Archive for October, 2011
Hot Ticket: Dark Dark Dark @ Red Palace
Embrace the chill in the air and get in the mood for fall with Dark Dark Dark at Red Palace tonight. Moody piano and clarion female vocals are joined with understated percussion and layers of cello, accordion, horns and backing vocals to create a dark, dramatic and beautiful melange. Check out the video for their single [...]
More »Caps, Pens to Raise Money for Lokomotiv Families
‘Lokomotiv Yaroslavl’
courtesy of ‘HockeyBroad’
For many area hockey fans, the October 13 showdown between the Penguins and Capitals over in Pennsylvania is the start of this season’s perennial rivalry. But this year, it’s something a whole lot more.
Both the Caps and Pens announced a joint effort to raise money for the families of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, [...]
AU Hosts Human Rights Film Series
‘AU’
courtesy of ‘MichaelTRuhl’
On Thursday nights this October, American University is hosting their annual Human Rights Film Series.
Presented by AU’s Center for Social Media and Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law, the films cover a variety of human rights issues, including euthanasia, immigration and a warlord-turned-evangelical-preacher.
The series takes place at AU’s Katzen Arts Center on [...]
Featured Photo
“To go against the church is to go against God” by andrade✖cobain
Every so often a camera phone can grab a truly stunning shot, as happened with andrade✖cobain’s iPhone shot of St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Dupont Circle. City lights shining into clouds light the church in the dead of night. The grain from the high [...]
District Sports Pages launches
‘Reading the Sports Page’courtesy of ‘Photos by Chip Py’
My earliest memories of the sports pages are the San Francisco Chronicle’s Sporting Green, the pale green pages of newsprint with the box scores from around the country, my beloved 49ers, the Oakland A’s, Susan Slusser, Ray Ratto, and others. I’ve always loved sports journalism when it’s [...]
Redskins defeat Rams 17-10
‘Santana Moss’
courtesy of ‘Keith Allison’
The feeling coming into this game was that the Redskins had to win by a wide margin to prove they were truly a new team after failing to close out the Cowboys on Monday night. With a 17-0 lead after their first possession of the second half it looked like the Redskins were going [...]
Circulator moves East of the River
‘Room & Board View Tilt-Shift’courtesy of ‘Mr. T in DC’
Starting today, the Circulator bus will now have a line that starts east of the Anacostia, running between the Skyland shopping mall at 30th & Alabama Ave SE in Hillcrest to the Potomac Ave SE Metro station in Hill East, by way of the Anacostia Public [...]
DC, Consider Yourself Occupied
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courtesy of ‘amreese13′
Since Occupy Wall Street has already inspired an Occupy Omaha and Occupy Ljlubljana, Slovenia, it should come as no surprise that a similar protest has arrived at the nation’s capital.
On Saturday, Occupy DC began its (potentially never-ending) takeover of McPherson Square.
Members hail from the District and, up until this past weekend, met mainly [...]
Metro to shut three stations over Columbus Day weekend
‘yellow lines’courtesy of ‘philliefan99′
This Friday night at 10:00pm, WMATA is closing the Shaw, U Street and Columbia Heights metro stations on the Yellow and Green lines for a weekend-long work period that will run through Monday’s Columbus Day holiday. In addition, trains will be replaced with buses between East and West Falls Church for work [...]
Ben’s Chili Bowl temporarily shuttered to fix plumbing
‘Chili BOWL’courtesy of ‘Kevin H.’
It was if the screams of dozens of half-smoke lovers went up as one, and were suddenly silent. News first went out on Twitter this morning, with the restaurants announcing their closure to cover “building damage” repairs that may “take a few days.” NBC Washington has the word it’s a plumbing [...]
Own a piece of the Hawk n Dove
‘Club Hawk Birthday’courtesy of ‘yostinator’
This weekend was the last hurrah of famed Capitol Hill dive bar, The Hawk n Dove, with the bar shutting its doors last night for good. If you’ve been inside the Hawk n Dove, or seen it on the likes of the West Wing, you can understand the enthusiasm about the [...]
Weekend Flashback: 10/1-10/2
Raincoat II by pablo.raw
Good morning, DC. Is it feeling like fall yet? Grab your coffee and take a look back through this weekend’s best photos from around the area.
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