From the folks who brought us Mexican Cowboy Tamales comes The Clean Up DC:
“Our latest campaign targets the DC house party scene. Sonia Sweet Cleaning has been cleaning after rowdy DC residents for 20+ years so we thought we would throw a party and film it in her honor. We hope this campaign helps expand her clientele. No robots or birds were harmed doing the shoot.”
From a press release:
“One Eight Distilling, only the second distillery to open in Washington D.C. since prohibition, has released bottle and label designs for the first round of spirits to be sold by the distillery upon its opening in Summer 2014.
One Eight’s Rock Creek White Whiskey will be distilled and bottled in its warehouse from locally-sourced rye grain. Rock Creek White Whiskey’s design honors the history of mills and small distilleries in D.C., such as the historic Pierce Mill and adjacent distillery in Rock Creek Park. The laser cut image depicts the leaf of a beech tree, found throughout Rock Creek Park. Future whiskey releases will also explore this design theme.
One Eight’s Ivy City Gin, named after the neighborhood where the distillery is located, will also be distilled from locally-sourced rye grain and infused with botanicals in a dedicated gin still. The Ivy City Gin design evokes early city maps demarcating city lines with boundary stones. This intricate label is screen printed directly onto the bottle.
District Made Vodka will pay tribute to the ancient roots of vodka by also being distilled from rye but at the same time employing the latest filtering technologies for a smooth and clean flavor. The District Made Vodka design combines an urban industrial design with a hand-made aesthetic that is central to One Eight’s distilling style.
About One Eight Distilling (more…)
Photo by PoPville twitter follower @jdsonder
Thanks to @jdsonder for tweeting us this great photo from the Sculpture Garden on an otherwise gloomy day.
Well this is awesome. Thanks to a reader for sending.
Thanks to @hashtagmsw for tweeting us the great photo above:
“You can’t get this kind of musical programming in any old town.”
Thanks to @BDdesigns for tweeting us the awesome poster above. It’s part of the See America parks campaign.
And thanks to a reader for sending word about POSTERity: WPS’s Art Legacy & America’s Public Lands. The U.S. Department of the Interior Museum is exhibiting iconic national park posters old and new: (more…)
1346 T Street, NW
Thanks to @Kspits for tweeting us:
“Compass Rose on T @ 14th NW posted their opening menu.”
I suppose a warning sign of this nature should not be a surprise from a kiosk this cool. From the intercity bus waiting section in Union Station:
1309 5th Street, NE
From Union Market:
The Union Market Drive-In is free to attend! Parking is $10 per car, but seating in the picnic area will be first come first serve, free of charge. The parking lot will open at 6pm and the movies will begin at 8.
Friday, April 18, 2014
National Lampoon’s Vacation
Friday, April 25, 2014
Frozen
Friday, May 2, 2014
Diner
Friday, May 9, 2014
People’s Choice: James Bond Edition (voting will take place on Facebook)
From Russia With Love
The Spy Who Loved Me
Goldfinger”
From an email:
“What do a 51 year old grandmother of five from Anacostia, a local DJ, an entrepreneur and a DC transplant from Sierra Leone have in common? They’re all learning to code in the name of improving the lives of people in and out of The District.
Meet Jason, Terri, Cassidy and Selina — the 2014 Code for Progress fellows. These four Washingtonians are about to make some major changes to historically underserved communities here in town.
Terri Acker has been on the board of Bread for the City for years, and you can’t go anywhere in Anacostia and find someone who doesn’t know her. She’s a 51 year old mother of five and a grandmother of seven who has lived in public housing her entire life. After witnessing people in her community slowly being pushed out of their neighborhoods do to rapid gentrification, she decided to make a change. Terri will be using her 17 week fellowship to learn how to code an app that will make it easier for Washingtonian’s to access low-income housing in their areas.
Selina Musuta DJs all over town. She has been working in social justice issues for years, mostly in the broadcast industry. She even incorporates her sound recordings into her DJ sets! Selina is taking her knack for technology to Code for Progress where she seeks to learn how to code an app that will connect SNAP beneficiaries in DC to stores near them using GPS. Even better—each location on the map will have a “healthiness rating”.
Cassidy Henderson was born in Sierra Leone, but now lives in Washington DC. She is a transgender woman who is hoping to improve the lives of other LGBT people in the US by connecting them with safe spaces and social services through the app she creates.
Jason Towns has been involved in policy and social entrepreneurship in the District for a long time. He will be using his Code for Progress fellowship to teach DC underprivileged youth how to use technology and code to create opportunity for themselves.
Pretty cool, right? Check out more about what they’re doing at codeforprogress.org.”
Pretty cool indeed!