Brad Pitt Has Your Secret Shit: Rolling DC

I saw D.C.'s Eddie Jones & the Young Bucks perform there a long time ago

I am at the Dead Milkmen show because I am still 14 years old.

where the hell was that i wanted to go

9:30

Mosh pit had etiquette? LOL i so old.

But not as old as the band, hah

lol

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/housingcomplex/2015/07/28/fish-market-tenants-say-d-c-waterfront-developer-are-trying-to-destroy-their-businesses/

A lawsuit filed by the seafood sellers against the developers. Most of the comments on the posting though appear to be from newbie locals critical of the longtime market. I like shopping at the Maine Ave wharf even though I have heard some say the seafood available is no different from that which you get in your local Giant, Safeway, etc. The incoming development there is undoubtably making it harder to park there if one drives. Naturally, a commenter on the posting just blames those who are parking without suggesting that maybe the developers should try to make parking available. Also, I wonder what the parking plans are for the new IMP Arena that is going to be built there (or will folks just be expected to metro).

"Harder to park" on SE waterfront is akin to "harder to breathe" on the moon. It's always been terrible, now it's worse. I used to work and eat near there (when the Coast Guard was at Buzzard Point).

It is also a dreadful walk from the subway (and it would be pretty conspicuous and inefficient to try bring a couple dozen steamed crabs home via Metro).

I think for my last crustaceanfest we had a driver circling the block while others nabbed the seafood.

Yep. I bet the commenters have never bought any seafood from there.

When I used to see latenight music at h2O on the Waterfront and Zanzibar there used to be an underground parking garage there on the SW waterfront, but I never used that for when I was going to buy seafood at the Wharf.

Has anyone here tried Bridj (the "Uber for buses") yet? In October my office is moving from Farragut North to L'Enfant Plaza/Federal Center SW, and Metrorail has been conspicuously unreliable recently.

Nope.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/pages/workhere/

Become the Arts Editor

christina rules, sad to see her go off that beat

She'll likely be happier at Slate writing just about women and gender issues

guys what happens

Bot bot bot waht up

So driving into DC from VA I get on a little side access road off of 14th on the right opposite the Holocaust Museum to head over to L'Enfant at 10 pm. I do a quick stop at the stop sign before turning right and the next thing I know I am pulled over by a Bureau of Engraving and Printing "cop" who tells me I have made an illegal right turn. As he asks for my license and registration and insurance card, a cop colleague of his stands straight behind my car glaring while another such cop I see standing by my right rear car passenger door. Looking in my side view mirror I see her nervously moving her fingers around on her gun. Yikes. Thankfully, the first cop returns to my car with my info and just says, "Boss, make your right turn on the next street from now on, not from that access road. Ok boss."

Thank you Bureau of Engraving cops for uh somehow protecting one and all, and for my white male privilege. They probably couldn't give me a traffic ticket anyway...

the tomboto appears

and then. . . disappears again

like the wind

through our trees

Back to his E games

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/2015/09/11/logan-circles-iconic-barrel-house-liquor-is-relocating/

I guess the Barrel entrance can't be designated a historic landmark?

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/47495/new-hirshhorn-chief-melissa-chiu-explains-why-new-york-matters/

Hmmmm, let me think about this

New York writer having fun schooling everyone on how DC works or doesn't. Who edits this stuff?
So how did I not know the rules for women wearing big hats at polo matches in DC?

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/fear-and-clothing/405919/

Washington’s permaclass of wealthy Georgetown-establishment socialites has always ruled the roost on D.C.’s domestic front. The older rich ladies are the keepers of the social rulebooks—and the keepers of all the best HUMINT (human intelligence) and RUMINT (rumor-based intelligence) in town. These are the Mean Girls who make or break political aspirations, who get to wear big hats at polo matches, make disparaging comments about social climbers, and police the actions and/or styles of younger, more fertile women.

Meanwhile:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/three-homicides-bump-dcs-total-to-114-for-the-year/2015/09/19/70ed0c52-5eda-11e5-b38e-06883aacba64_story.html?postshare=4981442835209983

Today I had to explain to a born-and-bred Alabama boy in his 20s that DC is below the Mason-Dixon line.

"Oh," he said, "isn't it in, like, Maryland? Near Jersey."

http://www.cartoonsonnet.com/southern-fried-rabbit.jpg

xpost - never been anywhere near a polo match, but the ubiquitous ann taylor thing is real + this pressure to assimilate to dc conservative office dress codes. ugh

WTF this year with the killing coming back to my neighborhood. Are Lanier and Bowser really this dumb they can't figure out how to just restore the fucking drug TF?

bowser seems kinda clueless tbh

"i was supposed to be the Cool Gentrification Mayor"

The latest from the alleged cool gentrification mayor

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/poorer-tenants-fear-being-pushed-out-by-planned-congress-heights-complex/2015/10/14/1ecaad34-6c9b-11e5-9bfe-e59f5e244f92_story.html

There, a gleaming new complex of apartments, offices and shops is planned above the Congress Heights Metro station — the kind of development that is similar to dozens around the still-gentrifying city over the past 15 years and one that could help make this community the next hot neighborhood.

To build the project, the developer would have to raze four rent-controlled apartment buildings where residents already feel they are no longer welcome. The tenants are largely poor, elderly and live on fixed incomes. They said they believe they are being pushed out by two politically connected developers, who have failed to make improvements to the four apartment buildings even as many residents live in squalor.

Here's what the Georgetown socialites mentioned upthread a bit are also doing

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/the-secret-surveillance-of-suspicious-blacks-in-one-of-the-nations-poshest-neighborhoods/2015/10/13/2e47236c-6c4d-11e5-b31c-d80d62b53e28_story.html?tid=sm_tw

Oh that Georgetown private chatroom shit is the most Georgetown thing ever. Like the DC Urban Moms list after a visit from Max Jacobson. The idea that a white person who lives or works there needs to read a chat log to figure out their neighborhood is bigoted as fuck is hilarious. Burn that shit down. Except for the Benetton and the Mossimo Dutti. And the Levi's Store. And the DMV, also necessary. The rest though! It's the worst! Can we make this thread into our special room to report on when rich neighborhoods piss us off?

In other gentrification whining news, I realized an interesting trend in the restaurants in my neighborhood: Everywhere that's open for lunch (read: before 4pm) is part of a chain or series of restaurants owned by successful restaurant business people - mark and ty neal, mike isabella, andy shallal, etc). Everywhere else that doesn't open until happy hour is either a one-shot or belongs to some ass hats who magically haven't managed to run their one other concept into the ground yet. The lesson here is if you can't get it together to be open for lunch then maybe you're in the wrong business! And I'm tired of going to the same five places whenever I want to get lunch out somewhere without a hike! *shakes fist at capitalism*

I sympathize with your rage in general, Mr. Tomboto. Continue to fight the power. And I am a big fan of lunch, especially if there's a liquor license involved (because I am an unapologetic drunkard). Absolutely agree that more places should serve lunch. But I see mom and pop-ish lunch places all over the place; not sure where you mean.

Downtown and in Crystal City there are loosely-Asian buffet pay-by-the-pound places and a zillion delis in almost every office building. Ditto Skyline and L'Enfant and Rockville and Farragut/Dupont. For years of being an office drone I subsisted mainly on deli reubens and street hot dogs. Doesn't Rosslyn (i forget if that is still your hood) have Piola, Café Asia, Guajillo - and is not too far from 4 Courts, Guarapo, Amsterdam Felafel?

If one's anti-chain purism is such that Ben's or Busboys and Poets are now OMG BAD AND HATED CHAIN RESTAURANTS because there's more than one of them, I don't know what to say. Yes, those are JUST like Applebee's. Ditto Jaleo, District Taco, Lebanese Taverna, Ray's. Or, for that matter, the Palm, Legal, etc. Basically TGIF with nicer linens. Perhaps sometimes "successful" means you're doing something right.

Re: Isabella, Kapnos is walkable for me and they do lunch quite decently. So does Vine & Fig, Mussel Bar, Ser, Liberty Tavern, Thirsty Bernie's.

...Taqueria Poblano, Atlacatl, Majestic, Murphy's, 4 Sisters, Whitlow's, Cowboy Café, Kite Runner, El Ranchero, City Lights, Big Buns, Niwano Hana, La Caraquena...

Suburbanite me who lives in VA to be close to his VA dayjob is still disgusted by that Congressional Heights/St E's thing I mentioned above-- from giving Wizards/Mystics owner Leonsis an arena to the development now planned by the metro there. Folks I am mad at:

developer Geoffrey Griffis of CityPartners said he took an interest in the neighborhood back in 2008. Other Metro-accessible neighborhoods were booming, but Congress Heights wasn’t even on most investors’ maps, he said.

“I thought, here’s an opportunity to start to assemble something, to start to do something,” Griffis said in an interview.

To redevelop the area around the Metro station, he teamed with the Bethesda-based company Sanford Capital.

Over the next three years, Sanford Capital bought the four brick apartment buildings at 1309, 1331 and 1333 Alabama Ave. SE and 3210 13th St. SE for about $2.8 million.

Together, the companies laid out a plan calling for a 285,000-square-foot office building and about 208 apartments with ground-floor shopping. The project, Griffis said, would be “transformative,” bringing jobs and businesses to a long-neglected neighborhood.

...
“We’re not trying to run anybody off. If anything, we’re trying to get them to work with us so we can move at a faster pace,” Griffis said.

Some residents are wary. City inspectors have cited Sanford Capital for nearly three dozen violations, including rat infestations, failure to maintain minimum temperatures, obstructed drains, broken lights, splintered floors, leaking faucets and defective smoke detectors.

Residents have accused Sanford Capital of deliberately contributing old mattresses and furniture to a trash heap in one building’s parking lot. The company also owes more than $10,000 in back taxes on two of the properties, according to the D.C. tax office.[/I]

Eesh. Disgusting and, sadly, not surprising.

I work in your neighborhood and they know how to be open for lunch, because Ballston is building density in office space as well as residential. Heck, the redevelopment of the Blue Goose parcel is exactly that. I'm living by 14th & U and I'm like hey my neighborhood is hopping! It's a bridge-and-tunnel destination! But it's like a freakin' dead zone until 5pm.

My point about the Neals, Isabella, Shallal et al. was that these are people who are demonstrably pretty good at the restaurant business, and all the "mom and pops" that aren't open for lunch are just being lazy. Literally you can walk down U or 14th all the way between columbia heights and logan and every place open for lunch is operated by people who are in the restaurant business to make lots of money. I look at all the other places and now I'm like, amateurs.

We do need more commercial space though. Whenever they finally tear down the reeves center I hope they put offices there and not more apartments.

when our bank screwed up our property taxes the DC OTR was all over our shit. wasn't anywhere near $10,000 either. developers get away with so much shit

They've been attempting to gentrify my apartment building in Alexandria for 2 years now and it's a hilarious, asbestos-laden disaster.

Senor Tomboto, sorry for the snarkitude (think I mistook your point; I get you now).

As it happens I tried to have lunch with a friend in that hood a while back, and found the same thing. I wanted to go to Fainting Goat but they were closed. Ditto Vinoteca. I think Alero was open but meh. Nearing desperation ended up at Ben's Next Door, which is fine but does not exactly roxor one's soxorz.

Arlington's approach to affordable housing is nobly intended and sometimes succeeds - but it is very much swimming against the tide. The ratio of "affordable" to "at-market" rents in every new development is tweakable, and occasionally contributes to decent diversity. When I was young and underfunded I lived in a complex with a sliding scale (Woodbury Park, near Court House, run by the nonprofit AHC). At the time it was 60% "affordable" / 40% "market rate" - but "affordable" in these environs is still pretty steep compared to Manassas Park or whatever.

Accommodating current residents (as opposed to new ones who are non-rich). A lot of this development is happening in comparatively new spaces, though, and sometimes it leads to comical results.

For example, there's a church in Clarendon that decided to put an apartment building on top of the church. To do so they had to argue about whether or not they owned the air above their building. There are strong tax incentives for including affordable units in the building, and they of course wanted those. So they had to argue about whether or not a taxpayer-subsidized apartment that is on top of a church somehow violated church-state separation.

I know there are genuine heartbreaking human hardships all over, and I wish there were more we could do. But meanwhile this is the kind of silly argument we are having on this side of the river: if people see churchy signs and such while going to and from their subsidized apartments, does this constitute proselytizing, or imply state endorsement of a religious faith?

http://georgetownvoice.com/2015/11/12/student-activists-announce-sit-in-in-president-degioias-office-call-for-name-change-to-mulledy-hall/

Student activists announce sit-in in President DeGioia’s office, call for name change to Mulledy Hall

By Elizabeth Teitz on November 12, 2015 News
Georgetown students announced at a solidarity demonstration on Thursday, Nov. 12 that they are to begin a sit-in outside University President John DeGioia’s office on Friday morning to continue until administrators change the name of Mulledy Hall.

Several hundred students, faculty, and administrators attended the event, which was organized to call attention to racial disparities and discrimination at Georgetown as well as to send a message of support to activists across the country, including at University of Missouri and Yale University. The event, which was organized on Facebook, was hosted by Crystal Walker (SFS ‘16), Candace Milner (MSB ‘16), Queen Adesuyi (COL ‘16), Ayo Aruleba (COL ‘17), and Stephanie Estevez (COL ‘16).

The sit-in is to continue during the president’s business hours from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. until administrators change the name of Mulledy Hall, named for a former university president who sold 272 slaves to Louisiana in 1838 in order to raise money to pay off university debts.

Milner read off a list of demands from what she called a “working document,” which includes renaming McSherry Hall and the John Main Center, in addition to Mulledy Hall, installing plaques on unmarked graves of slaves on campus, the implementation of an annual program to mark slavery’s legacy at Georgetown, revision of campus tours to include information about the roles of black people in Georgetown’s history, mandatory training for professors on identity and diversity, and the creation of an “endowment to recruit black identifying professors.” The endowment should be “equivalent to the Net Present Value of the profit generated from the transaction in which 272 people were sold into bondage,” according to a document circulated by the Black Leadership Forum.

“We’ve been dialoguing enough. We are the university of dialogue,” said Walker who spoke at the event and sits on the Working Group on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation. “We want tangible change.”

The organizers also called for structural and cultural change on campus that reflects greater diversity and active progress.

“The culture doesn’t prioritize the needs of people of color,” said Antwan Robinson (COL ‘16). “You have to watch your backs on campus. It’s not always safe.” He spoke of feeling uncomfortable on campus due to a climate of racial intolerance and ongoing micro-aggressions, and urged students to speak up about the injustice they witnessed.

Administrators, including Dr. Todd Olson, vice president for Student Affairs, also attended the event.

“It’s very valuable to listen to our students tonight,” he said. “We are committed to continuing to engage with our students and make changes on our campus.”

After the event ended and participants dispersed, some lingered in Red Square, while Father Raymond Kemp, special assistant to the president and an adjunct professor in the Theology Department, walked through the square with one fist held in the air.

“This is solidarity, this is what I teach. It’s straight out of Papal doctrine,” he said. “This is exactly Catholic social teaching at its very best.”

This story will continue to be updated as more information becomes available.

Editor’s note: An error with regards to Antwan Robinson’s class year has been corrected. Robinson is in the College Class of 2016, not the College Class of 2017.

In addition, a sentence summarizing Robinson’s remarks at the rally has been updated. The sentence previously read, “He spoke of feeling uncomfortable at times walking on campus at night due to a climate of racial intolerance, and urged students to speak up about the injustice they witnessed.”

I read elsewhere about U of MD issues:

http://www.testudotimes.com/2015/4/9/8375065/byrd-stadium-maryland-football-name-change

http://www.diamondbackonline.com/news/wallace-loh-forms-a-work-group-to-help-consider-renaming/article_385d78d0-62e1-11e5-bcf7-e32ca19dd581.html

https://www.thrillist.com/eat/washington-dc/best-washington-dc-restaurants-for-ethnic-cuisine

Not sure I agree with Yechon as top Korean

The writer is including the whole region btw, not just DC itself

Someone needs to do an updated ratings of Eden Center restaurants list.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dc-sports-bog/wp/2015/12/03/pro-kobe-crowd-at-verizon-center-doesnt-make-d-c-a-bad-sports-town/?wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_sports

hmmmm

I never agree with top X lists for food in this town. They always seem soaked in affectation and a clear preference for places with demonstrably shitty service

If you like the Big 3 sports, DC is totally trash. If you like the other two, it's great.

'is _________ a good sports town' is an even dumber argument than 'is __________ an elite quarterback'