‘Dangerously Delicious Pies Food Truck’
courtesy of ‘justgrimes’
Food trucks, it’s what’s for lunch.
By Ashley
Category Archives: The Daily Feed
By Ashley
By Sculpture Garden Ice Rink Opens on Saturday
‘Friends’
courtesy of ‘kimberlyfaye’
Well, it’s Monday. That sucks. But here’s some happy news to help you make it through the work week: the Sculpture Garden Ice Rink opens this Saturday. All your wintry date planning worries have been solved! If you make it out on the ice this Saturday or Sunday, you’ll also receive free hot chocolate. Pretty wintertastic if you ask me.
The rink is open from 10 a.m. – 11 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, 11 a.m. – 9 p.m. on Sundays, and 10 a.m. – 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Admission is $7 for adults and $6 for seniors, students and children 12 and under. Skate rentals are $3, and locker rentals are a whopping 50 cents.
By Tom Bridge
Metro’s weekend maintenance successful
‘Film – Canon A-1 – Morning At Cheverly Station’
courtesy of ‘mosley.brian’
This weekend’s station closures on the Orange Line and split of the Blue Line in Maryland may have been a major inconvenience for riders, but it allowed Metro to replace just under a mile of track, over 2000 rail ties, two track switches at Cheverly and repaired significant decay at the Minnesota Avenue station.
It’s nice to see Metro taking some steps to make major repairs, even if they’re a little inconvenient on the weekends. Did you ride the shuttles this weekend? How did they do?
By Tom Bridge
Bones fails the “Local” test
‘dino-snow’
courtesy of ‘philliefan99’
NBC Washington got caught up on the Anacostia misrepresentation on last week’s Bones and highlighted some of the delightfully laughable problems with their characterization of the neighborhood as prostitution-heavy, gang-violence-heavy and “seedy”:
“It’s also a historic neighborhood that is in the midst of a renaissance, with new businesses opening and new housing coming in, but that wouldn’t be as dramatic.”
Well, since when have the facts ever stopped Fox from deeply and terribly misappropriating DC’s geography for shits and giggles? I mean, 24 did a whole season of screwed up things here, so I have to ask: why is it that we expect Hollywood to do anything decent in this area?
By Tom Bridge
Cheat Sheet: Bye Week Edition
It’s Monday morning, and there’s a water cooler to talk at, but the Redskins are off this week. “Crap!” I can hear you thinking, “with no Redskins, I know that Darryl from Accounting is going to talk about the Wizards,” or “Roger from Marketing wants to talk about the Capitals!” Fear not, DC, we have your talking points regardless:
Hockey: It’s not just for breakfast anymore
Okay, relax. Hockey’s easy. Talk about how disappointed you are that the Caps haven’t put their offense all together yet. If they grill you, citing a few blowouts, ask about where Ovechkin’s mojo is. They might get defensive, yes, but you can say that you’re still happy with the top of the Southeast with last night’s overtime win. You’ll be fine. I promise. And get out to Verizon Center, that’s a pretty fun and fan-friendly atmosphere.
By Tom Bridge
Caps notch Overtime win against Philly, 3-2
Sunday night’s early evening game against the Flyers was full of opportunities for the Capitals to assert their dominance, but it was Philly that struck first. Nikolay Zherdev scored on the breakaway against Braden Holtby in his first NHL start. Holtby would block 23 of 25 and earn the second star tonight, including three beautiful back-to-back-to-back saves against a Flyers onslaught in the third period.
Eric Fehr and Alexander Semin would chalk up regulation goals in the first and the second for the Capitals, in an offensive performance that was mostly lackluster. The Caps would pepper Bobrovsky with 39 shots, striking just three times tonight. Worse were the missed connections from the Caps offense, which just couldn’t connect on the cross tonight, and had a number of difficulties clearing the puck.
The best chance for the Caps to finish off the Flyers came with 3:55 remaining in the third. Chris Pronger got booked on a double-minor for high-sticking, as he swatted defenseman Dave Steckel in the nose. The physical game was almost entirely in Philly’s corner tonight, with the Flyers outhitting the Caps 30-17, and that’s what got them into the situation that cost them the game. The Caps started overtime playing 5 on 3, and just 29 seconds into the period, Mike Green beat rookie minder Bobrovsky high on a laser shot to claim the victory.
By Tom Bridge
Just a Reminder: Major Metro work this weekend on Blue and Orange
‘106/365: Backwards motion’
courtesy of ‘Amber Wilkie Photography’
Metro closed three stations over Columbus Day weekend, five stations over Labor Day weekend, and this weekend, five stations on the Orange line are closed and the Blue line is split into two pieces between Stadium/Armory and Benning Road. Greater Greater has a good map for the weekend’s disruptions.
This weekend’s work is “state of good repair” work, which means largely deep infrastructure pieces are being attended to, including the stabilization of some elevated structures, and the replacement of track switches, rail ties, and some platform repairs at Minnesota Avenue. Trains return to normal on Monday, if the work is completed on time.
By Ashley
Chick-fil-A Celebrates Their Grand Opening with Freebies
‘Chick-Fil-A – St. Augustine, FL’
courtesy of ‘adamjackson1984’
It may be over a week away, but folks are already buzzing about the November 17th grand opening of the Arlington location of Chick-fil-A (2200 Crystal Drive). Not only for their so-bad-it’s-good, not open on Sundays, weird cow spokesman ways, but because they are welcoming themselves to town with a lot of free stuff.
For the truly dedicated, the fast food chain will give out a year’s supply of free Chick-fil-A meals to the first 100 adults in line at 6am on November 17th. (No word on whether you’ll be able to sign up for a year’s supply of angioplasties too.) For those of you that are thinking, “pshaw, who is going to line up in the middle of the night for $260 worth of chicken?” look no further than Denver, where the city’s Chick-fil-A opening inspired 200 people to line up the DAY BEFORE the same promotion.
If you can’t make that serious of a commitment, Chick-fil-A will be giving away 10,000 free sandwiches during the lunch hour on November 15th and November 16th. Go forth and “Eat Mor Chikin.”
By Charges dismissed against DC9 5
‘DC9 Memorial Ali, The Morning After’
courtesy of ‘Chris DiGiamo’
The US Attorney’s office has dismissed the charges against the 5 DC9 employees who were accused of assaulting Ali Ahmed Mohammed outside the club in connection with Muhammad’s death.
The charges were dismissed “without prejudice,” which means the US Attorney has the ability to re-file the charges at a later time. The Washington City Paper speculates that the dismissal is due to the continued lack of an autopsy report on Mohmmed, and that at such time that the report is released, the employees could be charged again.
Edit: in an editing error, the words “accused of” were originally left out of the first sentence. They have been added. We Love DC regrets the error.
New parking meter installation progresses
‘New DC Parking Meters’
courtesy of ‘Mr. T in DC’
DDOT announced today that it’s in the process of installing 1150 new single-space, solar-powered, credit card–accepting parking meters around the city. The solar meters were the first of several pilots DDOT has used to prepare to upgrade the city’s parking infrastructure.
DDOT tells us that you can expect to see most of the new meters downtown, where there aren’t already multispace meters, and in the U St. Corridor. Both are high-demand areas where healthy turnover is desirable.
For someone in the process of getting rid of her car, I’m probably disproportionately excited about this, and about the in-car metering system (like Arlington’s iPark) and pay-by-cell options that will also be rolled out in the next year. But nonetheless, making it easier for people to pay for their parking instead of risking a ticket because they didn’t have 32 quarters on them benefits everyone, including the city, which will realize additional revenue simply by making it easier to collect it.
This really just leaves my last remaining parking gripe- Only being able to pay for 2 hours of parking before 6:30 when those two hours of parking will expire well within the 4-hour parking period. Let’s see if we can get that fixed too, okay?
By Hot Ticket: The Beatdown – Indie Life Edition @ U Street Music Hall 11/7/10
This Sunday marks the return of DC’s premier Hip Hop producer event The Beatdown at U Street Music Hall. To kick off the show Twenty20’s SmCity and Studio 43’s Ra the MC will perform both backed by live bands. Throughout the night, DJ Marc Nfinit wlll be spinning music to keep the party going.
The Beatdown’s return is in collaboration with SmCity’s The Indie Life movement. The Indie Life is a series of events, music and film projects from SmCity in the spirit of the independent music experience.
The Beatdown is not beat a battle. It’s a platform for established producers to showcase their latest music to their core fans before they become hits. The guests of honor Bink (Jay-Z, Rick Ross), 88 Keys (Kanye West, Kid Cudi) DJ Spinna (Eminem, Pharoahe Monch) and Kev Brown (Busta Rhymes, De La Soul) will premiere music that has never been played for public audience until now. U Street Music Hall features one of the city’s best sound systems, making it the perfect venue for this event.
The Beatdown: Indie Life Edition
11/7/10
@ U Street Music Hall
$10 adv / $15 @ the door
By Brittany
Red Palace Opens Saturday
‘Susan outside the Palace of Wonders’
courtesy of ‘Anosmia’
Saturday will see the first event at the new Red Palace. A combination of the buildings and concepts previously known as The Red & The Black and Palace of Wonders, the new venue, located at 1210 – 1212 H St NE, will boast a larger stage and refreshed interior, but hopes to maintain the intimacy that people liked about two of DC’s most-popular small venues.
Red Palace will be christened with the 8th Annual Dangerously Delicious Pie and Rock-n-Roll Extravaganza hosted in conjunction with the bar’s bakery neighbor. The 18+ show will feature several bands and, I assume, pie. Red Palace’s schedule currently lists several burlesque nights, local and touring bands, and the next Nerd Nite DC with presentations on the carbon market, sanitation, and The Russian Futurists.
By Ashley
Food News at City Vista
‘New on K’
courtesy of ‘M.V. Jantzen’
The retail space in the City Vista building at 5th St. and K St. NW has been drawing some D.C. favorites since opening in 2007, and it doesn’t look like they’ll be slowing down any time soon. With news this week that the Michael Landrum-owned space opening in the building would be an “urban bakeshop/cafe,” we are now up to three soon-to-be-opened restaurants in one little building.
Landrum, he of Ray’s-the-Everything fame, told Todd Kliman at the Washingtonian that they have already started construction on Ryse (pronounced “rise”) in the former T-Mobile space. They plan to primarily be a coffeehouse, but will serve salads and sandwiches and possibly frozen yogurt. It also sounds like the City Vista Ryse will be just the first location of Landrum’s future coffee joints around the city.
By Ashley
Food Truck Tracker
‘DC Slices Truck’
courtesy of ‘foodtruckapp’
Food trucks, get ’em while they’re hot.
By Don
SmarTrips for sale at local universities, and who cares?
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courtesy of ‘Chris Rief aka Spodie Odie’
The latest press release out of WMATA trumpets “Metro is making it easier for area university students to take advantage of SmarTrip® convenience and savings with cards now being sold at the American University campus bookstore.” The buzzkill is in the second sentence, stating that adding value will be possible there “later this year.”
At this point does anyone give a shit? The only SmarTrip vending question I need answered anymore is “why isn’t there a machine vending these next to all the fare machines at every metro stop?” I suppose it’s two questions really, because I still don’t know why the sale of these things is treated like some sort of controlled munition rather than something that could reside next to the Fritos.
How many man hours at WMATA are spent administering and dealing with this oddly tightly controlled SmarTrip sales methodology? You can buy a cellphone more easily than a SmarTrip and you can be sure that Virgin and TracPhone don’t make it as hard for stores to become resellers… despite the phone costing ten times as much.
Two trains collide in NE
‘DSC_0128b’
courtesy of ‘D©Bloom’
According to DC Fire & EMS Twitter, a freight train and an empty MARC train collided (WTOP describes it as a “bump”) near the 900 block of 2nd Street NE around 9:20 this morning, causing a derailment. While the freight train appears to be empty too, HAZMAT, tech rescue, and mass casualty units have been dispatched just in case. So far 4-5 minor injuries have been treated.
MARC service on the Penn line has been suspended and Metro is honoring MARC tickets.
By Tom Bridge
Do we have to treat every abandoned package like it’s a bomb?
‘matt’s suspicious package returns from lunch’
courtesy of ‘wetwebwork’
As I write this, 14th street is FUBAR between Rhode Island Ave NW and Q St NW because someone forgot to take their backpack, or their box of paper napkins, or threw out a small sealed box. Have we gone too far with our treatment of these abandoned items? Must every little thing somehow be a threat that requires the closures of whole blocks while the bomb squad is summoned, and hits a Transformer on the way to the site, and then declares the box to be napkins or newspaper or a dead newt?
But the question is: why do we so badly overreact to this whole thing? Why do we have to seal off the block and prevent traffic going through so we can figure out it’s a box of napkins? Have there ever actually been an IED or a bomb in one of those backpacks or boxes? Or is it just Johnny’s school books or a dead old backpack?
Either way, something’s gotta give here. I think that there ought to be fines for causing one of these events. You want to shut down a block of DC by carelessly leaving something behind? If we can trace it back to you, that’s a $5,000 fine. Fewer packages, AND a line item for assholes in the DC Budget. Hell, it can go to fund the Bomb Squad.
Just a Reminder…
‘National Christmas Tree’
courtesy of ‘Murmurmel’
…that the lottery for the National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony begins tonight at 12:01 a.m. and will run through 11:59 p.m. on Sunday. With daylight saving this weekend, you have a whole extra hour to enter the drawing…and so does everyone else, which actually probably hurts your chances. But let’s focus on that whole extra hour you have to enter. The actual ceremony will take place on Dec. 9, and ticket winners will be announced next week.
By Don
Arena stage decides they need MORE COWBELL
‘High-wire’
courtesy of ‘afagen’
If I ever stop enjoying the odd press releases that roll into my mailbox I’ll know it’s time to stop writing here. Today’s gem is from Arena Stage and they’re courting the farm aficionado in their new marketing effort.
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater announces that a petting zoo provided by Pony To Go will be available for children and families to enjoy before all Saturday matinee performances of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!
The second-best thing in this press release is the mention of business Pony To Go – who, despite their name, does not cater to French diners with no time to sit down to eat – and a link to their website… which includes a link to a page titled “pony party prices.” My favorite alliteration of the week.
I think it’s a great promotional idea, though, and kudos to Arena for thinking of it. It’s not clear from the press release whether they’re policing access to ticket-holders only, so if you’re the type to crash a petting zoo you might try dropping by Arena an hour before matinee showtime any Saturday this month.
By Tom Bridge
Mayor-Elect Gray skips police funeral for lunch at 4th Estate
‘vince gray blogger roundtable’
courtesy of ‘Dave Stroup’
It’s going to be a long day for Vince Gray, Mayor-Elect of the District of Columbia. Instead of attending the funeral of Officer Paul Dittamo, who died last week in the line of duty, Gray was in the dining room at the 4th Estate, the restaurant in the National Press Club, according to the restaurant’s Twitter account. We called The Fourth Estate, and he arrived at 1pm for a lunch with Council Chair-Elect Kwame Brown, where he still sits at press time.
According to the Post’s Mike Debonis, Fraternal Order of Police chief Kris Baumann was “apoplectic” at the no-show. You can understand his frustration and anger, given that Baumann and the Police union were leading supporters for Gray on his campaign.
I may not be a political consultant, but I can tell you that missing the funeral of an officer who died in the line of duty is probably a pretty bad idea, and you’re going to be doing more apologizing than you probably should be the first week of your transition.
Update, 4:25 PM: Gray told ABC7 that he missed the funeral because his staff didn’t tell him it was happening. (Which seems odd to us, because we sure knew it was happening and we’re not mayor-elect of anything.)