Results tagged “badidea”

The Examiner ran a story on Monday about Bloomingdale's recent round of talks with the city regarding opening a new store in downtown D.C. Along with the recently approved development at the Old Convention Center site, sources in the Fenty administration told Michael Neibauer that the talks have included the controversial Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library at 9th and G Streets NW as a "possible option" for the store.

Another D.C. Restaurant Week has come and gone. As much as we like to complain about over-crowded restaurants with “dumbed down” menus, there is still a part of us that finds it alluring, so we still take the opportunity to see what restaurants have to offer. Among the places we ventured out to, there were some hits and a few misses. One place that really hit the right notes with us was Viridian in Logan...

Our friends over at Campus Progress sent us an email about a contest they're sponsoring that should be good for a few laughs. The Social Capital blog's Free Food-a-Thon promises to pit two of the most demanding needs of any Washington intern -- to save money and to eat -- in a battle of epicurean proportions. Here's the deal: Next week, Campus Progress interns will compete, two a day, where they will document their meals/snacks/crumbs...

Welcome to this week's Feed, coming to you from Albuquerque, N.M.! This Feed will be a little more free flowing than usual. Why? I'm sitting on the patio, drinking a Fat Tire, enjoying the dry climate, and looking out on Sandia Peak. I just wanted to rub it in. 2007 RAMMYs To Feature Snakes That's what "Black Tie and Boas"—the theme of this year's RAMMY awards dinner—means, right? Tuxedos and Anacondas? Seems like a bad...

One piece of news you might have missed this morning is that Jim Graham's (D-Ward 1) crusade against allowing minor patrons to attend concerts in venues where alcohol is sold has been put off by the D.C. Council. The bill, which was was tabled yesterday after little discussion, has been a frequent topic of ours and our commenters. We even had a few local music luminaries chime in to tell us why Graham's legislation, which...

>>A CNN/Gallup Poll released today reports that "100% of D.C.-Metro area residents" agree that they "like things that are great." Okay. There's no such poll. We're just giddy that after two-plus years of trying, we finally uncovered a local issue that we all agree on: following Vincent Orange into a redevelopment abyss over the Capital City Market is a bad idea. Further developments on the story shall be noted. >> Imminent show cancellation alert!...

How much is public service in the District worth? This Tuesday the D.C. Council might tell us. In its last legislative session of the year, the council will be debating a number of measures and proposals, one that would provide funds for the trasitions of mayor-elect Adrian Fenty and council chair-elect Vincent Gray. But more than just provide them with the money needed to prep their teams for next January's handover of power, the legislation...

It's coming. In just over two months, the District's bars will go smoke-free. Once the smokers are banished to the sidewalks outside their favorite watering holes, the District will have joined 18 states and 474 municipalities that have done the same. It was at the start of this year the D.C. Council definitively endorsed legislation mandating that bars and restaurants snuff out the smokers; the restaurants did so this April, and the bars will follow...

is improving the District's rent control laws." Improving, really? It was late at night, but I was already skeptical that my management company would be compelled to bring such good tidings to my door unless they were going to be benefiting in some way.

In proving that blogs are still all the rage, Sam Brooks, a candidate for the Ward 3 seat on the City Council, recently launched a blog of his own. Born on December 5 and updated for the first time today, Brooks' "idea blog" is presented as a means for the young candidate to exchange views with the voters. Writes Brooks: The basic idea is simple: to begin a substantive discussion about public policy that will...

We've had some good times with WMATA over the years, haven't we? There was the time some guy was eating a candy bar while entering a station and was arrested. Or the time WMATA officials handcuffed a talkative pregnant woman? And, of course, there was that lovely moment when a 12 year-old girl ate a french fry on a Metro platform and, as a result, was searched, handcuffed, put into a paddy wagon, and kept in the juvenile processing center for three hours. Ahh, Metro. Happy golden days.

Tourist Time. They're here. Yes it is high tourist season and with it, comes heightened stress for locals. So with metorail during the tourist season, it is advisable to have your SmarTrip filled at all times, just to avoid long lines at farecard machines at some of the busier stations. Besides the main downtown transfer stations, Smithsonian, Union Station, Rosslyn, Pentagon City and Woodley Park-Zoo/Adams Morgan stations seem to have the worst tourist crowding on...

Too lazy or unskilled to cook? A new D.C. service will deliver pre-prepared meals to your door once a week for quick re-heating. Calling themselves FitMeal, they bill their service as a "simple convenient solution to eating healthy food." How does it work? Customers order either individual meals ($5.50 to $8.50 each) or a planned menu ($70 to $112 per week) at the beginning of each week. Then on Sunday or Monday they get their food delivered for the week anywhere in downtown D.C. ("north to Chevy Chase, west to Georgetown, and east to Capitol Hill and south to the National Mall") or pick it up at a conveniently undisclosed location, and then re-heat their meals when they're ready to eat. The company promotes themselves as serving healthy cuisine with "natural and unrefined" ingredients. The entrees for this week are dishes that wouldn't take long to cook at home, ranging from "Sauteed Peppers and Mushroom over Chicken with Wild Rice" to "Sundried Tomato, Olive, Basil Compote Cod over Whole Wheat Pasta with Asparagus." The apparently new service is conspicuously missing any information about which downtown kitchen is producing their meals, and their website is linked to by only one other site - Zipcar, where they're listed as a partner.

We hate the fact that the best thing we can say about "The West Wing" these days is, "Well, it could have been worse." Remember when this show was actually really good?

As D.C. juveline car theives are snatching cars for joyriding at alarming rates, police in Calvert County are not pursuing the case of the mysterious seahorse sculpture-napping that appears to be teenage prank. The beloved statue was outside the Adams Ribs restaurant near Prince Frederick earlier this summer when it was stolen. The sculpture is back, the Post reports, found dumped behind the cafeteria at a county middle school, where a group of the school's students painted the fiberglass creature in the spirit of Vincent VanGogh's "Starry Night" for a countywide public art project. Police said that if the horse was returned unharmed by the end of September, they wouldn't pursue the case.