The Goodspeed Update

We’ll be meeting at 7:00 p.m. at Pharaoh’s Bar and Grill in Adams Morgan. RSVP now!

One man’s plans to single-handidly build a new nightlife district for the city are coming to fruition one year since a flurry of media coverage about his plans. Local nighlife mogul Joe Englert has been opening and operating offbeat bars in D.C. for nearly two decades, including current hotspots Capitol Lounge, the Pour House, Temperance […]

Today I took a walk down around where the city is building a new baseball stadium. See the full set on Flickr here. If you are at all curious about the development going on in this neighborhood, JDLand’s Near Southeast Development page is a fantastic resource.
See my panorama of the construction site.

Just a few blocks […]

Archinect : Features : David Maisel
Interesting interview with photographer David Maisel.

polar inertia
Interesting photography magazine.

WaPo: James Cameron Obituary
The only known survivor of a lynching attempt and founder of a history museum has died.

Affirmative Action “victim” from the Gratz v. Bollinger case, Jennifer Gratz is accusing BAMN/Revolutionary Works League organizer Luke Massie with threatening her with a knife. Having failed in the courts, Gratz is currently heading an effort to ban affirmative action through a ballot initiative. Whether or not there’s any truth to the story, it underscores […]

I blogged about these ads produced by the industry-funded “Competitive Enterprise Institute” attacking Al Gore’s documentary on global warming because they’re too over the top not to be funny.
However, the tagline to each spot reveals they’re playing defense against a subtle shift in the way people talk about global warming. Each ad ends with the […]