The Dish: crab tikki
The Location: Indique, 3512 Connecticut Ave. NW, (202) 244-6600
The Price: $7
The Skinny: For the obvious reasons, restaurants in the region, no matter what the cuisine, feel the need to add a crab cake to the menu. I've seen ‘em at barbecue joints, and I've seen ‘em at Irish pubs. Upscale Indian restaurants [...]
’Cause lookin’ cool ain’t easy.
Name: Khalid Larkin
Age: 25
Occupation: Cafe Saint-Ex employee
Residence: Shaw
Spotted: 7:45 p.m., 14th and S Streets NW
Destination: Barnes & Noble in Georgetown, to read
Style Definition: “Small T-shirts, tight [Levi's] jeans. [My style] is first-wave punk. That's the music I listen to, so that's the look I go for.”
Hipster Giveaway: He looks like a [...]
What’s the District’s chief exec really up to today?
FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 2006
Event: Remarks, Sherwood Recreation Advisory Council Third-Annual Back-to-School Community Bash
Time: 6:15 p.m.
Location: Sherwood Recreation Center, 640 10th St. NE
The Lowdown: Ah, that's it, Linda: If you want Tony to show up, just throw a back-to-the-campaign-trail bash.
The first building bearing the name of Mayor Anthony A. Williams could be in the perfect place for a guy who set the standard for D.C. mayoral travel: Accra, Ghana.
The idea was dropped by the mayor of Ghana's capital city, Stanley Nii Adjiri Blankson—one of the dignitaries Williams hung out with during his spring break [...]
Every Tuesday and Thursday, we run down what's going on in local Internet discussion groups.
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Kelly, a dog walker and trainer, says that she comes across so many strays that she always carries around a spare leash. And being prepared has its benefits: “On Friday I was driving to an appointment when I saw a Siberian [...]
What’s the District’s chief exec really up to today?
THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 2006
Event: Guest, Ask the Mayor, Washington Post Radio
Time: 10 a.m.
Location: WTWP studios, 3400 Idaho Ave. NW
The Lowdown: Hmm, what to ask? How ’bout, what were you doing last week?
In tomorrow's City Paper, you'll find:
A story about the Lai family, proprietors of Huong Que (or Four Sisters), the area's best-known Vietnamese restaurant. Tim Carman profiles LoAnn Lai, the only one of six siblings to make a clean break from the family business.
In Loose Lips: James Jones on how Linda Cropp has taken all sorts [...]
In a minimalist condo in the Cityline at Tenley building, the founding members of the Washington Area Liquor Retailers Association are holding one of their first board meetings. A bottle of liquor and an Asian statuette stand in for decorations; the members—President H. Singh Bakshi, Vice President S.P. Toor, Treasurer Sarbjit Kochhar, and Secretary Vivek [...]
Regulars at the YWCA Gallery Place Fitness and Aquatics Center may soon be pulled out of the water. Due to a budget shortfall, the YWCA is threatening to close the pool for good.
“The pool costs $200,000 per year…the board can't make ends meet,” says Orysia Stanchak, executive director of the National Capital Area YWCA. Stanchak [...]
What’s the District’s chief exec really up to today?
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 2006
Event: Remarks, weekly press briefing
Time: 11 a.m.
Location: ground-floor press-briefing room, John A. Wilson Building, 1350 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
The Lowdown: Says Chief Ramsey: "People accuse me of a lot of things, but not working hard is not one of them....You don't hear about me going [...]
Every Tuesday and Thursday, we run down what's going on in local Internet discussion groups.
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Ward 1 Council candidate and Listserv troll Chad Williams writes an open letter to his community in which he touts his ability to…chat with gang members. “We need a councilmember who truly understands how to reduce the criminal activities of gangs [...]
Linda Cropp has released her first TV spots of the campaign—one positive, one negative:
"Determined"
"Judgment"
What say you, voters—enough to make you think twice about Fenty?
What’s the District’s chief exec really up to today?
TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2006
Event: Remarks, ribbon-cutting ceremony at Hotel Palomar
Time: 5:05 p.m.
Location: Hotel Palomar, 2121 P St. NW
The Lowdown: 5:05 p.m.? What, gotta leave time for pregame commentary?
Why is the Iwo Jima Memorial in Virginia? And why is there a copyright at the bottom of the statue? If copyrights are necessary for memorials, why don't they all have them?
The “monumental” view of the Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument and U.S. Capitol is why the National Parks Service decided on the Virginia location for [...]
The Washington Post has ramped up the stakes in the hotly-contested at-large D.C. Council race: Judging from the reporter assigned to the contest, the loser among the two main contestants might be written off as politically dead.
The pre-election profile of the Democratic primary contest between attorney A. Scott Bolden and incumbent Phil Mendelson is being [...]
