Joyce Wellman @ The Heurich Gallery

“Intuitive Journeys: Works by Joyce Wellman”

The Heurich Gallery
505 9th St NW
Washington, DC 20004 (202) 223-1626
Through March 13th
Monday to Friday 8:00 AM –7:00 PM; Saturday 9:00 AM-4:00 PM

“There are only six canvases in ‘Intuitive Journeys: Works by Joyce Wellman,’ and yet it’s an expansive show. The pictures are large and the media diverse: oil, acrylic, watercolor, drawing and collage. While Wellman’s style is abstract, and such titles as “Evening Sky” and “Sun Burst” refer simply to qualities of light and color, her art is dense with references.”

– “Whirlwind tour through the District’s many painting exhibits,” Mark Jenkins, Washington Post

Artist Talk: Saturday, February 25, 2012 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM (talk begins at 1:30 PM)

Visit the artist’s website.

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What Caused Snowmageddon?

What dumped 54.9 inches of snow on DC last winter? NASA scientists Siegfried Schubert, Yehui Chang and Max Suarez have an idea: a warm Pacific means a stormy Atlantic. They made some models at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt to confirm it:

“Deconstructing a Mystery: What Caused Snowmaggedon?” Christina Coleman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

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DC Meat Week 2012

Sunday marks the start of the annual animal flesh festival here in the Nation’s Capital, DC Meat Week. Pork. Beef. Goat. Whale. Everything carivores crave, on a skewer, plate, or bun.

Here’s the schedule of meat-ups:

Bambi Harvest in Rock Creek Park

In 30 days, trained sharp-shooters will spend their nights in Washington’s Rock Creek Park. They’ll be blasting away at the urban park’s resident white-tailed deer. Rock Creek’s deer population is about 1900, 385 per square mile. The National Park Service hopes to cull half the critters.

More:

“Final White-tailed Deer Management Plan/Environmental Impact Statement for Rock Creek Park,” National Park Service

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Embarrassing End to Dismal DC NFL Season

Today’s final score in the final game of the season: Philadelphia 34, Washington 10. For the fourth straight year, Washington DC’s professional football team finished last in their division. Perhaps this abysmal season — and decade  — is the result of bad karma due to a team name that trademarks racial slurs and stereotypes. But don’t expect any change in the name or losing performance. The team is run by the worst owner in the league, Dan Snyder.

Related:

“It’s time once again to tell Washington’s football team to ditch the ‘Redskins’ racist moniker,” Courtland Milloy, Washington Post.

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Occupy Starbuck’s

“They’re inside in the afternoon, tapping at laptops and  nursing lattes. They send emails and organize protests, chat with friends and  warm their hands. It’s been two months now, and no one shows any signs of  leaving. It’s undisputed and undeniable: The Starbucks at 15th and K has been  thoroughly Occupied.”

– “Starbucks near protesters’ compound thoroughly Occupied,” Aubrey Whelan, Washington Examiner

Starbuck’s? $5 lattes are for losers. Real K Street habitués occupy DC Coast, Lincoln DC, Café du Parc, The Prime Rib, Siroc, Bobby Van’s, Georgia Brown’s, Potenza, and BLT Steak. There’s no Wi-Fi at these places, but most have valet parking service.

Related: Occupy DC website

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Tattoo Frontier: Washington DC

“If you’re a barber in the District, you have to be licensed and regulated by a city board. But if you’re a tattoo artist or piercer, a certain libertarian ethos seems to govern your trade within city limits—currently, the District remains one of the last places in the country in which tattooing and piercing are wholly unregulated.”

More:

“Regulations on Horizon for D.C. Tattoo Artists,” Martin Austermuhle, DCist

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Fugazi on the Web

DC band Fugazi (founded 1987) has been on “permanent hiatus” since 2003, but their concerts are going global. Discord Records is putting digitizing audio tapes of 800 live Fugazi shows on its Web site. There already were 130 shows up there in the Beta version, and the site went public today as Fugazi Live Series.

The band is known for insisting on low prices and trusting its fans, and the archive is in keeping with that DIY, all-ages-access philosophy. It’s pay what you can/pay what you like, with each recording at a suggested price of $5 per show and a sliding scale of $1 to $100.

Washington, City of Bollards

“It used to be that D.C. architecture consisted of graceful Georgetown mansions, neoclassical federal buildings — and, of course, the monuments. When the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts was founded in 1910 to guide Washington’s architectural development, it reviewed designs such as those of the Lincoln Memorial and the Federal Triangle. Over the seven years I’ve served on the commission, however, an increasing amount of time is spent discussing security-improvement projects: screening facilities, hardened gatehouses, Delta barriers, perimeter fences, and seemingly endless rows of bollards. We used to mock an earlier generation that peppered the U.S. capital with Civil War generals on horseback; now I wonder what future generations will make of our architectural legacy of crash-resistant walls and blast-proof glass.”

– Wittold Rybczynski, Meyerson professor of urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania. Read more:

“The Blast-Proof City,” Wittold Rybczynski, Foreign Policy

“I Came, Eyesore, I Conquered,” Witold Rybczynski, Slate

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DC’s Pinball Museum Moves to Baltimore

The National Pinball Museum is being bounced from its Georgetown Park location, but it’s flipping up to Baltimore. Look for an official announcement soon and a Charm City museum opening in November.

 What it means for you: Free Game! More accurately, free museum admission today through Monday.

National Pinball Museum
The Shops at Georgetown Park
3222 M St NW
(corner of M St NW and Wisconsin Ave NW)
Washington D.C.

Saturday 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM
Sunday & Monday (Labor Day) 12:00 Noon to 6:00 PM

Directions

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