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Jul 06, 2007

Big Bear Cafe Opens Up Bloomingdale

Near sunset on a Tuesday in the middle of May, Lana Labermeier and her husband Stuart Davenport were sitting outside their then-unfinished new Bloomingdale coffee shop, Big Bear Cafe, enjoying a hard earned cold beer after a long day of landscaping work. Unfortunately, their neighbors could hardly let them rest. “When are you gonna be open?” shouted one man from his car. “Are you hiring?” asked another. “What’s this going to be?” “Aren’t you…

May 11, 2007

Go Home Already: Dog Days

>> The actor who plays Jim Halpert on NBC’s The Office, John Krasinski, otherwise known as the boyfriend of every female staff writer at DCist, was apparently onstage with Ben Gibbard at the 9:30 Club last night. Krasinski, who met Gibbard on the set of the upcoming film adaptation of David Foster Wallace’s Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, reportedly got a bit drunk, came on the stage and provided a little witty musical banter…

 
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