Brad Pitt Has Your Secret Shit: Rolling DC

lol

Yes to Four Sisters Vietnamese. And go to the nearby H Mart Korean Supermarket

Also, Burmese restaurant Myanmar had good food when I ate there many moons back, but I see Yelpsters are complaining about its customer service

Meanwhile in Maryland

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/could-a-new-wave-of-boutique-coffee-beer-and-bao-buns-remake-silver-sprung/2014/12/22/2016291a-8232-11e4-8882-03cf08410beb_story.html

http://www.vulture.com/2014/12/why-is-washington-dc-an-art-desert.html

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/visual-arts/2014/12/29/why-the-d-c-gallery-landscape-isnt-as-barren-as-outsiders-claim/

@DennisThePerrin
It's snowing here in DC, which of course means martial law.

lol

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/going-out-guide/wp/2014/12/31/the-year-in-cheap-eating-the-best-of-the-20-diner/

I haven't gone yet to Tim Carman's #1. Taqueria Habanero .

Was underwhelmed by Honorable mention pick Elephant Jumps.

Some D.C. Food critics--Tom S., Tim C., Tyler C., Todd K. Today's suggestions are brought to you by the letter 't'

are any other old fucks going to the Cracker/Camper Van show on Wednesday?

Think I am gonna skip it. Toying with going to the Vaselines instead (Scottish pop-punkers that Kurt Cobain loved). Mostly likely not going to either. Although may go to see old DC soul band Eddie Jones & the Young Bucks at Westminster Church Sw from 6 to 9pm tonight, and a Wizards game tomorrow.

x-post -- Went to Taqueria Habanero yesterday. Yummy shrimp taco, and other tacos we had were ok (did not try beef tongue or all veggie). Chorizo huarache was good too--tortilla covered in beans, strips of pepper, avocado (& choice of meat & maybe sauted cactus!)

damn i gotta get in on that

3710 14th St. NW, outskirts of Columbia Hts

tortillas made to order, pretty rare in/around DC

^^^ which strikes me as so fucking weird. I mean even in the middle of fucking nowhere village I lived in Baja there was a tortillaria. No gas station, but fresh tortillas every day from early in the morning until ~2 p.m.

Spouse and I were joking that I should just team up with a nice Mexican lady and we can sell artisinal tortillas (i.e. regular old fresh tortillas) in my cleveland park kitchen and sell them in the alley for like a buck a piece and GET RICH.

I ate at Elephant Walks today. It is super close to my temporary office, so I figure I'll just show up daily and run the "chef's choice" menu. Cheaper than four sisters (whose menu is intimidating) and much easier to park.

hahahaha Elephant Jumps, not Elephant Walks.

Sounds like a good approach.

Non-foodie street team pr for my buddy:

We start off 2015 with two screenings of Led Zeppelin Played Here to celebrate the 46th anniversary of when Led Zeppelin did/did not play the gymnasium of the Wheaton Youth Center in Wheaton, MD, in front of 50 confused teenagers on January 20, 1969, the night of President Nixon's first inauguration.

First screening is Wednesday, January 14 at the Avalon Theater in Washington, DC, on Conn Ave right near Chevy Chase Circle (8PM)
http://www.theavalon.org/films/led-zeppelin-played/

And second, an exact 46th anniversary screening on the night the concert did/did not occur.
This will be on Tuesday, January 20 at the Black Cat on 14th Street in DC (doors at 8, screenings usually start 8:30)
http://www.blackcatdc.com/shows/film-screening-2.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/take-the-20-diners-international-breakfast-tour-of-washington/2015/01/22/f907611a-9ab2-11e4-a7ee-526210d665b4_story.html

No surprise that some of these interest me

Didn't make it to any of them this weekend, alas.

Washingtonian q and a--Kliman loves Wheaton Thai restaurants (I haven't been)...and makes that clear in his response re the new internationally owned Thai place Mango Tree, whose first US location is in DC

Hi Todd,

Have you had a chance to visit Mango Tree yet?

I'm wondering how it compares to the other restaurants in town that tout authentic Thai cuisine. We certainly do have some great options for that in DC already.

Todd Kliman:
My first impression is — eh.

I mean, the space is stunning. If you were to ask yourself what the interior of an upmarket Thai restaurant ought to look like, this is pretty much exactly what you would come up with. The colors, the movement, the lights, the tables and chairs. Stunning.

The food? Not stunning. Granted, I only tried three dishes, but nothing made me want to return to try more. A grilled pork neck salad was unbalanced, and not in an interesting way. A crab fried rice was, thankfully, not greasy, but it wasn’t particularly flavorful or distinctive either.

If you were to put Thai Taste by Kob in that location, there would be a line around the block every night.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/going-out-guide/wp/2015/02/05/this-sandwich-by-dirty-south-deli-and-taylor-gourmet-contains-multitudes/

They've started with Taylor's breaded chicken cutlets -- which are doused in Crystal, the Southern hot sauce with a cult following -- and topped them with sliced cucumber, kale and cabbage slaw, red onion, gorgonzola and a pepper and Parmesan buttermilk dressing.
Available through Feb. 28.
Small: $7.49. Large: $10.49.

Not cheap but kinda looks tempting...

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2015/02/13/how-city-paper-remembers-david-carr/

http://dcist.com/2015/02/popcorn_candy_166.php

At AFI tonight--Frankenstein with live music from former guitarist for Captain Beefheart and others

holy fuck

went to the opening of the Ben Tolman show at Flashpoint tonight. I'm mostly out of the gallery scene these days but this show is pretty amazing - overwhelmingly detailed pen drawings.

http://www.culturaldc.org/events/2015/01/ben-tolman-civilized/

Oh, that does look good.

I ended up going to the Mingering Mike panel discussion at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. It was pretty interesting (and not as awkward as I thought it might be for Mike). Mike did "outsider" art-- soul and funk album covers and some reel to reel tapes and cassettes of his own music from 1966 to 1977 I think. Mike was dressed as a surgeon in gown and mask as he wants to keep his identity secret. The panel included the guy who found Mike's work at a flea market;plus an outsider art author; an old-school WOL AM DC soul dj; and the museum curator. Images of Mike's artwork were projected behind them. They then had free wine, beer, cheese, and dip afterwards as dj Harry Hotter spun soul and funk vinyl in the enclosed courtyard there. But the exhibit itself had closed for the evening so I will have to go back. I had seen a smaller showing of Mike's work at the Hemphill Gallery awhile ago.

Reminder (to myself) that the Tolman drawing exhibit at Flashpoint runs only through the 28th and from Wednesday – Saturday, 12 – 6PM

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/style/2015/03/12/d-c-s-most-essential-dishes-of-2015/?hpid=z1

W. Post Weekend section compiled from readers and Post writers

Anyone ever figure out best choices for Eden Center (or if anyone is highlighting such places on the internetz)?

Been just eating Laotian food myself and haven't been back there in a bit

http://dcist.com/2015/03/dc_conflict_cuisines_ethiopian.php

A history of Ethiopian food in DC. Forgetsto mention Red Sea, but gets other highlights.

Saigon Cafe (across the street from the Eden Center) was really good

Post food critic Sietsema was asked in the Post the other week for his fave Banh Mi sandwich in Eden Center. He instead replied with Falls Church located but not in Eden Center place Banh Mi DC, that has been a fave of many since at least 2008.

if you're a Grantland reader you might wanna go to P&P tonight

http://www.politics-prose.com/event/book/grantland-panel-jonah-keri

Alas, working late. Can't make it over there. Haven't read too much of Keri on baseball. Have read some of Pierce on politics

http://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/the-exquisite-baan-thai-hides-in-plain-sight-at-tsunami-sushi-on-14th-street/2015/01/08/457c823c-913f-11e4-ba53-a477d66580ed_story.html

Good Thai food here.

May have to try one of these places next. I'm such a sucker for these cultural food trends. Go ahead, make fun of me, I deserve it.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/at-long-last-filipino-food-arrives-what-took-it-so-long/2015/04/21/a4674bb0-e153-11e4-905f-cc896d379a32_story.html

street team late posting. This is tonight in Takoma park at 7:30

http://docsinprogress.org/events/280/jeffkrulikat30/

http://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/bestbites/food-restaurant-news/new-york-times-washington-dc-cheap-eats-frugal-traveler-100.php

http://dcist.com/2015/05/popcorn_candy_clotheshorse_edition.php

movies

http://www.oxfordamerican.org/magazine/item/548-coding-and-decoding-dinner

Food critic Todd Kliman writing about race and foodie restaurants

in DC

wow, that makes two Kliman pieces in a week talking about what DC area black restaurant patrons are and aren't looking for without interviewing any black patrons

http://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/bestbites/todd-kliman-otherwise/how-a-fish-sandwich-became-a-symbol-of-shaws-changes.php

Good point.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/2015/05/19/bethesda-condo-buildings-sommelier-in-residence-talks-about-his-unusual-gig/

very rich people

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/housingcomplex/2015/05/21/a-man-a-plan-a-canard-panacea/#more-39099

CP housing and transportation reporter who is going to Mother Jones magazine offers his ideas for Metro, streetcars, funding development, building height rules in DC , etc

shd i march in the dc pride parade y/n?

y

HRC's headquarters is 1640 Rhode Island Ave NW, so stop by and cause a ruckus