Brad Pitt Has Your Secret Shit: Rolling DC

In G'town my dining option of choice would be Pizza Paradiso.

come back, we will help u

actually, after searching for ilx dc food recommendations, it was a gabbneb post that sent me there.

food aside, i did find my way to Joe's Record Paradise in Rockville courtesy of am0n's expert instructions. that place beats just about any London record store hands down.

Joe Lee should use that quote in an ad. But I don't think he knows of this site, and his website looks to be fairly bare-bones.

So Jordan, good luck with busking today and Surf Club tonight

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/food/dining-guide-2009/

City Paper's Tim Carman has a new top 50 restaurants list out. He's going with a Silver Spring place near the AFI Silver as his fave Ethiopian choice.

Jordan's brass band may be busking at 4ish in Dupont Circle for those in that area..

after like five trips down this hallway I finally remembered MY PHONE HAZ CAMERA
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3329/3638414625_3ff370710e.jpg

is anybody else thinking of going to the beer+bourbon+bbq fest this saturday at national harbor? $35 for four hours of "tasting"

omg Tom that photo is an instant classic

loooool

hahahah when Mr. Que and I got married there, the marriage bureau office was just past the domestic abuse office.

they should also have a sign that mentions the syphilis test requirement

or just have

SYPHILITIC RETARDS -------->

So Oohs and Ahhhs the U St. soul food joint made the City Paper's recent top 50 restaurant list. I was neither wowed by that place nor Flavors in Falls Church, is it me(I'm either wrong or expecting too much) or are these places overrated, or something else?

Heard on the news that some folks are now avoiding the first and last cars on subway trains, since that Red line accident

where's a good place in dc to get men's clothing (shirts and trousers) of quality? i normally get my workish clothes at like h&m and banana republic but am ready to shell out a bit for well-made stuff that i'll still be wearing in a decade (too optimistic?). rather than try to interpret yelp reviews or whatever, i thought i'd ask here.

I love Redeem on 14th st.

That whole City Paper top 50 list was more bullshit than even old Washingtonian lists were.

i've been to redeem several times and their stuff is cool, tho my memory is of a mostly, uh, casual selection - but maybe that's b/c it's what i was looking for at the time?

I've gotten a number of blazers there, and have also seen a few suit separates. If you're in the market for more formal stuff, Brooks Brothers has been stepping up their game for real! It's amazing how non-preppy their stuff can look if it's just not paired with a pastel shirt.

x-post. Do you not like the CP list because of the way it appears to be done by food categories (new American, Ethiopian, etc) but then arbitrarily has 2 restaurants for certain categories (a Silver Spring Ethiopian and a DC one)and not for others, or do do you not like Poste or whatever choices that are included, or both or something else.
Not enough high-end ones?

x-post to me; So do you guys consider Jos. A. Banks not high quality enough a clothier

i don't know enough about it to have an opinion--i know the name but not whether their stuff is really that good, where they stand in comparison to other comparable brands etc. that's why i asked!

another thing i would like to know is where if anywhere can i try on apc shirts in dc (i know denim bar has their jeans)

I like Jos. A Banks well enough, but I like Brooks Brothers better.

Will, for clothing in general and for APC here you should check Barney's co-op in gtown.

so glad I don't have to wear suits. will have to be doing job interviews prob in the next month & I hate having to find some very boring business casual type of thing to wear. waaah.

I don't like the City Paper list because it's labeled as the 50 best restaurants in DC and it's not - not only are there restaurants that are clearly among the best in the area missing from the list, but there are restaurants that aren't even good, nevermind great, on there.

can i have your old job y/n

xp

I'm gonna just use the CP list as a source of possible restaurants to try, but yea, I can see that it is not definitive as a whole list.

xpost - thanks!

i'm not really looking for suits at the moment. just well-made and -fitting shirts and pants.

my old job won't exist, that's the problem. though i got so mad yesterday i was imagining that i'd just resign. conscience bothering me about direction of things. i guess i can't afford to be all dramatic, though. gotta pay the rent.

sorry. yeah, i'm on the verge of being dramatic

I got the City Paper thing wrong, as flawed as it is, every restaurant on that list is at least decent. They saved the shorty ones for the staff picks on the website.

I think the CP's Carman lives in Silver Spring or nearby and it seemed like to me he used to cover more restaurants from there and from Wheaton then some of the other area reviewers (the same way the Northern VA based Tyler Cowen emphasizes that area). But he's got restaurants from all over so that might be just my perception.

So I'm moving to Takoma Park! Should be signing the lease today.

It's not comprehensive enough, but there are a few funny bits in the latest Onion re restaurant reviews.

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/DenverBarry.jpg

yeah, heh, is that actually on the cover of the print ed.?

It is.

The cover quote regarding Marion Barry on this week's City Paper is:

1. Unnecessary and juvenile and insensitive

2. Acceptable and relevant

3. None of the above

4. Who cares

5. I stopped looking at the City Paper years ago

or

6. __________

7. All of the above

"Loose Lips" p. 6

It was out there for little children to see.

7

http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0709/639021.html

"The paper admits it has received many complaints about the issue's cover, including some vendors who have asked to pull the tabloid. By all accounts, the copies of the free newspaper are disappearing quickly."

I can't really say 5 because I moved house three months ago
can't wait for this though http://www.hbo.com/events/ninelivesofmarionbarry/index.html

i think that was at silverdocs? and got meh reviews?

Yep, that's what I thought.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/09/AR2009070902792.html?hpid=topnews

"Before Barry's news conference yesterday, two women approached a group of reporters and demanded to know which one worked for the City Paper. They soon began shouting at City Paper's Jason Cherkis, waving a copy of the newspaper at him."

looool

Exhibits I saw Saturday that I recommend:

William Eggleston, Democratic Camera Photos and Video 1961 to 2008 at the Corcoran

I didn't like the video. Music fans, his Big Star cover and Alex Chilton Like Flies on Sherbet are included

Jaromir Funke and the Czech Amateur Avante-Garde (photos) at the National Gallery West Wing

Stanley William Hayter: From Surrealism to Abstraction at the National Gallery West Wing

Some of the Eggleston photos are bizarre, others are 'hey I could have done that,' but some are special both due to his eye, technique and choice of subject matter. It's an interesting guide to parts of the American South.