This just in! Exciting news. A Veggie Hot Dog eating contest at Sticky Fingers tomorrow at 6pm. This could be very, very fun. If I can’t make it be sure to send me photos!
Event is hosted in honor of National Veggie Hot Dog Month
Washington, D.C.—As our nation celebrates National Veggie Hot Dog Month throughout July, Compassion Over Killing (COK), a D.C.-based animal advocacy charity, and the award-winning all-vegan Sticky Fingers Bakery are teaming up with Tofurky to host Washington, D.C.’s first ever veggie hot dog eating contest.
More than 25 vegetarian and non-vegetarian contestants, including “The Tofurkenator,” “Torfurky Libre” and “Tofuzilla,” will be competing for the top veggie dog title while also showing others how fun—and delicious—it is to choose meat-free fare. More after the jump. More… »
Now I don’t ask for a lot of favors but I’m going to ask one now. Please participate in this great program if you have the means. Even if it helps one child find the right path it’ll be well worth it!
From MPD:
“In order for us to acheive our goal of 100 we need 85 more book bags and additional school supplies. We have recieved numerous items so far, but we are not there yet. If you are not sure where to go for the best deals email me or call and I can let you know. Remember school resumes Agust 26, 2008 which is only 33 days away!!!!
Supplies:
Book Bags (variety of colors and sizes for boys and girls)
#2 Pencils (the 5 packs are great)
Colored Pencils
Crayons
Wide Ruled Paper
Composition (black and white) notebooks
Folders (10 cents ones are fine)
Glue Sticks
Rulers
Pencil and Pen containers (Plastic box type are fine)
Erasers
Pencil Sharpeners
There is a box in the Fourth District Lobby where supplies can be left. We will be hosting a Back to School Book Bag Giveaway event Friday August 22, 2008 4-7pm at the Fourth District Station (Community Room). The dead line for drop off is August 20, 2008. Let’s not wait till it is to late. Help us reach our goal for the 2008/2009 Book Bag Giveaway!!! If anyone is interested in volunteering their time for the event please contact us below. For further information you can contact myself below or Officer Irene Hughes at (202) 715-7476 or by email irene.hughes@dc.gov.”
We’ve had some fun judging new construction but I passed a really cool building last weekend that I’m curious for your opinions. It is located at 2633 16th Street and appears to be an apartment building. It’s pretty wild, yeah? Do you dig it? If so do you like this style better than the more modern buildings?
My walks are taking me further and further around town these days. After nearly passing out a few times on Saturday I found some solace in Azi’s Cafe located at 9th and O in Shaw. Apparently it’s been open since 2005 and as a good coffee shop should be there is free wifi and good music playing. The chairs aren’t quite as comfortable as Columbia Heights Coffee but their regular coffee is made with Illy coffee and you don’t really get better than that. A latte costs $2.85 and a regular coffee is $1.60. They also have a nice outdoor area. Has anyone checked them out before?
Petworth/Park View represent. But to be honest I don’t really know what these city wide council members do. I believe our specific Ward representatives like Muriel Bowser (Ward 4) and Jim Graham (Ward 1) have a huge impact on our lives and thus have a lot of accountablity. But the citywide reps have always seemed a bit nebulous to me. Brown is running against incumbent Carol Schwartz. So I’m just curious how much attention have you paid to this race? Do you feel that it will impact your experience in DC at all? Do you have any interest at all in this race? Do you have an opinion about Councilmember Schwartz? (I, sadly, feel like I know nothing about her and her influence on our neighborhoods and their development.) I feel like it should be very important yet I don’t hear too much about it.
How cool is the light and dark juxtaposition in this house? The beams are unique-got that ye olde English flair to them.
$1,500 for a one bedroom carriage house-a house-for rent in Mount Pleasant at Park and 18th. It also overlooks a city garden (anyone know which one that is?).
Not sure how I feel about the attic room-I’d miss being able to hang pictures on the wall. (Taping posters just ain’t the same, not since I graduated college.)
There’s been a lot of talk lately about how bad local news coverage in DC (proper) is. So I’m wondering how folks get their local news - from mainstream media or blogs and listservs? If you get your local news from multiple sources explain a bit how it works in the comments section. If you get your news from the mainstream media - who is the best and who are your favorite columnists/broadcasters?
I just noticed this sign last weekend. But Metrocurean saw it back in May. Oops. How about an email peeps? Anyway, it seems the folks from Tosca will be opening up in Viridian’s space. Sounds promising. Hopefully they’ll make the list of best Italian restaurants in the city. Any fans of Tosca out there?
Apparently a dude from Shaw faced an attempted mugging on his porch on Westminster Street. And fought off the muggers! (Hat tip DCist.)
He explains why he fought them off:
“Well in my pockets were not only my wallet and cellphone, but my brand new digital camera that I had purchased to document my mother’s wedding & excursions in Colorado. Had the thugs pulled out a gun or a knife I would have surrendered everything, but they didn’t, and I knew that if I would have voluntarily handed them the contents I would have lost all the photographs & video clips forever.”
Damn. Three against one. Well, thankfully he wasn’t hurt too bad. It’s funny as I often walk around for 5-6 hours taking photos I often wonder what I would do if I was mugged with my camera. Sometimes when I’m walking around alleys in Shaw or Bloomingdale I get a very unsettling feeling. In a similar circumstance I’d like to think that I’d fight as well. However, I suspect if these guys approached me on my porch not only would I have handed over everything in my pockets I probably would’ve invited them inside my house and given them my glue stash, my prized Adlai Stevenson and Eleanor Roosevelt photograph among other valuables. Insane. Do you think this guy made the right choice or just got supremely lucky?
Previously I had only seen Mormon proselytizers bombing through town on bikes. This was the first time I saw them chilling on a porch. Truth be known it looked like they were ready to bolt. Perhaps their plan backfired a bit…
