Archive for August, 2011

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Greetings from DC!

For fifteen years, the West-facing wall of Mama Ayesha’s restaurant on Calvert Street stood bricked and barren, save for a narrow painted banner of Middle Eastern desert. In 2007 it was time for a tune up, decided manager Mohammed Abu-El-Hawa, whose family has owned and operated the Adams Morgan icon since 1960. Originally founded as Calvert [...]

Mental Errors Doom Nats In 4-2 Loss To Arizona; In Memoriam Mike Flanagan

All-Stars, Cy Young winners, and World Series champions aren’t supposed to come from a place like Manchester, New Hampshire. But Mike Flanagan did.

First Look: Graffiato

Earlier this year it was Toki Underground and Shake Shack that were pretty much the buzz everywhere before they opened their doors. When that died down, Graffiato became the restaurant everyone was talking about. The 130-seat dining spot in Chinatown comes to us courtesy Top Chef Mike Isabella, and it has been consistently crowded since it [...]

CB2 Fall Line: Space May Be Limited, But It Can Still Be Chic

Continuing on the heels of my Etsy Round Up: Washington DC feature apartment decorating finds, I ventured over the CB2 in Georgetown recently to check out their Fall 2011 collection. The latest and greatest from this Create&Barrel and Land of Nod, “affordable” sister shop centers on providing innovative, space saving options for DC’s small apartment, [...]

We Love Arts: Reggie Watts at Woolly Mammoth

Reggie Watts, photo by Wendy Lynch Redfern Andy Kaufman would have loved Reggie Watts. Be careful how you take that bit of praise. If you’re of my generation and largely remember Kaufman solely as loveable goofball Latka on TAXI you’re not getting the right picture. Watts’ stage performance is reminiscent of Kaufman – a wandering [...]

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‘Takorean truck’ courtesy of ‘yostinator’ You survived the earthquake yesterday. So that deserves lunch from a food truck, right? See which ones are out and about today. Be the first to like. Like Unlike

FREE FOOD ALERT: Potomac Pizza

‘rakhi and her pizza’ courtesy of ‘staceyviera’ Getchyer pizza! Potomac Pizza’s four locations (listed below) will be giving out a free slice of pizza and soft drink to all customers from 12 PM – 4 PM today. The restaurant is calling it their “final slice of summer.” And to quell your sadness about summer ending, [...]

Neat view of the Quake through a Seismic Array

God I love science. Yesterday in the wake of the day’s events, I sat in Rustico in Ballston with a couple of geoscientists from NSF trying to find this exact imagery, and Jen sent it over last night late. It’s pretty impressive to see the seismic waves roll through the whole of the continent, even [...]

The Winning Ticket: Chuck Brown

This week we are giving away a pair of tickets to see Chuck Brown perform at the 9:30 Club on August 27th at 9pm. The Godfather of Go Go will be celebrating his 75th birthday in an event hosted by Bootsy Collins. Be the first to like. Like Unlike

Updated Closures for 24 August

‘Sidewalk Closed Signs’courtesy of ‘Mr. T in DC’ Several closures were announced in local and federal government artifices overnight. They are as follows: Local: DCPS is Closed today. They changed their minds from open-but-for-three-schools at 10:30pm last night to All Closed at 5:50am today. Federal: According to OPM, the following federal agencies are closed: Department [...]

Nats Strand Men On Base, Drop 2-0 Game to Arizona

‘Washington Nationals starting pitcher Jordan Zimmermann (27)’ courtesy of ‘Keith Allison’ After one strange (earthquake filled) day in Washington, D.C., the Nationals did their best to keep things on the diamond interesting. Washington took a 2-0 loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks in what was likely right-handed pitcher Jordan Zimmermann’s penultimate game of the season, but it [...]

National Cathedral Earthquake Damage

The National Cathedral suffered some significant structural damage in the earthquake, with the tops of three of its tower pinnacles falling over, and cracked walls in buttresses and on upper floors. More info from their earthquake press release: 1 person likes this post. Like Unlike

VIDEO: DC Earthquake Interrupts My Workday

As you all know, an Earthquake has hit the East Coast. When the quake happened I was in the middle of a video shoot with my co-worker Danny when all of a sudden our 14th floor office in Rosslyn started to shake. Watch the video to see Danny’s reaction. 7 people like this post. Like [...]

Etsy Round Up: Washington DC

Oh. My. Goodness. I <3 me some Etsy and the authentic, amazingly beautiful items available on the website; it’s a place I go to for inspiration amd a little break from the monotony of life.  To spread the love on DC Residents Day, I’ve combed Etsy to find the latest and greatest handmade, DC inspired [...]

Virginia Earthquake Rocks DC

Hey, Washington, DC was just rocked by an earthquake! The tremor hit at 1:51 PM today, and the earthquake detail page on USGS shows an initial magnitude of 5.8, epicenter near Mineral, VA, somewhere between Richmond and Charlottesville. Twitter is alight with reports of shaking felt from down the Carolinas all the way up to [...]

Irene on the Horizon

Well, as nice as good as the weather’s been the last two days, there’s a forecast that you need to be aware of for the coming weekend. Hurricane Irene, currently harassing Haiti and the Dominican Republic looks to be headed for landfall the middle of the weekend in North Carolina. NOAA suspects it may well [...]

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One Year Later: Zest Bistro

Verdict: A wonderful, small restaurant to hit up if you’re alone, with a large group of friends, or with your family. The waitstaff treats all diners here to a smile. This restaurant with a green awning is the “last” sit-down restaurant on Capitol Hill’s Barracks Row. If you’re going south on 8th Street, Zest Bistro is [...]

Featured Photo

Hey, it’s an old photo, and a new photo, in one…and it’s of people doing the Charleston on the doorstep of Capitol Hill! What more could you want in a photo? Jason is quite the innovator with this style of photo (I call it a “Flashback” Jason calls it “Looking Into the Past” whatever you want to call it, we can all call the results awesome).