Since DCist’s resident gastronaut Kanishka Gangopadhyay is off to St. Louis this week for work-related business, he delegated the weekly task of food commentary and critique to someone with an un-trained, un-sophisticated palette. After all, he wouldn’t want someone one-upping him, would he? Much like last week, Capitol Hill seems to have cornered the market for food-related news. Barracks Row Dine Around: Barracks Row, the newly-renovated and ever-so-hip stretch of Eighth Street SE, is celebrating…
FROSTBURG, Md. — From the DCist mobile command center on I-68, we present to you our picks for stuff you should do this weekend. (Actually, we did this early this morning, we think we’ll be around Frostburg around lunchtime. But wouldn’t it be cool if we did have a mobile command center? C’mon Jake, can you spare a few pennies for that? We promise we won’t take it on any joyrides …) Anyhow, with Catherine…
(Written by Kanishka Gangopadhyay and Catherine Andrews. All photos by Catherine Andrews) Just south of the convention center and north of Mt. Vernon Square is a fairly dismal block of real estate occupied by a venerable leather bar and a Morrocan restaurant. On Friday the two welcomed an unlikely new neighbor, Avenue — the latest entry into the District’s “velvet rope” scene. Tempted by the promise of an open bar, a few DCists stopped…
(Written by Mike Grass and Kanishka Gangopadhyay) It was perhaps one of most lavish non-political parties Washington has seen in quite some time. The much talked about opening of IndeBleu on Saturday evening saw limos pulling up on G Street, photographers deployed to the entryway, all the while champagne greeted guests at coat check and at least one woman, painted as a forest nymph, walked about the place in A Midsummer Night’s Dream-esque fashion….
(By DCist contributor Kanishka Gangopadhyay) The National Blocktoberfest takes place this Saturday in the “Ballston Entertainment Zone” next to Ballston Common Mall on Wilson Boulevard in Arlington. Billed as “Fall’s biggest street festival,” the event will encompass five city blocks and features 20 local bands, including staples The Kelly Bell Band and Dewey Beach favorites Love Seed Mama Jump. Blocktoberfest will also feature numerous vendors selling Bavarian food and beer, an Oompah band, face painting,…
(By DCist contributor Kanishka Gangopadhyay) Opponents of more firearms in the District can breath easier today. The Post reports yesterday that the proposed repeal of the D.C. gun ban in the Senate has been set aside. The repeal was attached to the DC operating budget, which is one of the few pieces of legislation that must be enacted before Congress adjourns for the fall elections. Senator Larry E Craig (R-Idaho) withdrew his proposed budget amendment…
(From DCist contributor Kanishka Gangopadhyay) Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize winning author of the epic graphic novel Maus, comes to Politics & Prose Tuesday at 7 p.m. to sign copies of his new work “In the Shadow of No Towers” . The innovative work is the first extended piece Spiegelman has written since the legendary Maus series. Packaged audaciously at more than twice the size of the industry standard graphic novel, In the Shadow is guaranteed…
(From DCist contributor Kanishka Gangopadhyay) If youre looking for something to do on this rainy weekend in D.C., you might think about putting on your finest hemp clothing and attending the DC Green Festival being held at the Washington convention center. A joint project of Global Exchange and Co-Op America, the Green Festivals are a two-day party with a serious purpose: to accelerate the emergence of a new economic paradigm that is life-affirming, inclusive and…
(From DCist contributor Kanishka Gangopadhyay) It seems that D.C. has had two reality show-related rumors in the last week. First, the rumors of the Real World coming to D.C. began circulating again thanks to an E! column, but they were quickly debunked. Now, Roll Call reports (website access is for subscribers only) that Fox producers have approached congressional leaders in an effort to procure internships for Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie, stars of the networks…
(By DCist contributor Kanishka Gangopadhyay) Planning is underway for the first of nine memorial tree groves to be planted around the city in commemoration of the victims of 9/11. The memorial groves project is D.C.’s participation in the U.S. Forest Services Living Memorials Project. D.C. officials are planning to plant commemorative trees in each of the city’s wards, with a central site on Kingman Island in the Anacostia River. The first grove will be at…
