Jazz in the Sculpture Garden, located at 7th Street and Constitution Avenue NW, is a blast. When the weather is warm as it was last Friday it is hard to find a better way to spend your early evening. The concerts go from 5:00PM to 8:30PM and you can find the full schedule here. I hadn’t been for a while and forgot how fun it was. It’s a great spot for a picnic or just to put your feet in the fountain.
And don’t forget the cool sculptures:
Wow, a Latino Festival on 14th Street sounds like it would be awesome:
“Tivoli North Business Association
HOSTS
Fiesta DC, Inc. for a community information meeting on plans to bring the DC Latino Festival to 14th street in September 2009. ANC1A also encourages you to attend this or a future information session to stay informed.
WHEN
Tuesday, May 26th
Community Meet and Greet at 6pm
Program starts at 6:30pm
WHERE
GALA Hispanic Theatre
3333 14th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20010
*This is the forth general meeting of 2009 of the TNBA which aims to engage and share information with Columbia Heights and Petworth communities.
Fiesta DC organizers are also available and welcome opportunities to share all information and present at other community organizations in Columbia Heights. www.fiestadc.org“
This one is from Suse_dc taken at Dumbarton Oaks in Georgetown.
This one is from Jess J titled “blossoms for sale”.
Two more (including my favorite at the end) after the jump. (more…)
IOTA Club & Cafe will host the great band O’Tasty for St. Patrick’s Day (Tuesday, March 17th).
Here’s the specs:
O’Tasty @
IOTA Club & Cafe
Tuesday, March 17th (St. Patrick’s Day)
8:30pm – showtime
$10 admission
IOTA
2832 Wilson Blvd.
Arlington, VA 22201
703-522-8340
www.iotaclubandcafe.com
There will be a pre-O’Tasty show dinner special at RedRocks (11th and Park) for St. Patrick’s Day including an Irish Pizza and Jameson shot specials.
And at Red Derby (14th and Quincy) there will be $1 off all 34 beers and $2 Jameson shots all night.
Red Derby (3718 14th St. NW) Mardi Gras Party
Fat Tuesday
Feb. 24th – 8pm on
King Cakes, Hurricanes, Beads, Feather Masks
Ed. Note: I wish it was Fat Friday because Hurricanes may make work on Wed. a bit brutal…
The folks at Fusion (4815 Georgia Ave. NW) tell me they are “starting a happy hour at Fusion starting today from 12 pm to 6. pm all beers at $3.00, wine $6.00 a glass and Martini’s for $ 6.00”.
Happy hour is from Tues – Sunday.
photo by Julia
A great shot from Julia M. from the Chinese New Year parade in Chinatown, DC. Did anyone else check out the parade/fireworks in Chinatown on Sunday?
Join the PoPville flickr pool here. A couple more great shots from the parade after the jump. (more…)
Thanks to all who sent in photos and tagged photos in fickr. Due to the many entries I can only enter one photo per person (which is extremely difficult to do!).It was a phenomenal turn out and I’m afraid I can no longer accept entries. Of course you can still join the new flickr pool I created called PoPville photos. In the pool you can enter up to 3 photos a day capturing the beautiful life from any of our neighborhoods. So please feel free to add photos whenever you’d like!
Above is a photo from “The Hay Say”.
Below is an entry from Liz who writes: “Here’s a shot of two little girls, one from Vermont and the other from Ottawa, who trekked to DC for the big day.”
Below is a great shot of the crowds from Lauren who writes: “They were taken by my partner from the top of the jumbotron tower between 14th and 15th on the Mall where I was working production.”
I’m gonna need some help so let me know in the comments which one(s) you like the best. I still have more entries going up next week but I’d like to announce a winner and some honorable mentions next Friday. More entries after the jump. (more…)
photo by rossleetabak
Thanks to a reader for sending. It seems from reading about your experiences that here’s a good way to voice your frustrations over the inauguration ticket fiasco.
Sen. Feinstein Calls for Ticket Investigation and Asks Participants for Information.
Washington, DC—U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, today issued the following statement in response to reports of incidents which prevented a large number of ticketholders from reaching their designated areas at the 56th Presidential Inaugural Ceremony:
Following is Senator Feinstein’s statement: Continues after the jump. (more…)
“I’m a local blogger who just commented on your blog about having purple tickets and not getting in. Attached is a picture of the narrow part of the 395 tunnel, where we and thousands of others who didn’t get in were stuck for hours. We were there over 3.5 hours.
Check out the crowd in the satellite photos at 1st and C and you can see how dense the group (almost all with tickets) who didn’t get in through the Purple Gate was: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/
Also attached is a photo from the Giant at Columbia Heights.. $60 for parking!!!”
So I’m dying to hear your stories. I’ve heard from a number of friends who had tickets to the inauguration but because of security glitches they weren’t able to get in. For the folks that went down – tell me – what was it like? How long did it take to get in and out? Anyone watch the parade?
I decided to watch the inauguration at the Red Derby and it was fantastic. It was projected on the wall and there were enough folks there to have a good community feel along with clapping, laughing, and cheering. Yet, it wasn’t so crowded that you couldn’t get food or drinks. I highly recommend this option four years from now.
Thanks to a reader for sending the above photo. Remember to send your photos to [email protected] or tag them in flickr with popobamaweekcontest.
So what was your favorite part of the festivities?