Category: MOTS DC Season 1
VIDEO: Dog Costume Competition at Jackson 20
One of my favorite stand-up routines is the closing bit on Brian Regan’s first CD release, Live, in which the comedian details a conversation between two dogs that reveals two very bored individuals reminiscing about chasing cars. Dogs’ personalities have always fascinated me, but maybe not as much as what their owners put them through for the [...]
VIDEO: Helix Pumpkin Carving Contest
With Halloween approaching, I wanted to do at least one event that references the holiday in some way that did not involve cross dressing. Thanks, to Greg’s List (no affiliation), I found this small, low-key pumpkin carving contest at Helix, a bar I’ve been to exactly once, for a birthday party probably 5 years ago. [...]
VIDEO: High Heel Drag Race 2011
The crowds. The pagentry. The Pomp. The Circumstance. The High Heels. The Drag Queen Race. DC is a lot of things. Uptight. Self-important. Unimaginative. Things that you would equate with cookie-cutter movies about politics and professional life in the U.S. It’s also the opposite of those things sometimes, as if parallel cities exists outside of [...]
VIDEO: Occupy DC, K Street, Elsewhere Protests
While interviewing the folks in my “This Day in History” segment, I was alerted to the fact that there would be an economic-related protest in Freedom Square in a few days, so before leaving for a long weekend out of town, I swung by the protests. To be forthcoming, I’ve never been a big fan [...]
VIDEO: Food Truck Truckeroo Festival
Food trucks have come a long way in the last couple years since they started popping up around town. While a few have gone under (so long Sabora Street, we miss your plantains), the remaining few dozen have formed an alliance. Thanks to Food Truck Fiesta, the food truck aggregator, folks can get a GPS-y report each day [...]
VIDEO: Lost Interviews at National Book Festival
As mentioned in the Terry McMillan interview clip, we did 5 other interviews at the National Book Festival, all of which featured a tremendous, atonal buzz, covering up the audio we thought was A material. This was a gut-wrenching discovery, as we had been granted a press pass to a fairly high-profile event and scored interviews [...]
VIDEO: Terry McMillan at National Book Festival
On one hand, the last minute application for and acceptance of a press pass to the National Book Festival was oddly exciting. This is a signature event in the publishing world, held out side on the Mall, that thousands of people plan their trips to our nation’s capital around. The parade of successful and well-known folks [...]
VIDEO: (e)merge art fair 2011
Taking place all weekend is the new (e)merge art fair, the brainchild of Leigh Connor and Helen Allen, among others. The event reflects the growth of DC’s profile as a contemporary art market, but isn’t the only game in town this weekend. Actually, its a crowded few days for art lovers, with probably more events [...]
VIDEO: Indego Africa Gala at Woolly Mammoth
We attended the Fall Gala last night for the Indigo Africa organization, a “social enterprise non-profit that helps Rwandan women deliver themselves out of poverty through the sale of culturally significant handcrafts and the building of long-term skills.” The event was held at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Penn Quarter, one of my favorite spaces [...]
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