Archive for the ‘The District’ Category
Where Do Those Darn Potholes Come From?
Last week, Mayor Gray and DDOT kicked off Potholepalooza 2011, our city’s intensified efforts to fill those tire-busting, shock killing road hazards. In an effort to let our powers combine, DDOT is asking DC residents to tell them about neighborhood potholes that need fixing. You can target these car nightmares and curse inducing potholes by [...]
More »Blossom Kite Festival Rescheduled to Sunday, April 10
’44th annual Smithsonian Kite Festival’ courtesy of ‘cruffo’ Last weekend’s postponed kite festival has been rescheduled for Sunday, April 10th from 10am until 4pm. Check the event’s official website for updates on the day’s activities. If you’re looking for a kite, Sullivan’s Toy Store and Art Supplies (3412 Wisconsin Avenue NW) store has plenty in [...]
More »Weekend Flashback 3/25-03/27/11
‘Cherry Blossoms in the Dark’ courtesy of ‘kimberlyfaye’ Despite chilly temperatures, spring has sprung in our lovely Capitol City. The trees, and not just the cherry trees, are abloom; DC denizens are fully emerging from their winter comas; runners, outdoor enthusiasts and sports teams seem to taken up every nook and cranny of green space [...]
More »WARL’s Pasta for Pets
‘Cats Eating Pasta’ courtesy of ‘Lee Coursey’ Spaghetti Dinner? Yum! Bingo? Well, Bingo! Raising money for in need kittens and puppies? Snorgle-rific! Combining them all? Epic interspecies snorgling and noming, which is exactly what the Washington Animal Rescue League has planned for its annual Pasta for Pets event to be held Saturday, March 19 from [...]
More »Sprinkles Cupcakes Comes To DC
There is a new edition to the saturated DC cupcake scene and it comes to M Street in Georgetown in the form of a pink and brown row house. Sprinkles Cupcakes, started in 2002 by Candace Nelson and her husband Charles, opened in 2002 in Beverly Hills, is the Magnolia Bakery of the West Coast and has been [...]
More »Campaign Update: 54 Days Until Election Day
‘Candidates for DC Council At-Large Seat’courtesy of ‘luisgomezphotos’ There are 54 days until election day in the At-Large special election to fill Kwame Brown’s empty At-Large seat, but that’s not the only deadline left. This past week, the public had the opportunity to inspect the signatures gathered by each candidate and decide if they were [...]
More »An Evening with Fred Armisen @ The Black Cat
The show was sold out. A packed mainstage concert room full of hipsters, preppies, middle age couples and the like mixed it up, awaiting Fred Armisen of SNL and more recently, Portlandia, fame to take the stage. Taking place at the Black Cat, and heavily promoted by Brightest Young Things, the show was simply described as “An [...]
More »Tornado Alert Issued For Arlington County
’206/365: Stormfront’ courtesy of ‘Amber Wilkie Photography’ Effective immediately The National Weather Service has issued a tornado watch for Arlington County lasting until 4:00 pm this afternoon. It’s reported that severe storms have formed west of Arlington and the atmospheric conditions are favorable for tornadic development. The NWS advises resident to be prepared as tornadoes can [...]
More »Homemade Pizza Co. Comes to Georgetown
Although the Homemade Pizza Co. has five other locations in the DC area, I’ll readily admit to never hearing of them or even noticing that I’ve walked by one. That was until they opened their latest shop in my neighborhood and a held three day long celebration featuring free pizza, salad and the owners grilling (yes, grilling) up [...]
More »DC Farm To School Network
‘i fear school lunch’ courtesy of ‘amarino17′ Although I’m not THAT far out of high school, my memories of cafeteria lunches are fairly limited, which leads me to believe that the food served was…well…unmemorable. That is, it wasn’t good enough to be noteworthy and it wasn’t bad enough to be permanently seared into my mind. [...]
More »Eater Names Fojol Bros To Top 20 Food Truck List
‘Fojol Bros. of Merlindia’ courtesy of ‘Dave Kleinschmidt’ Ahhhh…Fojol Brothers. You make lunch in DC so strange, wonderful and delicious. You are well worthy of your newly bestowed spot on Eater’s “List of Top Twenty Food Trucks in America.” Represent DC baby! Represent! If you have yet to experience the cuisine and showmanship of this [...]
More »Buses Operating On Snow Emergency Routes
‘Metro in the snow’ courtesy of ‘BrianMKA’ After last night show dumping, Metrobuses began the Thursday morning commute operating on snow emergency routes. What that means to us Metrobus commuters is that your bus will likely be operating on a revised or even limited route, because side streets have not been plowed enough for complete [...]
More »We Love Music: The Dismemberment Plan @ Black Cat, 1/21/11
If you interviewed for a job at the Twitter corporate headquarters some time in 2008, you were likely asked to name your “theme song” – the song that should play in the background as you walked on screen or into a room. The question was not just one of taste or tip-of-the-tongue recall, though it [...]
More »All About Voting Centers
‘VOTE’ courtesy of ‘nevermindtheend’ The news came out about a week ago, that DC was considering moving to voting centers for the special election in April. Since there, there’s been a lot to say on both sides of the issue, and some excellent points made by both sides about what it would mean to cut [...]
More »Town & Country Goes to the Farm
‘Town and Country’ courtesy of ‘Don Feduardo’ You might have seen this already. Tonight’s last call will truly be the last for (insert-cliché-here) bar Town & Country at the Mayflower, closing to make room for a relocated Thomas Pink store in what appears to be a complete renovation of the hotel’s ground floor. The Social [...]
More »Phillips Collection celebrates 90th Birthday this weekend
‘Phillips Collection Music Room’courtesy of ‘Kevin H.’ The Phillips Collection in Dupont Circle, when it opened in 1921, became the country’s first museum to focus on modern art, beating New York’s MOMA by 8 years. Founded by the scion of steel baron Duncan Clinch Philips, the museum has been a central hub of the modern [...]
More »Heavyweight DC lawyer vs. the DC judicial system
‘Nacho #19′ courtesy of ‘Chris Rief aka Spodie Odie’ Via Legal Times comes this story about a DC lawyer who was arrested for “disorderly conduct” (after insulting a police officer), was asked to pay $35 at the station and forfeit the right to a hearing or be taken to the District’s central cellblock. He did [...]
More »At-Large Councilmember Michael Brown considering At-Large run
‘dc election day’ courtesy of ‘Paige Weaver’ Yes, you read that correctly. D.C. Councilmember Michael A. Brown (I-at Large) is considering running for D.C. Council in the upcoming special election to fill Kwame Brown’s soon-to-be-vacant at-large seat. Brown, who was elected to the Council as an independent in 2008 has been itching to switch his [...]
More »Cause of death released in DC9 case
‘St Elisabeth’s Hospital – Surgical reports’ courtesy of ‘spiggycat’ This afternoon the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner released the cause of death of Ali Mohammed. Mohammed died outside of the DC9 nightclub on October 15 after an altercation. The report classifies the death as a homicide, and lists the cause of death as “Excited [...]
More »He Loves DC: Spike Mendelsohn
The world first met Spike Mendelsohn as a brash young contestant on “Top Chef: Season Four.” Two years later, he’s become one of Washington’s culinary darlings, making his mark on Capitol Hill with his two restaurants, Good Stuff Eatery and We, the Pizza. Now, he’s back on “Top Chef: All-Stars” (you can catch him on [...]
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