The Drink: Mexican Melon
The Location: Indebleu, 707 G St. NW, (202) 333-2538
The Price: $12
The Buzz: Recent Liquid Assets blogs, plus reader comments, have involved discussions of the "girly" drink. As a respectable scotch-sipping, wine-loving, beer-guzzling gal, I loathe the girly drink. It makes me think of freshmen girls in pleather pants and tank tops. But [...]
Hemphill Fine Arts: Mingering Mike, D.C.’s most prolific fictional musician and the subject of Dori Hadar's book, Mingering Mike: The Amazing Career of an Imaginary Soul, is also the subject of the latest exhibition at Hemphill, which is accompanied by an exhibition of new paintings by Tina Newberry. The reception is at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, [...]
Mike Benson, principal owner of Café Saint-Ex and sister eats-outlet Bar Pilar, is just a few weeks away from opening his latest restaurant—three vintage railroad cars, plus a depot, that will be transformed into an establishment called Southern Rail. You say you haven't heard a word about it? Well, for good reason: It's in Carrboro, [...]
Somewhere out there, a few select members of the 2006-2007 Washington Capitals team are spending their summers on the golf course, secure in the knowledge that they have a guaranteed spot on next year's roster. A good number of other players are likely checking the help-wanted ads. A handful of younger prospects, however, are currently [...]
"Overall," a Restaurant Rater concludes of his recent trip to Matchbox, "the experience was urban chic on a pie."
But he starts his review by observing that he "was very surprised that our table was ready within 10 minutes [because] the place was packed and I thought our wait would be longer."
Adds the rater: "While the [...]
The list of Most Endangered Places in D.C. announced yesterday by the D.C. Preservation League includes some interesting choices. You've got your graffitied frescoes in the old Franklin School at 13th and K Streets NW (now a homeless shelter). You've got your Takoma Theater in Takoma Park, built in 1923, which should be preserved because, [...]
In a New York Times piece about the omnipresence of chicken fingers on children's menus, David Kamp frets that offering kids nuggets and fries is dulling their palates, quashing their sense of adventure.
For Kamp, dining has always been a journey into the unknown:
I grew up eating what my parents ate, at home and at [...]
You might think At-Large Councilmember Kwame Brown and Mayor Adrian Fenty have reason to be political rivals. After all, Brown was a co-chair of the Linda Cropp for Mayor campaign. His father was a field operative for Cropp. Brown also spiked the nomination of one of Fenty's fundraising wizards, lobbyist Max Brown, who was up [...]
David Simon, creator of critical darling and CP staff fave The Wire, has gone on record saying the HBO series' fifth season would be dealing with the mass media. So the fact that Simon & Co. are filming over the weekend in the Washington Post newsroom is not really a surprise, but does this mean [...]
Segway launched its Personal Transporter in 2001. In the intervening years, press outlets far and wide seem to write up a story any time someone mounts one of these pricey scooters. This morning, the Washington Post kept the six-year honeymoon alive, with a feature on the front page of the Metro section. You didn't have [...]
A few years before he brought down a sitting president and a few decades before he exposed a front-running presidential candidate as a bar-exam flunkie, Carl Bernstein built up and tore down rock bands for the Washington Post as the paper's rock critic.
He got a lot wrong while on that beat: In a July 1969 [...]
Call it virtual shoeleather. For local reporters, it seems craigslist.org, the coffin nail of newspaper classified sections, is fertile ground for finding sources. In a May 26 post, Washington Post staff writer Ernesto Londoño asks the bike-riding folk of D.C. for their rip-off tales to help with a bike-theft story he's working on:
I recently joined [...]
Tracking the Nats' historic chase of the ’62 Mets
Current Record: 22-32 (.407, 13 GB)
Projected Record: 66-96
Samson-like Pitchers Who Blame Their Cursed Season on Not Having "Short, Blond Hair" Anymore: 1
City Desk Nats Bloggers Who've Been in That Position for Much Longer But Still Manage to Work Every Day: 1
Parsing the Win: Nats 11, Dodgers 4. [...]
What's the District's chief exec really up to today?
FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 2007
Event: attend, Washington National Opera's annual Opera Ball
Time: 8 p.m.
Location: Georgetown Club, Williamsburg Room, 1530 Wisconsin Ave. NW
The Lowdown: Isn't there like a Penn Branch Neighborhood Association meeting you should be at?
