standard DC caveat applies, which is that most places are douchey at 10pm on a weekend night and even the douchiest of places are fine during off hours.
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 14:59 (ten years ago) link
my faves are saloon (tasty beverages, more expensive) and showtime (less expensive, best jukebox in town). there's also boundary stone across the street from showtime, which has decent drinks and apparently really great hot wings
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 15:03 (ten years ago) link
ok, now i know where Bloomingdale is
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 15:13 (ten years ago) link
Showtime Lounge, 113 Rhode Island Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2014_05/the_usurpers_last_few_days050341.php#
According to this blogpost a bunch of tea party types are heading to the capitol Friday,
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 17:31 (ten years ago) link
well it looks like I will get in around 4-5 thx to BoltBus delay... Seeing Shakespeare across the street from Gaga at Verizon Center tonight. :0 If i need to eat near there...?
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 May 2014 15:53 (ten years ago) link
Food Trucks! Or will they be gone by then?
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Thursday, 15 May 2014 15:58 (ten years ago) link
haha, i mean like 6-6:30. i will probably wolf down a Jumbo Pizza slice on arrival if i have to.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 May 2014 16:01 (ten years ago) link
Chinatown Express is on the NE corner of the Verizon Center block and is pretty legit and cheap. Daikaya is on the East side of the block -- downstairs is ramen, upstairs is all kinds of (pricier) Japanese food. Noodle Boy will be closed by 4-5 pm, but also worth mentioning.
― a-lo, Thursday, 15 May 2014 17:46 (ten years ago) link
Morbs, Gaga got moved to earlier in the week. Wizards game 6 basketball playoff game tonight against Indiana at Verizon.
Some Sichuan Chinese menu items at Full Kee at 509 H St NW are pretty good, although some folks think the place is too dumpy and don't like some of the menu
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 15 May 2014 19:04 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, i've eaten at that dump twice before! too filling for tonight tho, I would be in a coma before Falstaff gets renounced.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 May 2014 20:26 (ten years ago) link
NY Times writer likes restaurants, the Library of Congress, H St Country Club and more in NE and SE DC but re DC coffee she says while she's at the Tune Inn:
The coffee is meh — a problem throughout much of the city
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/travel/36-hours-in-washington-dc.html?hpw&rref=travel
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 May 2014 14:55 (ten years ago) link
I really thought the Wizard were gonna have a game 7. Oh well, wait till next year.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 May 2014 14:57 (ten years ago) link
Wizards
shocking that a 60 year old dive with a neon "MIXED DRINKS" sign in the window would have "meh" coffee
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Friday, 16 May 2014 15:39 (ten years ago) link
Enjoyed the latte I had at Dolcezza last week.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Friday, 16 May 2014 16:38 (ten years ago) link
Morbs, another Saturday option
Saturday at 3:30 at the Gala Hispanic Theatre is the DC premiere of "Looking For Johnny, The Legend of Johnny Thunders!" Directed by Danny Garcia ("The Rise & Fall of The Clash") who will be present for post-film Q&A3:30-5:30pm, Saturday, May 17thGala Theatre, 3333 14th Street NW(1 1/2 blocks from Columbia Heights metro)
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 May 2014 18:02 (ten years ago) link
sorry ive gotta go up to Lincoln's cottage at 2pm, after switching rooms
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 May 2014 22:33 (ten years ago) link
also Jon Langford co-wrote a musical that's at Fringe, but the 'pay anything' matinee is tomw as well
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 May 2014 22:34 (ten years ago) link
im gonna go catch the end of happy hr at the Fireplace in Dupont, eat somewhere, then collapse
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 May 2014 22:35 (ten years ago) link
x-post--was out of town this weekend. Want to see that Jon Langford co-penned musical some time
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 16:49 (ten years ago) link
http://www.mdtheatreguide.com/2014/05/theatre-review-neropseudo-by-wsc-avant-bard-at-the-shop-at-fort-fringe/
Oh, still showing till June 1
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 17:24 (ten years ago) link
Washingtonian has responded to NY Times meh re DC coffee w/, surprise surprise, a top 10 DC coffee shop list
http://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/bestbites/food-restaurant-news/10-great-dc-coffee-shops-the-new-york-times-should-visit-next-time.php
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 19:42 (ten years ago) link
it's true though, whoever wrote that has no idea what they're talking about wrt dc coffee. i'm biased because my gf worked at big bear and currently works at peregrine, i guess
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 19:52 (ten years ago) link
student video of 1968 riots, Gallaudet, H st:
http://www.popville.com/2014/05/1968-riots-dc-video/
― go to evangelical agonizing eternal hell (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 20:12 (ten years ago) link
I think I experienced CemeteryFail last Sunday when I was looking for the graves of Thurgood Marshall and Medgar Evers in Arlington, and instead ran across William Rehnquist and John Mitchell.
I did find J Edgar in the Congressional Cemetery w/ no assistance! While yupsters walked their dogs and had wine and empanadas whilst sitting on gravestones on a Sat afternoon.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 20:38 (ten years ago) link
Didn't realize Marshall was buried there. Googling now tells me
He was buried in Section 5 of Arlington National Cemetery, near the graves of fellow Justices, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., William O. Douglas, William J. Brennan and Potter Stewart.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 22 May 2014 22:27 (ten years ago) link
Are all of the Justices together?
― curmudgeon, Friday, 23 May 2014 14:18 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/general/2014/05/22/the-future-of-d-c-arts-as-told-by-matt-yglesias-holly-bass-brendan-canty-and-victoria-reis/
Wish I had known about this. Sounds interesting although I'm not a fan of host MattY, and the panel coulda probably used a millenial contributer as well
― curmudgeon, Friday, 23 May 2014 14:20 (ten years ago) link
no mudge, there are no group plots by professions afaik, unless yer a Kennedy. (even Bobby and Teddy are off to the side of that slope.) I think I saw Potter Stewart along w/ Rehnquist but none of the others.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 23 May 2014 14:40 (ten years ago) link
Other stuff in my life is getting in the way of me seeing various cool docs and such at the National Gallery of Art. Missing all those NYC old-school street ones so far.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 2 June 2014 18:19 (ten years ago) link
http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/calendar/film-programs/onthestreet.html#onthestreet.html?pageNumber=1&_suid=1401812967789046795645288242393
This is the series I am referring to
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 16:34 (ten years ago) link
Saw that (kinda disturbing at times) Art of Destruction exhibit on its last day at the Hirshhorn, so since this photography one at the National Gallery closes Sunday, I need to make it by:
http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/exhibitions/2014/winogrand.html
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 7 June 2014 13:04 (ten years ago) link
Glad I saw that Winogrand exhibit. Nicely shot b & w photos from the last century. A bunch of 'em were posthumously printed, as Winogrand toward the end of his life just started taking lots of photos, and never printing them. Contact sheets for some, was the most he did. Exhibits like this make me want to get a nice camera and learn how to use it well.
Cassavetes movie there next weekend.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 9 June 2014 14:03 (ten years ago) link
What's a "pop-up cinema"?
http://angelikapopup.com/
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 16:24 (ten years ago) link
An outdoor screen or something till they build their new Angelika there, I guess
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 12 June 2014 13:53 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/45947/24-hours-of-eating-in-dc/
x-post--dcist.com :
Angelika says that they converted a warehouse space at Union Market into intimate screening rooms, where they'll show films this summer.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 12 June 2014 19:47 (ten years ago) link
http://bandwidth.wamu.org/how-two-art-spaces-have-survived-in-gentrifying-d-c/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 13 June 2014 14:48 (ten years ago) link
I did not realize DC had ANY warehouse spaces, really!
― aaliyah papi (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 14 June 2014 19:27 (ten years ago) link
National Gallery of Art's final showing of a movie in its East Wing Auditorium until 2016 (due to renovations) is a Sunday 4:30 screening of the Italian film Il Sorpasso -- a director Dino Rosi 1962 effort, described as a "sorely neglected ... commedia all’ italiana [that] reads as a sort of elegy on unfettered energies of the early 1960s — fast cars, sleek jazz, rock ’n’ roll, even fashion sense."
National Gallery will keep showing movies in the West Wing and elsewhere in the city, during the renovation period
― curmudgeon, Friday, 20 June 2014 21:28 (ten years ago) link
Is there anywhere recommended to watch the world cup, preferably in Alexandria/arlandria/Arlington? I am in town the weekend of July 4 to takecare of some stuff, but there are major games on the 4th and 5th. So far I am considering rustica and Daniel o'connells.
― Virginia Plain, Friday, 20 June 2014 23:57 (ten years ago) link
I work down there in Old Town and I've watched a few matches in the Union Station Pub for convenience and it's been good. Lots of TVs and space and the sound is turned up. Never too busy. Not sure what it's like for US games, mind (I watched the Ghana match in the Iron Horse in DC and it was swamped).
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Saturday, 21 June 2014 00:08 (ten years ago) link
Babylon Cafe in a Bailey's Crossroads strip mall near Arlington & Alexandria has matches (lotsa Ethiopians as well as Hispanics go there). Plus the City Paper and W. Post have published links for lotsa places showing matches.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 21 June 2014 15:10 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/going-out-guide/wp/2014/06/20/2014-world-cup-where-to-watch-the-united-states-and-other-matches-outdoors-in-d-c/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/going-out-guide/wp/2014/06/11/world-cup-2014-watch-the-games-at-a-top-soccer-bar/
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/worldcup
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 21 June 2014 15:18 (ten years ago) link
x-post--Relatives in town, so I missed that Italian film. Oh well...
― curmudgeon, Monday, 23 June 2014 14:54 (ten years ago) link
Apparently Il Sorpasso is having another screening in September (http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/calendar/film-programs/summer14-specialevents/sorpasso.html), at an AU venue.
― Miss Anne Thrope (j.lu), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 02:32 (ten years ago) link
good
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 21:39 (ten years ago) link
lol @ courtland milloy
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 14:09 (ten years ago) link
He and John Kelly in the Post worrying about those biker terrorists making life tough for old-school DC car drivers...
Milloy:
On Wednesday, the Washington Area Bicyclist Association’s Bike Ambassadors will ride to the NoMa Summer Screen viewing of “The Muppets” “to hand out surprise goodies to people who biked.” There’ll be kids and bikes and Muppets, as if Kermit is supposed to make us forget about the biker terrorists out to rule the road.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 14:34 (ten years ago) link
lol @ so many people linking Milloy's 1988 column on how difficult it was to get around on a bike after his license was suspended
― controversial but fabulous (I DIED), Thursday, 10 July 2014 03:52 (ten years ago) link