Posts Tagged ‘crystal city’
We Love Drinks: The 1K Beer Walk
Porter
courtesy of jcm_DC
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 [...]
First Look: SOCCi
‘SOCCi Sign’
courtesy of ‘A. L. Huber’
Often, hotel restaurants get a bad reputation that is sorely undeserved. There are many truly great restaurants that adjoin hotels that often get forgotten when thinking about fine cuisine – Blue Duck Tavern in Foggy Bottom springs to mind immediately. SOCCi, short for South of Crystal City Italian, is a [...]
Where We Live: Crystal City
‘Crystal City – Lightning Ball’
courtesy of ‘Mo Kaiwen è�«æ¥·æ��’
Welcome to another edition of Where We Live. This week we’re hopping on the yellow line, crossing the river, and checking out Crystal City. When I started looking into Crystal City for this feature, I wasn’t too sure what I would find– a neighborhood named after [...]
Paella Sundays
‘two types of paella’
courtesy of ‘needlessspaces’
The Crystal City branch of Jaleo, José Andrés’ award-winning tapas restaurant, is hosting Paella Sundays from 4pm to closings. Diners can experience a traditional Spanish Sunday Supper complete with gazpacho, salad, paella and flan for $18 per person (excluding of tax and tip).
Every Sunday, guests can enjoy unlimited [...]
Artist Anne Marchand’s Luminous
‘Walkthrough Art’
courtesy of ‘Kevin H.’
The Crystal City BID’s ARTFUL Program, which hopes to share with people the influence that art can have over public spaces, is currently exhibiting Lumnious by Washington, DC -based artist Anne Marchand. Marchand’s Luminous exhibition features eight large, mixed media canvases inspired by a combination of mystical poetry and images taken [...]
Bike Rentals Coming to Crystal City
‘Just Another Sight’
courtesy of ‘M.V. Jantzen’
The Crystal City Business Improvement District just announced a new program coming in the Spring of 2010: a 100-bike Commuter Hub, which will offer bike rentals to commuters, tourists, or residents. The Commuter Hub will be located at 220 Twentieth Street, a new LEED-certified apartment building in Crystal City. Revolution [...]
We Love Food: El Pollito
El pollito, courtesy of Me
Overall I’m inclined to agree with Carl about the crack metaphor: it’s overused, and unless you punched your mother in the face or [redacted] someone’s [redacted] and then let them [redacted] in order to get it, then NO, that chicken ISN’T like crack.
When Tom Sietsema went and checked out El Pollito [...]
We Love Arts: “Legacy of Light”
It makes perfect sense that a theater company whose current renovations will include a new space to be christened “the Cradle” would commission a play about motherhood in all its forms. Karen Zacarias’s “Legacy of Light,” at Arena Stage in Crystal City now through June 14, is a wide embrace of these themes – the [...]
More »Crystal Couture In Review
The Gossip on 23rd Runway Show at Crystal City Couture
On Wednesday, I headed over to Crystal City for dinner with friends and then a stop at the Crystal Couture Work Wear Wednesday event. Housed inside loft-like industrial space, the large room was set up with vendors selling work wear outfits, a runway, a cash [...]
