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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 [...]
We Love Weekends: Jan 27 – 29
(361/365)
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If you’re not already building an Ark then maybe you need something to do with yourself the next few days. Well, we have some ideas to run past you.
Mosley: Birthday weekend! And I plan on starting the festivities tonight: it’s the last night to see Girl With the Dragon Tattoo at the Lincoln Theatre. [...]
Nationals add Lidge to Strengthen Already Deep Bullpen
Brad Lidge
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The Nationals missed out on Prince Fielder when the Tigers swooped in at the last minute to offer a 9 year $214 million dollar contract. That doesn’t mean the off-season is over and it certainly doesn’t mean Mike Rizzo is done trying to improve the Nats. Since the Nats failed to strengthen [...]
Rogue Sessions with Spike Gjerde
Photo courtesy of Angie Salame
I write this while in a full blown food coma (#foodieproblems) with a delightful pain and taste bud/sensory overload, but more over, faced with writer’s dilemma, trying to find a way to describe the past four hours of absolute mastery that just went down at Rogue 24. Long -24 course and [...]
Capital Chefs: Ris Lacoste of Ris (Part 2)
Ris Lacoste’s Endive, Walnut & Blue Cheese Salad with Port Vinaigrette
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If you’re like me, you spend a lot of time wandering through the produce aisles staring at vegetables and wondering what in the world you should make with them. You’re overwhelmed by the options and the daunting threat of those veggies passing [...]
Capital Chefs: Ris Lacoste of Ris (Part 1)
Chef Ris Lacoste
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Growing up, Ris Lacoste thought she would be anything but a chef. She was a pre-med student for two years at the University of Rochester; then she had visions of becoming a UN translator when she got her degree in French at UC-Berkeley. But all the while, Ris was working [...]
We Love Drinks: The 1K Beer Walk
Porter
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If you’ve ever wanted to run a marathon but worry about whether your beer gut will slow you down, Washington Wine Academy’s DC School of Beer has a perfect solution: the Beer Walk!
The beer walk took place last Saturday and Sunday – a week after the wine walk – in the underground [...]
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 3-game [...]
We Love Music: Cass McCombs @ Ottobar, 1/21/2012
Cass McCombs turned Baltimore’s Ottobar into a spacey dreamworld during his set Saturday night. In the midst of his US winter tour, he played with a full backing band, including keys, bass, guitar, pedal-steel guitar and drums. Opening was Frank Fairfield, along for the duration of the tour, and Walker and Jay.
First to the stage was the Baltimore based trio [...]
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“Going Home” courtesy of Paul Frederiksen A good long exposure makes for a great picture. And if you take the shot in the right light, it can become magical. Take Paul’s long exposure of traffic along the George Washington Parkway. We see traffic coming and going; the white of the oncoming lights and the red of the receding ones. But in addition to the artificial light, there’s the wonderful purple and oranges of the evening sky.
More »Weekend Flashback: 1/20-1/22
“Living in the Shadows” courtesy of csuspect Please raise your hand if you hate weekend snow fall as much as I do. Talk about a waste. At least everyone who follows the Federal Government got a two hour delayed opening. The rest of us get to walk/drive through the ice the slackers never around to shoving when it was snow (personally, I’m looking at you Park Service; if I slip while walking through Franklin Park, it’s on!).
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 DCCK [...]
Paul Pierce Carries The Celtics To A Win Over Wizards
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Celtics star Point Guard Rajon Rondo was ruled out of today’s game against the Wizards with a sprained right wrist. In the second quarter Ray Allen left the game with a jammed left ankle. Slumping and battered, the Celtics looked like a prime target for the Wizards, who have been improving their [...]
Nuggets Outrun Wizards, Boos Keep Raining On Blatche
The Wizards had a little swagger in their step as they took the court Friday night. Coming off a big win over the NBA-best Oklahoma City Thunder, the ‘zards went up against the Denver Nuggets and pummeled them in the first quarter. Washington scored a season-high 37 points and were in the game down to the end.
However [...]
Hot Ticket: Cass McCombs @ Ottobar, 1/21/2012
Cass McCombs brings soulful, mellow, dreamy rock to Baltimore’s Ottobar this Saturday night. He has received high praise from the likes of John Peel and Pitchfork Media, and has performed or toured with Cat Power, Andrew Bird, Blonde Redhead & Modest Mouse among many others.
His sixth album (and second in 2011), Humor Risk, was released [...]
We Love Food: Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year courtesy of Dave Newman (newmanchu)
It’s the Year of the Dragon folks, which other than promising good fortune and fire-breathing glory also means mouth-watering Chinese menus at some of DC’s best Asian haunts. Starting January 23rd Zentan, Toki Underground, and The Source will be paying homage to the Dragon through the culinary traditions [...]
Breaking Down The Sh*t DC Says Video
What’s really great about a viral meme based on stereotypes is that it can be easily replicated. The problem about a viral meme based on stereotypes is that it can easily be replicated.
We roared at My New Haircut, laughed at My New Haircut: Asian Edition, groaned at My New Haircut: Irish Edition.
So when Shit Girls [...]
We Love Weekends – Jan 20-22
Full On Scream IV
courtesy of SoulStealer.co.uk
Mosley: A two day weekend…how did we get by with only two days off again? Anyways, this weekend is actually pretty open for me, except for one thing. I have this thing where I like to see bad movies; not Sharktopus bad, but more like major studio production bad. [...]
We Love Arts: Little Murders
Photo by Dennis Deloria
Cartoonist Jules Feiffer doesn’t ink funnies. Instead he speaks his mind through art, be it what a woman thinks or how the nation elects a President. So when you consider the dangerous world of New York City depicted in American Century Theatre’s “Little Murders“, you have to realize that a premise that [...]
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“Attack From Above” courtesy of Mondmann And now for something completely different. Forced Perspective is a technique which can create some fun shots. By manipulating our perception of scale and perspective, it creates an optical allusion that objects are larger or smaller than they actually are, are at least in comparison to other objects.
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