Some marvelous corporation has dropped a gigantic cube into the heart of Adams Morgan. Sadly, it has not landed on and crushed anyone I dislike. But perhaps it indicates great entertainment to come for people who pay to watch TV. In America, there is always hope.

Hey! It's Thursday! Pick up our paper. It has another typo on the cover. Erika, please come back here soon! Otherwise this is an excellent issue, with a great story by Jeffrey Anderson about Peaceoholics' Ronald Moten, as well as all the usual bozos. Please don't forget to patronize our advertisers, especially anyone who can drop a giant cube on your enemies.
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Bloomingdale (for now) observes the slow neglect of a huge brick home on Seaton Place. "16 months have passed, and the tyvek wrap continues to blow off the building, exposing the wood underneath to the elements. enormous amounts of water from the rains of the last year must have managed to seep down into the walls of this old rowhouse," the blogger notes.

River East Idealist posts five reasons to support the relatively new IHOP on Alabama Ave. We paid a visit when it first opened and walked away impressed. Unfortunately, we never again saw the waitress that we so loved. We have gone back many times. Sometimes the service absolutely sucks. Sometimes it's over-the-top awesome. The food is still IHOP food. Only this IHOP has rules like no sideways ballcaps. Sweet. River East Idealist gives kudos to the staff, the overall atmosphere, the fact that it exists, among other reasons.

Southwest...The Little Quadrant That Could presents a handy list of alternative ways to get to President-Elect Obama's swearing in. List includes ways to get to the Mall on foot, by water taxi, and by bike. Good luck. Soon after the inaugural, we may get tired of the motorcades once again. Even when it's Obama stopping traffic, it's not that fun.

Capital Spice offers a handy map detailing all 213 bars, restaurants and clubs that have extended hours for the inaugural week.

Pop Cesspool hates on Thievery Corporation (and the 9:30 Club). I wonder what the blogger would think about the duo's new video featuring Chuck Brown. The Cesspool writes: "...The Thievery dudes, with their XPN-approved album and their unflagging good taste, and they're blazingly recession-proof, at least in D.C., where lots of youn'ins still apparently have lots of disposable income and want to do things that are more 'benignly stylish' than 'dangerously interesting.'"

Chuck Brown, having busted loose of his prior Jan. 20 engagement, will now be playing the 51st State Ball at the John A. Wilson Building.

Planners of the city hall ball had speculated about bringing Brown in when they announced their event in December, but the Godfather of Go-Go was already booked for the Inaugural D.C. Ball, scheduled for the Old Post Office Pavilion.

The 51st Staters caught a break when organizers of that ball were forced to cancel last week, after logistical concerns about loading in equipment, food, and musical gear made the event impossible. So Brown will move his act three blocks down Pennsylvania Avenue.

Allen Tubis, an event planner who organized the Inaugural D.C. event as a benefit for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Washington (he's a longtime member of the organization's board), says the traffic and security restrictions meant holding the ball at that location would be impossible. For one thing, he says, the Secret Service needed the Post Office Pavilion loading dock for storage space. "Our situation is, if you can't load in the food, the sound system, you just can't do it," he says.

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