My friend Emily got married this weekend at the Carmel Valley Ranch in Carmel, California on the Monterey Peninsula. A group of us from Greely High School made the trek to Carmel from all across the country. The ceremony was beautiful and it was great to catch up with old friends. I put the photos […]
links for 2006-05-30
Faded Detroit Blog about Detroit architecture
links for 2006-05-25
Countersignature: Another one’s done gone… Blog post about the closing of Kultura books in Dupont.
Touring Gentrification
I also took a “hard hat tour” of a big new condo development going up in Shaw next to Breakwell’s. The building, which the developer is calling “The Whitman,” features 185 units ranging from a $300,000 for a 1-bedroom to over $900,000 for the largest 2-bedroom units. On the tour we were told the building […]
Breakwell’s Coffee Opens at 9th and M
A new coffee shop has opened just across from the convention center at 9th and M Streets NW. Their “soft opening” was this week and they’ll have an official, grand opening next week. I stopped by tonight and the store looked great, the staff very friendly, and the coffee quite good. They told me they […]
links for 2006-05-24
LibraryThing | Catalog your books online The social book website I’ve been waiting for.
links for 2006-05-16
Community Information Corps: Opportunity to get involved in post-Katrina research Scholar in New Orleans issues a call for help conducting research about race and inequality in the Katrina response. Peter Levine: “A Mild Protest” This is hilarious, and sad. What self-respecting activist turns up at an administration meeting to chastise them for failing to “encourage” […]