Brad Pitt Has Your Secret Shit: Rolling DC

j/k obv but if you have a garage i will lol

no garage. lol basemetn is hueg tho

Warning: hueg basement, like hueg garage, leads to failure to purge/massive accumulation of crap (at least if you are me).

Luckily we are solving the garage accumulation of crap by doing this lil project: http://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/tiny_house_in_cleveland_park_historic_district_approved/11740

wau

ooh can I live there

You are more than welcome there, just be warned that you may be sharing space with an elderly parent or two.

lol @ Granny Pod

Yeah that was spouse's choice of term. We're totally sneaking a roof deck in, btw, zoning be damned.

https://www.popville.com/2016/11/kramerbooks-expansion-coming-under-new-ownership-in-dupont/

free beer if you buy $50 worth of books, now through 12/31

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/food/young-hungry/article/20845471/two-wage-theft-lawyers-cash-in-on-dcs-restaurant-boom

Just three years after leaving Maryland Legal Aid and launching his practice, the 33-year-old Zelikovitz has gone from using just a single room in a Chinatown townhouse to renting the entire building. He is one of several attorneys who have discovered that suing District restaurants over wage law violations doubles as doing good and doing good business.

Zelikovitz and attorney Jonathan Tucker, who left Maryland Legal Aid last year to join the firm, benefit from wage law violations they say can often be caused by scofflaw managers or ignorance among restaurant owners. They have more than 30 active cases, with nearly 20 others on payment plans.

When a restaurant fails to pay a dishwasher minimum wage or time-and-a-half for overtime pay, that’s an opening for the lawyers to send a demand letter on behalf of their clients, many of whom come to them via word of mouth or Spanish-language Google advertisements.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2016/12/04/d-c-police-respond-to-report-of-a-man-with-a-gun-at-comet-ping-pong-restaurant/

Crazy. Sounds like guy was arrested with no loss of life. Knuckleheads on twitter still pushing their conspiracy theory

yeah i just checked and clicking the trending topic it's all "this is a false flag, this place needs to be investigated"

wtf

i saw an acid mothers temple show there that was pretty loud but that's really it as far as weirdness

the inauguration is going to be such a fucking mess. I'm not worried, per se, about the grab bag of deluded stupid assholes who are going to descend upon us in January, but if I were a betting man I wouldn't put a dime of somebody else's money on the inaugural parade + affiliated nonsense going off without at least a couple of people winding up in the hospital

Also, the National Park Service has still not confirmed locations for the various anti-Trump protest organizations. They say that the folks who requested the Women's march location, filed late. Plus there are legal battles re locations near the Trump hotel on inauguration day.

I'm probably just going to go to Freedom Plaza and see what happens

I'm working in Downtown on 9th Street during it so good luck to me.

Was re-reading that during the Bush inaugural parade (the first time), some folks decided to show up at random sites and boo, rather than joining in the sole designated protest area...

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/groups-call-blocking-inaugural-protests-unconstitutional-44029039

In the past, inaugural committees have let the park service know what land they won't be using, and then permits have been issued, Litterst said. The park service is awaiting word from Trump's inaugural team about its plans. Verheyden-Hilliard said activists are concerned that the inaugural committee will run out the clock on dissidents and she will take legal action in a bid to prevent that.

So U St. condos get named after famous Black musicians, and H St NE ones will get named after historic NYC Black theatres/music sites?

The Apollo Apartments - Brand New Apartments‎

Live in Luxury on H Street at The Apollo. Now Leasing!

Amenities: Rooftop Deck, Fitness Center, On-Site Cafe, Resident Lounges, Dog Run, Bike Storage, 24-Hour Concierge, Guest Accommodations

600 H St NE, Washington, DC‎

https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/restaurants/the-20-diners-favorite-cheap-eats-of-2016/2016/12/28/58c95a1a-c890-11e6-bf4b-2c064d32a4bf_story.html?hpid=hp_local-news_20-diner-1155am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.280637d84bbb

Tim Carman lives in Maryland so its possible that is why the list has more Maryland places on it (or perhaps that is not why)

There was an Apollo Theater on H street NE. It's not named after the Harlem venue.

http://www.popville.com/2013/10/from-apolo-theatre-to-murrys-grocery-store-to-120000000-apolo-mixed-use-development/

Interesting

The Airedale at 14th & Perry is slept on

I think I really like my new neighborhood y'all

No matter how I parse your first sentence (neighborhood terrier? Hipster bar?) I cannot make sense of it.

hipster bar! wall covered in soccer scarves. wide range of local beers on tap. excellent brunch. slept on = seems rather un-busy

Weather this week was great for our visit over xmas

man a dude moves to Petworth and all of a sudden he's speaking a new language!

What's the feasibility of finding somewhere okayish in DC for 1300 a month?

Currently in Alexandria, but need to move in a few months. Was thinking Silver Spring?

it seems totally doable imho but I don't know what your parameters are for "somewhere okayish"

Your own place, I assume, or are you willing to consider a housemate? I suspect that 1300 may be putting you into teeny-tiny (studio as opposed to 1 br) territory. But throw in a roommate and ~2400 will get you something pretty nice if not luxury-building style in NW. Not really familiar with rents in other parts of the city these days.

I'm okay with tiny studio but if the gap in quality is so large that a roommate will do the trick then I'm willing. Weighing that versus moving further out and buying a car.

do you have a preference of metro line? i've had a lot of luck along the green line for affordability.

Green Line works, yup. Hyattsville/College Park. If you're thinking Red Line you might find yourself in Wheaton rather than Silver Spring. I like that part of the world fine, even though I am a novadude.

the red line is an abomination

Hey! I like my 'hood!

FP'd

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/food/wp/2017/01/30/a-hoagie-shop-chains-co-owner-shakes-trumps-hand-and-a-twitter-outcry-ensues/

UNTREATABLE SCHADENROFFLES

fuck Taylor Gourmet honestly. I cannot wait to see every storefront replaced by a new franchise of MONARCH NOVELTIES or PUPPET HEAVEN which frankly would be nutritionally identical lol lol etc

lol because that writer used the word hoagie like the good pittsburgher she is <3

Shhh, don't tell 45, but the Iranian filmfest is going on in DC and Maryland

http://local.washingtoncitypaper.com/event/afi-silver-theatre-and-cultural-center/reseeing-iran-cl

more movie fests, including the new African Film fest that started last week, and I forgot about till today; an environmental one coming up

http://dcist.com/2017/03/popcorn_candy_is_dcists_6.php

Thanks! I should bookmark the DC Resource thread on ILM because otherwise I only ever see it on Zing by happenstance.

Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread

ABC News reports:

Shots were fired this morning near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. U.S. Capitol Police responded to the area at Washington Ave and Independence Ave, which is located near the U.S. Botanic Garden and the Rayburn House office building. The suspect apparently struck a Capitol Police cruiser and then tried running over several officers who were on foot, according to Metro DC Police. At one point Capitol Police fired shots, but no one was hit. The suspect was apprehended at 3rd and Independence Ave, and has been taken into custody. No one was hit by the suspect’s car, police said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/04/13/judge-sheila-abdus-salaam-first-african-american-on-new-yorks-top-court-found-dead-in-hudson-river/?utm_term=.d08d33475a43

She was a great judge from DC. Articles are suggesting it was suicide.

https://www.popville.com/2017/04/zenebech-injera-reopening-adams-morgan-dc/#comments

This good Ethiopian place used to be near the Howard Theatre...

A few months before it opens on 18th Street

My SALT pint glass finally got a fatal chip in the dishwasher. My Hunter Age 3 shirt disappeared a long time ago. End of an era.

I still drink from my SALT pint glasses. Hunter Age 3 is memorialized as artwork hanging on the wall.

Murial Bowser is trying to take my hens away from me! Please help save my backyard hens! Petition here: https://www.change.org/p/d-c-city-council-lay-off-the-hens-support-backyard-chickens-in-d-c?recruiter=682192361&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink

Calls to your city councilperson and at-large members would be awesome. Bower has stuck a line item in the fucking budget, for god's sake. Zero transparency. More here: www.dcbackyardchickens.org

dude we need to hang out. I can take some of those chickens off your hands.