Archive for July, 2011
We Love Sports: The 50th Annual Congressional Baseball Game
Over 60 members of congress assembled at Nationals Park last Thursday night to take part in a timeless American tradition – baseball. The men and women who serve our country on Capitol Hill rallied to play the 50th annual Congressional Baseball game. Politics aside, the evening played host to an informal grudge match between the [...]
More »Hot Ticket: Cibo Matto @ Rock & Roll Hotel, 7/19/11
Fans of quirky girl-Rock/Pop, cuteness, and girl-power should be in attendance at the Rock & Roll Hotel on Tuesday night for the reunion of Cibo Matto.
Formed in New York City in 1994 by Japanese ex-pats Miho Hatori and Yuka Honda, they rose to fame on the indie circuit with their album “Viva La Woman!” Their [...]
Capitals Development Camp and FanFest
Saturday, several thousand red-attired Capitals fans packed the chilly confines of Kettler Iceplex to get their mid-summer hockey fix and watch the concluding scrimmage of 2011 Prospect Development Camp and participate in the FanFest activities. Although some pundits claim that DC is not a true “hockey town,” the 3000 or so estimated attendees at [...]
More »Join us this Friday for a Birthday Party!
‘Happy Birthday, America’courtesy of ‘afagen’
I hope you all don’t have plans on Friday.
On the Fourth of July, we celebrated our third birthday here at We Love DC, and we’ve got every reason to get our party on this Friday night at The Saloon on U Street’s upstairs space, and we hope that you’ll come join [...]
Weekend Flashback: 7/16-7/17
‘Sunflower Field’ by katieharbath
Happy Monday, DC. Here are some of the best photos from our flickr pool from this beautiful weekend.
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We Appreciate: DC Central Kitchen and its volunteers
On the most recent episode of NPR’s excellent Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast, Stephen Thompson proposed a new holiday: Appreciation Day, “on which each and every world citizen takes the time to say the nicest possible thing to each of the treasured people who surround us.” He proposes that twitter is a great place for [...]
More »Friday Happy Hour: Reddrum
It is pretty out of the way for me, but I do enjoy stopping by Againn over on New York Ave for an early evening drink. Especially if one can beat the after-work happy hour crowd and grab one of the outside tables, it makes for a nice summer sundowner.
To drink on at that sunny [...]
Fringe 2011: Cecily and Gwendolyn’s Fantastical Capital Balloon Ride
I’m reviewing seven plays over the course of the 2011 Capital Fringe Festival, in collaboration with DC Theatre Scene. Get your Fringe button and join me!
True experimental theater breaks down the divide of expectations between performer and audience. Extroverts usually love this. Introverts, not so much. No surprise then that the long-form improvisation Cecily and [...]
Fringe 2011: Crave
I’m reviewing seven plays over the course of the 2011 Capital Fringe Festival, in collaboration with DC Theatre Scene. Get your Fringe button and join me!
Every heartbreaker eventually gets their heart broken. Cosmic justice, karma, the wheel of fortune – whatever you call it, the seesaw of relationships will always go from up to down [...]
Quick Contest: BLT Cooking Class
Happy Friday everyone! In celebration of the end of the week, BLT Steak and WeLoveDC are giving away two seats for this Saturday’s (aka tomorrow’s) South American Asado cooking class. The two hour plus class will be held at BLT Steak, starts at 12:30pm and features in-depth instruction from Executive Chef Victor Albisu on how [...]
More »DC’s Dolcezza On Today’s The View at 11am
‘Dolcezza 6156′
courtesy of ‘yospyn’
Huzzah! DC’s very own Dolcezza will be on ABC’s “The View” today at 11am and we’ll get to see owners Robb and Violeta Duncan chumming it up with Whoopi, Sherri, Joy, Elizabeth and Babs. I can only assume they’ll be talking about: 1) Gelato–in particular their seasonal summer flavors (Peach, Pineapple Cilantro, [...]
The Winning Ticket: The Glitch Mob
This week we are giving away a pair of tickets to see The Glitch Mob with Phantogram & Com Truise perform at the 9:30 Club on July 20th at 7pm. This dose of digital goodness invades the District on the heels of releasing their new EP, We Can Make the World Stop. The Glitch Mob [...]
More »Fringe 2011: Sanyasi
I’m reviewing seven plays over the course of the 2011 Capital Fringe Festival, in collaboration with DC Theatre Scene. Get your Fringe button and join me!
Can you ever truly detach from the world? From emotions, like heartache, greed, love? From the mundane, the pettiness of every day existence? Is this truly liberation, or is renunciation [...]
West Elm Arrives in Georgetown
West Elm has come back. Both in that they are back in the city, opening their first new store in the District since closing an underperforming Metro Center location in 2009, but also in terms of really reinvigorating the design and style of the homewares chain.
The Williams-Sonoma Inc subsidiary debuted in 2002 to considerable excitement. [...]
Food Truck Tracker
‘DC Slices Food Truck’
courtesy of ‘bonappetitfoodie’
What an incredibly gorgeous day it is outside! Get out there for you lunch break and see where the food trucks are today.
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Smithsonian Snapshot: Dumbo Flying Elephant Car
On July 17, 1955, Disneyland, the first Disney theme park and the only one created under the direction of Walt Disney, was opened to the public in Anaheim, Calif. The Dumbo car, pictured above, was donated to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History on June 9, 2005, on the occasion of Disneyland’s 50th anniversary.
The [...]
We Love Arts: Rock of Ages
‘Times Square 4′
courtesy of ‘photographerglen’
If you’re looking for a typical night out to the theater then Chris D’Arienzo’s Rock of Ages is not for you. The musical isn’t your standard Broadway affair. The characters aren’t complex. There’s little emotional depth. If there were original songs then I missed that memo.
What’s great about Rock of Ages [...]
Quarter Life Vintage Pop-Up This Sunday
Columbia Heights art gallery and event space The Dunes has been hosting interesting events just about all the time lately. They host the Open Hours happy hour series (launching last night), there will be a Girls Rock DC fundraiser dance night next month, and local menswear label Derringer Friday are taking over Derringer Saturdays.
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