Brad Pitt Has Your Secret Shit: Rolling DC

ABC News reports:

Shots were fired this morning near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. U.S. Capitol Police responded to the area at Washington Ave and Independence Ave, which is located near the U.S. Botanic Garden and the Rayburn House office building. The suspect apparently struck a Capitol Police cruiser and then tried running over several officers who were on foot, according to Metro DC Police. At one point Capitol Police fired shots, but no one was hit. The suspect was apprehended at 3rd and Independence Ave, and has been taken into custody. No one was hit by the suspect’s car, police said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/04/13/judge-sheila-abdus-salaam-first-african-american-on-new-yorks-top-court-found-dead-in-hudson-river/?utm_term=.d08d33475a43

She was a great judge from DC. Articles are suggesting it was suicide.

https://www.popville.com/2017/04/zenebech-injera-reopening-adams-morgan-dc/#comments

This good Ethiopian place used to be near the Howard Theatre...

A few months before it opens on 18th Street

My SALT pint glass finally got a fatal chip in the dishwasher. My Hunter Age 3 shirt disappeared a long time ago. End of an era.

I still drink from my SALT pint glasses. Hunter Age 3 is memorialized as artwork hanging on the wall.

Murial Bowser is trying to take my hens away from me! Please help save my backyard hens! Petition here: https://www.change.org/p/d-c-city-council-lay-off-the-hens-support-backyard-chickens-in-d-c?recruiter=682192361&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink

Calls to your city councilperson and at-large members would be awesome. Bower has stuck a line item in the fucking budget, for god's sake. Zero transparency. More here: www.dcbackyardchickens.org

dude we need to hang out. I can take some of those chickens off your hands.

sorry I have to share this, I promise it gets local at the end

12 ISO part-time nanny
11 FREE Tomorrow - Outdoor Fit - Focused - Baby Friendly Group Training
10 ISO: Baby gates and booster seat or small high chair
9 Free: club chair
8 ISO Full Time Nanny for Nanny Share in Bloomingdale
7 Local Family Lifestyle Photographer
6 ISO good dermatologist
5 ISO good internist
4 Pediatrician nearby
3 Keep your family safe! Infant/Child CPR training
2 ISO: temporary nanny from mid-July to mid-October
1 Funk Parade Intergalactic Intergeneration Station at Harrison Rec Ce

Infants and children have no business doing CPR imo

WaPo is coming to my house to take pics of my hens.

HEN FAP

Please go to dcbackyardchickens.org to sign the petition and call your council person to protest the proposed chicken ban!

I have done so.

I forgot who my new council person is though

Nadeau? Oh pleasepleaseplease give her office a call. They are logging chicken calls. She is a Bowser person but she is big into gov tranparency, so may not be keen on the chicken ban being snuck into the budget proposal instead of going through the normal legislative process.

http://dcist.com/2017/05/lord_protect_us_from_gentrification.php

Not really addressed in this article about the St. Elizabeth's arena that DC taxpayers are largely paying for (65 million!), is that other than for Mystics games and Wizards practices, it is likely to sit empty. I just don't see this 4,200 seater competing with the new IMP/930 owned hall Anthem in the Wharf, or with the National Harbor Hall or even DAR or the George Mason Arena or Echostage...

National Gallery of Art is honoring Canada's 150th anniversary with its film program July 1st through 8th, so that means on the afternoon of the 4th of July they are showing a 1965 doc on Leonard Cohen!

July 4 at 1:00
East Building Auditorium

Four classic shorts from the National Film Board of Canada begin with Norman McLaren’s legendary animation Begone Dull Care (1949, 8 minutes) and his famous pixilation Neighbours (1952, 8 minutes). Next is City of Gold (Colin Low and Wolf Koenig, 1957, 22 minutes), a groundbreaking compilation of archival and contemporary photography depicting author Pierre Berton’s childhood in Dawson City and his father’s involvement in the Klondike Gold Rush. Finally, Ladies and Gentlemen . . . Mr. Leonard Cohen — the first documentary portrait of the famous poet and songwriter, released two years before his first album — captures Cohen’s imagination and candor during live performance and casual interaction (Don Owen and Donald Brittain, 1965, 44 minutes). (Total running time 82 minutes)

https://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/calendar/film-programs/canada/cohen.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/jim-vance-washingtons-longest-serving-local-news-anchor-is-dead-at-75/2017/07/22/7869297c-6ee4-11e7-b9e2-2056e768a7e5_story.html?utm_term=.e6d859cc1ef6

Jim Vance was the coolest. Smart and real with great commentaries. A sports fan and soul music aficionado who anonymously contributed to WPFW. Cancer got him quick. He's pictured in the new Ben's Chili Bowl Mural

Didn't watch him as much lately as I once did, but I took the Vance news hard. A classy admirable guy.

Another one-- graffiti artist Cool Disco Dan from complications from diabetes. He was in his 40s

oh wow. that's crazy. I figured he would have to be older than that. he must have tagged everything in sight of the above-ground parts of the green line.

also it's COOL "DISCO" DAN
it's not the real deal without the quotes

he was also bipolar I guess:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/cool-disco-dan-opens-up-about-his-battle-with-mental-illness/2013/10/28/e81bef10-3da2-11e3-b7ba-503fb5822c3e_story.html

tribute service at 930 Club on the 19th

Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread

Music related stuff over on that thread

Do ILXORs drink any more? I need to make myself get out of my current routine.

I do, from 5-7 ish.

http://dcist.com/2017/09/pc_2017-9-29.php

Interesting artsy movies at theatres still exist

https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/10/13/washington-city-papers-owner-puts-it-up-for-sale/

Uh oh. I write for them sometimes.

I worked for the City Paper many years (and many changes of ownership) ago; in my mind it already left the city when it transferred most functions to Atlanta, leaving only the tiniest reportorial footprint here.

No matter who owns it, I suppose they could continue that way - like those Clear Channel radio stations where everything but the weather and traffic emanates from a central computer, and they keep a local sheen by peppering in requests and dedications like "This one goes out to Laura in Columbia Heights!" Loose Lips and a few other things may live on forever in some form, but the picture for print is dismal and has been for ages.

The Nashville-based Southcomm that bought it from the Atlanta folks doesn't want to hold on to any more papers/websites that aren't bringing in a big enough profit. So just as the not-connected Baltimore City Paper is shutting down Nov. 1st; the Washington City Paper may get shut down 12-31. Loose lips on DC politics, various cover stories, local music coverage, citylight previews of events that don't get highlighted elsewhere (some club dance events, punk, African, etc.), other voices on DC restaurants, etc. will be gone. They have never marketed their web presence well enough to get more readers (be they college kids, longtime locals, 20-something millennials) and they have cut back on newspaper availability, plus the advertising staff hasn't been able to get more ads, so here we are.

I feel like I haven't seen a city paper in ages

I haven't. And I stopped looking! Which is completely nuts, and yet here we are. My wife and I are old-school print-era creatures; when I cut back the Post to weekends-only I felt like I was betraying my ancestors.

They cut back on the # of newspaper boxes and assume everyone knows their website, gets their morning daily news & food & music aggregation email, gets their "To Do Today" and "To Do This Weekend" emails, or follows their 2 twitter accounts. Only fanatics like me do.

I find the paper in Shirlington (I work out in VA) and sometimes in DC. I email, FB, & Instagram links to my little previews and reviews and post 'em over on ILM.

Speaking of hard to find newspapers, this is going on tonight at the Shaw Library:

https://www.dclibrary.org/node/58202

"History and State of D.C.'s Black Press" from 6:30 to 8pm

Join four local journalists, editors and publishers for a lively and informative discussion about the history and state of the Black Press in Washington City from the first abolitionist newspaper founded before the Civil War to the challenges and opportunities facing black journalists in today's local media scene.

The panel will be moderated by Denise Rolark-Barnes, Publisher of The Washington Informer.

Panelists will be Howard University's Jazmin Goodwin, Editor-in-chief of The Hilltop, James Wright, local reporter for the Washington Afro and Prof. A. Peter Bailey, author and professor of the history of the Black Press.

http://wamu.org/story/17/10/16/southeast-d-c-residents-protest-food-deserts-grocery-walk/

1 grocery store in all of Anacostia

https://assets.dnainfo.com/message.html

Dcist, Gothamist, etc CEO shuts 'em down (reportedly a week after one of 'em voted to unionize their tiny staff)

Pat Padua's weekly movie guide column at dcist on artsy movies, b-movies, foreign films, etc. at DC area theatres and museums was best such item around. No other DC media covered them the way he did imho.

Padua is blogging it now himself

https://patpadua.wordpress.com/2017/11/09/mexican-fireworks-top-your-movie-picks-this-week/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-business/wp/2017/11/09/a-d-c-jazz-singer-started-a-blog-to-replace-dcist-the-sites-billionaire-owner-is-threatening-to-sue-him-for-100000/?utm_term=.3a543fe19a71

https://technical.ly/dc/2017/11/15/aaron-myers-closes-dcistnow-amid-trademark-spat-launches-thedistrictnow/

https://thedistrictnow.com/

Oh no, Ben Carson's corrupt buddy wants to buy Washington City Paper.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/why-does-conservative-armstrong-williams-want-to-buy-the-liberal-washington-city-paper/2017/12/04/217db692-d5f9-11e7-a986-d0a9770d9a3e_story.html?utm_term=.73a84841c96f

His plans include a possible change to glossy print, an increased focus on celebrities, distribution to places like Philadelphia and New York, and more human-interest stories — he specifically suggested some soft-focus takes on prominent Trumpites, such as Hope Hicks’s hobbies or Stephen K. Bannon’s charitable works.

http://www.motherjones.com/media/2017/11/armstrong-williams-washington-city-paper-ben-carson/

― curmudgeon, Monday, December 4, 2017 4:39 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

So Armstrong Williams has taken himself out of the running to buy the City Paper (per a tweet from W. Post writer Terris) but there's been no announcement of anyone else yet. Southcomm wants to sell the paper/website by 12-31. I know many of you never read it, but a few geeks in town do check out its politics and arts and foodie coverage, and even its sports column.

How much, can I pick it up for a couple hundo

I read it every week (paper copy, been harder and harder to come by) and would miss it a ton :(

hi we're planning a coffee fap over on the ILM DC thread

Link to thread pls! ILM gives me the hives.

Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread

La Colombe at 1346 Florida Ave NW? Location fine for me; any decisions as to day and time?

No date and time yet. El Tomboto's idea