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 […]
Baseball Stadium Construction
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 […]
links for 2006-06-16
Archinect : Features : David Maisel Interesting interview with photographer David Maisel. polar inertia Interesting photography magazine.
links for 2006-06-15
WaPo: James Cameron Obituary The only known survivor of a lynching attempt and founder of a history museum has died.
Yet Another Reason to Avoid Trotskyites
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 […]
Reframing and the Global Warming Debate
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 […]
Memo to City: Plan Ahead
I was pleased to see my post about the redevelopment of the DC convention center received links from DCist and DCBlogs. As I expected it appears I am thoroughly out of the loop on the matter, however, and the developers held two public meetings in the past year to solicit public feedback on the redevelopment […]