Brad Pitt Has Your Secret Shit: Rolling DC

So why doesn't Lanier have cops sitting between Tyler House and the nightclub at 2 am closing time instead of just doing her standard lets just shut down the club routine (especially where as here there were allegations that troublemakers were hassling folks leaving the club)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/going-out-guide/wp/2013/03/08/youve-seen-our-list-now-show-us-your-40-eats/?hpid=z9

What's new?

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/bestofdc/foodanddrink/2013/best-restaurant

Sushi Taro

Hi DC. Miss you boo.

Hi DC. Miss you boo.

― quincie, Friday, April 12, 2013 8:40 AM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

rainy and horrible today. meant to be lovely this weekend though. miss DC then!

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/books/2013/04/26/come-get-some-a-lit-party-without-stale-crackers/

I don't know the work of any of these DC writers. But I still need to read Edward P. Jones first I think.

http://www.afi.com/silver/films/2013/v10i2/olivierassayas.aspx

So which one(s) should I see?

the only advice I have is: not Demonlover

isnt that shit called AUDIDOCS now?

Yep the AFI Silver Docs fest is now sadly called that in honor of Audi of course; I was just asking about the AFI's separate fest:

May 2–July 1
Hailed by many as the most important of contemporary French filmmakers, Olivier Assayas has made more than 20 films across a diversity of genres, including features, documentaries and shorts.

He directed Irma Vep and Carlos and others (and includes Sonic Youth, John Cale & Pixies music on the soundtrack in some--says the blurb), and that controversial one Stevie says to skip (soulds like good advice).

sounds

it's not even controversial it's just boring and poorly made.

you can skip Boarding Gate too. Summer Hours/Irma Vep/Carlos essential.

Thanks.

I missed the mini-golf at the National Building Museum last summer, but I see now I have a 2nd chance. It's coming back. Yay!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/going-out-guide/wp/2013/04/30/mini-golf-returns-to-the-national-building-museum-on-may-27/

Gotta do it this summer. In other deadline-related stuff, I wanna see that Gordon Parks photo exhibit at the Adamson before it closes May 31

http://adamsongallery.com/exhibitions/2013-03-23_gordon-parks-an-american-lens/

mini-golf opens near the end of May

oops, duh, says it right there in the link above.

Hoping sequester doesn't end concerts at Carter Barron and Fort Dupont this summer. National Park Service is keeping quiet about the full schedule till the end of the month, although the Washington Post shows at Carter Barron are cancelled, and the 4th of July concert at the Washington Monument is cancelled (but not the fireworks)

last year's NBM minigolf course sucked, it reaffirmed every negative stereotype about architects caring more for aesthetics than function.

But I'm gonna keep up my hopes for this year, since I never made it to last year's...Maybe they'll choose different folks to design them

Gordon Parks photos are imressive at the Adamson. For sale in the $10,000 range!

This year's Building Museum mini-golf opening this weekend. Wondering if I would be throwing my money away, based on I Died's take on last year's. I'm gonna try to be optimistic (although maybe I should wait and see what others think). * #Important decisions in life

Is anyone here going to the Cocksucker Blues screening/lecture at the National Gallery tomorrow without going to the preceding Ornette Coleman documentary?

didn't know about either of those but now i'm going to try to go to both!

I might just go to CS Blues, although I saw it years ago here.

uuuuhhh, cs blues made me nauseous

Yes, once again handheld camera work did a number on my stomach.

I liked best the lecture preceding the film screening. *toddles off to see if Performance is on DVD (legit or otherwise)*

first time I've ever been affected like that, I wonder if it was compounded by something in my lunch.

xp it is

After reading the dcist.com editor tweet about seeking viewpoints from NYers on their new bikeshare system, I almost (just almost) wanna join Post columnist Courtland Milloy and his grumbling about bikepaths and what makes a world-class city, but then I take a deep breath and relax and move on.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/film/2013/06/04/14th-and-youtube/

DC-based fictional dramas that air on Youtube: Orange Juice in Bishops's Garden; Real Housewives of Benning Road, and more

x-post-- What I mean is that the dcist.com editor never requests NY viewpoint on anything else that both cities share: kids struggling in schools; subway and bus transportation; etc.

to be fair, a literally insane subway system is probably doing more to keep us from being a world class city than what we do or don't do about bikes

That WMATA guy saying that 10 years or something of weekend work will need to be done was something else.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/04/supreme-court-justice-sonia-sotomayor-u-street_n_2612105.html

She lives in the U Street area and The Post writes that Sotomayor likes to pick up food from The Greek Spot, Chix and Tacos El Chilango, whose owner, Juan Antonio Santacruz, seems thoroughly enamored. “We love her,” he told the Post.

Yes to the Greek Spot and Tacos El Chilango.

http://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2013/06/13/Editorial-Opinion/Graphics/toles06142013.jpg

There have been vague references to 2017 as when Metro may return to normalcy, but most riders haven't heard that, and those who have don't know what it actually means.
Thus, the Washington Post today published an editorial calling on WMATA to publish deadlines, so the riding public has a better idea of what to expect.

what's been going on with the metro?

major track work/multiple station closings every weekend + weeknights after 10pm, "new" escalators that took months to install instantly breaking, so many elevator outages that the system becomes nigh-inaccessible to people who need elevators, plus a dude got hit by a ceiling tile recently.

"the metro becomes unusable on weekends" has become a pretty common refrain. trips that would take me 30 minutes wind up taking an hour plus.

i don't understand why they schedule maintenance on the weekends, rather than from 11pm-5am, when no one's actually using it. i mean, i know that's hard on the employees, but when has any entity ever cared about the employees, and isn't that pretty standard practice anywhere else?

i'm sure ridership figures on weekends are like a fraction of what they are on weekdays, but even so

honestly if it weren't for having to commute to arlington when i lived in dc, i probably would have taken the bus like 90% of the time - i'm familiar with the reasons why, but looking at metro's coverage map as a whole you can REALLY tell that it's a city that just had a subway system kind of sloppily grafted onto it ex post facto (ie i still don't think i've ever seen a person get on or off at judiciary square)

I read the first chapter of this once http://www.amazon.com/The-Great-Society-Subway-Washington/dp/080188246X

I forget what its thesis was

Great book, no real thesis just a history. It gets into a lot of the larger transportation planning of the region/era without getting crazy unreadable. There's such a huge difference between subway systems developed before widespread car ownership and after.

#fuckLAmetro

i'll have to check that out, been meaning to read it

metro service has gotten amazingly bad over the years but i gotta admit the however many long month upgrades on the south dupont station were worth it, that new escalator is amazing as far as escalators go. high walls. sturdy. good lighting.

Was reading "Dr. Gridlock" (I think that was the columnist) in the Washington Post Express and he was asked why couldn't Metro not have done work a recent weekend where there were 40,000 at that international soccer game at RFK. He responded when else do you think they should do the work, without mentioning weekday overnight. Would they have to pay more overtime rates to do the work on weekday nights after midnight?