Archive for August, 2011
Gray and Brown face off over Municipal Bond tax
‘Savings bond with punchcard data’courtesy of ‘ericskiff’
Michael Neibauer of the Business Journal has a good guide to the back and forth between the council and the mayor over the municipal bond tax that the Council wished to do away with, which has come to a head in the last 24 hours. The tax, which Councilmember [...]
CM Yvette Alexander fined $4,000 by OCF for misuse of constituent funds
‘_MG_4345′courtesy of ‘dbking’
Ward 7 Councilmember Yvette Alexander was fined $4,000 by the Office of Campaign Finance, related to the findings that “Councilmember Alexander’s Constituent Services Fund (CSF) made an expenditure for campaign activities; and that her Constituent Services Program (CSP) failed to report certain expenditures on required quarterly reports, both in violation of the D.C. [...]
We Love Music: Marissa Nadler @ Red Palace, 7/29/2011
courtesy of Marissa Nadler.
Last Friday night Boston chanteuse Marissa Nadler entranced the audience at DC’s Red Palace with her dreamy folk songscapes. On tour with her was fellow Bostonian singer/songwriter Mike Fiore, who performs as Faces On Film. It was a low-key evening of quiet, beautiful music for a small but attentive and appreciative audience. [...]
Food Truck Tracker
‘Soft shell crab taco’
courtesy of ‘yostinator’
I see you guys have been adding some new pictures to the food truck tag on the We Love DC flickr pool. I like it! Even if those pictures make me start drooling so early in the day!
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The Winning Ticket: Return to Forever
This week we are giving away a pair of tickets to see Return to Forever and Zappa Plays Zappa perform at the Merriweather Post Pavilion on August 9th at 5:30pm. Return to Forever has been redefining jazz fusion ever since frontman Chick Corea’s time playing with jazz Legend Miles Davis. They’re touring with Dweezil Zappa, [...]
More »King Richard: Ankiel’s Slam Helps Nats Over Braves, 9-3
Left with no choice but to hope that his sinker would suddenly sink, Derek Lowe kept throwing it, and the Nationals kept hitting it.
More »PSA: Peak Northwest Cherry Season Is Here
In February I posted a recipe and photographic step-by-step instructions for preserving your own cherries. In that post I noted, “supply is unpredictable and the cherry season is short.” If you’ve got the time, hie yourself to the supermarket, where Northwest sweet cherries are $1.99/lb through tonight (Safeway) or Thursday (Giant).
My local Safeway had Mason [...]
Daniel Snyder’s Attorneys: “DC can’t make its own laws!”
‘Dan Snyder, Free Speech Crusader’courtesy of ‘Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com’
Oh Dan Snyder.
Just when you thought the city’s most litigious owner of a sports team had given DC enough reasons to love him. His attorneys yesterday gave us one more reason to think this man a FINE UPSTANDING INDIVIDUAL OF MORAL STRENGTH AND CHARACTER, ALL HAIL THE [...]
If you’re working for Wolf Trap watch what you tweet. Maybe.
‘Leisure in the Grass’
courtesy of ‘Kevin H.’
The Wolf Trap Foundation presented its employees with a new social media policy this year. Unless you happen to work for them this probably strikes you as about as interesting, news-wise, as the Pope continuing to be Catholic. Social media policies aren’t anything new or even necessarily anything to [...]
I can has Dance Party?
DC’s own DJ lil’e is playing the 9:30 club on Saturday night with her unique mashup dance party Lady Gaga vs Madonna vs Britney. Her shows are full of energy, not to mention confetti cannons and awesome on-stage dancers. Tickets are $15, and the show starts at 9.
Britney Spears was just at Verizon Center this [...]
We Love Arts: Clybourne Park
Photo Stan Barouh
Before this weekend, I rarely used the word gentrify except when describing neighborhoods like Columbia Heights or H-Street NE.
“Yes I know it looks a little rough- but hey it’s gentrifying! Now let’s go hit up Wonderland Ballroom!”
This weekend brought two events that have given new meaning and significance to the word, first Washington Post [...]
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Let’s have the HDR Talk. Much like parents with the “Birds and the Bees Talk,” this is a talk that photographers don’t like to have. Why? Because photographers either love HDR photos or hate them with the heat of 1000 suns.
More »Ankiel’s Solo Shots Lead The Nats Over The Braves
Springing off the mound with alacrity, Hernandez spun and fired a bullet to the covering Desmond at second to start the 1-6-3 twin killing
More »Reminder: Rickey Month Party Tonight
You may recall from previous years that July is Rickey Month. July’s over, but tonight the DC Craft Bartenders Guild wraps things up for 2011 with its Rickey Month Party at Jack Rose.
Finalists, announced via email on Friday, are after the jump, along with a few tasting notes from our team on the ones [...]
Food Truck Tracker
‘Pickle and B&W Cookie’
courtesy of ‘Mr. T in DC’
Here’s to hoping this week is not as miserably hot as the last few. Go grab something tasty from a food truck. It might not make the weather any better, but research has shown that food trucks can improve your mood. I read that on the internet [...]
Weekend Flashback: 7/29-7/31
Here comes August! I’ve got to say, where did July go…and June for that matter? But let’s forget about the unforgiving grinding of time, and focus on what really matters this week: Shark Week. I’m not really a devotee of this particular form of clever summer programming, but I do like to say this quote: “Live every week like it’s Shark Week” (Tracy Morgan, 30 Rock). On that particular piece of questionable advice, let’s see the sights of the Flickr pool from the weekend. Enjoy!
More »Courtland Milloy is watching you tweet
Courtland Milloy, coiner of the phrase “myopic little twits” is now on twitter, at @courtland51, and he really just wants to “track millenials & find out if they anything in dc other than party and gentrify.” That means he’s looking for you, DC twitterers, to point him toward Gen X and Millenials who are doing [...]
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