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We Love Music: The Mighty Mighty Bosstones at the 9:30 Club

‘Bosstones’ by ‘erin m’ There’s a unique tension that exists between the Mighty Mighty Bosstones and the fans in the crowd: for the guys on stage, a good show requires precision, in dress and musical performance, even movements; a good night for the mass of people rests upon the successful implementation of the exact opposite [...]

Hot ticket: Mighty Mighty Bosstones at 9:30 Club Saturday night

Ska weekend has arrived, DC: We have the Mighty Mighty Bosstones tomorrow night and the English Beat on Sunday. Somewhere, a sad trombone is perking itself up, polishing off a decade’s worth of dust, pulling the two-tones out of the closet, fitting itself for a new plaid suit, and getting ready to have some fun. [...]

Yay/boo: Smithsonian reaches out, still bans photos of the flag

Silence in the City: Where To Go To Get Away

‘Have A Seat’ courtesy of ‘Paul Frederiksen’ A lot happens in our great town: art shows, meetups, happy hours, plays, lectures, new exhibits opening, old exhibits closing, book signings, breakfast meetings, brunches, power lunches, fundraisers, forums, playdates, baseball games, midnight movies, networking, tweetups, talks, tours—heck, even our skeeball and kickball games are organized nearly to [...]

We Love Music (and Photos): Drive-By Truckers at 9:30 Club

‘Patterson Hood’ courtesy of ‘erin m’ Around 10:00 Friday night, Drive-By Truckers strolled out onto the 9:30 Club stage. Singer Patterson Hood raised his arms, puffed out his chest, and screamed: “Goddammit, I feel GOOD.” By 1 a.m., Hood and his fans were drenched in sweat twice over, the band was wrapping up a raucous [...]

Star Wars nerds, bow before your god

‘Stormtrooper’ courtesy of ‘lorigoldberg’ I’m not gonna play who’s-the-bigger-fan here, so let’s just say I’m a huge, huge Star Wars fan. As are, I’m sure, a number of you. Perhaps you’ve seen the signs for the “Star Wars: In Concert” at the Verizon Center on Saturday. Perhaps you bought your ticket the second they went [...]

Photos: Welcome back, Screen on the Green. Missed ya.

‘Screen on the Green’ courtesy of ‘erin m’ Much as Fort Reno signifies something essential about summer for me, Screen on the Green is another one of those annual traditions that makes me happy to be living in DC. We’ve come close to losing twice it in recent years, but through the tireless effort of [...]

Hey, did you go to Screen on the Green last night?

” courtesy of ‘erin m’ Screen on the Green came back last night! I was there for a while with a camera, and I know a bunch of you were too, despite the wacky weather. I’d love it if you’d share your photos from the party with the We Love DC Flickr pool, so I [...]

Update: DC photographer vs. MPD, take 2

‘DC Police’ courtesy of ‘Chris DiGiamo’ We told you this weekend about the DC photographer who says he was detained by MPD officers while shooting a traffic stop in Georgetown. My initial complaint about the account was that the photographer, Jerome Vorus, hadn’t gotten names of the officers who stopped him or apparently followed up [...]

Photographer says DC cops detained him

‘Nacho #24′ courtesy of ‘Chris Rief aka Spodie Odie’ My pet project involves making sure photographers in the DC area are free to shoot without idiotic restrictions imposed by a sometimes-security-crazed bureaucracy. So it’s with some interest and outrage that I came across this blog post  by local photographer Jerome Vorus detailing an incident last Saturday [...]

Smithsonian Commons project makes museums nerdier, more accessible, awesome

‘Smithsonian Castle – Moon, Stars, & Sun – 3-6-09′ courtesy of ‘mosley.brian’ Most of us in DC know we’re lucky to have the Smithsonian in our backyard. Its museums are free, they cater to the nerd/art lover/history buff/curious tourist in all of us, and they’re right here for all of us to enjoy. Now, thanks [...]

Delta Spirit loves DC, and DC loves them back

‘A Little Bit Softer Now’ courtesy of ‘Karon’ As far as I can tell, there’s a guy at every concert, ever, who takes it upon himself to yell “Freebird.” That Guy is always there, trying for a chuckle, being ignored, hoping, just hoping, that the band will hear his plea. That Guy, like everyone else [...]

Photos: Welcome back, Fort Reno.

” courtesy of ‘erin m’ I love Fort Reno. And I don’t mean in some, “Oh man, that’s a great event” sort of way. I mean…well, you remember that scene in “Say Anything” where John Cusack is holding up the boom box outside Ione Skye’s window? That’s how I feel about Fort Reno, the summer [...]

Cupcakes: Trendy, fattening, delicious

‘Cupcake’ courtesy of ‘christaki’ Yes, cupcakes are a trend, a fad that will probably end soon enough. But until it does, I will bide my time eating as many of them as possible and debating the merits of DC’s many, many cupcakeries. The latest installment in our city’s love affair with frosting comes in the [...]

How badly do you miss Tai Shan?

‘Treats You Have Treats For Me? (2 of 3)’ courtesy of ‘Daniel.Techie{TaiShan~4Ever} @ 127.0.0.1′ Enough to pay $5,000 plus airfare to go visit him? That well-known panda-lobbying organization The Friends of the National Zoo is organizing a 10-day trip this fall to China, one that will include a stop at the Bifengxia Wildlife Preserve, home [...]

An entire bookstore is on sale

‘SALE’ courtesy of ‘nevermindtheend’ It’s a sad thing to see a bookstore close. I walk by the still-empty shells of the Olsson’s locations in Penn Quarter and Dupont Circle and feel a twinge at the long afternoons spent browsing the shelves. And I’m sure someday I’ll sit down at a table in the new Clydes [...]

Battle of the coffee drinks (oh, it’s on)

” courtesy of ‘erin m’ I’m a bit of a fangirl when it comes to coffee shops. Peregrine Espresso has my heart, what with it being in my neighborhood and run by some really great people (seriously, I took a photo a week of their drinks for a whole year.) But Pound Coffee, you might have just won [...]

Photos: Summer vs. winter. Let’s compare.

‘crystal palace II’ courtesy of ‘philliefan99′ Remember winter? Yeah, that was nice. It was just four short months ago that we were recovering from the Great SnOMGasm Snoverkill Snomageddon Whatever the Heck we Finally Ended Up Calling It of 2010. Back when we put on layers of clothes just to get out of bed and [...]

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‘a summer romance’ by ‘Blinkofanaye’ At 5:00 on any given Friday afternoon in the summer, Jazz in the  Garden is just getting started, and space quickly becomes scarce as hundreds of worker bees flock for a little wine, maybe a pitcher of (surprisingly potent for what you pay) sangria, a picnic and some tunes. It’s [...]

Ladies and gentlemen, meet the DC Metro Dancer

Yes, the man who stepped on a Red Line car and just had to cut loose (a la “Footloose”) has seen the video and heard our plea to step forward. Readers of We Love DC, I present to you: your DC Metro Dancer, Bob Grannan. Bob, we salute you. 10 people like this post. Like [...]