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15 Great Single Location Movies. Best outdoor bars and restaurants by neighborhood in Washington DC. We’re in that precious window between Polar Vortex and hot-as-balls vortex, so seize the day Newsies-style and get yourself to DC’s best outdoor imbibing/ face-stuffing atmospheres. Think bocce, punch bowls, and grill borrowing. Here’s a 'hood-by-'hood guide on where to soak up some sun AND calories. 7 DC beer experts spill it on their favorite Summer beers Laura Hayes Adams Morgan: Roofers Union Think The Reef used to have the best roof deck in the city?

Well duh, the view’s the same, but Roofers Union is a MAJOR upgrade. Le Diplomate Logan Circle: Le Diplomate The Le Dip patio straight up transports you to Paris. Little Miss Whiskey’s Golden Dollar H Street: Little Miss Whiskey’s Golden Dollar LMW takes the H Street title because they’ll let you use their grills as if they’re your own -- as long as you reserve the space for a private party and pay $20 for propane. 14 things you must do in DC this Summer U Street: Vinoteca It’s all about dogs, burgers, and bocce on the Vinoteca plaza. Red Derby. 10 Music Festivals Around The World That Will Make You Want To Travel. Netflix Instant: 25 Horror/Thriller Films available on Netflix. Sci-fi Movies that don't involve Aliens. Horror Film Recommendations (with gifs) 27 Clever Ways To Use Everyday Stuff In The Kitchen. All 85 Best Picture Oscar Winners Ranked. Movies that most have probably seen but the rest need to see. 17 Great foreign films to stream on Netflix (Part 3)

16 great foreign films to stream on Netflix (Part 2) 16 Great foreign movies available to stream on Netflix. 13 most disturbing films. Rather unknown but really special places on earth 2. Rather unknown but really special places on earth 3. Rather unknown but really special places on earth. 15 Websites to kill time v3. Greatest Movies about Photographers. Photography and film are both artistic mediums that are bound by the camera, one captures moving imagery, the other still. And while photography plays a critical role in film production (after all the cinematographer is essentially the movie’s photographer framing and shooting all the action for the director), cinema doesn’t have a great record of making films about actual photographers. There are exceptions, naturally, as you shall see from this list. But the number of awful films made documenting the lives of photographers is plentiful.

Think about the disastrous attempt at making a biopic of iconic 60s photographer Arbus in “Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus” (2005) with Nicole Kidman. The answer is in the title, the movie wasn’t about the life of Arbus (mainly because copyright surrounding her is guarded heavily) but a surreally bad attempt at creating a fictional romance between Arbus and a neighbour (Robert Downey Jr.) who suffers from severe Hypertrichosis. Blow-Up. 13 Websites to kill time v2. Here are a few cool tips, tricks and hidden gems for your next trip to Disneyland. The 16 Best New Television Shows Of 2013. Every nerdy snowflake on the internet (and some new ones too!) Underrated Netflix Movies You May Have Missed. The 17 Best Movie Soundtracks Of 2013. THIS is where babies come from. Take my money. Films Every Photographer Should See. Everybody loves looking at pretty pictures and this is certainly true when it comes to film. In spite of a recent trend in the action and horror genre for shaky handheld style camerawork that requires a sea sick bag to accompany a screening, nothing beats a slow pan across a mountain-scape or a lingering long shot of a forest at daybreak.

When working outdoors with the elements timing can be everything but the rewards can also be great, as the following films will attest. Here we have a short list of the movies that go that extra mile when it comes to showing the beauty of the earth’s wild places. Top: Gandalf (Ian Mckellen) and Pippin (Billy Boyd) ride to Minas Tirith in “The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King” (2003). The Ring Wraiths flee Rivendell in “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring” (2001). The Lord of the Rings Well, I suppose this is the obvious choice but my God you can’t blame me can you? Valhalla Rising Lore Meek’s Cuttoff Photos © respective film studios. 21 Songs You've Totally Heard, But Never Knew The Names Of. How to undo in Gmail. Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images This post originally appeared in Business Insider. You clicked send. Oh crap. When you send a no-take-backs email—maybe an admission to a secret crush, or accidental reply-all—there's an instant pang of regret.

Meet Gmail's Undo Send feature, a lifesaving little hack buried in the Gmail Labs settings. 1. Gmail screenshot 2. 3. 4. Now when you send an email, the yellow dialogue that displays "Your message has been sent" will also give you the option to Undo. [UPDATE, Dec. 5, 2013: It defaults so that you have 10 seconds to click before the Undo button disappears, but you can adjust that window of opportunity. We weren't the first to discover this cool trick, but Gmail's interface has changed since Mashable's tutorial was published in 2010, so we updated the steps. 20 Cool Abandoned Places in the World. 12 Most Disturbing Movies.