Sure it’s hot and humid and the streets smell like trash and you don’t know anyone with a beach house (and the people you know with mountain cabins aren’t inviting you). But August doesn’t have to be the worst month of the year in DC. There are at least 5 things to be grateful for.
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Entries Tagged as 'summer'
5 reasons DC doesn’t totally suck in August
August 4th, 2009 · No Comments · 5 things, Urban living
Tags: summer
Once upon a summer, twenty years ago
July 30th, 2009 · No Comments · What's on the screen
June 30, 1989: On a hot summer day, Spike Lee drops a bomb on America.
Spike Lee is like Woody Allen in many ways I think. Not just because they focus intimately on New York and because their best films feel highly personal to their own specific cultural milieu while being also deeply engaging and approachable [...]
5 cold soups for a hot summer day
July 28th, 2009 · 3 Comments · 5 things
No stoves, no ovens, no microwaves, no grills … sometimes running the blender is the most heat you want to put off. So here are 5 soups that require very little thought, almost no work and are perfect when the mercury begins to rise.
Gazpacho. Everyone has a favorite recipe but if you haven’t done made [...]
Tags: good eating·summer
5 songs of this summer from worst to best
June 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · 5 things, What's in my playlist
Last year at this time, we were listening to charming British songbirds and bisexual girls and about getting low, low, low, low. No such luck this summer. Nope. In fact, this summer has not yet produced the song that deserves to be playing on everyone’s car radio as they roll through my neighborhood. [...]
5 perfect summer foods
August 5th, 2008 · 2 Comments · 5 things
With the dog days of August, ovens are rendered overkill. Perfect summer meals should require no baking at all and minimal cooking. So here are 5 perfect summer foods:
bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwiches (it has to be good bacon — none of that turkey bacon shit — and good tomatoes and no iceberg lettuce please).
gazpacho [...]
5 perfect summer pop songs for 2008
July 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment · 5 things, What's in my playlist
A summer pop song should be everything the phrase suggests: poppy, frothy, bouncing fun. Lyrically, it should at least make sense (and be easy to memorize) but not deliver anything too weighty. And it should definitely have a beat but not a heavy one. And for goodness’ sakes, it should be be able to deliver [...]
Tags: five things·pop music·summer
Summer in the city, happiness in a glass
July 24th, 2008 · No Comments · Whatever ...
July and August are pretty yucky months in DC — hot, humid, smelly, crime-filled and just generally nasty. But there’s no day that’s so awful that a glass of sun tea won’t make better. And no, not the instant stuff or the brewed stuff (bitter!) but true sun tea.
In a glass jar (those big pickle [...]