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Aug 19, 2011

Now, To Just Avoid The Dysentery

It’s official — after a blowout vote, the “virtual pedestrian tunnel” between the Farragut North and Farragut West Metro stations will now be christened as “Farragut Crossing”.

Aug 12, 2011

Metro Opens Voting To Name Farragut “Virtual” Tunnel

WMATA announced this morning that they’ve whittled down the crowd-sourced effort to rename the “pedestrian tunnel” to five possible names: “Free Transfer,” “Surface Transfer,” “Farragut Connect,” “Farragut Exchange” and “Farragut Crossing”.

May 20, 2011

Out of Frame: Meek’s Cutoff

Loosely based around the true story of a fur trapper-turned-Oregon Trail guide who led a group of settlers on an ill-advised short cut, Kelly Reichardt’s latest is not just the strongest work of her career, but one of the best films you’re likely to see all year, a quiet, meditative masterpiece that examines the cultural and gender norms of the United States in the 19th century within the context of a life-or-death struggle for survival.

 
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