Martha’s Poncho Is Hot Stuff: Who knew that a fashion trend from West Virginia could send women everywhere searching for knitting patterns? But it’s true, says that Post, which details how Martha Stewart’s now-famous prison departure garb is inspiring those in the knitting world to re-create it.
Kelly Ann Collins‘ Socialiate Reporter notes on the fashion trend:
I was glad when this look went out with those Free Winona t-shirts. But unfortunately, thanks to Ms. Stewart, it looks as if the crocheted ponchos will make a comeback. Time to break them out of your closets, ladies!
Alert! Rail Will Bring People, Traffic to Tysons: Tysons Corner, already the region’s downtown in many respects, will see more people, more development and more traffic with the introduction of metrorail to the commercial hub of Fairfax County. But will the new metrorail spur from West Falls Church absorb the influx of new people going in and out of Tysons? The Post explores the controversy as real estate developers eye to build more and more at Tysons in advance of the rail line, with aims of transforming sprawl into an urban core.
Says one nearby McLean activist:
But we don’t have a Manhattan subway system. As for the roads, Washington’s is now the third-most-congested metropolitan area in the nation. The whole idea that we can funnel all these people into Tysons Corner is make-believe.
Nat’ls Sell 50,000 Tickets: For those wanting Nationals tickets, be aware that a lot of the hot games for this season have been already snatched up, the AP, via WJLA, reports And in a related note, the Examiner runs an article detailing the struggle between RFK Stadium and the neighborhood that surrounds it. The most recent flashpoint: Fireworks at baseball games.
But the conflict runs deep. From the Examiner:
Lisa Alfred, a resident of nearby Barney Circle, remembers a Grateful Dead concert in the early ’90s when fans, apparently with harmless intent, left a few cardboard skeletons on neighborhood front yard fences.
“When people came home from work,” she recalls, “there were all these skeletons. And if you live in a black neighborhood and you don’t know about the Grateful Dead, who knows? You might think it was the Klan.”
Briefly Noted: The National Zoo’s pandas are safe and sound after the artificial insemination procedure. Now, will their lack of lovin’ translate into cheetah cub-level animal buzz? … Bells toll as Georgetown church celebrates 225 years …
(Poncho photo from Reuters via Gothamist)
