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We Love Music: Field Trip: What I learned at Coachella 2012
Last weekend I spent a sunny, super-hot, music-filled 3 days at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, in Indio, California, just outside of Palm Springs. The festival, which has taken place since 1999, features five main stages/tents set up with music of many genres playing from as early as noon each day until after 1am, and [...]
More »Opinion: Why We Worry About Radios and Openness
Nacho #24courtesy of Chris Rief aka Spodie Odie If you want a clear explanation about why some of us were – and are – irked by the MPD moving to encrypted police radios, well, look no further than last Friday’s court decision ordering the MPD to release documents that DC law says they must. It’s [...]
More »Why I Love DC: Mickey
5891-1027 courtesy of furcafe “What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery, and loss. Did I listen [...]
More »Why I Love DC: Joanna Castle Miller
353/365 courtesy of ekelly80 I moved to DC (okay, NoVa to be exact) from New York via my hometown of Memphis, and love the fact that here I can get moonshine and fried pickles but still have winter sports and a subway system. I love that DC is misunderstood and can play the victim. The [...]
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 [...]
More »Best of…DC Perspectives
268|365 courtesy of Danilo.Lewis|Fotography I’ll admit, I struggled a bit trying to figure out what to write a “Best of…” article around for this week. Sports? Covered. Food? Taken. I had to look deeper than the usual fare: what was it about DC—and about WeLoveDC in particular—that I really enjoyed over the past year? I [...]
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