one-way streets of the [...]
Featured Photo
Little Horse by pablo.raw
If it weren’t for the modern nylon bridle, this photo could be mistaken for one taken decades ago. It has a timeless quality to it which is hard to achieve nowadays. Is this a reenacted scene from Huckleberry Finn or at a petting zoo at the mall? It seems as though a [...]
WaPo RSS Feed Truncation and Fix
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courtesy of ‘Chris Rief aka Spodie Odie’
The Washington Post has seen fit to truncate its RSS feed to only an excerpt, and that requires you to now open the story in a web browser. It’s a monetization issue; we get that. But it’s quite frustrating for those of us who have developed a reading (and [...]
We Love Music: Abigail Williams/Melechesh/Rotting Christ @ Jaxx Nightclub, 03/09/11
all photos by Michael Darpino
Guest reviewer Mark Hensch is a freelance writer based in Washington DC. He has been writing about Heavy Metal since he was in High School back in Michigan. He currently contributes to the Washington Times online as Heavy Metal Hensch and is senior editor of Thrash Pit.
The “Apostles of Darkness Over [...]
Dr Horrible’s Sing-along Blog is fun fanservice
Landless Theater Company is putting on a stage production of Dr Horrible’s Sing-along Blog, the one-shot mini-movie that Joss Whedon and others put together during the writer’s strike some years ago. If you’re going to ask the question about “why should this be a stage production” I can’t think of a harder test case than [...]
More »We Love Arts: The Chosen
There’s something old-fashioned about Theater J’s production of The Chosen, presented with a quiet sensitivity in the staging and the acting, echoed in the warm wood of James Kronzer’s set. To call it old-fashioned is to by no means denigrate its power. It has a sepia-toned subtlety.
Theater J first produced an adaptation of Chaim Potok’s [...]
Recapping COCHON 555
‘Pork at Cochon’
courtesy of ‘bonappetitfoodie’
Sunday afternoon the smell of roasting pork bits was wafting through the Newseum as five chefs competed to win at Cochon 555. After rounds of pulled pork, pork rinds, pork infused cocktails, pork belly, pork shoulder, and every other pork concoction and confection you can think of, The Source’s executive chef, [...]
We Love Music: Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark @ 9:30 Club, 3/10/11
all photos by Patrick Onofre
Last week, my buddy Mickey McCarter loaned us his New Wave expertise to interview Andy McCluskey. Seemed only natural to ask him to review OMD’s show for us too.
Some things are worth the wait.
Andy McCluskey of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) reminded attendees at the 9:30 Club on Thursday that [...]
