ugh, i've spent 3 hours straight searching, no luck. it's so sad how difficult it is to try to escape light pollution, even when you have access to a car and are willing to go anywhere in the state
― go to evangelical agonizing eternal hell (Karl Malone), Friday, 23 May 2014 18:32 (ten years ago) link
So between 2 and 2:30 am I looked for meteors but did not see any. Gave up and went to sleep.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 24 May 2014 14:08 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2014/05/24/camelopardalids-meteor-shower-a-bust-but-not-a-surprise/?hpid=z3
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 24 May 2014 15:27 (ten years ago) link
yeah, i watched from the front porch until about 2 am then went to bed, saw nothing. glad i didn't go across the state to try to camp!
― go to evangelical agonizing eternal hell (Karl Malone), Saturday, 24 May 2014 16:18 (ten years ago) link
The Black Biker Fest was fun. Just about 300 to 400 people there, most of them were not bikers. Just fans of southern soul--Mel Waiters, Ms. Jody and Hardway Connection. I had previously seen a southern soul show at the Showplace Arena in Upper Marlboro that attracted around 4,000. It was advertised on WHUR 96.3 radio, this one was not.I'm sure deathfest and Cass Mccombs were nice too.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 03:41 (ten years ago) link
If you're curious about demographics, me and my fiance and 2 others were the only non-African-American folks there in the audience.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 03:42 (ten years ago) link
Giving nightclubs and go-go and the Distict's ABC board a bad name:
the ABC Board issued an order allowing XII to operate under an expired liquor license while it files a third application for renewal, after the first two were dismissed for XII’s failure to attend required hearings."
http://dcist.com/2014/05/anc_wants_h_street_ne_club_temporar.php
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 29 May 2014 20:51 (ten years ago) link
District's
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 29 May 2014 20:52 (ten years ago) link
http://dcist.com/2014/06/thanks_for_coming_to_our_concert_we.php
Dcist.com once a month summer gigs
― curmudgeon, Monday, 2 June 2014 21:13 (ten years ago) link
http://dcist.com/2014/06/the_problem_with_rabbl_crowd-fund.php
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 4 June 2014 21:25 (ten years ago) link
https://twitter.com/FortRenoRumors
mildly amusing and sometimes lol funny
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 8 June 2014 14:59 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2014/06/09/punk-the-capitals-james-schneider-on-the-docs-rare-footage/
Nostalgic sneak peaks of old-school harDCore & punk on screen Tuesday (and through later in the '80s Wednesday)
― curmudgeon, Monday, 9 June 2014 19:34 (ten years ago) link
The Southern Soul Tribute at the Hamilton Saturday night includes a bunch of standard D.C. barband roots-rockers but also (based on my suggestion-- yeah yeah) local old-school D.C. soul performers Little Margie Clark (from the Jewels, who toured as a James Brown opening act for awhile way back when), Eddie Jones, and members of the Hardway Connection.
June is a busy music month around here. So much going on in multiple genres indoors and outdoors
― curmudgeon, Friday, 13 June 2014 14:04 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/brass-connection-band-for-washington-mystics-makes-crowds-dance-on-dc-streets/2014/06/20/963954be-f709-11e3-a3a5-42be35962a52_story.html
Seen these guys on street corners, they're fun
― curmudgeon, Monday, 23 June 2014 15:39 (ten years ago) link
the fight to save the smithsonian folklife fest from the NPS plan to turn the mall into a country club golf course without the golf, is ongoing
― curmudgeon, Monday, 23 June 2014 15:41 (ten years ago) link
fort reno :(
― the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Thursday, 26 June 2014 14:47 (ten years ago) link
fuck the park police
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 26 June 2014 15:17 (ten years ago) link
NPS messing with everyone
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2014/06/26/there-will-be-no-concerts-at-fort-reno-in-2014/
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 26 June 2014 15:18 (ten years ago) link
"So as it stands today, not only does the concert series not have the funds to cover this cost at the last minute but we don’t feel we should have to do this without just cause," wrote MacKaye. "...It will literally double the VERY small budget of the concert series." And so Fort Reno will remain dark—and a lot quieter—this summer.
man, esp. compared to all the bullshit on kickstarter, it would be easy to put together a campaign to raise $2000 to pay a NPS guard to stand there for 2 hours every few weeks during the summer. if we can raise that much on ILX in just a few hours i'm sure Fort Reno wouldn't have a problem.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 26 June 2014 15:21 (ten years ago) link
Amanda can be real stubborn, and she probably thinks giving in and paying is somehow selling out. Maybe she can be persuaded otherwise
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 26 June 2014 15:28 (ten years ago) link
As for a potential fundraising campaign, MacKaye says raising the necessary funds from supporters probably wouldn't be an issue, but she's still thinking about whether Fort Reno should have to comply with the Park Service demand at all. “That’s a deeper moral question for me,” she says.
NEVER CHANGE, DC
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Thursday, 26 June 2014 15:35 (ten years ago) link
Just raise the $2,600 via a kickstarter not from a beer company and move on
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 26 June 2014 15:40 (ten years ago) link
NPS again:
http://www.nps.gov/rocr/planyourvisit/cbarronschedule.htm
Shorter schedules this summer. They don't come out and say it but the respective times are later than ever.
The Fort Dupont Summer Theatre and Carter Barron Amphitheatre schedules are expected to be posted on or about July 1, 2014.
Events at Fort Dupont Summer Theatre will begin on July 19, 2014. The new time for events is 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Events at Carter Barron Amphitheatre will begin on August 8, 2014.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 26 June 2014 16:13 (ten years ago) link
According to the statement on fortreno.com, the NPS sprang the requirement on them very late in the permitting process, and has not given a satisfactory reason why the guard is needed after however many years. I'd certainly contribute to a fundraiser, but it makes sense to ask WHY suddenly the NPS wants the guard.
Also, announcing that Fort Reno is flat-out cancelled should fuel a publicity kerfuffle. If there's a big enough buzz, the NPS might feel enough pressure to give in.
― Miss Anne Thrope (j.lu), Thursday, 26 June 2014 17:10 (ten years ago) link
NPS and the Park Police are pretty stubborn
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 26 June 2014 17:22 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/general/2014/06/26/pain-in-the-grass-new-national-mall-regulations-force-big-name-events-off-the-lawn/#more-112573
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 26 June 2014 17:28 (ten years ago) link
http://www.change.org/petitions/national-park-service-and-u-s-park-police-allow-fort-reno-summer-concert-series-to-continue-as-it-had-for-over-40-years
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 26 June 2014 18:32 (ten years ago) link
Will the attention given to Fort Reno in the media encourage the NPS & Park Police to consider Amanda's moral principles, or is she out of luck (and hence so are bands and us)?
― curmudgeon, Friday, 27 June 2014 10:28 (ten years ago) link
I'm pretty sure the NPS cares as much about Amanda's moral principles as Amanda cares about the moral principles of the NPS
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Friday, 27 June 2014 13:47 (ten years ago) link
Exactly, which will likely leave us with no Fort Reno concerts. But Amanda believes that this will teach bandmembers and the rest of us a moral lesson.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 27 June 2014 14:13 (ten years ago) link
J. Fischer of City Paper put together a list of some of the groups who were scheduled to play:
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2014/06/26/heres-who-might-have-played-fort-reno-this-summer/
Here's who nearly played at Fort Reno this summer:
•Title Tracks•The Effects•Myrrh Myrrh•The Captivators•Alarms and Controls•Aloners •Baby Bry Bry and the Apologists•Calavera Skull•Golden Looks•Priests •Give •Malatese•Puff Pieces•Peanut Butter and Dave•The Raised by Wolves•Sotano•Dissonance •Stereosleep•Talk It•Tiger Horse•Protect-U This list might not be complete, either. In an email to me, Ray Brown of teenage rockers The Black Sparks also said his group was supposed to play on July 28. Was your band set to perform?
― curmudgeon, Friday, 27 June 2014 14:18 (ten years ago) link
Both the NPS and USPP recognize the importance of the concerts to the community and look forward to further discussions with the permit applicant.
.......
― curmudgeon, Friday, 27 June 2014 15:03 (ten years ago) link
ooh, DC Shadow Senator Paul Strauss helped arrange a Monday meeting between NPS, USPP, and Amanda Mackaye
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2014/06/27/fort-reno-organizer-to-meet-with-national-park-service-monday/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 27 June 2014 20:43 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2014/06/29/kenyan-musicians-back-at-smithsonian-folklife-festival-after-one-day-strike-against-their-government/
― curmudgeon, Monday, 30 June 2014 02:29 (ten years ago) link
Interesting weekend on the mall.
In other news, Lux Lounge shut down after 3 something AM incident outside the place on the street
― curmudgeon, Monday, 30 June 2014 14:15 (ten years ago) link
http://www.wjla.com/articles/2014/06/talbert-bright-unidentified-woman-killed-in-weekend-violence-in-dc-club-closed-104611.html
― curmudgeon, Monday, 30 June 2014 15:19 (ten years ago) link
Fort Reno back on
― a-lo, Monday, 30 June 2014 16:56 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2014/06/30/fort-reno-concerts-are-back-on/
Organizers agreed today that they will pay for a police presence at this summer's shows, but will not have to pay up front, as officials initially required. "You'll see foot patrols or bike patrols," Strauss said. "Something less disruptive to the environment.” Strauss said that while not every issue was worked out, “we made enough progress that everyone was comfortable moving forward.” Some of those issues include the hard costs of each night, the number of officers on hand for each show, and the number of hours they'll be present, Strauss said, adding that Park Service Superintendent Tara Morrison recognized that “it’s a unique event.”
MacKaye, Morrison, and Park Police Sgt. Allan Griffith appeared on the Kojo Nnamdi Show immediately after the meeting
― curmudgeon, Monday, 30 June 2014 17:01 (ten years ago) link
What I'm not seeing in any of the reporting is why is the Park Service so adamant that there be officers at each show? Was there an issue last year?
― a-lo, Monday, 30 June 2014 17:05 (ten years ago) link
from an earlier CP article
MacKaye says she was given two explanations for the requirement being imposed: She says NPS told her that all events for more than 100 people are required to have officers assigned. And she says Park Police told her that that there has been "heightened crime" in Fort Reno Park during the concert series. "I dispute that, because I’m there and I don’t see that going on,” she says.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 30 June 2014 17:10 (ten years ago) link
She says NPS told her that all events for more than 100 people are required to have officers assigned.
this is the important part. it sounds like she ignored that and then focused on the anecdote that there was "heightened crime", which yeah, is bullshit.
― Karl Malone, Monday, 30 June 2014 17:15 (ten years ago) link
But NPS never followed that in the past to the degree they now have decided to do
― curmudgeon, Monday, 30 June 2014 17:21 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, the shows I've been too are always pretty chilled out. It seems the sensible thing would be to have a cop drive past once or twice, maybe hang around at the end to make sure people leave. I don't know what you need a guy parked there all night. (Though there was that thing at the zoo where a kid started dancing . . . they needed some cops to make him stop. Dancing. At a show.)
― a-lo, Monday, 30 June 2014 17:25 (ten years ago) link
http://www.fortreno.com/
Schedule posted -- Mondays and Thursdays in July
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 14:28 (ten years ago) link
From the link:
MONDAY, JULY 7 2014CaptivatorsMalatese
THURSDAY, JULY 10 2014Peanut Butter & DaveGolden LooksCalavera Skull
MONDAY, JULY 14 2014Baby Bry BryAlonersTiger Horse
THURSDAY, JULY 17 2014PriestsSotanoPuff Pieces
MONDAY, JULY 21 2014Alarms & ControlsTalk ItDissonance
THURSDAY, JULY 24 2014Title TracksThe EffectsMyrrh Myrrh
MONDAY, JULY 28 2014Black SparksStereosleepThe Raised by Wolves
THURSDAY, JULY 31 2014GiveProtect-U
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 16:33 (ten years ago) link
Any Fort Reno act recommendations?
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 21:40 (ten years ago) link
i like aloners & baby bry bry are a+ bros
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 23:04 (ten years ago) link
Thanks.
NPS said Fort Dupont and Carter Barron schedules (based on same shortened sequestration calendar from last year) would be announced "around July 1." Still waiting
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 10 July 2014 15:53 (ten years ago) link
shocked the City Paper and others haven't been up in arms about the Fort Dupont schedule being up in the air, I know from all the Fort Reno coverage that they're huge fans of long-running free concert series on NPS land in DC
(haha I'm kidding I know why)
― controversial but fabulous (I DIED), Thursday, 10 July 2014 20:12 (ten years ago) link
(i dont know why)
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 10 July 2014 20:13 (ten years ago) link