Here’s another spot that I’ve always been curious about – Kalorama Deli & Grocery located at 1682 Kalorama Rd, NW. Here’s a sample of the menu:
I know I can probably just look this up but what’s scrapple? Some sort of pork dish? So, any fans of this spot?
The following was written by PoP contributor, Charles
You don’t actually have to be much of a bluegrass fan to really like bluegrass festivals. Half the fun is putting as much psychic distance between yourself and the city as seems possible without a plane ticket or a passport. Pitching a tent on the banks of Shavers Fork and watching bluegrass on a hand-built stage, surrounded by green mountains and the sort of people who find your DC plates exotic enough to start up a conversation does that quite nicely.
But the music is pretty good, too. I am no bluegrass expert, but one of the most memorable musical moment I’ve ever had came a couple of years back at “Li’L Margaret’s Bluegrass and Old Time Music Festival” when a heavy-set blind guy named Michael Cleveland threw down against a skinny kid called Patrick McAvinue and they tore the place up with just a couple of fiddles and a stand-up mic.
We didn’t see anything quite that astounding last weekend, at the “Pickin’ in Parsons (West Virginia) Celebration of Bluegrass and Hillbilly Music,” but we caught most of the 15 acts that played over three days and barely heard a bad note. Every now and then one of the better known acts, like Rhonda Vincent & The Rage or Randy Waller and the (next generation of, apparently) Country Gentlemen seemed a little slick. But the music was fun and heartfelt and occasionally brilliant, in a setting that’s the mountaineer equivalent of the smoky bar where you caught Nirvana just before Nevermind came out.
It’s mostly the music, but it’s not just the music. Apparently there’s redneck Borscht Belt, also in the mountains but several hundred miles south of the Catskills, and the one-liners are unrelenting. Karl Shiflett in particular seems to be trapped in an old Hee Haw rerun (“My fiddler got on the airplane and set down next to a preacher….”), and what’s up with the weird faces and that thing he does with his leg? But his playing makes up for his corn. And outfits like the Hillbilly Gypsies and the Tennessee Mafia Jug Band are clearly out to have as much fun as you are, and if that means a few groaners in between truly impressive picking (and, with the Gypsies, the hottest hillbilly girl in America singing murder ballads), well, it’s just a way of reminding you that all this talk about culture and tradition is nice, but we’re here to have a good time. Continues after the jump. (more…)
“Dear PoP,
In the midst of the budget cuts and tax raises, one tax is quietly being decreased: the one that levies a 10% tax on owners of vacant property. In my opinion, it has actually been very effective in getting longtime slumlords to sell or fix vacant and dilapidated property. While it’s impossible to prove such causation, I think we’ve seen enough benefits to continue supporting the heightened rate, particularly when it’s bringing in millions of dollars to the coffers are a time when our city needs it most. So why are they looking to raise just about every tax conceivable, yet let slumlords off the hook?”
What do you guys think – is it a mistake to lower the tax on vacant property?
I thought this was a pretty hilarious sight. I’m sure there is a reason for it but I couldn’t quite figured it out. Hopefully you guys can in the captions. Winner announced Friday.
Hahaha, this is awesome. Thanks a million to a reader for sending this in:
“Check out this photo of a restaurant getting ready to open up on the corner of 17th and R. I’m not sure what focus group told them the name “The Sacrificial Lamb” was a good idea…but I think we can all be excited about the impending deliciousness of kebabs and naan.”
“Dear PoP,
Please post that at 1:30PM today 8/4 at the Adams Mill playground, some students from the Mayor’s Youth Corps were taking “up skirt” pictures of a 3 YEAR GIRL. She was just changed and was running from her mom up some playground equipment. She didn’t have any diaper on yet and these pedophiles lean over from otherwise doing nothing and take phone camera pics. My wife notified the lady, who owns a local business and demanded the creeps empty the phone. We should have called the cops. What do we do with these Neanderthals? I’ve notified Green Corps and our ANC folks. They’ll be off the street in no time…”
This is obviously extremely disturbing. The writer of this “Dear PoP” is the young girl’s father and is understandably extremely upset. I can’t imagine how outraged I’d be in a similar situation. I hope to God the offenders can be identified and punished. I’m not sure the offenders realize just how abhorrent the act they committed was. I most definitely think they should have the crap scared out of them. Of course I wasn’t there so I don’t know exactly what happened but I’d be cautious to label these teens something beyond idiots. And they most certainly were idiots. And we’ve spoken about this in the past but it is becoming ever more clear that these Summer youth programs need more supervision. Of that I am certain.
I couldn’t get a great angle on this sculpture but it sorta looks like a very pensive devil. But it also has wings so I’m totally confused. Is this a figure from mythology or something? Anyone recognize it?
I loved this one as it seemed totally wild. If I cropped the row houses from the photo, it’d look like it was from a park or something. I’d also never seen a non yellow sunflower. Very sweet.
I’m totally digging the stained glass and old school wood.
Here’s a beauty from 16th Street just north of Park Road.