Brad Pitt Has Your Secret Shit: Rolling DC

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/02/20/travel/20110220-SURFACING.html
http://www.princeofpetworth.com/2011/02/in-defense-of-columbia-heights-really-the-neighborhood-is-bigger-than-dc-usa/

Morbidly enjoying the NYT 11th St spot-blow-up/ongoing Prince of Petworth comment frenzy. ("Number 5: I like Silver Spring.") Remind me why I read Prince of Petworth again.

i saw ian mackaye in columbia heights a little over a year ago, so it must be okay

it's been my impression that cherkis has been hating everything in DC for at least a decade and a half. you name it, he hates it. sometimes i wonder why he lives here. i remember columbia heights 10 years ago. my roommate worked there at a nonprofit, we lived nearby, and while i'm not thrilled about a ton of chain stores, it is nice to have chain stores, metro, being able to walk around after dark. better than empty storefronts and frequent shootings and having to drive everywhere because it was dangerous.

Prince of Petworth is great! Always amusing.

"here's a place I walked by! What's up with it?"

"this is a restaurant I heard of! Does anyone know how it is?"

"lost pet!"

"I heard this rumor! It's completely unfounded and I have no idea what I'm saying."

"here's an ugly house/restaurant/streetscape! It looks great!"

I've never read a more frequently updated site with less informed content.

lol

http://www.princeofpetworth.com/2010/03/friday-question-of-the-day-at-what-point-do-dress-codes-go-overboard/

I’ll admit it right away – I hate dress codes. But when I saw this sign on 18th Street in Adams Morgan I couldn’t believe it. “No timberland boots”? How can they possibly single out a brand like that? I mean why not say – no boots? I suppose I can understand places that want to maintain an air of class by banning sneakers and shorts but Timberland Boots? Am I thinking too deeply on this? Or does this seem a bit odd? I know it’s going to go there so I’ll just straight up ask it – is there a racial element to this?

This is a particular classic from last year. (Great comment section, too: "Also people need to be aware and stop putting on blinders, the long white shirts symbolize a cocaine or crack dealer.")

i will subscribe to this newsletter with great rapidity

I have never seen The Red Shoes on the big screen, and if the Metro will permit me, I think I'll head up to the AFI to see it tomorrow.

tuomas of petworth

^^^^^lolz for real

i loled

just plz nobody photoshop him onto a sundae

This $1,900 a month leased Navigator (now 2 of 'em) for DC City Council member Kwame Brown will undoubtedly be used as a political weapon again the city as a whole(although I'm not sure why DC taxpayers are paying for either of them)

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/debonis/2011/02/dc_politicos_react_to_kwame_br.html

TBD.com, the much-touted local-news Web site, will reorganize its news staff, change its focus to arts and entertainment and lose about a third of its 36 staff positions.

Under the reorganized structure, some TBD employees will be reassigned to work on a second Web site, WJLA.com, which is also owned by TBD's parent company, Allbritton Communications of Arlington.

Welp.

Looks like editor Wemple and the former Cp arts writers are still employed at tbd

oh i have so much to say about that but i can't do it here.

Tombot baby!

Guys I saw a picture of tombot baby and her expression is 100% OMGWTF??!?!?!

aww <3

ANybody seen these exhibits yet:

Gaugin exhibit at Nat. Gallery; small room exhibit of photos of DC blues musicians at Govinda Gallery in Georgetown; and at the Nat. Museum of Women in the Arts: "Drawn from Bank of America's renowned collection of international photography, Eye Wonder features more than 100 works by a wide array of artists, including Berenice Abbott, Margaret Bourke-White, Rineke Dijkstra, Gisèle Freund, Candida Höfer, Graciela Iturbide, Dorothea Lange, and Hellen van Meene."

nope

i should def go to that though. that and buddha 2.0 at the freer. i saw gary snyder there saturday for a lecture on east asian poetry, it was pretty rad.

can't believe people are still asking him kerouac questions

'ringo tell us more about what john was like in the studio'

Hey guys, how's it going. I just moved here.

yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

welcome sir i am v glad to have you

oh hi

los blue jeans rules fyi

i hadn't heard hide nor hair of you since january so i didn't know what had happened!

you are too kind sir and a great american

yeah, i was pretty busy with work, moving, etc. actually, I'm going to CT for a week tomorrow morning

welcome! the weather's great!

lol

you def need to be made aware of this thread

Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread

Welcome? Whereabouts are you residing?

uh I meant Welcome!, not Welcome?

Thanks?! I'm in Bethesda, renting an accessory apartment in one of the residential neighborhoods. Everything pretty groovy so far.

I lived in Bethesda when I first moved to the area--convenient place to live, but I encourage you to make the leap over into DC proper at some point!

HAI QUINCIE

Um where were you on 3/5???

:(

Huh?

A Duke reference?

Um where were you on 3/5???

clearing room in the trophy case

also pining for d0m passant1n0 iirc

lol what a reference

dc united home opener on saturday night, if any TRU FUTBOL WARIERS are so inclined - they were the worst team in the league last year but i had a blast going all summer

(note to non-TRU FUTBOL WARIERS: dc united games are also a convenient framing device for "let's drink as much beer as possible in the parking lot and drunkenly insult the columbus crew for two hours")

thanking a hoos for this image. i have just learned of the wapo peeps show contest.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UROssXsbWHQ/TYFkKp_I6FI/AAAAAAAABf4/YVOmRUR7xBs/s1600/Escalator+Collapse+at+Peepy+Bottom.JPG

Oh yeah, they're bringing that back

Vienna/Fairfax NOPE

was thinking about going to United's game tonight.

Weird question: I'm going to be on "Jeopardy" in a couple weeks (April 12), and I want to get a bunch of people together to watch it somewhere in DC. Does anyone know a bar that might let me do this? In exchange I can promise 20+ people who are gonna want to get drunk at 7 pm on a Tuesday.

or 7:30 pm i guess, technically