Results tagged “greatlakes”

The first thing we noticed when City-State's first full-length, Monument, arrived is that it looked very professional. Often with local bands the CDs look (and usually are) homemade. There's nothing wrong with that, it's just something that stuck out as a good sign. The CD cover has a picture of Vladimir Tatlin's unbuilt sculpture "Monument to the Third International," one of those things that pops up in architecture books from time to time, superimposed over the Washington Monument in a night photo of D.C.

This storm is a result of an Alberta Clipper, an icy snowball of hate fueled both by the Great Lakes and Canada's disdain for our country's politics and our people's obliviousness to them unless there's a war on. The storms are usually fast moving, but this one appears to be eating up a good chunk of latitude, so expect the snow to last all day; we advise leaving the car at home and taking Metro.

When architects, developers, and laborers set about transforming the former Columbia Hospital for Women into the massive Columbia Residences complex at the intersection of 25th Street, L Street, and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, they placed the area within a protective cocoon of chain-link fences. Inside the fences, just across L Street from the back door of Marcel's restaurant, went a little-known monument commemorating a joint international agreement to reduce military forces patrolling the Great Lakes. With...

Let's take a look back at a week that raised this Zen koan: if Kevin Federline got into a wrestling ring with a wrestler, who would you root for? Austinist was in an entertainment state of mind as they covered the dickens out of the Austin Film Festival, depicted all the Big 12 football coaches as South Park characters, and interviewed Jose Gonzalez. Chicagoist talked about the passion as they bid adieu to Bell's Beer,...

GRAND HAVEN, Mich. -- If it weren't that this DCist ran across additional snow flakes yesterday driving through the unseasonably cold spring weather, Lake Michigan looked down-right enticing when we went to the beach. Calm water, some sun, and the summer tourists from Chicagoland were nowhere in sight. And for $1.50, a bag of chocolate-covered peanuts from Fortino's on Washington Street was welcome treat. But we should have gotten a Pronto Pup, which is "a hotdog dipped in a corn meal batter and deep fried," according to this Grand Haven community center site. According to Jason Kottke, the pronto pup seems to have made its way across the lake to Minnesota. But the Grand Haven variety, which have been around for the more than 50 years, are an essential beach food.

It seems like the area has a new invasive species to worry about. Just when local anglers are getting used to reeling in the occasional snakehead from the Potomac, the AP, via WTOP, is reporting that a local diver has discovered zebra mussels in the watery depths of a Haymarket quarry. Virginia officials have confirmed the presence of the destructive mollusks, whose presence came as a complete surprise.