Palace of Wonders Grand Opening New bar on H Street NE is holding their grand opening is this weekend.
Well, That’s Done
After using PCs for my entire life I’m switching to a Mac. My black 13-inch MacBook should come in about a week. Looks like I’ll even be able to transfer my iTunes library, play counts and all. I got a free iPod Nano through their back-to-school deal on top of their student discount. Aside from […]
links for 2006-07-05
National Coalition for History Action Alert – NARA Budget Needs History group urges funding for the National Archives.
links for 2006-07-04
Web Site Starts From a Memo, Gains Millions of Readers Washington Post on the history of their own website. “In Search of Peace For an Old Resting Place” African American burial ground is now a park in Adams Morgan. W. Bus. Journal: “SW waterfront gets in touch with its Inner Harbor” Developers compete with grandiose […]
D.C. Gentrification and Section 8 Subsidized Housing
This post is second in a series on gentrification in the District of Columbia. Part 1 – D.C. Gentrification and Section 8 Subsidized Housing Part 2 – ‘Gentrification’: The Birth of a Word in D.C. Part 3 – Metro Growth and ‘Gentrification’ Use Part 4 – Neighborhood Revitalization and Displacement I dislike the term “gentrification” […]
Student Housing in Ann Arbor
My friend Dale has just posted a rough introduction to his urban planning thesis to his blog. He is making an ambitious argument — perhaps too ambitious — but I’m interested to see what he uncovers in the process of investigating it. In this thesis, I argue that students individually and collectively were agents of […]
Recent Cameraphone Photos
Nam June Paik’s “Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum The courtyard of the Old Patent Building is a forest of scaffolding. The Futureheads playing the 9:30 Club. Sign posted to Shiloh-owned vacant building.