Archive for September, 2011
Chien-Ming Wang Continues to Improve, Nats Beat Marlins 4-3
‘Chien-Ming Wang’
courtesy of ‘ElCapitanBSC’
Nationals’ starter Chien-Ming Wang, who returned from the disabled list after nearly two years away from the big leagues in 2011, recorded his third win of the season on Sunday in his longest outing since 2008. Manager Davey Johnson continued to sing Wang’s praises after the game, stating that Wang shows consistent [...]
Neutered Nats Flop Against Fish, Lose 3-0
Saturday’s game shouldn’t be nearly as somnolent. Werth and Morse should be back, and some kid named Strasburg is on the mound.
More »Special Featured Photo: Sunset Edition
Photo by Kilohoku
As we walked out of an impromptu Happy Hour at Mighty Pint on Thursday night, we were greeted by the incredibly beautiful sunset sky over downtown, with regal golden hour light washing over the office buildings, casting shadows on the ornaments of St. Matthew’s, on the Federal-styled squat buildings all along the Connecticut [...]
Friday Happy Hour: Sixpoint Righteous Ale
There was a lot of buzz surrounding the recent arrival of New Belgium in the DC market, but I was not that worked up about it. My nonchalance is largely a product of having lived in California with easy access to the stuff and so there was not much novelty in it for me.
On [...]
Clutch the band introduces Clutch the beer
courtesy of NBB.
Clutch just may be the most bad ass band to have ever come out of these parts (hailing from Germantown, MD and making 9:30 Club their home). Now this bad ass band has teamed up with New Belgium Brewing (of Colorado) to design their own bad ass beer: “Clutch Dark Sour Ale”.
To celebrate [...]
Redskins Preview Week Two: The Arizona Cardinals
‘Giants1′
courtesy of ‘Homer McFanboy’
Last Sunday the Redskins beat the Giants handily by not allowing any points in the second half while outscoring the Giants by 14 in those two quarters. The following Monday should have been a well earned day off in reward for the victory, but the ‘Skins players wanted no such thing and [...]
Chain Bridge closed this weekend
‘Into DC’courtesy of ‘Samer Farha’
This Spring saw the renovation of the road deck on top of the Chain Bridge that joins NW DC and the far northern edge of Arlington County, and closed the bridge for a number of weekends of work. This Fall will be no different, but this time, they’ll be working up [...]
Passport Day is Saturday
‘US Passport’courtesy of ‘Damian613′
There have been quite a number of articles written on the subject of Americans and Passports, and the last good figure seems to be about 1 in 3 Americans has their passport. Be it because America is so large and diverse, or because we’re insular (something I don’t buy), or because overseas [...]
We Love Weekends – September 16 – 18
‘(024/365)’
courtesy of ‘kimberlyfaye’
Patrick Palafox: I have trained my body to handle the awesomeness that this weekend will have and everything I know will be tested. Friday night I’m heading over to the State Theater to check out the Big “O” and Dukes show. The podcast will be recorded live and is featuring The Pietasters. Then, Saturday [...]
Hot Ticket: Atari Teenage Riot @ 9:30 Club, 9/17/11
This Saturday Alec Empire brings his reconfigured and reactivated digital hardcore terror cell, Atari Teenage Riot, back to the 9:30 Club for the first time in over a decade. For old school DC-area fans like myself, this show is Alec bringing ATR back to the place where all the DHR madness began. For a whole [...]
More »Two Great New Reads
‘Newspaper Guy, Dupont Circle’courtesy of ‘Photos by Chip Py’
Warm up your RSS Readers, folks, there’s two new blogs that have started today that you absolutely, positively need to be reading. The first is the DC Local version of the Huffington Post, anchored by DCist founding editor and City Paper veteran Michael Grass who launches the [...]
We Love Music: Virgin Mobile Free Fest 2011 @ Merriweather Post Pavilion, 9/10/11
all photos by Andrew Markowitz.
It was late on Wednesday afternoon when I found out that I was going be covering the 2011 Virgin Mobile FreeFest at Merriweather Post Pavilion this past Saturday. My finger started ping-ponging down the list of the two different stage line-ups, as I began to count how many bands would be [...]
Comedy in DC: Brandon Wardell
I had a nice chat with Brandon Wardell, a local D.C. comic who is throwing the comedy showcase, Brandon Wardell and Friends, that is happening Friday, Sep. 16 over at the Velvet Lounge. If you see him there you may notice that he will have black X’s on his hands, because he is not 21. [...]
More »Tareq Salahi insists his wife is kidnapped
The “news” “broke” late this morning that Tareq Salahi was quite upset with the Warren County, Virginia Sheriff’s office because he felt that they were not taking his claim that his reality TV “star” wife Michaele had been coerced against her will. Coerced to do what, exactly, remains unclear.
I’m certain that this has nothing to [...]
BYT & Embassy of Spain Present YES!
This Friday, the SPAIN arts&culture series for fall/winter 2011 will kick-off with a huge party thrown in collaboration with Brightest Young Things.
When the free event became available for RSVP six weeks ago, the list filled completely within hours. Hopefully, you were lucky enough to snag a spot. If not, maybe try to find a friend [...]
