Taste tickets are now available online through 17th May. Tickets are available in books of 6 and may be purchased for $20 in advance (there’s $1 surcharge per book), or for $25 on the day of the festival. Purchase two books of tickets prior to 1 May and receive one free. Looking at the participating restaurants, it appears that this year will be better than last, and judging by those chocolate covered strawberries, I think I’ll need at least four books.

Photo Credit: Flickeritte Cindy Li

Lonely bouquet

Originally uploaded by deridere.

Why oh why are you sitting outside of an office building all alone? Are you perhaps delighting in the afternoon sunshine? Maybe you are checking out the construction workers across the street? Are you thirsty? hungry? cold?

Clearly you should not have been left outside of the closed salon, so why would you be abandoned by your delivery man? Could it be that this bouquet of flowers, slatted for delivery today was a tad sub par for the firm whose front lobby table it was supposed to adorn? Have you been forsaken for a newer model, upgraded to a leafier bouquet and discarded like a second class citizen because your flowers were average?

Hey Computer Geeksters, before you off-load that hardrive, make sure you deleted all that downloaded p0rn, capisce?

More information and details on eCycling, and other Earth Day events after the jump
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It didn’t bother me one iota that the idiotic driver before me slammed on her brakes to gawk at the wreckage and the rather dishy cop taking the accident report. You’d better believe that I snapped this picture on the fly whilst paying attention to the traffic in front of me, why else do you think the bird shit evidence on my window is clearly visable, eh?

There have been three robberies since Wednesday, April 11, 2007. All seem to fit a pattern at least in terms of the area where they have occurred and the victim profile, and we would like your help in alerting the community of this situation.

On Wednesday, April 11, at about 7 pm, a woman walking home alone was robbed when a man produced a gun and demanded her purse near 31st and Q Sts., NW. The man fled and was not caught. He is described as a black man, dark complexion, tall and thin, late 20s to early 30s, wearing a ¾ length dark coat.

On Thursday, April 12, at 9:10 pm, a woman walking home alone was robbed at 27th and N Sts by a man described as a black man, with a relatively small build and medium complexion, wearing dark clothing with a dark hooded sweatshirt. He grabbed the woman’s purse and fled and was not apprehended. Contents of the purse were recovered from the park area at 27th and N.

On Tuesday, April 17, at about 8:15 pm, a woman walking home alone was robbed by a man with a gun. While walking near 29th and N Sts., NW, she was approached by a man who demanded her purse while holding a gun at his side. He is described as a young-looking black man in his late teens or early 20s with a small build, chin length dreadlocks, a black hat, and wearing a black hockey jersey with white around the waist and wrist areas. He walked south on 29th and turned eastbound into the 2800 block of Dumbarton St.

There appears to be a man, or more than one, who is targeting women as they walk alone in the area around 27th to 31st Sts. from N to Q Sts, between 7 and 9:15 pm.

We would caution women to walk with a friend or neighbor in the evening hours when possible until we make any arrests in these cases. We ask that anyone with any information relating to anything that might help us out in these cases call our detectives’ office at 730-1903.

We recommend that in any such case if you are approached by a person who demands your wallet, purse, cell phone, or any other items of value, surrender the property without resistance. Call 911 immediately when you are able to get to a phone and give us as complete a description as possible of the suspect and the location where he was last seen.

Cancel your credit cards, but in many cases we ask that you do not turn off cell phone service if your phone was taken, as we may be able to use phone call records in our investigation.

We are putting additional officers into this area for specialized deployment until we can bring this situation to closure.

Andy Solberg
Commander, Second District

As a female who often tends to walk alone through Georgetown after leaving the office, the above has me literally scared shitless. Please keep your eyes peeled and don’t walk around these areas, or any area of Georgetown alone.

Be sure to take precautions:

Keep copies of your credit cards and other information you keep in your wallet/purse. Make sure to photocopy the front and back so you can easily call the necessary numbers to put a hold on your card.

Check your credit every year

Two years ago, Kevin Keefe started Urban Dare events in D.C. and Boston, enticing people of all ages to compete in wacky dares, trivia and embarrassing photo hunts. Since then, Kevin has expanded Urban Dare to encompass more than ten cities across the U.S. and hopes 2008 will see Urban Dare in cities such as Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, and Paris. Kevin recently took a some time to answer a few questions:
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Whereas people from the Pacific Northwest probably don’t understand her lyrical reminiscing, she’s received plenty of love from Dylan W. over at Seattle Metblogs, so why do I feel the need to give our transplanted native some D.C. Metblogs exposure?

That’s because Turtle Rock Records, (which is of course named after that rather large rock in the middle of Black Pond, on the western bank of the Potomac River and is Ali’s very own label), recently released her fourth album, Miles And Miles And Miles. Ali’s been featured on NPR’s All Song’s Considered, and she’s back home in D.C. as a featured artist at the Singer Songwriters of Washington Showcase.
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Originally uploaded by deridere.

Whilst driving home from the office late last night, what should I spy along M Street but a parked limosine outside of the Rhino Bar.

If you’re like me, and chances are you’re not, you’d wonder which celebrity A-lister (or Georgetown trust-funder) would do something so crass as to rent a limosine to take them to the Rhino Bar.

At least they weren’t drinking and driving. I hope they didn’t have a hangover this morning.

Word to the wise, check traffic reports over the next few days to avoid the Memorial Bridge cluster fcuk.