Brad Pitt Has Your Secret Shit: Rolling DC

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&A
3:30-5:30pm, Saturday, May 17th
Gala Theatre, 3333 14th Street NW
(1 1/2 blocks from Columbia Heights metro)

sorry ive gotta go up to Lincoln's cottage at 2pm, after switching rooms

also Jon Langford co-wrote a musical that's at Fringe, but the 'pay anything' matinee is tomw as well

im gonna go catch the end of happy hr at the Fireplace in Dupont, eat somewhere, then collapse

x-post--was out of town this weekend. Want to see that Jon Langford co-penned musical some time

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

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

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

student video of 1968 riots, Gallaudet, H st:

http://www.popville.com/2014/05/1968-riots-dc-video/

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.

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.

Are all of the Justices together?

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

What's a "pop-up cinema"?

http://angelikapopup.com/

An outdoor screen or something till they build their new Angelika there, I guess

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.

http://bandwidth.wamu.org/how-two-art-spaces-have-survived-in-gentrifying-d-c/

I did not realize DC had ANY warehouse spaces, really!

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

Is there anywhere recommended to watch the world cup, preferably in
Alexandria/arlandria/Arlington? I am in town the weekend of July 4 to take
care of some stuff, but there are major games on the 4th and 5th. So far I
am considering rustica and Daniel o'connells.

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).

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.

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

x-post--Relatives in town, so I missed that Italian film. Oh well...

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.

good

lol @ courtland milloy

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.

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

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/colbert-king-in-petworth-a-robbery-and-death-tell-us-something-abut-ourselves/2014/07/11/468362de-085c-11e4-a0dd-f2b22a257353_story.html?hpid=z3

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/2014/07/16/how-food-brings-d-c-s-iraqi-exiles-back-home-again/

I wonder how these Iraqi restaurants in Alexandria and Herndon are? Not easily metro-accessible for some of you tho

Every so often we talk about an ILXpedition to the suburbs for Vietnamese food, only for the idea to dissipate. Any interest in trying to go to one of these places?

Good lunch joints on U Street or thereabouts?

Greek Spot, Chix, Amsterdam Falafel, G Sandwich, Zenebech Injera

Went with Greek Spot. It's good!

yes.

Have managed to miss the experimental films at National Gallery and the Asian ones at the Freer. Ugh. Oh well. Despite stereotypes about August being dull, there's lots happening culturally (at least music and movies and exhibits) plus the Nats....

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/visual-arts/2014/08/15/why-photographer-lida-moser-couldnt-be-pigeonholed/

Maybe a local art space or museum can do an exhibit of this local resident (via NYC) who just died at 93 but was a talented, feisty photographer

http://dcist.com/2014/08/popcorn_candy_have_you_seen_my_baby.php

On most (some? ) Thursdays, Pat Padua (Library of Congress employee and writer) posts some nice writeups on movies to see at museums and artsy theatres and such

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/in-falls-church-eden-center-tenants-sue-landlord-say-mall-crumbling-around-them/2014/08/20/bb5ef4ae-23cf-11e4-8593-da634b334390_story.html?tid=pm_local_pop

http://nyadiff.org/adiff-dc-2014/

Little publicized movie fest this weekend of international films from Brazil and various African countries

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/46224/the-dives-of-others-how-to-open-a-new-old-bar/

Paul V's comments dissing the Thievery Corp places are kinda fun

wow what a prick

i mean damn, you're from rockville, worked at saint-ex and bar pilar and are trying to be punker than thou

He had a few self-deprecating comments early in the piece though. But he also got his Marvin Gaye facts wrong (aserting that Marvin lived nearly his whole life in D.C.)--Marvin lived in Detroit and L.A. a bunch (in addition to that 1 year in Belgium that Paul mocked in relation to the Marvin club)