Archive for June, 2011
Washington Post begs Twitter to please buy a paper
The tweet from @postlocal, the Washington Post’s local desk, itself is simple: “We love the RTs, but you know, you could read a lot of these stories by simply feeding 75 cents into a corner newspaper box.”
What it says to Twitter, and those who follow the Post is: “Oh God, online ad revenue is down, [...]
Lannan Sharp, Nats Beat Mariners 2-1
‘Ready to deliver’
courtesy of ‘afagen’
If Wednesday night’s game had been a few months back, this Washington Nationals team might blown their 2-1 lead over the Mariners, but last night they didn’t. The Nationals secured a one-run victory, their tenth win in the past eleven games, by scratching out a couple of runs early and playing [...]
We Love Music: Jeremy Messersmith @ DC9, 6/19/11
courtesy of J. Messesmith.
It is unusual for me to go to a show of a band I’ve never heard before and be swept off my feet. That happened Sunday night when Jeremy Messersmith and his band played DC9.
From the first song, “Novocain,” off of his first album Alcatraz Kid, it was clear there was something special happening. [...]
The Winning Ticket: Grupo Fantasma
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 »Tune Inn has kitchen fire
News is coming from Capitol Hill this morning that Hill-favorite The Tune Inn has suffered a kitchen fire that sparked massive response from DC Fire & EMS this morning on Pennsylvania Avenue. Reports from some outlets are just coming in, and I suspect The Hill Is Home will have the best coverage as we work [...]
More »Nats mount historic rally, beat Mariners 6-5 in the 9th
‘Bang! Zoom!’courtesy of ‘John C Abell’
The biggest deficit that the Nationals have ever overcome in the 9th inning, going into tonight’s game, was 2 runs. Tonight they battled back from 4 runs behind, and with two outs in the ninth inning, mounted a 5-run rally capped by a monster home run off the bat of [...]
A Look inside the Nationals Win Streak
‘189/365′courtesy of ‘Danilo.Lewis|Fotography’
The winning streak that ended on Sunday was the Nationals’ longest since 2009, and is tied for the second longest since their return to Washington. As I said on Sunday, streaks are difficult things, and they take you out of the big picture, and you start to live for the microcosm of the [...]
We Love Music: Ryan Bingham at the 9:30 Club
Photo by Rachel Levitin
It’s been said countless different ways, but according to folks who’ve lived around these parts, the District is “a northern city with southern charm.” As a daughter of two midwesterner’s, I never knew whether or not the whole “D.C. as a northern city with southern charm thing” was true or not. Then, [...]
Worse than the dance-off
‘it’s cocktail hour somewhere’
courtesy of ‘ekelly80′
Another day, another speech restriction. This time it’s upholding a restriction against anti-abortion protester Patrick Mahoney and his desire to do chalk writing on the pavement outside the White House.
If you want my opinion – and even if you don’t – this is a worse decision than the Oberwetter case [...]
The Winning Ticket (Extra): The Coathangers
We’ve got a bonus ticket giveaway this week courtesy of Red Palace. Up for grabs are two tickets to see The Coathangers play there TONIGHT! The Coathangers are an all girl, post-punk band from Georgia who are establishing quite a name for themselves based on their crazed personae, the chaos-quotient of their music, and their [...]
More »Food Truck Tracker
‘Setting up Shop’
courtesy of ‘M.V. Jantzen’
Knock knock. Who’s there? Orange. Orange who? Oooorange you going to eat at a food truck today?
Hardy har har. I’m here all week with bad food truck jokes, folks.
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Smithsonian Snapshot: Good Humor Truck
This week’s Smithsonian Snapshot helps us to herald in the start of summer. Good Humor, the well-known “ice cream on a stick,” was created by candy-maker Harry Burt in Youngstown, Ohio, in 1920.
His first candy invention was the Jolly Boy Sucker, a lollipop on a stick. While working in his ice cream parlor, Burt created [...]
Featured Photo
‘tiny eyes are watching you’
courtesy of ‘philliefan99′
For me, the only thing more fascinating than interesting pictures, are interesting pictures of very small things. Macrophotography, or close-up photography of small objects, can reveal a world of amazing detail. Really, such photography is limited only by the tools of the photographer.
Take the above picture from [...]
First Look: Fiola
The weekends in DC can be an interesting phenomenon. Once the work crowd leaves on Friday afternoon, downtown can seem tired and desolate without the weekday foodie crowd. I almost thought I saw that at Fiola on Saturday, then I realized I was there at an off hour. Once it was closer to dinner, couples [...]
More »We Love Music: Earth @ Ottobar, 6/17/11
all photos by author.
I almost did not go to this concert. A big deadline at my day job had me completely exhausted and the thought of a round-trip drive to Baltimore weighed heavily on me all afternoon. The tiredness and sense of drive-dread continued into the early evening. In fact at about 8:30, I posted [...]
Can please get a .dc domain now?
‘MicroLink Modem 56K’courtesy of ‘Markusram’
Late yesterday, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved the concept of the generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) which will open up a fairly wide landscape of domain suffixes like .com and .org to new members. While the number of Top Level Domains have expanded in recent years, [...]
Food Truck Tracker
‘20100825_fojol_0006′
courtesy of ‘Amber Wilkie Photography’
What has four wheels and good food? A food truck! Check out what streets they’re rollin’ on today.
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We Love Music: Yeasayer @ 9:30 Club, 6/16/2011
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It’s been a year since Yeasayer last visited the 930 Club, in promotion of their latest album Odd Blood. Since then, word spread about their solid live show, and tickets for Thursday night’s show sold out months in advance. They came to DC as part of a short tour to road-test some [...]
