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Monthly Archives: April 2009
Buy Yourself Some Cubans
Cuba’s been in the news a lot recently. President Obama eased travel restrictions to the island nation. The Castro brothers disagreed on what that meant. And worst of all, Joe Cuba died.
When better a time to buy up some Cuban folk propagandist art? This Saturday you’ll have your chance. Bill Brubaker of 3319 O St. will be holding his annual art sale. Mr. Brubaker wrote to the Georgetown listserv that his sale:
will have the usual assortment of paintings, textiles, batiks etc. from Asia, Africa, the Americas. But the highlight will be dozens of silkscreened Cuban movie and propaganda posters from the 1960s to present. I’m selling them for $59 each. Most are 20 by 30 inches, unframed and in great condition. They make spectacular gifts.(One poster honors Marilyn Monroe!) My sale will be held Saturday and Sunday (April 25-26) from 10 am to 7 pm each day.
So between the house tour, the French Market, and a Cuban Marilyn Monroe, you certainly can’t complain that there’s nothing to do around town tomorrow.
Filed under Around Town
Avenue des Champs-Wisconsin
Georgetown is blessed with more than its fair share of French establishments: Bistro Lepic, Patisserie Poupon, Bistro Francais, Cafe Bonaparte, Cafe La Ruche, Citronelle, La Chaumerie. La liste goes on…
Well this weekend, Georgetown is about to get Frencher because it’s time for the annual French Market. From 11:00 AM to 6 PM this Friday and Saturday, 30 vendors from upper Wisconsin Ave. will be out selling their wares on the sidewalk.
GM’s always wondered what’s French about a large sidewalk sale. But oh well, it’s a fun time and a good way to give a little boost to a lot of fantastic independent stores.
Filed under Events
Busriders Who Talk Too Loudly on Their Cellphone
Second in our series of “Busriders Who Talk Too Loudly on Their Cellphone”, GM presents Woman Who Moved Here From LA. If you employ this woman, she’s not happy that you’re not paying for Blackberry, home Internet, and dinner at the office. If you’re dating her, you might be the person that she has “trust issues with”. It’s not entirely clear because at some point she realized that she’s “on the bus…on the BUS…the BUS…AUTOBUS, estoy en la AUTOBUS!” so an ounce of awareness finally crept in, although not enough to get her to hang up.
GM admits this isn’t the most embarrassing cell phone blather he’s heard on the bus, but just let it serve as a reminder: if you feel like having a loud cell phone conversation on the D2, a transcript very well may end up here.
Previously:
Blonde Guy Talking About Some Girl He’s Sort Of Dating
Filed under Loud Cell Phone Talkers
Royalty Moving to Georgetown?
As DCist noted, the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia is reporting that the Duke and Dutchess of Palma de Mallorca are planning on moving to Washington (she’s the youngest daughter of the King of Spain). According to Google Translate’s manglings, the paper wrote:
The Dukes of Palma is planning to move to Washington because of the professional Iñaki Urdangarín, whom their advisor responsible international Telefónica forced him to travel with increasing frequency in United States.
After almost 20 years of residence in Barcelona, the city where in 1997 he married Iñaki Urdangarín born and where his sons, Juan, Pablo, Miguel and Irene, the Infanta Cristinabegins a new family at the moment is temporarily with a yet undetermined time that depends exclusively on the professional obligations of the Duke of Palma.
While the family is “temporarily with a yet undetermined time”, GM doesn’t think it’s too early to speculate that they’ll choose Georgetown. Where else would a Spanish royal want to live than Everymay? What’s $49 million to an infanta?
So would you welcome los realeza or do we not need a bunch of Spanish secret service creeping around?
Filed under Rumors
Save Scheele’s Group Meets With Teren
On Sunday night, approximately 35 people met at Mt. Zion Church to discuss their efforts to ensure that Scheele’s Market remains open. Additionally, they gave an opportunity to the potential purchaser of the property, Marc Teren, to discuss his plans for the property should his offer be accepted. The group’s plans and Teren’s presentation, after the jump:
Filed under Preservation
Greater Georgetown – Open Table Edition
As part of an ongoing, if infrequent, series the Georgetown Metropolitan attempts to document the more egregious examples of people and places claiming to be in Georgetown that are clearly not. Today GM explores Opentable.com. The convenient restaurant reservation finder is pretty lax in its geographic boundaries. Check out what restaurants are identified as being located in Georgetown:
Filed under Greater Georgetown
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