I am shamed

Alright, who’s got March Madness!
Well, not me anymore. My annual three week venture into paying attention to college basketball came to a quick end this weekend when it became apparent that I was going to lose in my bracket pool…to Katie. The humiliation!
Now, I’m certainly not a basketball expert by any stretch of the imagination (I [...]

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Where everybody knows your name

Isn’t it great when you really get to know your neighborhood? You’ve been to all the little shops and restaurants, you have your favorite houses and blocks, and maybe you’ve built up a rapport with some of the local merchants. Really makes you feel at home, right?
Well it turns out there are certain times when it’s not [...]

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Friday Fries Day: Cork

NEW COLUMN ALERT: In which we review a local establishment’s French fries. Because it’s Friday, which sorta sounds like “Fries Day,” and there’s a whole weekend of French fries-eating ahead of you.

Place: Cork Wine Bar, 1720 14th St., NW
Menu Says: “French Fries tossed with parsley, garlic, lemon, house-made ketchup”
Price: $5
So, we’ve tried these twice. The [...]

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Fandom as a function of proximity

Scenester can be kind of a dirty word. Most of the time referring to someone as such means you think they’re trying too hard; they’re phony, maybe a little shallow, and overall pretty lame. Sure, they may support the local bands by attending tons of shows, but everyone knows they’re mostly just in it to be seen. All the same, [...]

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I’m off the beat

Man, this is just getting too depressing. I can’t handle having my hopes dashed again and again!
So from here on out, I’m not posting about Birch & Barley again until I’m literally sitting at the bar drinking my first pint (I’ll double-fist with Katie’s fancy internet phone.)
Sheesh.

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No Sleep in Brooklyn

It’s Tuesday night, and I’ve still got those extra-ugly under-eye rings that can only mean we spent the weekend visiting friends in Brooklyn. Seriously, I’m too old (lame?) for this. So while I attempt to regain control of my sleeping patterns and come up with some more DC-relevant blog posts, enjoy a snapshot from our [...]

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A new place to buy some green in Shaw

Update: Alright, so turns out the date below isn’t completely accurate. Old City Green now has a sign out front saying that 21 March is “Industry Day”, 28 March is “Community Day”, and 11 April is the actual date for the Grand Opening.
In some pretty rockin’ news for the nabe, it looks like Old City Green is [...]

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Coffee + 14th Street = !!!

In my continuing obsession with all things coffee in the neighborhood, I’m 100-percent stoked about the news of Mid-City Cafe, a new coffee shop set to open in April on 14th Street in a space above Miss Pixie’s.
Despite some charges that “overpriced” coffee shops are bastions of “trustafarians” “banging at laptops” “pretending you’re a writer,” [...]

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Chuck Grassley: One Grim Dude

Man, so I didn’t think I was really going to be doing these Who’s Embarrassing Iowa posts on a regular basis. It was just supposed to be a one-off joke, you see.
But Chuck Grassley always pulls through in a pinch.
Case in point, the esteemed Senator in today’s WaPo:
The rhetoric grew so heated yesterday that  Sen. Charles [...]

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Metro is trying to fake me out

Readers of district, schmistrict, I come before you today with a request for information. You see, the Yellow Line has been acting a little weird lately, and I don’t know why.
A summary of the issue at hand: During rush hours, the Mt Vernon Square Station is the last stop for northbound Yellow Line trains. After dropping their passengers at that station, the train leaves [...]

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