Posts Tagged ‘9:30 Club’
Our Morning Roundup: A Metrobus Strikes Again
Prince of Petworth posts on the effort/petition to save the Black Rooster. One reader's response: "i LOVE the black rooster. if the peace corps really closes it down…i just…i might just not go to happy hour anymore, ever, anywhere. and that would make me terribly sad. save the rooster!"
Penn Quarter Living debuts a new column called High Rise Life. The first one is on elevator etiquette. It's not so much a column as bad comment bait of which I am sometimes guilty of. Here's a sampling from PQL's rookie effort on sharing an elevator: "Fob in and offer to push buttons or don’t offer and make sure others belong in the building? Remind neighbors that bicycles and their owners usually ride the freight elevator or zip it? Heel your dog or let him/her sniff around and be friendly? What is good neighborly elevator etiquette?" Fascinating.
Copy-Editing Corner: Are Bands “It”s or “They”s?
My blog item yesterday about media organizations axing copy editors and receptionists set off a firestorm of comments about whether musical groups should be referred to as singular or plural entities. OK, actually it was two people. OK, both people commented on my Facebook page, not here. But this does not mean I can't get another item out of it!
Both schools of thought have valid points. To wit:
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Morning Roundup: Big 3 Out in the Cold
-According to WaPo, GM, Chrysler, and Ford are begging lawmakers--that's what it's come down to. ""There is no plan B," said Fritz Henderson, GM's president and chief operating officer."
-DCist had the scoop on the redesigned 9:30 Club website. But don't take their word for it, check it out for yourselves and tell us what you think.
-Meet The Press, meet David Gregory. (So why the hell is Koppel leaving Discovery?)
-Wired has some great gift ideas for dealing with office bullies.
No Place to Sit at the Rhys Darby Show
First: I would've enjoyed his comedy routine last week at the 9:30 Club much more if I had never, ever heard of him.
I'd already seen most of his jokes on YouTube and his Myspace page, and he didn't deviate from what he's done before. I was almost envious of the people around me who were hearing his routine for the first time and laughing their asses off.
But there was something else that kept me from enjoying the show: the 9:30 Club's seating arrangements. Darby's event was a "seated show," yet the venue was intended for standing-room-only events. Ergo, the 9:30 Club provided a few rows of folding chairs on the main floor, as well as bleacher-style benches on either sides of the balcony. But because they don't actually sell you seats, just admission, it's up to the patron to find a spot. We (there were two of us) tried to sit down several times, only to be told "seat's taken."
