April 18, 2008
Morning Roundup: Warm and Sunny Friday Edition
Good morning, Washington. It's going to be 84 degrees today! Kicking up your heels as you walk down the sidewalk this morning is more than understandable. As is grabbing an ice cream cone on your way home form work.
Pope Makes His Exit: Pope Benedict XVI boarded the "Shepherd One" Alitalia plane at 8:30 a.m. at Andrews Air Force Base this morning to head to New York. Before Benedict left Washington, he met and prayed with a small group of victims of clergy sex abuse and urged Catholic universities to emphasize adherence to church teachings.
Another Club Shooting, Another Club Closure: The Examiner reports on the shooting death of a 30 year-old man on Wednesday night outside The Meeting Place, a jazz and go-go club near the Farragut North Metro Station. D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier has ordered an emergency 96-hour closure of the club in the wake of the shooting. Initial evidence indicates there was no altercation inside The Meeting Place that spilled out in to the street, and neighborhood watchers say the club was not on their radar as a potential spot for trouble.
Briefly Noted: St. Elizabeth's avoids legal action ... Window washer falls to his death at Smithsonian ... Capital Beltway closures in Prince George's County planned this weekend ... Two police officers, three others injured in car crash.
This Day in DCist: In 2007 we noticed an awful lot of the city's pedestrian "walk" signals were facing the wrong way, and in 2006 we daydreamed about express service Metro trains.
Photo by noahdevereaux
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That picture reminds me of the little-seen horror classic "Attack of the Fifty-foot Pawnbroker Signs" starring Russ Tamblyn, Dean Jones, and Pia Zadora as "Dr. Josephine Mengele."
Great, I get to turn on the A/C in April.
a jazz and go-go club
I'm sorry, but I'm calling shenanigans on this.
Fluxgirl: For 84 degrees? Wimp. :-)
see that nice stump there in the middle of the picture? see that nice decorative grate underneath it? that's why there's a stump there. the city needs to remove grates from treeboxes post haste. they kill the trees when they get to be larger than a sapling.
if you want to keep people from falling into a treebox, put a short decorative fence around it. don't consign the tree to a short life. it's a waste of money and effort. just pave over the damn space and have no trees if you insist on doing that...
If the Meeting Place is closed, where will the goths go to eat their sheet cake on Saturday nights? Bela Lugosi's dead, y'all.
I'm sorry, but I'm calling shenanigans on this.
I'm slightly baffled by this comment, care to elaborate?
Fluxgirl: For 84 degrees? Wimp. :-)
I dunno, I live on the top floor of my building; a sunny day and anything above about 70 degrees and starts getting kind of sweaty in the Rat's nest if there's no breeze blowing.
no shenanigans.
i'm sorry for the death of the window washer. i've always secretly wanted to be one, just for the great view.
man, spokesman Alan Etter's been busy! saw that wreck on 14th St last night. it was messed UP.
The Meeting Place is just Rumors for Black folk. Karaoke, hot wings, Motown, and maybe New Edition on Friday nights. It's hardly a Club Ibex.
I just wish more people at Rumors were shooting eachother.
Finally, the Pope-a is gone. Over/under on Pope-a stories today on DCist: 3
All 84 means to me is lots of fat people in shorts, not something i look forward to.
So this is the take away from the Pope's visit: hands off the kinder. Apparently some clergy were confused about this, the Bible not being entirely clear about what the position of altar boy really entails, etc. But when the vicar of Christ says its not cool to mess with kids, folks listen.
great. 84 degrees. that means i get to go home to a 90 degree apartment where they refuse to turn on the AC until the middle of may. oh, and no ceiling fan. grumblegrumble.
it could be worse, you could be stuck inside a hermetically-sealed office building where they have the air conditioning set to 58. jesus, i'm freezing in here!
"where they refuse to turn on the AC until the middle of may."
I dunno about the specifics of your building, but it's not usual for the heating/cooling system to be shared, so they can only operate one system at a time. There are laws that mandate a minimum temperature for dwellings. While it is warm today, it is still early Spring and the nights can still be cool enough to require heating.
So it may not necessarily be that they refuse to turn the AC on.. it may be that they simply cannot do it.
Ditto on the 84 degress today being too warm, too soon. The best weather was earlier in the week, bright blue skies, wall-to-wall sunshine, but cool enough to wear a light jacket. God forbid we get weather like that on the weekend, but it was nice while it lasted.
"I'm slightly baffled by this comment, care to elaborate?"
Hillrat, when you declare shenanigans, it's because you've either been offended or you're calling someone out for a blatant mistruth.
The resulting action then is to have a kick off, where the two parties involved take turns kicking each other in the nuts until the last person standing wins. The person who declares the shenanigans goes first.
I think because they described The Meeting place as a "jazz and go-go club", WAZZUP declared shenanigans.
I'm shocked Jim Graham hasn't gotten on his soapbox to call for this notorious club to be closed for its years of violence and law-breaking.
That seems to be his standard press release for any other such incidents.
More extreme shenanigans? the introgation scene in Casino Royale.... ghahglhgdalj. Gives me the kreeps.
Hey! AC? You gotta think outside the box. Way to beat the heat is totally a plastic poolful of green jello. Then, invite some removal specialists, and a fan pointed towards you? Icey heaven.
I wish office buildings were like apartment buildings. I hate working in a cryogenic freezer. I should not have to wear a f**king winter coat while sitting at my desk!!! My lunch "hour" might have to be the whole afternoon... bring on the heat!!
What's the name of that place you like with all the goofy shit on the walls and the mozzarella sticks?
voteprime, poolful is my own new word to exclude the need for [fill] but I'm no OldPosterKnownAsCranky!
"Gives me the kreeps.
Such a turn-on
I know what you're thinking. Monkeyrotica? Where'd you get $240?
Shhhhhhh. Never you mind, baby. Ain't none of your concern.
Politburo,
To add: I bet the place is run on steam, and converting the building from steam to chilled water takes time, it is not as easy as flipping a switch. And if you are getting your steam or chilled water from another location you have to wait till that service is provided. Plus many owners refuse switch till a later date is because the old bat on the 3rd floor hates anything under 85Degrees.
Damn....Monkey Erotica. Why U gotta slam the Meeting Place. U making the white people scared to go there.
It's smack in the middle of downtown..not in the hood.
The Meeting Place is just a club downtown where the owner graciously lets people use for get togethers.
Blacks, Goths, White Folks, Greeks,Yuppies, Buisness
Peeps...it's all there. It's not a great place..but it's there.
Deep - You got to understand: white folks have a deeply rooted fear of New Edition and even extends to Bell, Biv Devoe. They get nightmares about Bobby Brown coming after their dookie bubbles.
HA! In August we'll all be screaming for a day of low humidity and 84 degrees. Or maybe it'll just be me screaming for no reason at all.
Monkey-Why are white folks even listening to New Edition or Bell...? Hell! Where do U hang out?
By the way. I have a box of pudding over here. It says, "Cook, and then chill." And that's what I do every night. I cook. And then I chill. Oh yeah.
Aww man Monkey.let's stop cutting up on the black or white skins. It's not fair.
Deep: Because the 80's are back in, duh.
voteprime: do you live in V-A? 'Cause ain't shit to do there but cook ...
oh man, afternoon full of Clipse, here I come.
getting "baked" does not count as cooking, my dear. but it can lead to some chillin'.
Jim's not jumping up and down over this because it's not in his ward. For once.
And that's what I do every night. I cook...and then I chill. Aw yeah.
Deep - My point is that Meeting Place isn't some thug hangout. I've been there when they've had jazz bands. I've been there when they played goth/industrial. But as soon as someone writes that someone got shot near a "go-go club" all the Fairlington and Arlandria honkeys start clucking their tongues and shaking their hears and wringing their hands and clutching their lily-white teenagers' heads to their bosoms and and ask themselves "Why, oh why, won't someone on the Council ban that dangerous negro music? Wont someone think of the CHILDREN?" And the Jim Grahams of the world are more than happy to step in and oblige.
But I stand by my statement about Tumours. Someone needs to thin that herd out a little.
West,
Totally underated movie...nice
Who wants a moustache ride?
Hey Deep! Thanks. I felt that. Its cool.
I've gone there too. My old ex-girlfriends' sister was afraid of even coming into D.C. in fear of being
shot in the head. I can just smell Jim Graham lurking around the corner, but I know he's still busy in Mt. Pleasant shaking hands about the big fire. I think The Meeting Place is the New D.C. Space so you know they're going to IBEX it and turn it into a Starbucks or McDonalds. Isn't that what happened to my other favorite joint the Kilmanjaro?
Hey Drew. I kid you. Me B a DJ myself. I was insulted when they called me the 80's Dj.
Speaking of Kilimanjaro, when's that Harris Teeter supposed to open?
"Violent crime in Farragut North is rare but not unprecedented."
So is this restaurant, like, in the Metro station? 'Cause there ain't no neighborhood called "Farragut North". There is a neighborhood around the Farragut North station. But it's not called "Farragut North".
In one thread, we have references to The State, some of the funniest Rumors comments ever, cake eating goths. . .
Best. Thread. Ever.
And seriously, as others have said, The Meeting Place is about as far from "violent ghetto club" as they come. Unless, by violent, you are referring to what the wings do to your colon, or what the pleather on some of the Saturday night crowd does to my eyes.
Ze goggles! Zey do nothing!
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Speaking of Kilimanjaro, when's that Harris Teeter supposed to open?
Which one; the one on the Hill or the other one?