Archive for March, 2011
Dizzy Miss Lizzy presents Finn McCool
Laura Keena, John Robert Keena (Finn McCool) & Maria Egler Mike Kozemchak & Steve McWilliams in background)
Photos by Kip Pierson Photography
Dizzy Miss Lizzy’s Roadside Review doesn’t call Finn McCool a rock opera but I’m prepared to do so. I suspect they’ll cut me some slack since I’ll also say it’s a fun production that’s [...]
Carnaval at Café Atlántico
‘Cotton Candy Mojito’
courtesy of ‘needlessspaces’
On Tuesday I was an invited guest at Café Atlántico for the restaurant’s special Carnaval Celebration Menu. I arrived early and found myself at the bar talking to one of the bartenders about the restaurant’s cocktails, and this seemed to set the tone for the night (surprised?). I could [...]
Comedy in DC: You, Me, Them, Everybody
I thought that you all might be interested in listening to Brandon Wetherbee’s latest You, Me, Them, Everybody show, because I was the comic for the evening. Which means I am interested in you listening to it…
It was the first show that I did outside of open mics and it was super fun. I also [...]
We Love Arts: At Home at the Zoo
Forty-five years separate the two acts of At Home at the Zoo, though in terms of the play’s action it’s probably only an hour. The second act is The Zoo Story. Written in 1958, it’s the play that assured Edward Albee’s genius. The first act is Homelife, written in 2004 as an exploration of what happened [...]
More »The chain gang: Where did the Caps’ offense go?
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courtesy of ‘bridgetds’
A year ago, the Capitals were the high-flying, big scoring red machine that cut through the Eastern Conference regular season like scissors making a paper snowflake. They led the league in scoring with 313 goals and were buoyed by the best top line in the game in Alex Ovechkin, Nicklas Backstrom and Alexander [...]
It’s Bryce Harper’s World and the 3/9 Sports Ticker
‘The Nats drafted Bryce Harper’
courtesy of ‘afagen’
Lead Item: I’ve mocked it at least once during the last few weeks of the Sports Ticker, but it’s now gotten to the point where I don’t want to ignore the Bryce Harper-Spring Training stories. Come on, a Google News search from the last month gave me nearly 1,400 [...]
UDC Basketball: $17,000 per win for head coach Jeff Ruland
‘Part of UDC’courtesy of ’spiggycat’
The UDC Firebirds finished their basketball season last month with a 11-17 final record, well out of contention for the D-II March Madness tournament, not that they were allowed to go even if they’d steamrolled the season. In 2008, the NCAA suspended the school’s athletics programs from championship eligibility until 2013, [...]
Kaya Henderson named Chancellor of DCPS
Photo courtesy of DCPS
This morning it was announced that DCPS’ Interim Chancellor would lose her interim status and retain the chancellory of DCPS in the new Gray administration. Rumors have been swirling for the last few days that Henderson would stay on, with yesterday’s audience at the Metropolitan Club being the first to hear [...]
Q&A with Andy McCluskey of Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
all photos courtesy of The Musebox.
When it turned out that I would be unavailable to conduct this interview myself, the first person who came to my mind as the perfect pinch hitter for the gig was Mickey McCarter. By day, Mickey is a professional journalist, covering homeland security and military affairs for Homeland Security Today [...]
The Winning Ticket: Loretta Lynn
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 »We Love Arts: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
We’ve all had those nights we don’t want to end, when the party moves down the street into the afterhours, only to sputter out around dawn when guests blearily enter back into reality. Sometimes those parties are wildly beautiful, other times they are the stuff of nightmares. Friendships implode, relationships fracture – the whole evening [...]
More »Free Lunch Day at Roti on Thursday
What’s better than a free meal? A free meal for a good cause.
If you live/work in NoMa, or if you’re lucky enough to take lunch away from your “work neighborhood,” you should head out to Roti Mediterranean Grill this Thursday. The newly opened Roti will sponsor a Free Lunch Day from 11am to 1:30pm, where all customers will [...]
Five Favorites: Reasons to Bike to Work
‘15th St bike lane in use’
courtesy of ‘nevermindtheend’
Bike to Work Day registration is now open, so mark your calendar for Friday, May 20! This awesome event, sponsored by WABA, is a great way to get your feet wet riding your bike around the city. At last year’s event, when I had just started out commuting [...]
