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I hate getting sick during the summer. Well, I hate getting sick anytime really, but particularly in summer. I’m only ever truly comfortable in cool temperatures, and when I’m ill, it can get ugly.
DC WASA, the local water company, decided this would be the week to replace any existing lead lines on my street. Over [...]

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Via We Love DC, a time-lapse video of construction of Ocean Hall at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. Ocean Hall is slated to open this September.

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Greater Greater Washington covered today’s hearing between D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton and the Union Station Redevelopment Corporation (USRC). In particular, the hearing seemed to cover two things: maximizing the use of Union Station as an intermodal transportation hub (read intercity rail and bus), and the landmark’s embarrassingly inconsistent photography policy.

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West Side Story will be revived on Broadway next March, with previews running sometime in February. The show will not only enjoy a pre-Broadway run at the National Theatre here in D.C. for a month beginning in mid-December, but will also be somewhat tweaked for authenticity. According to Playbill:
The production “will introduce the unprecedented element [...]

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Did one of y’all lose a purple vibrator at 13th and R streets NW?

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So, here’s the scenario: a customer gets less-than-stellar service, including a condescending lecture about why they don’t serve iced espresso at a local coffee establishment. Said customer writes a scathing blog entry about it, replete with a photo of the obscenity-laced tip he left behind. Coffee establishment responds with a blog entry of its own, [...]

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Photo: FredoAlvarez (flickr)
On my way to brunch with Brian yesterday, I came across this setup outside the Museum of Crime & Punishment, a new tourist trap here in D.C. Oddly enough, it was the museum’s signage that first caught my attention — not this unintentional paean to bondage fetishists — and led me to think [...]

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The CityPaper’s Brianne Downing on CakeLove, the little local bakery that could:
I’d say skip it. The frosting looks gross (especially at room temperature), the cake is a tad too dense for my palate, and just looking at the chocolate on chocolate treat on my desk makes me want to have a burger and a milkshake [...]

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Photo: FredoAlvarez (flickr)
I took this shot two years ago from my bedroom window. These fireworks were not part of the official display at the Capitol, although my place is only about a mile away. This was part of a neighborhood display.
D.C. police are cracking down on illegal fireworks this year. When I first moved into [...]

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In the 1980s, NBC aired a sitcom called “227,” set in Washington, D.C. Someone on a listserv I’m on asked, “[Did] they ever establish in that series where in DC it was supposed to be set?”
I did a little poking around and found out that the show takes place at 227 Lexington Place. Anyone familiar [...]

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