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Saturday August 1, 2020 at 9:32 am alignment occurs.
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17 hours ago, Pool Boy said:
Can anyone make any recommendations for a DC-based shop that has a good selection of everyday wines (call it $25 and under per bottle) from Spain, Italy, Austria and France? I'm totally willing to drive the 30-45 minutes as needed to get to the right shop (see below).
Check out Weygandt's in Cleveland Park - Their portfolio is very heavy on small family producers from France, very good selection from Austria, smaller selection of Italian, very small selection from Spain. Lots of choices in your price point of $25 and under. Weygandt's is currently curb side pick up only, but if you shoot them an e-mail and describe what you are into, I'm sure they can make some good suggestions. Their website is decent, not sure if it cover all their stock. But it has good descriptions, notes, bios, production specs, and availability.
Also go up Connecticut Ave for Calvert-Woodley in Van Ness. C-W is open with a 15 shoppers at a time maximum. Their website covers a lot of their stock, so you can check that out too.
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The Dabney Hires Former Rake’s Progress Chef as It Prepares for New Restaurant. Chef Patrick "Opie" Crooks will help Jeremiah Langhorne as the company expands.
Not a lot of details other than the new restaurant has been in the works for a while.
Chef Langehorne has wanted to bring on Chef Crooks for a while, they are long time friends, but Langehorne is also good friends with Spike Gjerde and didn't want to poach Crooks. But with the closure of A Rake's Progress, doors opened.
The new restaurant will be at 7th and L, but it is pretty much on hold due to corona.
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If you are looking for a good distraction, check out the Sydney Opera House website for their digital streaming content (all free). Very good production value. They are currently producing a digital season. But they have a good amount of archived material as well. Lots of options: classical music, theater, dance, contemporary music, talks, documentaries, and an interesting selection of First Nations content. I've been impressed by the quality so far.
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I'd say notable for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly soundtrack!
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I think everyone is hoping the patio will be saved!
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Cleveland Park location closing. They were unable to secure a long term lease with the landlord.
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Ruth Asawa is having a moment.
As a teen, Asawa and her family were forced into Japanese-American internment camps during World War II where she received art lessons from Japanese-American artists who had worked for The Walt Disney Company. Later she attended the Black Mountain College art program.
In August, the U.S. Postal Service will be releasing a series of commemorative stamps featuring her work.
She is also being featured in the New York Times Magazine:
The Japanese-American Sculptor Who, Despite Persecution, Made Her Mark
Locally, I know that Glenstone has several of her wire sculptures.
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My vegan SIL eats the Soon vegetable ramen.
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Session II streaming July 16-19, 2020
The four films will be available to view from Thursday, July 16, 12 pm (EST), to Sunday, July 19, 9 pm (EST).
Screening II
July 16–19, 2020Featuring films by Ulysses Jenkins and Cauleen Smith, the second screening in the Carl Craig Sessions film program offers enigmatic visions of current and future metropolises and the slippages between them. Spatiotemporal loopholes weave fantasy into images of the already postapocalyptic—from the industrial landscape to the extraterrestrial—redefining our relationship to the conditions of the present.
Ulysses Jenkins
Dream City, 1983Ulysses Jenkins composed Dream City from documentation of a twenty-four-hour performance he organized in collaboration with David Hammons, Maren Hassinger, and Senga Nengudi. A discordant, absurdist, and poetic montage, the video weaves together jazz and punk shows, recitations by Jenkins, and shots of the Los Angeles skyline and oil wells to comment on power and nation in the early years of Ronald Reagan’s presidency.
Cauleen Smith
The Changing Same, 2001
Cauleen Smith’s The Changing Same follows two aliens sent on a mysterious mission to Earth to investigate the “incubators”: inscrutable earthlings who hold dear “ideas about freedom and a culture born from ashes.” The inhospitable climate of the city in which they find themselves—a place a lot like Los Angeles—causes the mission to end in tragedy.
THE WAY OUT IS THE WAY TWO, 2012A constellation of short films about Afrofuturist composer Sun Ra, creative music, and the psychogeography of Chicago, Smith’s THE WAY OUT IS THE WAY TWO moves between sci-fi narrative and the documentary of the everyday, obliquely conjuring the history of Sun Ra’s time in Chicago.
Songs for Earth and Folk, 2013
A collage of found footage—scenes of nature and outer space, machines and their human operators —set to a text written by Smith, Songs for Folk and Earth laments the hubris of a human relationship to the earth premised on exploitation. Structured like a blues song, the film features an improvised soundtrack by Chicago-based band The Eternals.
Ulysses Jenkins was born in 1946 in Los Angeles, California. A pioneering video artist, Jenkins studied painting and drawing as an undergraduate at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and later received an MFA in intermedia-video and performance art from Otis Art Institute (now Otis College of Art and Design) in Los Angeles. His work has been included in major exhibitions including America is Hard to See at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2015); Now Dig This!: Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980 at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2012); and California Video at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles (2008). Jenkins is currently an associate professor in the Claire Trevor School of the Arts and an affiliate professor in the African American studies program, both at the University of California, Irvine.
Cauleen Smith was born in Riverside, California, in 1967. An interdisciplinary artist, Smith’s work reflects on the everyday possibilities of the imagination. Her films, objects, and installations have been featured in group exhibitions at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City (2014); Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2013); and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2015). Solo presentations of her films and installations have taken place at MASS MoCA, Massachusetts (2019); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2012); and the Kitchen, New York (2011). Smith lives in Los Angeles and teaches at CalArts.
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In conjunction with Carl Craig’s Party/After-Party (2020) at Dia Beacon, Dia presents a cumulative platform of public programs exploring the legacy of techno through summer 2021. The Carl Craig Sessions join an ongoing and multivocal dialogue about techno’s emergence in Detroit’s underground as well as its reverberations worldwide.
Originating in post-Fordist Detroit in the early 1980s, techno arose not only as an electronic music form, but also as an aesthetic and political movement committed to experimentation, counter-histories, and imagined futures. As artist and sound theorist Kodwo Eshun stated in 1995: “Detroit techno took music beyond the dance, into the chaos of electronics; inventing a history and a future, a direction and an ideal as successful as that other 1980s neologism, cyberspace.”
Inviting artists, DJs, musicians, writers, and thinkers, the Carl Craig Sessions consider the sonic influence of techno. Devoting primary attention to archives of Black experience, the sessions also consider how techno challenges the racial capitalist relationship between human and machine to articulate visions of a transformative society.
Carl Craig Sessions: Screening Series in Collaboration with Electronic Arts Intermix
Summer 2020
This film series constellates some of the forms, mythologies, and politics present in the greater movement of techno.
Screening I
June 25–28, 2020
Thursday, June 25, 5 pm
Launch event with a live conversation between Carl Craig, sound theorist DeForrest Brown, Jr., and Dia curator Kelly Kivland
Register for the conversation here.
Tony Cokes, Black Celebration, 1988
Co-presentation with the Hammer Museum
Otolith Group, Hydra Decapita, 2010
Techno City: What is Detroit Techno?, 2000Screening II
July 16–19, 2020Featuring films by Ulysses Jenkins and Cauleen Smith, the second screening in the Carl Craig Sessions film program offers enigmatic visions of current and future metropolises and the slippages between them. Spatiotemporal loopholes weave fantasy into images of the already postapocalyptic—from the industrial landscape to the extraterrestrial—redefining our relationship to the conditions of the present.
Ulysses Jenkins, Dream City, 1983
Cauleen Smith, The Changing Same, 2001
Cauleen Smith, THE WAY OUT IS THE WAY TWO, 2012
Cauleen Smith, Songs for Earth and Folk, 2013
Screening III
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I know, that's insane.
Bullfeathers also does a lot of Hill event business. As does Sonoma, Acqua Al 2, Bistro Bis, and Charlie Palmer Steak.
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Tortilla Coast made A LOT of money by hosting Hill events, fundraisers etc. Without that revenue stream on top of all the other regular bar business, they must have took a serious hit.
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Nongshim Shin Ramyun. It's a South Korean brand of instant ramen. Buy the version that is in plastic wrap not the version in the bowl. The noodles in the bowl version do not cook as well. They are manufactured differently to rehydrate in hot water vs. being boiled in a pot.
The sodium levels are off the chart.
It's a widely available brand and I've seen it at H Mart and the Streets grocery store chain in DC. And 7-11.
Serious Eats has several articles posted about Nongshim.
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Chef Kwame Onwuachi announces his departure (per his IG account).
Pastry Chef Paola Velez has also departed. Joining the Compass Rose and Maydan group.
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Testing turn around taken into consideration (I have no clue if one can get a quick turn around on a test), I guess it depends upon what sort of tolerance one has for activities and contact. And what businesses are open.
But...
We have rented kayaks up in Maine, you could rent bicycles, hiking in Acadia NP, many of the waterfront restaurants have outside seating. A couple of the breweries we visited also have outside seating. Or clambering on rocks along the shoreline!
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The Wash Post is running an article about the lack of tourists visiting Maine this summer.
Looks like most out-of-state tourists need to take a coronavirus test before arrival or quarantine upon arrival, and, of course that would be a long drive, but certainly doable in a day.
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We just got back from the Blue Ridge Mountains (Afton, VA area). We rented a place on Airbnb that was located on a 70 acre plot of land. It was just us and the family who live on the property. The only time we saw them was when the owner meet us to give us a run down of the property.
The area wineries are open. Veritas winery was busy on a Friday afternoon around lunch time. But they had good spacing/social distancing policies.
Blue Mountain Brewery was also open. Some of the smaller places had reduced hours.
On Wednesday and Thursday the hiking trails around the Blue Ridge Parkway were not that busy. We did a long hike from the property up to Hump Back Rocks and had no problems.
On Friday, we drove back along the Sky Line Drive and by the afternoon the popular trails were busy. But it was also July 3, so I would guess a lot of people had the day off. Most of the pull off overlooks were quiet.
We brought our own food and picked up beer at Blue Mountain Brewery and wine at Veritas.
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Peregrine has announced they are closing their 14th Street store due to an increase in rent. Closing June 28.
Other branches remain open.
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We are taking smaller steps and rented a yurt (!) on Airbnb around July 4th weekend. The yurt is on the owners property and they are overseeing the cleaning between guests etc. The property is 70 acres and it's just the family farm and their yurt. Hiking trails, mountains, swimming pond, outdoor deck.
We found several similar types of rentals, yurts, cabins, A Frames etc. for rent in the Charlottesville/Shenandoah area. Also in W. Virginia and Poconos areas. All easy drives from DC.
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I was just about to post about his passing. It should be noted that while Christo was the more famous name, his wife Jeanne-Claude was an equal partner in their art work. And they retroactively re-credited all their projects Christo and Jeanne-Claude. She passed in 2009.
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Before Acacia, it was a Schlotzsky's.
We had some decent food at Acacia when Lilliana was chef. And then she left and it sucked. And then we moved and haven't been back since.
"Ambient 1: Music for Airports" By Brian Eno (1978)
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Brian Eno has a very long line of credits and collaborations. With Ambient 1: Music for Airport he coined the term "ambient music." Per wiki: The album consists of four compositions created by layering tape loops of differing lengths, and was designed to be continuously looped as a sound installation, with the intent of defusing the tense, anxious atmosphere of an airport terminal.
Ambient 1: Music for Airports, performed by Alaska Orchestra with live visuals by Carla Zimbler