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Call for Food Truck Tracker Pictures

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‘The Barr Building’
courtesy of ‘vpickering’

Every day we, along with the strEATS DC, bring you the Food Truck Tracker. And everyday all of you fine readers add more pictures to our awesome We Love DC flickr photo pool so that we can continue to bring you snazzy, cool content.

Now this is somewhat of a personal plea, but my eyes (and I’m sure yours as well) grow tired of seeing the same pictures time and time again. So, my roving eaters, I’m asking you all to take a minute the next time you dine at a food truck, snap a picture and submit it to our flickr pool. Be it a picture of the truck, the long lines, the food–anything food truck related–we want to see it. Make sure you tag it with the label “food truck” when you add it to the pool. You’ll get credited and all the world will see your food truckeriffic photography, and you’ll give my eyes (and everyone else’s) something new to feast on.

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Food Truck Tracker

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‘Dueling treat machines’
courtesy of ‘Gersemalina’

It’s lunchtime. So you’ve got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya punk? And if you do in fact feel lucky, you should try your hand at making it through one of the food truck lines.

Also, go vote for the strEATS DC team (the providers of our lovely Food Truck map) in Tech Cocktail’s DC’s hottest early-stage startups!
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Fort Reno publishes schedule through mid-July

Photo courtesy of
‘Seven Door Sedan, Fort Reno’
courtesy of ‘Photos by Chip Py’

It’s hard not to love the Fort Reno music series that runs through the summer, it’s one of the hallmarks of a very DC summer. This morning, the schedule through the middle of July was published, with the first five show cards put up.  Concerts run Mondays and Thursdays starting at 7:15pm and ending at 9:30pm at Fort Reno Park, a short wlak from the Tenleytown Metro. Remember: no drugs, alcohol or glass bottles at the shows, but feel free to bring a picnic for you and your friends to share in the park.

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Person of Interest detained in bomb threat on Red Line

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’95/365′
courtesy of ‘Danilo.Lewis|Fotography’

If you commuted on the Red Line this morning, you know exactly how bad things were. With Rockville station closed, and buses bridging the gap amid a bomb threat, getting into town today from the Northwest was a pretty ugly experience full of delays and the smell of hot armpit. Dr. Gridlock has a first-person accounting of the threat, and the news that WMATA and MTPD have detained an individual thought to be involved in the incident on an inbound train first thing this morning.

It’s satisfying to hear that MTPD has detained someone, and you hope that they get the help that they need, or spend some time atoning for their sins. When most of these threats and suspicious packages often go unhandled, it’d good to see one get a quick arrest.

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Friday Happy Hour: Teaism Chai Shake

When I was in high school in Dupont Circle, I had a friend who worked part-time at the R Street Teaism. Occasionally, to amuse herself during shifts, she would play a bit with the yuppies and faux-autheticity-seeking customers who came along. When one of them ordered the chai shake, she would “correct” their pronunciation.

“The chai shaa-KAY?” she would say. Clearly Teaism was a place too fancy for a pedestrian shake. Most times, the customer would quickly follow along. “The shaa-KAY. Of course. That is what I meant.” Part of the game was to see how many would then order it that way next time – and many did.
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Capital Pride 2011

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‘rainbow’
courtesy of ‘redjoe’

This weekend is Capital Pride a festival which has been happening in one form or another in Washington since 1975. This brings with it plenty of events and activities for the whole DC community to get out and enjoy.

I asked my friend Shevonne, Editor in Chief of Where the Girls Go – a great blog for anybody, focusing on arts, culture, and life in DC with a queer bent – to give me her tips on parties, parades, and Pride.
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This Week in Food

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‘Shake Shack’
courtesy of ‘willandbeyond’
Burgers & More

In love with Shake Shack but can’t stand the long line? Maybe you will have better luck at Nationals Park, where the second Shake Shack opens next week along with Blue Smoke‘s barbecue, Box Frites (“Belgian-style fries and dipping sauces”) and El Verano Taqueria. Read more from EaterDC or check out Tom Sietsema’s review of the burgers here.

14th Street

Washington City Paper brings us some food news like always. We already knew that the Whisk Group abandoned its two tiered Italian food concept for the old Italian Shirt Laundry Space at 14th and Q Street NW. Now we’re told Starr Restaurant Group  from Philadelphia is close to signing a lease at that spot for its “super-French Parc concept.”

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Metro adds parking availability to website and mobile devices for Fort Totten station

Metered and ADA Parking Status at Fort Totten

Metro this morning announced that they are piloting a new parking availability program for 32 metered parking spaces and 4 ADA parking spaces at the Fort Totten Metro. The system will allow people to check the availability of the parking spaces there from a web browser or Android or iOS device using the Parker app.

The spaces use pavement sensors and parking meter sensors to determine if spaces are available or taken.

Currently, those 32 spaces are the only spaces in DC that are being monitored by Parker, so it’s a bit of a unitasker at the moment. If you frequently park at Fort Totten, though, it might just be awesome. Hopefully Metro will be able to expand their usage of this program going forward, and perhaps DDOT could help create this for zones throughout the city.

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MPD Officers who coordinated Sheen escort transferred

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‘Cop Car in Georgetown’
courtesy of ‘Hoosiers United’

Earlier this week, MPD Captain Robert Atcheson and Lieutenant Stuart Emerman were moved within the police department to new assignments, allegedly for coordinating the police escort of Charlie Sheen and others. The two were reassigned from the Department’s Special Operations Division to unknown parts, which I’m guessing might be walking foot patrol in Langston-Carver. Rend Smith has a piece on the City Paper site that suggests that others were moved at the same time in an attempt to make this move look a little more “normal.”

Kris Baumann, head of the Fraternal Order of Police in the District, is disputing the Chief’s claim that these moves are not punitive in nature.

Should the cops who handled these escort operations get the shaft in these circmstances?

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DCCK’s Burger Battle at Harry’s Smokehouse

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‘8/365 – matchbox mini-burgers’
courtesy of ‘dracisk 365/365’

DC has been in a burger bonanza lately, but this weekend there’s a burger battle that you can enjoy while helping a good cause.

DC Central Kitchen and Harry’s Smokehouse (formerly Harry’s Taproom) are partnering up for a burger cookoff this Sunday, June 12th from 6 PM to 9 PM at Harry’s Pentagon City location. Chefs-in-training from DCCK will compete to make the best sliders for the audience’s and judge’s vote.

Tickets are $20 and all proceeds go to DCCK. In addition to getting to scarf down mini burgers and dishes from Harry’s Smokehouse’s grand opening, you’ll get wine and beer with your admission ticket. A good way to round out the weekend.

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New Chefs de Cuisine at DC Coast and Michel

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‘Watershed- Washington, DC’
courtesy of ‘Plantains and Kimchi’

In most recent chef news (other than which celebri-chef or popular chain are coming to DC), two DC restaurants have new chefs de cuisine.

Matt Kuhn, who has already been at DC Coast as the sous chef for two years, was recently bumped up to chef de cuisine for the restaurant following some minor renovations. “The team loves Matt. He has a great temperament,” said Jeff Tunks, a chef and one of the partners in Passion Food LLC. “He’s open to hearing concerns and ideas, and has an easy-going southern manner, and that makes for a good dynamic in a professional kitchen. Previously, Kuhn worked at FIG in Charleston.

Over in Tysons Corner at Michel, Jon Mathieson was named the chef de cuisine. Mathieson was previously the chef/owner of the now closed Inox and prior to that was the chef de cuisine at 2941. “I cook with a love for the classics, and at Michel at The Ritz-Carlton, I can offer the commitment to excellence that Chef Richard exemplifies,” said Mathieson. Mathieson’s accolades before coming to DC include positions at Le Bernardin and Lespinasse in New York, as well as executive chef at Stonehedge Inn in Tyngsboro, MA, where he won three stars from the Boston Globe and four diamonds from AAA.

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Nationals add three in Amateur Draft

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‘The team’
courtesy of ‘fishhawk’

While the Nationals toiled in San Francisco (a game they would lose 5-4 in 13 innings), the front office staff and general manager Mike Rizzo were busy in the war rooms at Nationals Park working out who they would take in the MLB Entry Draft yesterday.

The Nationals have enjoyed the first pick in each of the last two drafts, putting them in the position to take Bryce Harper and Stephen Strasburg, two of the strongest draft picks that the sport has had to offer in a generation. The Nationals added 3B Anthony Rendon with the sixth pick in the draft after three years at Rice University where he hit .371 with 46 doubles, 52 homers and just under 200 RBI in 187 games. Rendon, whose 21st birthday was yesterday, is 6′, 190lbs and was considered to be a plus defender at third, though was quick to tell reporters he’d be happy to play anywhere, so long as it meant playing.
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Smithsonian Snapshot: Parachute Wedding Dress

The parachute wedding dress (120mm ektachrome); photo courtesy Smithsonian Institution

This week, in honor of the 67th anniversary of the D-Day landings AND the onset of wedding season, the Smithsonian Snapshot brings you an interesting artifact that ties both World War II and weddings that is currently not on display. This wedding dress was made from a nylon parachute that saved Maj. Claude Hensinger during the Pacific campaign.

In August 1944, Hensinger, a B-29 pilot and his crew were returning from a bombing raid over Yowata, Japan, when their engine caught fire. The crew was forced to bail out. Suffering from only minor injuries, Hensinger used the parachute as a pillow and blanket as he waited to be rescued. He kept the parachute that had saved his life. He later proposed to his girlfriend Ruth in 1947, offering her the material for a gown.

Ruth wanted to create a dress similar to one in the movie Gone with the Wind. She hired a local seamstress, Hilda Buck, to make the bodice and veil. Ruth made the skirt herself; she pulled up the strings on the parachute so that the dress would be shorter in the front and have a train in the back. The couple married July 19, 1947. The dress was also worn by the their daughter and by their son’s bride before being gifted to the Smithsonian.

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Harry Thomas referred to the US Attorney

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‘Councilman Harry Thomas and BNCA President Caroline Petti’
courtesy of ‘tbridge’

The District’s Attorney General Irv Nathan revealed a report this morning that alleges significant malfeasance on the part of sitting Ward 5 councilmember Harry “Tommy” Thomas Jr.  The report alleges that Councilman Thomas “converted” $300,000 in taxpayer funds to funds for personal use, and the complaint has been subject to a civil suit for more than $1M in damages, the legal limit for the statutes.

In addition, the AG referred the matter to the office of the US Attorney for investigation, which would add criminal prosecution to the civil action.  Councilman Thomas has announced a 3pm Press Conference on the steps of the Wilson Building. Details forthcoming.

A recall of Thomas, just elected in November, would require 10% of the registered voters in Ward 5, or approximately 6,100 valid signatures.