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Event (P)Review: On the Town with Dale DeGroff
Dale Degroff returns with a bigger and better On the Town show. @fedward saw it last year and has details and pictures.
More »We Love Food: Adour’s New Lunch Menu
Adour launches new lunch service next month, and @fedward has a preview:
More »On This Day in 1934 …
Faith and Insurancecourtesy of daveinshaw As you might know by now, we’re big fans of the DC Craft Bartenders Guild’s annual Repeal Day Ball, which celebrates the national repeal of Prohibition. What you might not know is that DC’s local prohibition law remained on the books for a few more months after the national repeal. [...]
More »Census: 48% of DC Households Are Single-Occupant
From Fortune, based on data from the 2010 Census: DC has more single-occupant households than any other major US city. DC’s 48% of households is even higher than Manhattan’s 46%. Are you the 48%? 1 person likes this post. Like Unlike
More »Tonight: Tubachristmas!
Tuba bus.courtesy of Jeffrey Beall Got plans tonight? Cancel them, and head over to the Kennedy Center for the 38th anniversary performance of TUBACHRISTMAS. 6pm. A volunteer group of tuba players (edit: and euphonium players. Whatever.) will gather and make a joyful noise unto the Millenium Stage. From past experience I can safely say you [...]
More »Today’s Gridlock Brought To You By
Ouchcourtesy of Fedward Potz PSA: If you play chicken with a firetruck, you’ll lose. This was at the corner of 18th & L NW this morning. You’ll note the sheet metal from the car’s door is still stuck to the firetruck’s bumper. I hope everybody is OK. 1 person likes this post. Like Unlike
More »We Love Drinks (Lots of Them): Repeal Day Ball 2011
All photos by the author We here at We Love DC are unabashed, unequivocal fans of the DC Craft Bartenders Guild and their annual Repeal Day Ball. So much so that, within about 48 hours of the announcement that tickets were on sale (by which I mean within about twelve hours, really), Jenn, Brittany, and [...]
More »The wedding series continues – who ELSE is using your big day?
’18 Sep 2010 – No 030′ courtesy of ‘B Jones Jr’ The following is a guest entry by the Social Chair, who is far more qualified than I am to discuss this particular subject matter. So here’s the problem with being a girl who hasn’t been planning her wedding since she was a little girl: [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
More »The Week in Drinks in Pictures
All photos by the author If you follow me on Twitter, you might be aware that this has been an eventful week. Literally. Friday the Social Chair and I hosted her birthday party, Sunday we hit our usual brunch, Monday I had a tasting, and Tuesday saw the launch party for Dan Searing’s new book, [...]
More »The Punch Bowl: Book Launch Tonight
Remember how I said I reached out to Dan Searing about a launch event for his book? I found out earlier today that launch event is tonight, at 6pm in the Warehouse Theater behind the Passenger. I’ve already made use of the book, as you might discern from the above picture. That’s an oleo-saccharum in [...]
More »We Love Madness: The Running of the Brides Part B
All photos by Don Feduardo We now present the thrilling conclusion of the Social Chair’s first-hand gonzo journalistic effort in the trenches, er, basement. After recharging briefly at home, I met up with three friends: my maid of honor, Darling Wedding Planner, and the self-proclaimed “Muscle” of our operation. We had a lovely, leisurely lunch [...]
More »We Love Drinks: On the Town With Dale DeGroff
All photos by the author Monday I attended a talk by noted (some might say legendary, and they might not be wrong) bartender Dale DeGroff. Arranged by and benefitting the Museum of the American Cocktail (also behind the Hotel Cocktail seminar Jenn attended), the talk had the simple title On the Town with Dale DeGroff [...]
More »We Love Madness: The Running of the Brides Part 1
All photos by Don Feduardo The following is a guest entry by the Social Chair, who is far more qualified than I am to discuss this particular subject matter. At the end of February, Fedward asked me to marry him and become Social Chair For Life. Within five minutes of my saying yes, we agreed [...]
More »Breakin’ the Law: Prohibition in DC
Garret Peck (photos by the author) Wednesday night I attended a talk on Prohibition in DC by local author Garrett Peck. He’s got a new book on the subject, developed as a result of his research for his first book, along with the knowledge he’s amassed leading the Temperance Tour. Much as it is now, [...]
More »It’s Tourist Season: Share the Love
All photos by the author A couple years ago the Social Chair and I were sitting at a bar when the couple next to us asked us a question. They said they’d overheard our conversation with the bartender and were looking for a restaurant recommendation, since they were visiting from out of town and wanted [...]
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