Brad Pitt Has Your Secret Shit: Rolling DC

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.

sorry I have to share this, I promise it gets local at the end

12 ISO part-time nanny
11 FREE Tomorrow - Outdoor Fit - Focused - Baby Friendly Group Training
10 ISO: Baby gates and booster seat or small high chair
9 Free: club chair
8 ISO Full Time Nanny for Nanny Share in Bloomingdale
7 Local Family Lifestyle Photographer
6 ISO good dermatologist
5 ISO good internist
4 Pediatrician nearby
3 Keep your family safe! Infant/Child CPR training
2 ISO: temporary nanny from mid-July to mid-October
1 Funk Parade Intergalactic Intergeneration Station at Harrison Rec Ce

Infants and children have no business doing CPR imo

WaPo is coming to my house to take pics of my hens.

HEN FAP

Please go to dcbackyardchickens.org to sign the petition and call your council person to protest the proposed chicken ban!

I have done so.

I forgot who my new council person is though

Nadeau? Oh pleasepleaseplease give her office a call. They are logging chicken calls. She is a Bowser person but she is big into gov tranparency, so may not be keen on the chicken ban being snuck into the budget proposal instead of going through the normal legislative process.

http://dcist.com/2017/05/lord_protect_us_from_gentrification.php

Not really addressed in this article about the St. Elizabeth's arena that DC taxpayers are largely paying for (65 million!), is that other than for Mystics games and Wizards practices, it is likely to sit empty. I just don't see this 4,200 seater competing with the new IMP/930 owned hall Anthem in the Wharf, or with the National Harbor Hall or even DAR or the George Mason Arena or Echostage...

National Gallery of Art is honoring Canada's 150th anniversary with its film program July 1st through 8th, so that means on the afternoon of the 4th of July they are showing a 1965 doc on Leonard Cohen!

July 4 at 1:00
East Building Auditorium

Four classic shorts from the National Film Board of Canada begin with Norman McLaren’s legendary animation Begone Dull Care (1949, 8 minutes) and his famous pixilation Neighbours (1952, 8 minutes). Next is City of Gold (Colin Low and Wolf Koenig, 1957, 22 minutes), a groundbreaking compilation of archival and contemporary photography depicting author Pierre Berton’s childhood in Dawson City and his father’s involvement in the Klondike Gold Rush. Finally, Ladies and Gentlemen . . . Mr. Leonard Cohen — the first documentary portrait of the famous poet and songwriter, released two years before his first album — captures Cohen’s imagination and candor during live performance and casual interaction (Don Owen and Donald Brittain, 1965, 44 minutes). (Total running time 82 minutes)

https://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/calendar/film-programs/canada/cohen.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/jim-vance-washingtons-longest-serving-local-news-anchor-is-dead-at-75/2017/07/22/7869297c-6ee4-11e7-b9e2-2056e768a7e5_story.html?utm_term=.e6d859cc1ef6

Jim Vance was the coolest. Smart and real with great commentaries. A sports fan and soul music aficionado who anonymously contributed to WPFW. Cancer got him quick. He's pictured in the new Ben's Chili Bowl Mural

Didn't watch him as much lately as I once did, but I took the Vance news hard. A classy admirable guy.

Another one-- graffiti artist Cool Disco Dan from complications from diabetes. He was in his 40s

oh wow. that's crazy. I figured he would have to be older than that. he must have tagged everything in sight of the above-ground parts of the green line.

also it's COOL "DISCO" DAN
it's not the real deal without the quotes

he was also bipolar I guess:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/cool-disco-dan-opens-up-about-his-battle-with-mental-illness/2013/10/28/e81bef10-3da2-11e3-b7ba-503fb5822c3e_story.html

tribute service at 930 Club on the 19th

Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread