Monthly Archives: October 2011

Entertainment, Music, Night Life, We Love Music
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Hot Ticket: Dark Dark Dark @ Red Palace

photo by Tod Seelie

Embrace the chill in the air and get in the mood for fall with Dark Dark Dark at Red Palace tonight. Moody piano and clarion female vocals are joined with understated percussion and layers of cello, accordion, horns and backing vocals to create a dark, dramatic and beautiful melange. Check out the video for their single “Daydreaming” from their album Wild Go here. The group, from Minneapolis, Minnesota is on tour supporting Eastern European-inspired folk duo A Hawk and A Hacksaw.

A Hawk And A Hacksaw
Dark Dark Dark
Pillars and Tongues

Red Palace
Tuesday, October 4th
doors 8:00/show 8:30
$12

capitals hockey, The Daily Feed
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Caps, Pens to Raise Money for Lokomotiv Families

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‘Lokomotiv Yaroslavl’
courtesy of ‘HockeyBroad’

For many area hockey fans, the October 13 showdown between the Penguins and Capitals over in Pennsylvania is the start of this season’s perennial rivalry. But this year, it’s something a whole lot more.

Both the Caps and Pens announced a joint effort to raise money for the families of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, the KHL team that perished in a plane crash on September 7 in Russia. Caps and Pens players will wear jerseys with the commemorative Lokomotiv patch for the game, then autograph the game-worn and -issued jerseys for auction on nhl.com. All proceeds from the auction will benefit the Lokomotiv players’ children and families.

Russian players Alexander Ovechkin and Evgeni Malkin will participate in a ceremonial face-off before the game. Wives and girlfriends of both teams’ players will also be selling remembrance bracelets at CONSOL Energy that evening.

Special Events, The Daily Feed
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AU Hosts Human Rights Film Series

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‘AU’
courtesy of ‘MichaelTRuhl’

On Thursday nights this October, American University is hosting their annual Human Rights Film Series.

Presented by AU’s Center for Social Media and Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law, the films cover a variety of human rights issues, including euthanasia, immigration and a warlord-turned-evangelical-preacher.

The series takes place at AU’s Katzen Arts Center on Thursday nights from 5:30pm-8:00pm through October 20th. Each screening includes a discussion with the filmmakers and human rights advocates, and the program offers further resources for each film’s topic on their website.

All of the films are free and open to the public, but the series’ organizers suggest you arrive early because seating is limited.

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Featured Photo

"To Go Against the Church is to Go Against God"
“To go against the church is to go against God” by andrade✖cobain

Every so often a camera phone can grab a truly stunning shot, as happened with andrade✖cobain‘s iPhone shot of St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Dupont Circle. City lights shining into clouds light the church in the dead of night. The grain from the high sensitivity of the camera’s sensor shape it into a fantastic glimpse into space, with millions of stars backlighting the church. DC’s light pollution obviously prevents any such spectacular stargazing from ever actually happening, making andrade✖cobain‘s shot all that more unique. Well done.

Contribute your best photos from the DC area to WeLoveDC’s Flickr Pool!

The Daily Feed
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District Sports Pages launches

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‘Reading the Sports Page’
courtesy of ‘Photos by Chip Py’

My earliest memories of the sports pages are the San Francisco Chronicle’s Sporting Green, the pale green pages of newsprint with the box scores from around the country, my beloved 49ers, the Oakland A’s, Susan Slusser, Ray Ratto, and others. I’ve always loved sports journalism when it’s done well, and for a long time the pages of the Sporting Green were a part of that.

The Internet’s made possible a whole other world of sports journalism and commentary, and in many regards, DC is a fine example, blessed with some talented beat writers, and some equally talented interested independents. Looking at places like SB Nation’s local DC site, you can see that there’s a lot of good stuff happening. As of this afternoon, that scene just got more diverse.

Welcome to District Sports Page, the all-online sports effort from the folks that brought you Caps News Network and Nats News Network, both of which are being folded into the new site. We caught up with founder Dave Nichols this afternoon.

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Redskins defeat Rams 17-10

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‘Santana Moss’
courtesy of ‘Keith Allison’

The feeling coming into this game was that the Redskins had to win by a wide margin to prove they were truly a new team after failing to close out the Cowboys on Monday night. With a 17-0 lead after their first possession of the second half it looked like the Redskins were going to win this one easily. That is not how it ended up as Grossman had one pass tick off the hands of Santana Moss into the arms of a Rams defender for a 51 yard return that resulted in a Rams field goal, then the Rams scored a touchdown after a Sav Rocca punt as the Redskins offense continued to stall, and then Grossman made an ill advised pass to James Laurinaitis of the Rams. The Redskins defense made sure the Rams were unable to capitalize on the Laurinaitis interception, but by that time the Rams had already pulled within seven.

The Rams touchdown drive was helped by what some might say is a Redskins mistake, but what might instead be a strange rule change that resulted from the lockout. Redskins defender Rob Jackson was called for roughing the passer that tacked ten yards onto Bradford’s eight yard completion to Austin Pettis. The problem with calling this roughing the passer is that when Jackson began his tackle Bradford still had the ball. Jackson only did what every other defensive football player should do and finished his tackle. It should not be a penalty to play hard until the whistle blows. The Rams might have still scored on the drive but the 10 extra yards cannot have hurt. Overall the Redskins defense deserves credit in this game as they were able to sack Sam Bradford six times and held Steven Jackson to 45 yards rushing.

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Circulator moves East of the River

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‘Room & Board View Tilt-Shift’
courtesy of ‘Mr. T in DC’

Starting today, the Circulator bus will now have a line that starts east of the Anacostia, running between the Skyland shopping mall at 30th & Alabama Ave SE in Hillcrest to the Potomac Ave SE Metro station in Hill East, by way of the Anacostia Public Library, the Anacostia Metro, and Barracks Row.  The bus line will replace the Waterfront/Convention Center route that has seen decreased ridership.  The line will cost $1 and allow for free transfers throughout the Circulator bus lines for those using SmarTrip cards to pay.

The buses will run every ten minutes from 6am to 7pm, Monday through Friday. This is the first of the city’s new Circulator lines to run East of the River.

The full map of the route is available after the break.

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Downtown, News, The Features
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DC, Consider Yourself Occupied

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courtesy of ‘amreese13’

Since Occupy Wall Street has already inspired an Occupy Omaha and Occupy Ljlubljana, Slovenia, it should come as no surprise that a similar protest has arrived at the nation’s capital.

On Saturday, Occupy DC began its (potentially never-ending) takeover of McPherson Square.

Members hail from the District and, up until this past weekend, met mainly on the internet. Now they’re armed with a cross-street, social media and pizza slices.

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Metro to shut three stations over Columbus Day weekend

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‘yellow lines’
courtesy of ‘philliefan99’

This Friday night at 10:00pm, WMATA is closing the Shaw, U Street and Columbia Heights metro stations on the Yellow and Green lines for a weekend-long work period that will run through Monday’s Columbus Day holiday. In addition, trains will be replaced with buses between East and West Falls Church for work related to the Dulles extension. Shuttle buses will be in operation between Georgia Avenue and Mt. Vernon Square stations, so plan on spending some extra time on the bus to maneuver around the construction.

U Street will be receiving a new “Guarded #8” switch, which should fix a problem with low-speed derailment across a switch boundary, which is one of the NTSB recommendations after the accident of July 2009.

In addition to the closures, the last train from Greenbelt will be leaving 30 minutes earlier than normal, which means at 2am on Friday and Saturday, and 11pm on Sunday and Monday. Adjust your schedules accordingly.

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Ben’s Chili Bowl temporarily shuttered to fix plumbing

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It was if the screams of dozens of half-smoke lovers went up as one, and were suddenly silent. News first went out on Twitter this morning, with the restaurants announcing their closure to cover “building damage” repairs that may “take a few days.”  NBC Washington has the word it’s a plumbing problem and they may be closed til the weekend.

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Ben’s Next Door, located, well, Next Door to the iconic eatery will be open for your half-smoke needs this week.

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Own a piece of the Hawk n Dove

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‘Club Hawk Birthday’
courtesy of ‘yostinator’

This weekend was the last hurrah of famed Capitol Hill dive bar, The Hawk n Dove, with the bar shutting its doors last night for good. If you’ve been inside the Hawk n Dove, or seen it on the likes of the West Wing, you can understand the enthusiasm about the place, and the sorrow of those regulars contained therein. Losing it is like losing a piece of the city. Now, though, you can own a piece of the Hawk n Dove yourself, as they’re auctioning off the bar’s contents.

You can have one of the decoy ducks, or the bear skin taxidermy, or even one of the wrought iron outside lamps or the Hawk n Dove flag if you’re fast enough on the bidding, or have deep enough a wallet.

The space will reopen in the spring with a pub run by Xavier Cervera, of Senart’s Oyster & Chop House fame.