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MetroPerforms! At Gallery Place For Evening Rush
From 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm, MetroPerforms! offers its first Gallery Place station performance featuring Darryl Brooks on vocals and Allen Holmes on guitar. I wonder if the Chinese violin player or the dreadlock guy with the reverb guitar will feel badly that someone is playing on their turf (they both can be seen “on […]
Hip Has Its Downside
When I signed my condo deal in early ’04, I have to plead guilty to some measure of vanity. I’d been going to Jaleo for years and I always thought, “It would be cool, hip to live here.” When my job moved downtown, my thinking went, “It would be cool to walk to work on […]
Zagat Opines On Openings
For the epicurious (bad pun intended) among us, we want to point you to Zagat’s free Washington DC Buzz page on the web. The handy pocket guide to restaurants in all the big cities around the good ‘ole USA also has a website, most of which requires a subscription. But, the “Buzz” section is free […]
Nat’l Capital BBQ Battle This Weekend
Like yummy, greasy, BBQ? Then, this weekend’s Safeway National Capital Barbecue Battle is for you. Both Saturday (11a to 9p) and Sunday (11a to 7:30 p) will see Penn Ave from 9th St to 14th St closed for a tasty time. The BBQ challenge (pork, beef or chicken) is on Saturday and the National Pork […]