Friends 1. Clubs. Southern. Friends 2. Tesla Motors Considering K Street Location - DCist. Who says the electric car is dead? The Washington Post is reporting that California-based Tesla Motors is close to leasing space on K Street for a dealership and service station. Tesla, founded in 2003, is a maker of luxury electric cars. The company raised more than $200 million with their IPO earlier this year. Tesla told the Post the location they are considering is at 1050 K Street, NW. Tesla cars are not cheap, with prices starting at over $100,000. This would be very high end retail, aimed at the area's wealthiest residents.
The District is poised to become a showplace of electric car technology, with both Nissan and General Motors planning on unveiling their offerings here in the near future. City officials are jumping at the chance to get a deal inked for Tesla. Protecting Your Bike. ‘Next time, lock up the entire bike’courtesy of ‘billaday’ I love bike riding. And I love bike riding around DC. It’s truly a fantastic mode of transportation, whether you’re headed to work or play. Since moving to DC in 2006, with my Cannondale in tow, I’ve noticed a significant increase in the amount of bike traffic. I’d most likely attribute this rise to 1) increased Metro fares, 2) the addition of numerous bike lanes and bike racks, in part spearheaded by the WABA, and 3) the increase in popularity of road biking. Sadly, the increase of bike riding has also meant a parallel increase in DC bike theft, and if you’ve ever had your bike stolen, like me, you know how much of a personal affront it is and how irreplaceable your perfectly fitted and outfitted bike was.
So, in an effort to prevent further bike theft and the ensuing anguish, I asked Mike Christian of Revolution Cycles for some tips and advice on how to better secure our bikes. Rebecca Johnson. The non-circles of Washington: Part 2. History by Geoff Hatchard • August 24, 2010 Yesterday, I discussed the former circles of Washington. Today, let's take a look at the circles that never were. There have been many proposals, some more serious than others, for unbuilt circles in DC. As the District changed from open countryside to city, plans were made to add circles in a variety of locations.
Hamilton Circle, seen below in the 1921 edition of the Baist's real estate atlas of surveys of Washington, District of Columbia, was proposed at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Idaho Avenue NW. Hamilton Circle (left) and "Idaho Circle" (right). Idaho Avenue was to continue to where Tilden Street and Reno Road NW meet today near the University of the District of Columbia, and there was a circle planned for the intersection. Near American University, Massachusetts Avenue passes through Wesley Circle, which was never fully built out and looks more like a collection of slip lanes than it does a circle.
Pinehurst Circle. @alexpriest @DCeventjunkie Downtown #DC wants to check in! DC Wins “Race To The Top” ”courtesy of ‘Chris Rief aka Spodie Odie’ It’s a good day for Michelle Rhee. Just one day after the school year began, DC and nine other states (Maryland included) have been named winners of the Department of Education’s Race to the Top grants. The grants will disperse roughly $3.4 billion to the winners, though no word yet on how much DC will specifically receive. Winners were chosen based on their commitment to school reform. This was demonstrated through the creation of tools to measure students’ success, preparation of students for college and the workplace, hiring and retaining effective teachers, and improvement of poorly performing schools. Other winners in this round of competition included Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Ohio and Rhode Island.
This is the second round of winners for Race to the Top, which was created in 2009 by economic stimulus funds. Rebecca Gross Raised in nearby MoCo, Rebecca happily jumped the District line in 2005. Massive chunk of ice breaks off Greenland glacier - Capital Weather Gang. Posted at 2:15 PM ET, 08/ 6/2010 By Brian Jackson NASA MODIS image from Aug. 5, 2010, shows a large chunk of ice has broken away from Greenland's Petermann Glacier (iceberg is just to the right of center). Credit: NASA NASA's MODIS satellite sensor, which has a history of providing breathtaking shots of our planet, was at it again yesterday. Icebergs calving off of Greenland's glaciers are nothing new. What is unusual, however, is the size of this new iceberg, which is more typical of Antarctic than Arctic waters. The National Ice Center in Suitland, Md., tracks a number of massive icebergs in the oceans surrounding Antarctica, some of which are truly monsters.
Most Arctic icebergs are on the order of hundreds of meters long or less. Officials were concerned at the time about the potential risk to cruise and cargo ships, but the Petermann Ice Island eventually eroded and broke into smaller pieces along the coast of Baffin Island. So, what will become of this latest iceberg? PRSA-NCC. The Prevent Cancer Foundation 5k. Bike of the Day: 8.24.10 (Seattle) | ReadysetDC. DCRA rulemaking in action: Food trucks vs. BIDs. ‘my lobstah roll’courtesy of ‘philliefan99′ Those of you who love food trucks (and who doesn’t, really?) Have probably heard by now that there are some dealings afoot that would restrict where food trucks can park and potentially threaten the ability of food truck proprietors to operate.
The regulation in question is Title 24, Chapter 5 of the DC Code. Right now, most of those regulations pertain to stationary food carts, the ubiquitous hot dog stands. Aside from rule 516, which specifies that a mobile vendor can’t stay in one place longer than it takes to complete the transaction with a customer and that businesses like ice cream trucks that attract children have to park near crosswalks when possible, there’s just not that much attention paid to mobile vendors.
So DCRA has proposed a bunch of new rules that would, among other things, specifically accommodate mobile food trucks. Among the must-see spots in the nation's capital: the cupcake queue. Behold the power of Georgetown Cupcake: One sweltering day this month, a young woman was baking in the sun on 33rd Street NW, waiting in the long queue to buy some of the bakery's signature sweets, when she fainted on the sidewalk.
An ambulance rushed to the scene, but she declined to go to the hospital. Of course she did. "She didn't want to get out of line," explains the voguish bakery's co-owner, Katherine Kallinis. And so grew the legend of the Georgetown Cupcake line, which forms daily at the northwest corner of 33rd and M streets and often stretches all the way to Prospect Street, clear at the other end of the block. "It's crazy, especially on weekends," says Eileen Lohmann, a Georgetown University student who lives a few doors up from Georgetown Cupcake. "Sometimes we can't even get down our steps. Yet the Georgetown Cupcake fetishists are there, day after sweltering day -- especially since the mid-summer launch of "D.C.
A bouncer. Driving Is Why You're Fat. More Infographics on Good. GW relinquishes ‘most politically active’ title in annual Princeton Review rankings - Beyond the Books Blog - The GW Hatchet. Monday, Aug. 2, 2010 2:16 p.m. GW is no longer the most politically active university in the country – at least according to the Princeton Review. The company released their annual college rankings Monday, and GW is now fourth on the list of most politically active student bodies in the country, after taking the No. 1 spot last year.
Cross-town American University now holds the title. Student Association President Jason Lifton contested the rankings. “GW has been, and always will be known for how involved politically our campus is,” Lifton said. The University also dropped from eighth to tenth in the “dorms like palaces” category, and dropped to No. 5 in the “best college towns” category, behind four colleges located in New York City, including Columbia University and New York University. In other ranking news, GW will learn in two weeks whether or not it broke the coveted top 50 in the U.S. Permalink. Mad Men Season 4 Premiere Tweetup (via @alexpriest) Washington D.C. Wins the Pay Gap. According to the New York Times, the District of Columbia has the lowest pay gap between male and female workers in the country, compared to the 50 states.
From NYT: "in the District of Columbia, the median weekly wage of full-time women workers is 96.5 percent of that for their male counterparts, far and away the most parity in the country. " The U.S. average is 80.2 percent; Louisiana women are trailing the rest of the country, making only 65 percent of men's wages. Some other local stats: Virginia women make 80.4 percent of what Virginia men do; Maryland women make 87.3 percent. Of course, in this contest, we're a tiny urban area competing with states filled with urban, suburban, and rural areas—so this is likely more a triumph for cities than it is for the District. Photo via George Eastman House. The DCeiver. DC Bikes. DC. Craigslist. We Love DC. The DC Concierge. DCist. VolunteerMatch. Greater Greater Washington. DCInterns Blog. Why.i.hate.dc.