More links re Eden Center. Have not been back lately (but ha, finally went to Rose's Luxury for its hybrid contemp American takes on ethnic dishes)
http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/food-dining/cheap-eats-2013-feast-of-eden/
Washingtonian's Kliman (he was once at CP way back when)--If I’m in the Eden Center and jonesing for pho, I’m going to Huong Viet and, if it’s too crowded there, then to Hai Duong.
http://www.washingtonian.com/chats/kliman/tuesday-august-19-at-11-am-1.php
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 18:40 (nine years ago) link
Kliman at Washingtonian's list. I wanna go to the Wheaton Thai one
I'm not going to rank them, because that'd take a lot more time than I have, but this is what the list would look like right now (in no particular order):
Komi. Mintwood Place. Central Michel Richard. Rose's Luxury. The Red Hen. Vin 909 Winecafé. Fiola Mare. Thai Taste by Kob. Ananda. Sushi Capitol.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 17 October 2014 15:47 (nine years ago) link
http://decadeofdocsinourcity.com/flix-tix/4585650130 Little publicized DC Movie doc fest this weekend is showing Disco Dan (again); one on Ballou High's funky marching band; and one (short one?) on U Street's old days as Black Broadway; plus more -- mostly at that Navy Theatre on PA Ave NW
― curmudgeon, Friday, 17 October 2014 15:51 (nine years ago) link
That apartment (condo?) with movie theatres(they say) building going up next to the 930 Club is huge.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 17 October 2014 16:08 (nine years ago) link
x-post to Kliman list
http://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/bestbites/food-restaurant-news/whats-missing-from-the-washington-posts-fall-dining-guide-a-lot.php
3 md restaurants and a few more Virginia ones...
― curmudgeon, Friday, 17 October 2014 18:28 (nine years ago) link
I don't understand why Kliman would write a response like that - he already publishes his own annual list of the top 100 at Washingtonian. Say it there!
― controversial but fabulous (I DIED), Friday, 17 October 2014 20:11 (nine years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/housingcomplex/2014/10/21/in-a-changing-washington-lots-of-stuff/
Mocking that latest NY Times piece on DC restaurants. That latest Times article has me just wanting to avoid all DC restaurants; and to instead just eat at cheap ethnic joints in the burbs (even if they haven't "taken it to the next level" as suggested in that NY Times article)
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 15:03 (nine years ago) link
~haters gonna hate just because I was quoted~
― controversial but fabulous (I DIED), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 15:23 (nine years ago) link
Hating cuz of the way that article was phrased and the other quotes, not you
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 15:48 (nine years ago) link
I am seeing critiques of that article everywhere, and most of those folks don't know you.
You're a star, congrats.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 15:50 (nine years ago) link
So which pickle from Gordy's do you like best? Or are you recommending them for other stuff?
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 16:46 (nine years ago) link
I like their thai basil jalapenos and their giardiniera best
― controversial but fabulous (I DIED), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 18:48 (nine years ago) link
iirc their giardiniera is $12 a jar so if anyone wants to get me some please go right ahead because it is delicious
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 21:08 (nine years ago) link
guys i still live here
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 16:28 (nine years ago) link
Will you buy us all pickles?
Jar of Thai basil ones are listed for $10 on Gordy's website.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 16:35 (nine years ago) link
pickles rule
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 16:48 (nine years ago) link
currently slightly addicted to the hot okra pickles they sell at Harris Teeter (and Streets - Streets kind of rules, guys, they have unique splits AND uncle jerry's)and always Bubbies and/or Ba-Tampte as needed from Yes! or Rodman'sGordy's prices are demented
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 17:11 (nine years ago) link
oh and one time at HT they had jars of pickled habaneros, I bought one a while back, sat in the fridge until a couple weekends ago when I finally ate one and man what a feeling
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 17:12 (nine years ago) link
yeah I like the thai basil japapenos from gordy's because a little goes a looong way
― controversial but fabulous (I DIED), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 17:46 (nine years ago) link
how come you can't go to a bar and get a plate of pretzels, pickles and salted radish slices. that should be a thing you can order. fuck a charcuterie tray, you know?
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 23:40 (nine years ago) link
Tombot I have tons of fresh habeneros let's make pickles
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 23:52 (nine years ago) link
I don't even know how to make pickles but slow cooker chili is go
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 23 October 2014 00:45 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I need to learn your secrets. BTW you can get pickles and pretzels at Clyde's, maybe even radishes in season.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Thursday, 23 October 2014 01:05 (nine years ago) link
I'm just saying salted sliced radishes and pickled vegetables need to be a regular bar food thing. And extra dark pretzels.
― BRAAAAAAMETHEUS (El Tomboto), Thursday, 23 October 2014 01:14 (nine years ago) link
me and the wife sitting on the sofa with macbook airs in our laps watching homeland on the DVRthis some Washington DC New Yorker cartoon bullshit right here
― BRAAAAAAMETHEUS (El Tomboto), Thursday, 23 October 2014 02:14 (nine years ago) link
anyone familiar with Jody Mack and her experimental film/performance artist homage to old college dorm posters like Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon Sunday, Nov. 2Let Your Light Shine at National Gallery of Art (http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/calendar/film-programs/aonMack/light-shine.html) Initially, she planned to shoot some sort of documentary, but the musical stop-motion show she wound up creating is harder to classify. Titled “Dusty Stacks of Mom: The Poster Project” — and featuring Ms. Mack’s mother, Sharon Marney — it’s a kinetic, handmade cornucopia of movie and music stars’ imagery and shots of the poster-filled warehouse. The infectiously obsessive 40-odd minutes are timed to the Pink Floyd album “The Dark Side of the Moon.”
At screenings, Ms. Mack supplies live vocals, accompanied by a soundtrack composed by nine people. Singing over instrumental renditions of the classic album, she enunciates wittily precise lyrics in playful harmonies: “Sometimes there isn’t much to do/about depreciating revenue.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/13/movies/jody-mack-makes-plays-with-posters-in-dusty-stacks-of-mom.html?_r=0 The experimental filmmaker Jodie Mack grew up around the family business of posters and merch. From a Florida warehouse her parents supplied music retailers and others with the cultural wallpaper that decorated countless bedrooms in the 1990s — from the bands and celebrities du jour to the dorm-room patron saints Belushi, Marley and Guevara.
With the rise of the Internet came a downturn in sales, leaving thousands of Leonardo DiCaprios and Winona Ryders to languish in the cubbyholes of the warehouse. Ms. Mack’s mother, who by then ran the company on her own, talked about closing up shop. But the bust in sales was a bonanza for Ms. Mack, an animator for whom paper materials are both a favored medium and a ripe subject for cultural history.
“There were so many things in there that were available in multiples, so I thought it would be very interesting to go down and shoot and make animations of all of it,” Ms. Mack, 31, recalled by phone while on a trip to Ukraine. “The stuff that I had to work with was the stuff that was left behind, the stuff that didn’t sell out.”
― curmudgeon, Friday, 24 October 2014 18:50 (nine years ago) link
http://dcist.com/2014/10/popcorn_candy_post-apocalyptic_edit.php
more movies
― curmudgeon, Friday, 24 October 2014 21:19 (nine years ago) link
Best Vietnamese Restaurant at the Eden Center? Anybody?
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Sunday, 2 November 2014 03:34 (nine years ago) link
Still trying to figure that out. See upthread links.
Kliman at washingtonian recently said:
If I’m in the Eden Center and jonesing for pho, I’m going to Huong Viet and, if it’s too crowded there, then to Hai Duong.
He also likes a newer upscale looking place there called Rice Paper that Tyler Cowen does not like.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 2 November 2014 17:10 (nine years ago) link
http://www.huong-viet.com/press.html
This is where we ate the last time we were there. It was good but not amazing. They have a real long menu. Maybe I didn't order the right thing
― curmudgeon, Monday, 3 November 2014 15:45 (nine years ago) link
That's where I was going to go.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Monday, 3 November 2014 17:34 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B1pr370CIAAFN-3.jpg
― mookieproof, Thursday, 6 November 2014 16:46 (nine years ago) link
hahaha
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 6 November 2014 18:20 (nine years ago) link
So there are a couple open DC Council seats....
― curmudgeon, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:49 (nine years ago) link
Naturally, lots of contrasting takes everywhere on Marion Barry's passing
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/general/2014/12/05/despite-breaking-ground-kennedy-center-expansion-meets-challenges/
opposition to Kennedy Center's proposed floating pavilion addition
But hours later, the plans for expansion were put in limbo by the National Capital Planning Commission, which oversees and approves all projects that impact the D.C. metro area. The main issue? A floating pavilion in the Potomac River that connects to the Kennedy Center by a pedestrian bridge and, according to the community members who testified before the commission yesterday afternoon, severely impact rowers, recreational boaters, and high school and college athletes who regularly use the river. While most of those testifying politely encouraged the commission to consider an alternative design which would place the pavilion on land, Ann Satterthwaite of Friends of Georgetown Waterfront Park went a bit farther, calling the River Pavilion a work of "architectural hubris." Commission chairman L. Preston Bryant Jr. later echoed this sentiment, saying that he believed placing the pavilion on the river was an act of "architectural novelty and wow factor" and served no real purpose.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 8 December 2014 14:36 (nine years ago) link
http://www.asia.si.edu/events/films.asp#/?i=2
Grr, I keep missing these movies
― curmudgeon, Friday, 12 December 2014 22:53 (nine years ago) link
Had a nice meal last night at Thip Khao, in Columbia Heights, the new sister restaurant to Bangkok Golden, the Falls Church Thai & Laotian restaurant
― curmudgeon, Monday, 15 December 2014 16:43 (nine years ago) link
NEW RESTAURANT OF THE YEAR
― controversial but fabulous (I DIED), Monday, 15 December 2014 16:48 (nine years ago) link
Liked Mazagan in Arlington much more than I thought I would.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Monday, 15 December 2014 17:49 (nine years ago) link
x-post-- I've alway liked the Laotian food at Bangkok Golden, and they offer the same plus more at Thip Kao.
I like Moroccan but haven't been to Mazagan. Will try it.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 15 December 2014 21:38 (nine years ago) link
I am going to be spending an inordinate amount of time in Merrifield in January, what should I eat.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Monday, 15 December 2014 22:46 (nine years ago) link
After Jan I'll be rolling (literally, home hospice social work) in Great Falls and McClean, what should I eat there too.
I know fuck all about Virgina and am mildly terrified that I will be spending an abundance of my life there through August 2015.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Monday, 15 December 2014 22:48 (nine years ago) link
hahaha I don't even know how to spell mclean until just now
four sisters, elephant jumps
― controversial but fabulous (I DIED), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 05:38 (nine years ago) link
that is not a weird code it's where you should eat
lol
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 16:35 (nine years ago) link
Yes to Four Sisters Vietnamese. And go to the nearby H Mart Korean Supermarket
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 20:37 (nine years ago) link
Also, Burmese restaurant Myanmar had good food when I ate there many moons back, but I see Yelpsters are complaining about its customer service
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 20:40 (nine years ago) link
Meanwhile in Maryland
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/could-a-new-wave-of-boutique-coffee-beer-and-bao-buns-remake-silver-sprung/2014/12/22/2016291a-8232-11e4-8882-03cf08410beb_story.html
― curmudgeon, Monday, 22 December 2014 21:37 (nine years ago) link