Anyone who has read the menu at the Brickskeller can tell you that Julius Caesar called beer “a high and mighty liquor.” But aside from being a favorite of Roman conquerors, it causes people to say funny stuff – stuff that when you overhear it, makes you really want to know how that conclusion was reached. What winding path was taken to get there? Quote of the Week At the DCist flickr meetup Sunday at…

Fun Fun Fun Fest 2007 Recap from Super!Alright! on Vimeo. Austinist attended a town hall meeting about proposed noise ordinances that could undermine the city’s future as the Live Music Capital of the World, and lamented the possible loss of Texas’s only feminist bookstore. Throughout the week, they interviewed a bunch of indie fashion designers and D-I-Y websites—Etsy, Ornamental Things, 31 Corn Lane, and Aorta Designs—for the upcoming Stitch Fashion Show. They also did…

As if we needed more rain and clouds in the forecast, today the District gets…more rain and clouds. There seems to be at least some hope of sunshine for the weekend, at least. Homeless Want Help, not Handouts: Yesterday, a task force comprised of government and private agencies had the first of many hearings to come about helping the city’s homeless, with a particular focus on finding them shelter for fast-approaching winter. As NBC4 reports,…

World AIDS Day, observed today, has particular relevance and importance for the District. The city has the distinction of suffering from one of the nation’s highest rates of HIV infection, afflicting 1 in 20 residents, ten times the national average, and 1 in 7 African-American men. The District’s response to the problem has been so ineffectual (some say the city is 10 to 15 years behind where it should be) that in August D.C. Mayor…

There is a certain giddiness that comes along with seeing one of your favorite bands — you either wait in line, brave sky-high service charges, or scour Craigslist for tickets; you count down the days until the show; you impatiently sit at your office desk the day of hoping that they play song x and song y; you bear the incessant pushing, shoving, and general human crush that accompanies many shows to get as…

Something weird’s going on, D.C. Yesterday a 38 year-old Catholic nun identified as Sister Liann was kidnapped from behind Our Lady Queen of Peace Convent in Southeast. She was then driven about two miles away and released unharmed. Police are looking for the suspects, a man and a woman, but no one seems to have any hunches as to what the assailants’ motives might have been. As a neighbor interviewed by the Post asked,…