@billyez2 Also a REALLY good theater scene for a city its size. Go to Music Circus or B St.
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Alex Kasner
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Alex Kasner
@CardinalLawyer
DC trial and appellate litigator with a foot in the Bay Area; alum: CA7, W&C; native Sacramentan; honorary Hoosier; Stanford football fanatic.
Washington, DC Beigetreten Nisan 2016
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@billyez2 As a native Sacramentan, this makes me so sad! Stroll the Fabulous Forties. Get dinner in midtown (Waterboy, Zocalo). Bike ride is discovery park. Have brunch at Magpie overlooking Fremont Park on a warm day. Temple coffee while wandering farmers market in lavender heights.
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This will be the fifth time I’ve visited Sacramento - long work trip - and I confess I still have not discovered its charms. If people have recs let me know!
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@maustermuhle Agree with this. But the issue for e-bikes is the infrastructure. Potholes in bike lane are dangerous at 20mph. Lack of protected lanes scary with car doors. Or worse, no lanes at all. Don’t feel safe going East to West.
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I don’t disagree that summer and winter aren’t ideal for riding outside in D.C., but e-bikes have been game-changers. The city’s topography just isn’t an obstacle anymore, and you can zip around quickly enough to avoid being stuck in cold (or hot) weather for too long.
Tobin Stone 🌐@tobinjstone
I just don’t think this is really true for DC. We have a world class metro system, and I’d guess 95% of residents would rather take the temperature controlled metro during the summer and winter months rather than bike. It’s fine to advocate for expanded bike lanes but we should be realistic about what they will accomplish in a city like DC.
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@JeffDLowe Eggers over Gerwig / Coogler / Chazelle is a big miss.
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Two closest to the list for me who I didn't get on it would be ARI ASTER and RYAN COOGLER.
Tough list to make because a few obvious ones like QUENTIN TARANTINO (only one movie) and DAVID FINCHER (best work pre-2016) didn't align time wise.
Project Big Screen@ProjBigScreen
Which director has had the best last 10 years? The results from our latest collab ranking are here… Who did we miss?
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@mattyglesias What an oddly shallow bit of criticism. As a work of craft, SN is peak of powers for Fincher, Sorkin, Reznor/Ross, acting. As biopic, it invents as all biopics to do, for truth over pure accuracy. As critique, it captures the dead-eyed ego of modern tech oligopoly and alienation
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@PoPville This signage has been up close to a year with no change. Wouldn’t bet on this ever coming to fruition, like the three blocks of H St development that have stalled out and are now vacant blocks.
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Nash & Smashed coming to new location on H Street, NE!?! - Curious: popville.com/2025/12/nash-s…
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@812filmreviews I truly do not understand what I am supposed to find insightful or laudable about this Brody’s review. As someone who loved the movie, this review points to nothing in particular that causes me to pause, reconsider, or reflect. It’s just weird, mean, prickly.
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I’ve very lukewarm on the film, which is a shame because I do love JOCKEY and SING, SING. But even if you love it, it’s hard not to admire such an immediate and visceral takedown done in the span of a few characters. 1000-word reviews could only dream of this precision.
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1000%. I know elected leaders like @charlesallen do what they can, but H street needs basic city services. Traffic enforcement. Trash pickup. Better zoning. Public safety. One-off festivals with out-of-town vendors do nothing to engender business stability.
Eat DC@eat_dc
I think H St NE has the best collection of diverse, quality restaurants in DC. It's too bad there are so many vacant, neglected buildings in between them and that the city doesn't appear to be doing much to champion/beautify/protect the area outside of a once a year festival.
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@eat_dc It’s so disappointing and maddening as a nearby resident. City is unwilling to beautify, or do routine traffic enforcement, or trash pickup. Developers sitting on vacant blocks. So many residents want and expect better and can see that in action at Eastern Market/Union Market.
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I think H St NE has the best collection of diverse, quality restaurants in DC. It's too bad there are so many vacant, neglected buildings in between them and that the city doesn't appear to be doing much to champion/beautify/protect the area outside of a once a year festival.
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@BarredinDC It puzzles that Union Market seemingly can’t stop developing, but H St can’t get these things going. Scale of projects?
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@BarredinDC Not surprising. Good that there’s some formalization of what we have known, given lack of movement. H St can’t dig out of this hole until there is building on the three blighted blocks waiting for their developers to act, plus Hechinger. Aggressive thinking needed to spur this.
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@charlesallen We have at least 3 housing developments on H that have completely stalled out and turned into vacant lots and blight. Need to think about how to revitalize and seize the opportunity with RFK and surrounds.
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@charlesallen Awesome work! Looking forward to aggressively working on how to turn H St and Hechinger Mall and Benning into world-class corridor connecting Union Station to RFK. Continues to lag the city in development, and great place to largely start from scratch for new housing.
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✅ Cut 2K parking spots
✅ +$100Ms to expand Metro
✅ Locked in top-tier green bldg + river protections
✅ Faster affordable housing
✅ Prioritized Ward 6 small biz
✅ Protected The Fields
✅ Improved traffic plans for neighbors
✅ Got better jobs & wages
✅ ~$800M new $ for DC
CM Allen's Team@CMCharlesAllen
@charlesallen Watch @charlesallen's full statement from the dais for the first of two votes on the deal: youtube.com/watch?v=U4gOcg…
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@charlesallen Ward 6 resident agreeing to disagree with you on this one.
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Council Budget Office analysis on RFK Stadium deal is out & its even more expensive than first reported.
Total DC Taxpayer Subsidy: $4.4 billion‼️
We need a better deal. That’s a huge price to pay with not enough coming back to DC taxpayers & residents. Still time to get right.
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@CMRobertWhiteDC @Kazmanian_Devil Then you should make DC attractive enough that the team voluntarily puts its HQ in DC. Dictating that the team must locate its offices where you say is commandeering. And they’re already leaving MD; it’s fair to be cooperative and give MD at least something.
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@Kazmanian_Devil When the team’s HQ is in MD, they get all the income taxes from NFL salaries, not us. That’s $8–10M/year D.C. leaves on the table. The deal is not blocked.
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COUNCILMEMBER ROBERT WHITE PUSHES BACK ON RUSHED STADIUM DEAL, CALLS FOR A FAIR DEAL THAT PUTS RESIDENTS FIRST
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@CMRobertWhiteDC Absolutely not. This is nonsense. The team is fully within its rights to locate its HQ where it wants. And why should individuals whose home values skyrocket not be subject to a (capped) increase in property taxes? It’s just a windfall provision.
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@BarredinDC @DDOTDC This city has no interest in making H St conducive to its local residents. H St should not be a car thoroughfare, nor a DoorDash parking lot. I understand scrapping dedicated lanes, but seems like a step back in terms of creative thinking.
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Per Mark Sussman on Bsky, @DDOTDC is unsurprisingly not moving forward with the 24/7 bus/streetcar lanes on H Street, but they will be installing fully signalized mid-block crosswalks on 600, 1200, and 1300 blocks as well as some modular bus bulb outs
Barred in DC@BarredinDC
.@DDOTDC is planning to install mid-block crosswalks on 3 blocks on H St NE (600 - near @solidstatedc @TheDailyRiderDC; 1200 - near @thepugdc; 1300 - near @pieshopdc Hill Prince). Particularly 1300 block, tons of folks already do so good idea ddotwiki.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NI…
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A serious conversation needs to be had about why H St repels longevity. Developers can’t sit on whole blocks, leaving them vacant. Non-restaurants need to flourish. Pedestrians need to be prioritized. X2 needs to be better. Pressure needs to be put on Hechinger site.
Jessica Sidman@jsidman
Filipino spots Hiraya and Kayu are closing on June 30. “This isn’t goodbye — just a pause. I’m already dreaming of Kayu’s next chapter in NW DC,” says chef Paolo Dungca
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Filipino spots Hiraya and Kayu are closing on June 30.
“This isn’t goodbye — just a pause. I’m already dreaming of Kayu’s next chapter in NW DC,” says chef Paolo Dungca
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NEW: We are suing the former director of H Street Community Development Corporation.
We allege he misused $1.25 million in nonprofit funds through unauthorized bonuses.
Funds meant to support H Street were illegally diverted for personal gain. We are fighting to get them back.
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