Brad Pitt Has Your Secret Shit: Rolling DC

also congrats to a hoos on re-upping the job/ID/life situation!

most definitely

big congrats HOOS!

Yay hoos! Look forward to seeing you (and all of the dcilxors) at some point! We are planning a backyard kegger in Sept/Oct, will keep all posted. Band may be involved. Also taco truck.

Um

dude Stevie you are a dcilxor at heart, are you not?

crap, would have gone to that movie

― american consumer goods (los blue jeans),

I missed all the movies at museums this weekend too, but did see "Beasts of the Southern Wild" (I liked this Louisiana magic realist meets Maurice Sendak effort despite its flaws and what Ms. Holliday in the W. Post attacked as patronizing faux-k culture) and "The Rise and Fall of the Clash" at the Positive Force benefit showing at St. Stephens Church. The latter movie was shown on a tiny screen and was all about the decline of the Clash(management issues, drug addiction, and more negative stuff)

Ha no that was more an "Un, that sounds insane"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/amid-the-districts-crisis-the-i-told-you-so-gloating-begins/2012/07/15/gJQA9dq8mW_story.html?hpid=z4

Post columnist Courtland Milloy wants more help for D.C.'s poor, but he has an interesting way of getting to that point:

Well look who’s back: the Fenty brigade, led by true believers of former D.C. mayor Adrian Fenty. Among them are my nemeses — whom I have referred to before as myopic twits because of their inability to see that dog parks, bike paths and cupcake parlors do not make a “world-class city.”

And still they come to gloat.

....But Gray has played right into their hands.

How could the myopics even imagine that the city was “headed in the right direction” under Fenty, as polls showed?

The District’s poverty rate shot up to its highest level in a decade, and the employment rate for African American adults dropped to a 20-year low. One in three black children were living in poverty. The income gap was among the highest in the nation.

I will leave this to dc residents to comment on specifics if they'd like; or just Milloy's abrasive style.

I always thought that the reason the city was heading in the right direction under Fenty was that he wasn't blatantly corrupt.

Sulaimon Brown calls rally for Mayor Gray "literally ridiculous & unconscionably stupid" in news release.

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http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/general/2012/07/20/mini-golf-at-the-national-building-museum-a-hole-by-hole-account/#more-75977

photos of the Building Museum mini-golf course have me less interested in going (but I will still probably go anyway)

a couple of good holes on that course, LOTS of shitty ones. Kevin Roche exhibit is totally worth seeing though.

I still haven't made it there yet. Played a boring course in Ocean City last week

anybody going to this?

http://dcist.com/2012/07/my_my_how_far_weezer_has_fallen.php

Won't that be a very crowded zoo? I guess their popularity is not what it once was if they're at a mall. Sometimes I don't mind crowds, and I like some old Weezer songs, but that one's not for me.

There will probably be less people at the National Gallery of Art for this:

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Italian master filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni, arguably the most influential director of the postwar era. The National Gallery of Art joins the American Film Institute and the Italian Cultural Institute, Washington, in a retrospective of his most distinguished works.

OK movie geeks, what should I see. http://www.nga.gov/programs/film/antonioni100.shtm

I've only seen the last four (L'Avventura, L'Eclisse, La Notte, and Red Desert) and I recommend you see L'Avventura if you haven't. Really though it depends on if you can vibe with Antonioni or not.

woah, awesome. i want to see l'eclisse on the big screen.

EVERYONE EVERYONE GO SEE RED DESERT ON A BIG SCREEN

Damn I might plan an entire trip around that

Seriously it's prob one of the top 10 or 5 most gorgeously composed, visually striking films I've ever seen. The colors!!!!!

damn, wish it wasn't showing at 2:30 on a monday. :(

Labor day, right?

wait, it is?

YES!

Also quincie you are being paged to the HIV thread bcz I would really like to hear yr 2c abt the whole thing

OK, I shall report to that thread!

i ran into govern yourself accordingly on the metro today!!! :D

good seeing you dude! that united ticket's still yours if you wanna go tomorrow

fact: nobody on H Street has ever craved a whole-wheat crusted pizza with mushroom truffle sauce. I know this because nobody in the WOLRD has ever craved a whole-wheat crusted pizza with mushroom truffle sauce.

I am pretty sure this describes my h street corridor-dwelling coworker.

Hi friends, I am not reading ILX so much these days why bc lyfe, srsly, but pls to email me when faps happen if you can?

<3

Hi T! I have missed you! Let's get together and curse the summer.

I am now officially resident in Toronto (though am in the UK at the moment). Other than DC ilxors (obv), I think I'll miss the small-town, can-really-get-to-know-it feel the most. I like big cities too, though, so should be ok.

omg you are not ljub what the fuck!!!!

seriously. :-/

best of luck to you in toronto, though!

Thanks! I'm currently hanging out in Helsinki with friends who just moved here...

Hey so I will be in DC from Friday morning through Tuesday night. No set plans yet -- when would be a good time to meet up, if anyone's inclined? As I said upthread, we're staying at Tabard Inn. Happy to meet there or anywhere else that's reasonably convenient.

Just got back from vacation, did u all fap?

Got a friend coming into town Saturday. Recommendations for restaurants in DC with good vegetarian options? Also bars in the DuPont or Adams Morgan area? Or maybe just any cool bars.

Getting excited about the trip -- the wife and I have made a big list of things to do, places to eat, etc.

Of course, I'm in the midst of one of the busiest weeks at work in a long time, which makes last-minute planning a pain in the ass, but also means the vacation will be well-deserved.

x-post- re veggie option restaurants-- Haven't looked at it but here's a W. Post list:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/best-bets/vegetarian-friendly,89828.html

Ethiopian restaurants can do veggie only also.

I Died and others can mention cool bars

Just looked last night at the June published Washingtonian best cheap eats list. They stick with some places for years on their list. Last few times I have been to Etete the Ethiopian food portions were tiny (compared to Dukem on U and any of the Ethiopian places in the mostly Ethiopian strip mall out in Bailey's X-Rds like Bati). Etete looks nice but that's not enough. Cuba de Ayer out in Laurel and Elephant Jumps out in Virginia somewhere are ok, but don't seem that great.

Etete doesn't even look that nice and the service is terrible. Pretty into Habesha across the street right now.

I have been led to believe -- in part by comments on this thread and also by ... Eater 38, I guess? -- that Dukem is the go-to Ethiopian place in D.C. Confirm/deny?

Dukem's alright but has gone downhill in the last few years. Better late at night with live entertainment 6 nights a week.

What about Meskerem?

Last time I went to Meskerem was in the 80s when it was the first Ethiopian restaurant in the area and its Adams Morgan home neighborhood was considered edgy by some. Now, Meskerem is dismissed by many (along with Adams Morgan).

I always liked my meals there, but it became passe when the whole 9th and U St NW Little Ethiopia area developed (and now there is another Little Ethiopia out in Bailey's X-Rds/Falls Church, VA plus Ethiopian restaurants in other parts of DC and MD and VA)

I wonder how the Eritrean food is at Keren Restaurant, 1780 Florida Ave NW
(between N. 18th St & N. U St)

Both Tyler Cowen and Yelpsters like it