Yes, we’re all very excited about the news. Some of us are even more excited about this news. Only thing is, some people are all “way to go, Ellen!” “We love you, Ellen!” “So great for, ELLEN!” Don’t get me wrong, I love Ellen DeGeneres. I love her show, her cabbage patch doll, and the fact that I dressed a lot like Ms. DeGeneres and her cabbage patch doll for most of 2007.
However, I also LOVE Portia de Rossi. Mostly, this is because I love Arrested Development and Lindsay is one of the best parts of AD. But I also love Portia because she has the most tolerable Australian accent I have ever heard. So, stop asking who Portia de Rossi is, and know that Portia de Rossi is awesome.
So my dad’s been working on this book about his obsession with soccer for the past three or four years now, and he just recently self-published it through iUniverse. This week it popped up on B&N and Amazon, as well a couple of UK booksellers’ sites (e.g. Waterstone’s), so I thought I’d give it a brief shout out here. It’s pretty hefty in price tag and size ($29.95, 480 pages) but check out the jacket description after the jump: (more…)
Fort Reno Park, the site of an annual summer concert series that is one of D.C.’s most beloved and longest-running outdoor events, is closed immediately and indefinitely after United States Geological Survey satellite imaging reports found high levels of arsenic in the soil.
William Line, a spokesman for the National Park Service, said that the NPS would continue to work with the Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency to determine any public health risks and further courses of action. He refused to give any timetable for a possible reopening and said that to speculate would be irresponsible. Snow-fencing was erected around the perimeter of the park at 6 a.m. today.
The closing of the park raises questions about the fate of the Fort Reno Summer Concert Series, which was set to begin a twice-weekly series of free shows in mid-June. No list of artists of dates has been announced for 2008, but many of the city’s most famous punk and indie rock bands have performed on Fort Reno’s stage over the last 39 years, including Fugazi, the Dismemberment Plan, Ted Leo, Q and Not U and Velocity Girl.
Okay, so let’s pretend you already know that cosplay cafes are nothing new in Japan. These themed restaurants began with maid cafes, featuring cute waitresses dolled up in eccentric variations of Victorian maid costumes who catered to the whims of normally girl-shy otaku customers. Soon after, ladies got in on the trend with the introduction of Butler Cafes, where they could be waited on by anime-haired pretty boys in tuxedos. And now, along comes the Hibari-Tei cafe, whose waitstaff is made up entirely of dudes dressed as waitresses. These men may be even less convincing as women than this picture, but still, the employees interviewed above seem so earnest about how much they enjoy their job, it’s almost hard to make fun of them. Oh, and did I mention there are also cat cafés now? Thank you, Japanese people, for letting us laugh with you, and not at you.
Both Sir Ian McKellen and Kim Cattrall attended the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Sunday night performance of Antony and Cleopatra at Sidney Harman Hall. I can’t guarantee any more celebrity sightings, but the show is suppose to be really good.
*Above a photo of the two in a stage production in approximately 1852.
After spending 29 days in jail Pete Doherty is free and unnecessarily sharing his ‘prison diary’ (including, but not limited to, dream sharing) with fans! A celebratory gig in London last night had Pete on stage singing with the guy from the Pogues. Exciting!
According to Doherty, life in prison is “a lot of gangsters and Radio 4.”
Remember all the fuss over Murky Coffee’s Capitol Hill location closing? (The D.C. tax office seized the property and fined the manager $427,000 in unpaid sales taxes…) Well, the dream of fine coffee and free wi-fi in SE DC is not dead yet.
Former Murky manager Ryan Jensen bought the lease for the old Murky-occupied space and is set to open a new cafe with his wife, Jill. Fun fact: Ryan and Jill first met at the DC Murky, and married two years later.
Peregrine Espresso is the name of their new cafe, scheduled to open Summer 2008.
Price of cigs to be upped $1 in DC this fall, raising DC taxes on a pack to $2. Taxes on cigarettes are also $2 in Maryland, but a mere 30 cents in Virginia! The average smoker spends $1,500 to $2,000 on cigarettes per year. No judgment, though.
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