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Hope?
Image by RG3Hope Tumblr I know, it’s March, and there’s baseball and soccer just around the corner, and there’s still the Caps and Wizards going on, but if there’s any one thing this town venerates, it’s the Redskins. I had to share this beautiful piece of art from Tumblr, of Robert Griffin III, the Baylor [...]
More »Don’t Sweat Aircraft Patrols in VA
Reno 2007-337.jpgcourtesy of Ack Ook Via Jalopnik and the Washington Examiner, Virginia residents don’t need to sweat the dreaded “speeding ticket via plane” in Virginia, mostly because the state doesn’t think it’s worth the $150/hr cost of keeping spotter planes in the air. Instead, they’re just going to keep nabbing you via squad car, and [...]
More »She Loves DC: Lindsay Largent
Last week, amid having my car broken into, and the dreariest weather of the winter, I got a letter from a reader that lifted my spirits immensely. As a result, we wanted to introduce you to the light of our winter. Lindsay Largent, born in the District, and living in North Canton, Ohio, sent us [...]
More »Play at Fort Reno this summer!
The Evenscourtesy of yostinator Do you want to play as part of the Fort Reno concert series this summer? It’s your lucky day. Get your demo together and submit it to Fort Reno’s Amanda MacKaye, and that does mean physical media, so get your record on, garage bands of DC and get ready to play [...]
More »First Drink: Blind Dog Café
Blind Dogcourtesy of tbridge Tucked into an end rowhouse in Shaw is Darnell’s, just north of the 9:30 Club on Florida avenue. It doesn’t exactly look like the sort of place that would be a coffeeshop. At least, not until you’re inside. Then it’s the most natural thing in the world. The long tall bar [...]
More »Senator Casey to Nationals: Stop Being Mean to Philly Fans!
Coffee time: suck it up mugcourtesy of Ted Drake Dear Senator Casey, It’s touching that you have decided to rail against the Nationals new policy of selling to the home market first for games against the Phillies. Really, it is. It’s not like unemployment is a problem, or there are massive deficits in the federal [...]
More »Trump Takes On Washington – A hotel at least
Ghost Trafficcourtesy of Mondmann One of Pennsylvania Avenue’s three most recognizable facades is that of the Old Post Office, located at 12th and Pennsylvania, and sporting DC’s third highest pinnacle at 329 feet. Yesterday, the General Services Administration selected the Trump Hotel Collection to refurbish the historic building and turn it into a 250-room luxury [...]
More »McPherson Square Park Cleared, Occupy Rousted
Tent of Dreamscourtesy of gerdaindc The United States Park Police did on Saturday morning what they had been threatening to do for a week, and cleared out the tents and violating equipment from McPherson Square Park. The four-month occupation of the park by a group of protestors discussing varied issues from income inequality to college [...]
More »Nats open pre-sale for DC-area residents
Day 269/365 – Happy Independence Daycourtesy of Kevin H. On a sunny February afternoon, it’s a wonderful thing to think about baseball and dream of the balmy summer evenings, the smell of the half smokes on the grill, the hum of an AM radio wafting on the breeze, and the thrill of the grass in [...]
More »First Campaign Cash Reports are Out in Ward 5 Special Election
courtesy of Chris Rief aka Spodie Odie While others have taken on the Primary election financial data, I spent yesterday combing through the financials of those Ward 5 Council candidates who have declared their intent to run. I’ve compiled my initial data into a read-only spreadsheet that you can use to dissect the race, and [...]
More »Dupont Metro South Entrance Closing until November
dupont circlecourtesy of dracisk If you use the South Entrance of the Dupont Circle Metro Station, well, I hope you like walking. You’ll be doing more of it, soon. Starting Wednesday, the South Entrance will be closed for 9 months while WMATA replaces the 185-foot spans that rise 85 feet to street level. The company [...]
More »Elegy for a Diner
7.18.10courtesy of Paige Weaver I’ve been trying to come to terms with this all day. I’ve been sitting on this post for a few hours, but it seems right now to post it. Since we moved to Brookland, our weekend haunt has been the beautiful steel diner on Bladensburg road, the Capital City Diner. I first [...]
More »Know Your Houses, DC!
IA NW: Row Housescourtesy of kimberlyfaye I love DC’s many housing styles. The standard federal rowhouse is a DC fixture in the neighborhoods, but how can you ignore the beauty of the Victorians that line the great boulevards? Add in the bungalows and arts & crafts houses (my personal favorite in the free-standing varietals) and [...]
More »Sports Fix Special: A Day for Wicked Pixels
one way FAILcourtesy of philliefan99 Boy, what a morning. First up was Alex Ovechkin, who today opted out of the All-Star Game, citing a lack of passion brought on by a 3-game suspension for an off-his-feet hit on the Penguins Zbynek Michalek during Sunday’s game. I can understand his frustration with the league for a [...]
More »The DCCK Movie needs your help
It’s hard to say how important programs like DC Central Kitchen are to the District. There’s just so many aspects to it that carry such incredible value – is it their programs providing meals for homeless shelters? their programs working with school nutrition? providing produce to markets in food deserts? Chief among the programs that [...]
More »Dear Virginia & Maryland: We Need Your Help
Occupy DC – Soapboxcourtesy of theqspeaks Good morning, everyone. This post is specifically for Virginia and Maryland readers today, which means it’s sorta the opposite of what we strive for here at We Love DC, but for reasons that will become clear in a minute, we need your help, and all our friends that live [...]
More »An end to corporate donations in DC?
VOTEcourtesy of nevermindtheend Well, at least part of DC life. Local political advocates Bryan Weaver (you remember him from his At-Large and Ward 1 council campaigns), Sylvia Brown (An ANC in Ward 7) and Ward 6 Councilmember Tommy Wells are teaming up to put a ballot initiative on this November’s general election ballot to end [...]
More »Rush Limbaugh wrong, crass about DC Councilwoman
July09 199courtesy of Lord Jim If there’s a caricature in the media politics age that we live in, Rush Limbaugh is that clichéd, hackneyed caricature that you just can’t seem to scrub out of the landscape. On yesterday’s broadcast, the target of Rush’s ire was Ward 3 Councilmember Mary Cheh, for her bill from 2010 [...]
More »Uber in growing fight with DCTC
IMG_5027courtesy of nmmercer Disruptive business models are hard because they challenge entrenched majorities who are often capable of regulatory backlash against new models of doing business that are more efficient and creative. Uber, the internet-dispatched creative car service, has had a rough couple of days. The trouble began on Wednesday, when the DC Taxi Commission [...]
More »Classing up MLK Weekend
As you may be aware, this weekend is the celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, the first in the Nation’s Capital since the new memorial to Dr. King opened on the mall. You may be planning to spend your Monday holiday in service-related activities, or demonstrating for the lack of civil rights in the [...]
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