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.
― Gukbe, Monday, 2 January 2017 00:47 (seven years ago) link
do you have a preference of metro line? i've had a lot of luck along the green line for affordability.
― Heez, Monday, 2 January 2017 01:41 (seven years ago) link
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.
― maccabeelzebubbly (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 3 January 2017 15:07 (seven years ago) link
the red line is an abomination
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 3 January 2017 15:09 (seven years ago) link
Hey! I like my 'hood!
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 3 January 2017 19:05 (seven years ago) link
FP'd
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 3 January 2017 19:58 (seven years ago) link
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
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 01:12 (seven years ago) link
lol because that writer used the word hoagie like the good pittsburgher she is <3
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 02:45 (seven years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Friday, 17 February 2017 18:15 (seven years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 16 March 2017 15:39 (seven years ago) link
Thanks! I should bookmark the DC Resource thread on ILM because otherwise I only ever see it on Zing by happenstance.
― SFTGFOP (El Tomboto), Thursday, 16 March 2017 16:23 (seven years ago) link
Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 16 March 2017 17:56 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 15:53 (seven years ago) link
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.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 14 April 2017 16:53 (seven years ago) link
https://www.popville.com/2017/04/zenebech-injera-reopening-adams-morgan-dc/#comments
This good Ethiopian place used to be near the Howard Theatre...
― curmudgeon, Friday, 28 April 2017 17:36 (seven years ago) link
A few months before it opens on 18th Street
― curmudgeon, Monday, 1 May 2017 18:58 (seven years ago) link
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.
― your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Monday, 1 May 2017 19:19 (seven years ago) link
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
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 01:36 (seven years ago) link
dude we need to hang out. I can take some of those chickens off your hands.
― your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 02:14 (seven years ago) link
sorry I have to share this, I promise it gets local at the end
12 ISO part-time nanny11 FREE Tomorrow - Outdoor Fit - Focused - Baby Friendly Group Training10 ISO: Baby gates and booster seat or small high chair9 Free: club chair 8 ISO Full Time Nanny for Nanny Share in Bloomingdale 7 Local Family Lifestyle Photographer6 ISO good dermatologist 5 ISO good internist 4 Pediatrician nearby 3 Keep your family safe! Infant/Child CPR training2 ISO: temporary nanny from mid-July to mid-October1 Funk Parade Intergalactic Intergeneration Station at Harrison Rec Ce
― your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 02:36 (seven years ago) link
Infants and children have no business doing CPR imo
― okey-dokey, gnocchi (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 11:33 (seven years ago) link
WaPo is coming to my house to take pics of my hens.
HEN FAP
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Thursday, 4 May 2017 19:06 (seven years ago) link
Please go to dcbackyardchickens.org to sign the petition and call your council person to protest the proposed chicken ban!
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Thursday, 4 May 2017 19:07 (seven years ago) link
I have done so.
― your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Thursday, 4 May 2017 19:15 (seven years ago) link
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.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Thursday, 4 May 2017 19:37 (seven years ago) link
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...
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 25 May 2017 20:33 (seven years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Monday, 3 July 2017 18:31 (seven years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 23 July 2017 06:27 (seven years ago) link
Didn't watch him as much lately as I once did, but I took the Vance news hard. A classy admirable guy.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 24 July 2017 14:03 (seven years ago) link
Another one-- graffiti artist Cool Disco Dan from complications from diabetes. He was in his 40s
― curmudgeon, Friday, 28 July 2017 18:05 (seven years ago) link
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.
― El Tomboto, Friday, 28 July 2017 18:11 (seven years ago) link
also it's COOL "DISCO" DANit'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
― El Tomboto, Friday, 28 July 2017 18:13 (seven years ago) link
tribute service at 930 Club on the 19th
― curmudgeon, Monday, 14 August 2017 20:35 (seven years ago) link
― curmudgeon, Monday, 14 August 2017 20:36 (seven years ago) link
Music related stuff over on that thread
Do ILXORs drink any more? I need to make myself get out of my current routine.
― Diana Fire (j.lu), Friday, 25 August 2017 00:56 (seven years ago) link
I do, from 5-7 ish.
― Tarly Noise (El Tomboto), Friday, 25 August 2017 02:32 (seven years ago) link
http://dcist.com/2017/09/pc_2017-9-29.php
Interesting artsy movies at theatres still exist
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 5 October 2017 17:19 (six years ago) link
https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/10/13/washington-city-papers-owner-puts-it-up-for-sale/
Uh oh. I write for them sometimes.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 16 October 2017 14:34 (six years ago) link
I worked for the City Paper many years (and many changes of ownership) ago; in my mind it already left the city when it transferred most functions to Atlanta, leaving only the tiniest reportorial footprint here.
No matter who owns it, I suppose they could continue that way - like those Clear Channel radio stations where everything but the weather and traffic emanates from a central computer, and they keep a local sheen by peppering in requests and dedications like "This one goes out to Laura in Columbia Heights!" Loose Lips and a few other things may live on forever in some form, but the picture for print is dismal and has been for ages.
― looser than lucinda (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 16 October 2017 14:44 (six years ago) link
The Nashville-based Southcomm that bought it from the Atlanta folks doesn't want to hold on to any more papers/websites that aren't bringing in a big enough profit. So just as the not-connected Baltimore City Paper is shutting down Nov. 1st; the Washington City Paper may get shut down 12-31. Loose lips on DC politics, various cover stories, local music coverage, citylight previews of events that don't get highlighted elsewhere (some club dance events, punk, African, etc.), other voices on DC restaurants, etc. will be gone. They have never marketed their web presence well enough to get more readers (be they college kids, longtime locals, 20-something millennials) and they have cut back on newspaper availability, plus the advertising staff hasn't been able to get more ads, so here we are.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 16 October 2017 17:10 (six years ago) link
I feel like I haven't seen a city paper in ages
― El Tomboto, Monday, 16 October 2017 17:19 (six years ago) link
I haven't. And I stopped looking! Which is completely nuts, and yet here we are. My wife and I are old-school print-era creatures; when I cut back the Post to weekends-only I felt like I was betraying my ancestors.
― looser than lucinda (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 16 October 2017 17:34 (six years ago) link
They cut back on the # of newspaper boxes and assume everyone knows their website, gets their morning daily news & food & music aggregation email, gets their "To Do Today" and "To Do This Weekend" emails, or follows their 2 twitter accounts. Only fanatics like me do.
I find the paper in Shirlington (I work out in VA) and sometimes in DC. I email, FB, & Instagram links to my little previews and reviews and post 'em over on ILM.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 16 October 2017 17:51 (six years ago) link
Speaking of hard to find newspapers, this is going on tonight at the Shaw Library:
https://www.dclibrary.org/node/58202
"History and State of D.C.'s Black Press" from 6:30 to 8pm
Join four local journalists, editors and publishers for a lively and informative discussion about the history and state of the Black Press in Washington City from the first abolitionist newspaper founded before the Civil War to the challenges and opportunities facing black journalists in today's local media scene.
The panel will be moderated by Denise Rolark-Barnes, Publisher of The Washington Informer.
Panelists will be Howard University's Jazmin Goodwin, Editor-in-chief of The Hilltop, James Wright, local reporter for the Washington Afro and Prof. A. Peter Bailey, author and professor of the history of the Black Press.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 16 October 2017 17:55 (six years ago) link
http://wamu.org/story/17/10/16/southeast-d-c-residents-protest-food-deserts-grocery-walk/
1 grocery store in all of Anacostia
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 17 October 2017 14:53 (six years ago) link
https://assets.dnainfo.com/message.html
Dcist, Gothamist, etc CEO shuts 'em down (reportedly a week after one of 'em voted to unionize their tiny staff)
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 2 November 2017 21:19 (six years ago) link
Pat Padua's weekly movie guide column at dcist on artsy movies, b-movies, foreign films, etc. at DC area theatres and museums was best such item around. No other DC media covered them the way he did imho.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 2 November 2017 21:35 (six years ago) link