Archive for August, 2011
The Winning Ticket: The Weepies
This week we are giving away a pair of tickets to see The Weepies perform at the 9:30 Club on September 5th at 7pm. This smooth indie duo is winding down an acoustic tour across the U.S. with their colorful tunes. Be the first to like. Like Unlike
More »Metro’s Music Man
Photo Credit: Maryanne Drury The same love felt in Billy Strayhorn’s ode to the of the rails of New York City in the jazz standard “Take the ‘A’ Train” is still alive and well today a few hundred miles south here in Washington. While the Duke Ellington orchestra is no longer around to send their [...]
More »Smithsonian Snapshot: The Ubiquitous Lunch Box
Beginning in the 1950s, television transformed the lunch box from an ordinary food conveyor into a storyteller. The screen-like sides of the lunch box offered kids a new form of self-expression. Since then, the lunch containers carted to and from offices and school classrooms have reflected American culture. Certainly, no meal received more cultural “attention” [...]
More »Featured Photo
Self-Portrait in the metro by pablo.raw Self portraiture is a challenge at times, but to capture both the self and the environment creatively takes a clever mind. Enter pablo.raw. His photo from the metro isn’t about the subway tunnel on which he’s focusing, but about his act of taking a picture. Placing himself out of [...]
More »Bar Code: Unclear on the Concept
Oh Bar Code. I know you’re excited about the celebration for the end of Ramadan, and that you want nothing more than to offer awesome celebrations to those partying it up for Eid al-Fitr, but you maybe want to do something other than offer free jello shots and a free bottle of Belvedere for groups [...]
More »We Love Food: Santa Fe Cafe
Santa Fe Cafe Owner Kipp Laramie by MichaelTRuhl In the heart of hilly Rosslyn amid the skyscrapers and the steel, the Santa Fe Cafe is an oasis for spicy food lovers. Offering authentic New Mexican food, the restaurant has maintained a presence in Arlington for over 20 years on Wilson Boulevard two blocks from the [...]
More »Weekend Flashback: 8/26-8/28
Hurricane Irene: She came; she rained; she left. While not the harbinger of the End of Days, as every weatherman led us to believe, I do think it hit us with the strength of a “Category Nuisance” storm. So enough to mess up plans and make a bummer of a weekend. But we got through it and that’s what counts. From everyone in the We Love DC family, we hope you have power at your home and no tree in/on your car. And though you probably don’t want to, here’s a look at what some people saw this weekend.
More »Crowdmapping Irene
As we get into the stronger part of the storm, news gets more and more important about what’s closed and what’s not, what’s been damaged and what’s fine, and the state of things. We’re working with some friends who are using crowd sourcing reports to build maps of the DC area outages. If you want [...]
More »Things that Win the Internet
The day before yesterday, I ran across a hilarious review of Ford’s Theater courtesy of one “Abe L.” who gave Ford’s a 1-star review back on the 10th of August. This afternoon I went looking for the original and spotted instead a 5-star review courtesy of one “John B” that made my afternoon: Listen notte [...]
More »Friday Happy Hour: New Belgium Clutch
Local beer nerds have been atwitter for months over the long-anticipated arrival of beers from New Belgium Brewing in the DC market. In particular, there seemed to be a lot of curioristy about two newer beers in the brewery’s Lips of Faith big-bottle series, Clutch and Kick. I like a lot of the beers I [...]
More »Monumental: Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial
On Sunday (assuming no hurricane disruptions), the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial will be dedicated by President Obama. As this will be the first major memorial dedicated along the Mall area since the World War II Memorial in 2004, I thought it would be interesting to review the monument and see what others’ views are.
More »Theater last-chances and possible cancellations
Just a quick pre-weekend roundup on what’s going away and what may or may not be threatened by the weather. We’re not aware of anyone officially cancelling anything as of yet; several places have made affirmative statements they’re going on with the show. Shakespeare Theater Company’s Free-for-All is still on. They’ve promised to update via [...]
More »Irene’s Comin’
All week long I’ve been watching the models from NOAA (and marveling what groups like Storm Pulse can do with them) with a little bit of dread. While Irene does not look like it will directly hit the District, the storm is 580 miles wide, and that means there’s a broad swath of the area [...]
More »The Nats Bulllpen Implodes in 8-1 Loss to Arizona
‘The bullpen looks on’ courtesy of ‘randomduck’ Thurdsay night’s game versus the first place Arizona Diamondbacks didn’t go the way starting pitcher John Lannan wanted it to. The left-handed pitcher gave up seven hits and two runs in six innings against the top team in the National League West, including a two-run bomb homerun to [...]
More »We Love Weekends – August 26th through 28th
Mosley: Fun filled weekend for me! One of my photographs (above) was selected as a semi-finalists for the DC State Fair Photo Contest. I could win a blue ribbon. A ribbon! And it could be blue! Tough competition though, so keep your fingers crossed for me. And since I’m going to be waiting with bated breath [...]
More »Opening Soon: 5 Restaurants I’m Anxiously Awaiting
Ok, so if you’re the least bit familiar with restaurants and the supposed opening dates in DC, you know that they are almost never met due to permitting delays, construction delays, staffing delays…you get it. Still, the eternal optimist, these are the five restaurants I can’t wait to try when they open later this year. [...]
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