Is there anywhere recommended to watch the world cup, preferably in Alexandria/arlandria/Arlington? I am in town the weekend of July 4 to takecare of some stuff, but there are major games on the 4th and 5th. So far I am considering rustica and Daniel o'connells.
― Virginia Plain, Friday, 20 June 2014 23:57 (ten years ago) link
I work down there in Old Town and I've watched a few matches in the Union Station Pub for convenience and it's been good. Lots of TVs and space and the sound is turned up. Never too busy. Not sure what it's like for US games, mind (I watched the Ghana match in the Iron Horse in DC and it was swamped).
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Saturday, 21 June 2014 00:08 (ten years ago) link
Babylon Cafe in a Bailey's Crossroads strip mall near Arlington & Alexandria has matches (lotsa Ethiopians as well as Hispanics go there). Plus the City Paper and W. Post have published links for lotsa places showing matches.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 21 June 2014 15:10 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/going-out-guide/wp/2014/06/20/2014-world-cup-where-to-watch-the-united-states-and-other-matches-outdoors-in-d-c/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/going-out-guide/wp/2014/06/11/world-cup-2014-watch-the-games-at-a-top-soccer-bar/
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/worldcup
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 21 June 2014 15:18 (ten years ago) link
x-post--Relatives in town, so I missed that Italian film. Oh well...
― curmudgeon, Monday, 23 June 2014 14:54 (ten years ago) link
Apparently Il Sorpasso is having another screening in September (http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/calendar/film-programs/summer14-specialevents/sorpasso.html), at an AU venue.
― Miss Anne Thrope (j.lu), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 02:32 (ten years ago) link
good
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 21:39 (ten years ago) link
lol @ courtland milloy
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 14:09 (ten years ago) link
He and John Kelly in the Post worrying about those biker terrorists making life tough for old-school DC car drivers...
Milloy:
On Wednesday, the Washington Area Bicyclist Association’s Bike Ambassadors will ride to the NoMa Summer Screen viewing of “The Muppets” “to hand out surprise goodies to people who biked.” There’ll be kids and bikes and Muppets, as if Kermit is supposed to make us forget about the biker terrorists out to rule the road.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 14:34 (ten years ago) link
lol @ so many people linking Milloy's 1988 column on how difficult it was to get around on a bike after his license was suspended
― controversial but fabulous (I DIED), Thursday, 10 July 2014 03:52 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/colbert-king-in-petworth-a-robbery-and-death-tell-us-something-abut-ourselves/2014/07/11/468362de-085c-11e4-a0dd-f2b22a257353_story.html?hpid=z3
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 12 July 2014 15:51 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/2014/07/16/how-food-brings-d-c-s-iraqi-exiles-back-home-again/
I wonder how these Iraqi restaurants in Alexandria and Herndon are? Not easily metro-accessible for some of you tho
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 17 July 2014 17:35 (ten years ago) link
Every so often we talk about an ILXpedition to the suburbs for Vietnamese food, only for the idea to dissipate. Any interest in trying to go to one of these places?
― Miss Anne Thrope (j.lu), Thursday, 17 July 2014 20:18 (ten years ago) link
Good lunch joints on U Street or thereabouts?
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Friday, 18 July 2014 17:34 (ten years ago) link
Greek Spot, Chix, Amsterdam Falafel, G Sandwich, Zenebech Injera
― controversial but fabulous (I DIED), Friday, 18 July 2014 17:55 (ten years ago) link
Went with Greek Spot. It's good!
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Friday, 18 July 2014 21:32 (ten years ago) link
yes.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 18 August 2014 19:05 (ten years ago) link
Have managed to miss the experimental films at National Gallery and the Asian ones at the Freer. Ugh. Oh well. Despite stereotypes about August being dull, there's lots happening culturally (at least music and movies and exhibits) plus the Nats....
― curmudgeon, Monday, 18 August 2014 19:08 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/visual-arts/2014/08/15/why-photographer-lida-moser-couldnt-be-pigeonholed/
Maybe a local art space or museum can do an exhibit of this local resident (via NYC) who just died at 93 but was a talented, feisty photographer
― curmudgeon, Monday, 18 August 2014 19:11 (ten years ago) link
http://dcist.com/2014/08/popcorn_candy_have_you_seen_my_baby.php
On most (some? ) Thursdays, Pat Padua (Library of Congress employee and writer) posts some nice writeups on movies to see at museums and artsy theatres and such
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 21 August 2014 16:30 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/in-falls-church-eden-center-tenants-sue-landlord-say-mall-crumbling-around-them/2014/08/20/bb5ef4ae-23cf-11e4-8593-da634b334390_story.html?tid=pm_local_pop
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 21 August 2014 16:54 (ten years ago) link
http://nyadiff.org/adiff-dc-2014/
Little publicized movie fest this weekend of international films from Brazil and various African countries
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 23 August 2014 15:42 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/46224/the-dives-of-others-how-to-open-a-new-old-bar/
Paul V's comments dissing the Thievery Corp places are kinda fun
― curmudgeon, Friday, 29 August 2014 20:06 (ten years ago) link
wow what a prick
i mean damn, you're from rockville, worked at saint-ex and bar pilar and are trying to be punker than thou
― mookieproof, Saturday, 30 August 2014 02:32 (ten years ago) link
He had a few self-deprecating comments early in the piece though. But he also got his Marvin Gaye facts wrong (aserting that Marvin lived nearly his whole life in D.C.)--Marvin lived in Detroit and L.A. a bunch (in addition to that 1 year in Belgium that Paul mocked in relation to the Marvin club)
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 30 August 2014 14:44 (ten years ago) link
Thanks a lot Mr. Amazon:
Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos is replacing Publisher Katharine Weymouth with Frederick J. Ryan Jr., a former Reagan administration official who was part of the founding leadership team of Politico, a primarily digital news organization that competes with The Post on political coverage, the company announced Tuesday.
The departure of Weymouth, 48, ends eight decades of Graham family leadership of The Post, which her great-grandfather bought in 1933. Bezos, who acquired The Post for $250 million in a sale announced in August 2013, initially kept the senior leadership team intact. He told Weymouth during a visit to Washington, on Aug. 18, that he had selected a new publisher, according to people familiar with the decision. She will remain on the company payroll as an adviser through the end of the year.
Ryan, 59, an attorney, spent years rising in the Reagan administration, eventually becoming a top presidential aide and key leader in the construction of his presidential library and numerous other initiatives after Reagan left office in 1989.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, September 2, 2014 3:37 PM (4
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 16:28 (ten years ago) link
Saw American Cool exhibit at National Portrait Gallery...Uneven & gimmicky but I kinda enjoyed it anyway
http://blogs.loc.gov/music/2014/08/directed-by-ken-russell-film-fridays-at-the-mary-pickford-theater/
Fridays this month (I've only seen Tommy)
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 4 September 2014 16:20 (ten years ago) link
oh is american cool still happening
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 4 September 2014 16:35 (ten years ago) link
i kinda wanna get down to that
through this weekend. Closes on Sunday I think. 11:30 to 7 through Sunday
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 4 September 2014 16:40 (ten years ago) link
Former VA guv McDonnell and wife found guilty!
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 4 September 2014 19:25 (ten years ago) link
woooooooo
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 4 September 2014 20:14 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2014/09/04/even-ian-hilton-thinks-this-brixton-diss-track-is-catchy/
too easy (and a tad simplistic) but hey what do I know
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 4 September 2014 22:55 (ten years ago) link
Oh Kennedy Center...
In recent years, the Honors were dogged by controversy amid charges that they consistently overlooked Latin artists. The selection process was revised, and soprano Martina Arroyo and rock guitarist Carlos Santana were among the 2013 recipients. No Hispanics were named this year. Felix R. Sanchez, chairman of the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts, was in the middle of the campaign for changes after a heated 2012 phone call with Michael Kaiser, then the Kennedy Center president. (Kaiser stepped down at the end of last month. President Deborah F. Rutter is in her first week on the job.) On Thursday morning, Sanchez reacted negatively to this year’s slate. “I think that it’s incomprehensible that after the discussions we had in 2012 and the changes that were supposed to be in place in 2013 that we have the same result in 2014,” Sanchez said. “It shatters the trust in the promises that were made and in the structural changes that were supposed to prevent this kind of outcome.” Asked if Latino artists should expect to be named every year, Sanchez said, “There is a threedecade backlog of not acknowledging Latino artists.” He said he will press for a meeting with the center’s Latino advisory committee “posthaste.” In a statement, Kennedy Center Chairman David M. Rubenstein said, “We were proud to Honor two Latinos last year and expect to honor more in the years to come.”
Al Green and 4 Anglos this year (Hollywood everyman Tom Hanks, singer and songwriter Sting, George Balanchine muse Patricia McBride and the singular Lily Tomlin.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/honors-class-of-14-al-green-tom-hanks-patricia-mcbride-lily-tomlin-sting/2014/09/04/d1bba46a-33b3-11e4-a723-fa3895a25d02_story.html
― curmudgeon, Friday, 5 September 2014 15:01 (ten years ago) link
Awesome. There's hope in 11 years. see below
combined sewer overflow, or CSO
New stormwater outfalls will be created on both the Anacostia and Potomac Rivers. We will begin work on the Anacostia River first, because it is a slower-moving river, and pollution stays longer and does more damage in rivers with a slow current.
By the year 2025, we expect to reduce CSOs in the Potomac and Anacostia rivers and Rock Creek by 96% overall. CSOs in the Anacostia will be reduced by 98%.
http://www.dcwater.com/education/sewer_improvements.cfm
― curmudgeon, Monday, 8 September 2014 16:46 (ten years ago) link
There's an Autumn fest at Eden Center this afternoon. Wife & I went there last night for the first time in awhile. Fests everywhere-Latino one on PA Ave tomorrow, H St NE one, Bluebird Blues fest....
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 20 September 2014 12:58 (ten years ago) link
hey lets do more dc faps
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 20 September 2014 18:29 (ten years ago) link
Hey yeah! Ummm I'm not exactly centrally located here in Cleveland Park but would love to have folks over so I can feed and drink u. Maybe I should just pick a Sat or Sun and be all "come on over anytime after 1:00 there will be food, drinks, football, and/or crafts* any time u like."
* uh I don't actually have a craft in mind, but I will create one if you like!
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 20 September 2014 20:25 (ten years ago) link
Or I mean we could just go Old School DC FAP and meet at Big Hunt after 5 on Fridays.
and they'll even let me into the big hunt now!
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 21 September 2014 17:12 (ten years ago) link
“Dear PoPville, Head’s up about a potentially dangerous runner in Dupont - Today (9/21) I was walking around 17 and S St. NW at 11 AM when I was assaulted by a jogger. A woman running quickly towards looked me in the face, said “head’s up”, then purposely body slammed me in the shoulder with a lot of force. I yelled loudly but she continued and was gone before we figured out what just happened. It was clearly intentional and she really hurt my shoulder. She was about 5’4″, Caucasian, athletic, mid-30s, with mid length brown hair. The whole experience was bizarre, but clearly an unprovoked assault on a stranger that she will probably repeat.”
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 23:42 (ten years ago) link
god
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 16:20 (nine years ago) link
I think she's still on the loose
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 16:27 (nine years ago) link
sarles stepping down from metro, confetti cannons firing all over town
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 18:38 (nine years ago) link
This September 27th Arabfest, From 10 am to 10 pm Come and enjoy a day of Arabic culture, food, games, rides and entertainment. Location Bull Run Regional Park 7700 Bull Run Drive.
I guess the more conservative politicians out that way don't know about this
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 27 September 2014 03:16 (nine years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/guides/2014/10/02/rasika-penn-quarter-2/?hpid=z2
He still loves Rasika. Sietsema's latest guide. Inn at Little Washington at 5.
But I also want to know where I can find a guide to Eden Center places, it's not from Sietsema, and Tyler Cowen who does cover such places is not always up to date.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 9 October 2014 17:14 (nine years ago) link
it's kind of a disservice to Rasika for Tom to keep giving them four stars, it just means people will walk in there with the expectation it's a four star restaurant when in reality it's very good but far more casual and less ambitious than the other four star places in town.
― controversial but fabulous (I DIED), Thursday, 9 October 2014 21:41 (nine years ago) link
I ate there recently (on wife's boss' dime), with the expectation that it would be super fancy, based on ratings like his, and was happy to be surprised. The food was killer. Someone else pls buy me dinner there ok?
― tobo73, Friday, 10 October 2014 04:58 (nine years ago) link
less ambitious than the other four star places in town
I guess I need to splurge sometime on some of these places, but I can't convince my cheapskate self to go down to the Inn at Little Washington and spenda those big bucks no matter how great that description reads.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 10 October 2014 15:50 (nine years ago) link
As for casual Vietnamese dining that I might find ambitious enough or just tasty enough at Eden Center (I went by a Yelp & Tyler Cowen recommendation last time I was there) I found these links from the past, but have not studied them yet :
http://www.seriouseats.com/2013/02/what-to-eat-at-eden-center-falls-church-vietnamese-food.html https://tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com/?cat=35
― curmudgeon, Friday, 10 October 2014 15:53 (nine years ago) link