Brad Pitt Has Your Secret Shit: Rolling DC

wait that's a thing? I have to go to that tomorrow while I'm still here.

I DIED would have contributed to a mini-golf clubhouse/bar, I bet!

http://www.nbm.org/programs-lectures/summer/play-mini-golf.html

Don't let your summer get stuck in the rough—combine your love for the building arts with a putter, ball, and one-of-a-kind mini-golf course designed and built by some of the leading architects, landscape architects, and contractors in the Washington area. For two glorious months at the National Building Museum, play holes inspired by architectural and landscape-oriented themes. Challenge your friends and family to a round of mini-golf in air-conditioned comfort, packed with enough fun to make Augusta National Golf Club green with envy!

Tee off when the course opens on July 4 at 10 am and play every day through Labor Day during Museum hours. The Museum will also be open late on two special evenings until 9 pm: Thursday, July 26 and Thursday, August 23.

$5 per round per person. With purchase of full-price Museum exhibition admission ticket, the price per round is reduced to $3. Museum members play for $3. Those who want to see the course without playing can do so as long as they have exhibition admission tickets.

Tee off when the course opens on July 4 at 10 am and play every day through Labor Day during Museum hours.

i want to play there EVERY DAY! it would be fun to really master the course, but also to be really intense about it, doing the tiger woods fist pump after particularly good shots. and wear a red shirt every day.

with much love in my heart for all fake sports, i completely support this idea

every time i go to the red derby i complain about them getting rid of the pool table - yes, it was a piece of crap, yes, you were always at risk of putting out someone's eye or knocking a drink over, but i was getting scary good at learning all its quirks and dead spots. rip...

I'd have done a 2012 design trends minigolf hole w/ reclaimed wood and edison bulbs and subway tile and concrete floors and vintage pig butcher's charts

We'll have to do a kickstarter or find a space somewhere

But what will be on the 2012 food trends menu at the minigolf clubhouse?

sliders

For real though what foods are up-and-coming/"breaking" right now? Also I DIED have you ever had zhajianmiang (it's like Chinese pork bolognese sorta)? I think it's maybe top 5 most delicious foods of all time, not joking.

Zhajiangmian, rather

I haven't had that but would love to! I do love me some dandan noodles which sound like they're in the same family tree though no super close. Chinese restaurants in the DC area are pretty lacking generally.

For up and coming food trends, hmm.

eggs, goat, aspic, bourbon, cauliflower, black garlic, soils, pork rinds, foraged ingredients trickling down to more traditional high end restaurants in a big way, house made sodas, house made vermouths and other fortified wines

For up and coming food trends, hmm.

eggs, goat, aspic, bourbon, cauliflower, black garlic, soils, pork rinds, foraged ingredients trickling down to more traditional high end restaurants in a big way, house made sodas, house made vermouths and other fortified wines

ASPIC?! omg, you're joking. I just learned what aspic was a week ago when this stupid bougie lady in a Cukor film from 1934 was wigging out bcz her cook dropped the aspic she was going to serve at her v fancy dinner party. Also yeah I've been seeing black garlic a lot but still have not had it. I want garlic scapes to get trendy! Hasn't bourbon been stylish/trendy for like 10 yrs? Also foraging is already ridic/eye roll inducing to me. I am all for eggs though! More shakshouka at brunch places plz. And there's a place in Philly famous for its dandan noodles and they get a lot of comparisons to the hand drawn w/ pork soy sauce ones (what they call zhajiangmian at the noodle place; also it's $5.50 bro!!) but I think dandan has peanut sauce in it which is gross to me

I love the idea of food trends so much but they are NEVER priced affordable which keeps me from really getting to experience them often. Even food trucks are pricey. Part of me wants to open up a very unique but also cheap restaurant so ppl like me had access to this shit but I also feel like what's the point when you can just make more money by charging more and ppl will still pay.

How do you learn abt this stuff? Do you have food blogs worth reading?

I've been predicting an aspic comeback for years and it's finally happening! Result of emphasis on nose to tail cooking and in many ways a reaction against blah comfort food trends with a return to classic technique.

Garlic scapes are hella trendy, same with just about any shoots and stuff in a similar family (hello ramps duh). I'm all for super trendiness of limited time seasonal products, especially if somewhere down the line it gets people to think of things like tomatoes as being seasonally available instead of shit ones most of the year.

Dandan noodles don't usually have peanut, but every place does them a bit differently. I went to Han Dynasty last year when I was in Philly, which I think is the place you're talking about, and was pretty disappointed.

Lucky for you eggs are an affordable food trend, and easy to prepare at home too!

I read Eater and a few other blogs but mostly just go out a lot and a lot of my friends are restaurant people.

Yeah, it's Han Dynasty. Is lowbrow-made-highbrow food a trend per se or just a framework in which specific food trends come and go? Or is it maybe like a medium-term trend umbrella with shorter term ones in it?

It's closest to your last theory, I think it's part of the death of traditional stuffy fine dining and a new approachability but we'll see how things develop. Lowbrow-made-highbrow has the ability to engage people who would never be into pike quenelles.

106 degrees, filthy air. PANIC (please don't)

Hey dudes, just a heads up: my wife and I will be in D.C. at the end of August (24-28). She works in the international nonprofit field, so naturally all of her dream jobs are there -- so the trip is in part to see what the city's actually like, in case we might someday want to move. (Neither of us has been to D.C. since we were kids.)

Anyway, I know it's a few weeks down the road, but it would be cool to see some ILXors while we're there. We're staying at the Tabard Inn, which I noticed, after reading this entire thread yesterday (Jesus Christ), has been spoken of approvingly. Or at least the restaurant/bar has. Anyway!

Tabard Inn is great all around!

please do better at meeting up with ppl than I did ;_;

Tabard is awesome, will totally have all the drinks with you there, or anywhere.

DJP next time stay loooooooonger!

Cool, that's good to hear. I'll monitor this thread and check back in when we have a better idea of our plans.

We're staying at the Tabard Inn, which I noticed, after reading this entire thread yesterday (Jesus Christ), has been spoken of approvingly. Or at least the restaurant/bar has. Anyway!

one of my good friends is the bartender there! and yeah, it's great. i'll definitely try to stop by when you're there!

which bartender, Z S?

Tim B!

ah I do not know T B

He's great! mid-20s, blonde hair, looks sort of like a 1940s movie star. also a hell of a bartender!

I love Tim B!

Not sure I can make it anyway, but any thoughts on this Hong Kong movie at 7 at the Freer tonight?

Like the famous Henry David Thoreau essay with which it shares a title, Life without Principle is a warning about the dangers of greed. This tense drama from veteran director Johnnie To (Vengeance, Mad Detective) taps into the zeitgeist by telling three linked stories of Hong Kong’s money-obsessed culture. A financial analyst (Denise Ho) pushes high-risk investments on her unsuspecting clients, a smalltime gangster (Lau Ching Won) plays the Chinese stock market to raise quick bail money for a friend, and a humble cop (Richie Jen) finds himself in need of dough when his wife puts a down payment on an expensive pad. Their fates intertwine thanks to a bag containing $5 million in stolen money and a stock market crash. (Dir.: Johnnie To, 2011, 107 min., Cantonese with English subtitles)

DC 2012:

H Street NE now has a place to satisfy your cravings for whole wheat-crusted pizza with mushroom truffle sauce

fact: nobody on H Street has ever craved a whole-wheat crusted pizza with mushroom truffle sauce. I know this because nobody in the WOLRD has ever craved a whole-wheat crusted pizza with mushroom truffle sauce.

crap, would have gone to that movie

Ugh, Julie and Celine Go Boating is on earlier than I thought. Got some things in the morning, plus train is down between Braddock Road and Reagan. I can see missing it.

waou, of rivette i've actually only seen la religieuse, maybe i will try to catch this now that my plans tomorrow got cancelled

hey i finally have a valid ID again (lol) and will have a real paycheck and am not a full-time rabblerouser now so soon so i'll actually be able to join yall at some beering

finally made it out to the much-loved taqueria la placita in hyattsville tonight - holy shit that was great. pork cheek, pork belly, cecina highly recommended

taqueria la placita rocks my world

also congrats to a hoos on re-upping the job/ID/life situation!

most definitely

big congrats HOOS!

Yay hoos! Look forward to seeing you (and all of the dcilxors) at some point! We are planning a backyard kegger in Sept/Oct, will keep all posted. Band may be involved. Also taco truck.

Um

dude Stevie you are a dcilxor at heart, are you not?

crap, would have gone to that movie

― american consumer goods (los blue jeans),

I missed all the movies at museums this weekend too, but did see "Beasts of the Southern Wild" (I liked this Louisiana magic realist meets Maurice Sendak effort despite its flaws and what Ms. Holliday in the W. Post attacked as patronizing faux-k culture) and "The Rise and Fall of the Clash" at the Positive Force benefit showing at St. Stephens Church. The latter movie was shown on a tiny screen and was all about the decline of the Clash(management issues, drug addiction, and more negative stuff)

Ha no that was more an "Un, that sounds insane"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/amid-the-districts-crisis-the-i-told-you-so-gloating-begins/2012/07/15/gJQA9dq8mW_story.html?hpid=z4

Post columnist Courtland Milloy wants more help for D.C.'s poor, but he has an interesting way of getting to that point:

Well look who’s back: the Fenty brigade, led by true believers of former D.C. mayor Adrian Fenty. Among them are my nemeses — whom I have referred to before as myopic twits because of their inability to see that dog parks, bike paths and cupcake parlors do not make a “world-class city.”

And still they come to gloat.

....But Gray has played right into their hands.

How could the myopics even imagine that the city was “headed in the right direction” under Fenty, as polls showed?

The District’s poverty rate shot up to its highest level in a decade, and the employment rate for African American adults dropped to a 20-year low. One in three black children were living in poverty. The income gap was among the highest in the nation.

I will leave this to dc residents to comment on specifics if they'd like; or just Milloy's abrasive style.

I always thought that the reason the city was heading in the right direction under Fenty was that he wasn't blatantly corrupt.

Sulaimon Brown calls rally for Mayor Gray "literally ridiculous & unconscionably stupid" in news release.

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http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/general/2012/07/20/mini-golf-at-the-national-building-museum-a-hole-by-hole-account/#more-75977

photos of the Building Museum mini-golf course have me less interested in going (but I will still probably go anyway)