Brad Pitt Has Your Secret Shit: Rolling DC

they should also have a sign that mentions the syphilis test requirement

or just have

SYPHILITIC RETARDS -------->

So Oohs and Ahhhs the U St. soul food joint made the City Paper's recent top 50 restaurant list. I was neither wowed by that place nor Flavors in Falls Church, is it me(I'm either wrong or expecting too much) or are these places overrated, or something else?

Heard on the news that some folks are now avoiding the first and last cars on subway trains, since that Red line accident

where's a good place in dc to get men's clothing (shirts and trousers) of quality? i normally get my workish clothes at like h&m and banana republic but am ready to shell out a bit for well-made stuff that i'll still be wearing in a decade (too optimistic?). rather than try to interpret yelp reviews or whatever, i thought i'd ask here.

I love Redeem on 14th st.

That whole City Paper top 50 list was more bullshit than even old Washingtonian lists were.

i've been to redeem several times and their stuff is cool, tho my memory is of a mostly, uh, casual selection - but maybe that's b/c it's what i was looking for at the time?

I've gotten a number of blazers there, and have also seen a few suit separates. If you're in the market for more formal stuff, Brooks Brothers has been stepping up their game for real! It's amazing how non-preppy their stuff can look if it's just not paired with a pastel shirt.

x-post. Do you not like the CP list because of the way it appears to be done by food categories (new American, Ethiopian, etc) but then arbitrarily has 2 restaurants for certain categories (a Silver Spring Ethiopian and a DC one)and not for others, or do do you not like Poste or whatever choices that are included, or both or something else.
Not enough high-end ones?

x-post to me; So do you guys consider Jos. A. Banks not high quality enough a clothier

i don't know enough about it to have an opinion--i know the name but not whether their stuff is really that good, where they stand in comparison to other comparable brands etc. that's why i asked!

another thing i would like to know is where if anywhere can i try on apc shirts in dc (i know denim bar has their jeans)

I like Jos. A Banks well enough, but I like Brooks Brothers better.

Will, for clothing in general and for APC here you should check Barney's co-op in gtown.

so glad I don't have to wear suits. will have to be doing job interviews prob in the next month & I hate having to find some very boring business casual type of thing to wear. waaah.

I don't like the City Paper list because it's labeled as the 50 best restaurants in DC and it's not - not only are there restaurants that are clearly among the best in the area missing from the list, but there are restaurants that aren't even good, nevermind great, on there.

can i have your old job y/n

xp

I'm gonna just use the CP list as a source of possible restaurants to try, but yea, I can see that it is not definitive as a whole list.

xpost - thanks!

i'm not really looking for suits at the moment. just well-made and -fitting shirts and pants.

my old job won't exist, that's the problem. though i got so mad yesterday i was imagining that i'd just resign. conscience bothering me about direction of things. i guess i can't afford to be all dramatic, though. gotta pay the rent.

sorry. yeah, i'm on the verge of being dramatic

I got the City Paper thing wrong, as flawed as it is, every restaurant on that list is at least decent. They saved the shorty ones for the staff picks on the website.

I think the CP's Carman lives in Silver Spring or nearby and it seemed like to me he used to cover more restaurants from there and from Wheaton then some of the other area reviewers (the same way the Northern VA based Tyler Cowen emphasizes that area). But he's got restaurants from all over so that might be just my perception.

So I'm moving to Takoma Park! Should be signing the lease today.

It's not comprehensive enough, but there are a few funny bits in the latest Onion re restaurant reviews.

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/DenverBarry.jpg

yeah, heh, is that actually on the cover of the print ed.?

It is.

The cover quote regarding Marion Barry on this week's City Paper is:

1. Unnecessary and juvenile and insensitive

2. Acceptable and relevant

3. None of the above

4. Who cares

5. I stopped looking at the City Paper years ago

or

6. __________

7. All of the above

"Loose Lips" p. 6

It was out there for little children to see.

7

http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0709/639021.html

"The paper admits it has received many complaints about the issue's cover, including some vendors who have asked to pull the tabloid. By all accounts, the copies of the free newspaper are disappearing quickly."

I can't really say 5 because I moved house three months ago
can't wait for this though http://www.hbo.com/events/ninelivesofmarionbarry/index.html

i think that was at silverdocs? and got meh reviews?

Yep, that's what I thought.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/09/AR2009070902792.html?hpid=topnews

"Before Barry's news conference yesterday, two women approached a group of reporters and demanded to know which one worked for the City Paper. They soon began shouting at City Paper's Jason Cherkis, waving a copy of the newspaper at him."

looool

Exhibits I saw Saturday that I recommend:

William Eggleston, Democratic Camera Photos and Video 1961 to 2008 at the Corcoran

I didn't like the video. Music fans, his Big Star cover and Alex Chilton Like Flies on Sherbet are included

Jaromir Funke and the Czech Amateur Avante-Garde (photos) at the National Gallery West Wing

Stanley William Hayter: From Surrealism to Abstraction at the National Gallery West Wing

Some of the Eggleston photos are bizarre, others are 'hey I could have done that,' but some are special both due to his eye, technique and choice of subject matter. It's an interesting guide to parts of the American South.

http://www.fromkomitomarvin.com/

This woman is eating at all of Washingtonian's 100 best restaurants this year and blogging about her meals.

not trying to be a hater here but i wish more bloggers would EDIT. she does not need that many words to make her points.

this looks cool (tho i can't picture the location), going to check out standing in the shadows of motown tomorrow night: http://www.nomasummerscreen.com

I can't quite picture the location either (and have wanted to go to one of these but have not made it there yet). I got a press copy awhile back of the Shadows of Motown dvd and found it interesting, but am curious how it will work as an outdoors free flick.

Will, what did you think of the movie and the location?

thumbs up on the location. big screen, not a huge space but not too crowded, good mix of people. they sell bbq for $cheap but we picked up sandwiches and beer from taylor on h street--so good.

movie pretty interesting, though about 25% of it was footage of a reunion concert of the surviving funk brothers (uncredited motown backing musicians) playing live w/ like ben harper, bootsy collins, and joan osbourne (!?) singing the tunes, and all that did was make me want to hear the originals (which i'm listening to now). aside from that, the documentary had strange feel, like it was shot and lit in an atypical style for a documentary at least ime--at points i swear actors were playing what were supposed to be people on the street, or the real funk brothers were sitting in a fake car interior pretending to drive around while they reminisced. strange.

I NEED TO DRINK. Does anyone want to join me?

Damn. I would have done if I'd seen this earlier. I am drinking now, alone. Would pop out for a quick one now though if you're anywhere near Dupont and want to drink with a near-stranger stressed out by tragic events.

no energy to do anything right now.. none. I went for a pretty long walk earlier when it was still about 85-90 and muggy outside and now I feel just completely drained, which is odd - must be the weather. i am sorry because i've recently been uh, saved from the trouble of dramatically resigning from my job (layoffs!), so it's not like i have to be up early.

watching CNN now but there's not much new news at this hour.

Sorry about your news daria.

oh, thanks. it's OK, i wanted to leave, was only a matter of time really.

good grief jakarta