Bar Dupont

Bar Dupont is the beautifully remodeled former Biddy Mulligan’s, the bar in Jury’s hotel directly on Dupont Circle. They now have  South Beach-like couches outside with heat lamps.

If you’re inside the bar, looking out into the circle, the small lights in the bar look as if they’re hanging from the trees in Dupont Circle – beautiful.

However, the service is mostly absent (albeit nice enough) in this often empty bar and the food is terrible. The margherita pizza we ordered had a crust that seemed like something out of a lunchables. (Washington Post average reader rating: 1 star)

Stick to the wine and enjoy the decor.

Chop Down Trees to be More Green in the Glove

Glover Park is not my neighborhood, but it’s one I frequent. It has its problems (Republican yuppies & southern food restaurants galore), but it is quiet and very green, which is nice. Make that WAS very green. Without warning, Stoddert Elementary School took over a beautiful park and chopped down a majority of the park’s forest.

As Rebecca, over at welovedc.com outlines, this is all part of a large project to revamp the school and add a public gym. Great. The construction should achieve LEED certification. Even better.

Did you have to chop down all the trees to do this???

As anyone who has taken Environmental Science 101 can tell you, you can not go about chopping down trees in a group willy nilly and expect the others to be fine. Trees on the outside of the forest group are important and stronger than trees on the inside, and when you just cut them down because they might be slightly inconvenient, the others slowly start to die.

Sigh. How’s that LEED certification coming along?

The pictures below show views that used to be forested:

At Least It’s Not Hot

So yesterday it looked like this on my way home:

And today it looked like this on my way home:

And the day before and tomorrow = same. Whyyyy?

Well, at least it’s not hot. Hmm.. Is it shallow to move purely for the weather? Is that why there are so many shallow people in California? I’m sure I’m not the first with this thought. Thoughts?

Not So Smartrip

I lost my SmarTrip card, which I’ve owned for like 10 years. Sniff. Although, I can’t complain too much because it wasn’t working very well by now, but I’ll give it a shot, anyway: I called to have it canceled after a couple days. (Yes, I know. Not. Smart.) I was forced to listen to smooth jazz, which I thought was bad enough, but ooooh no! Somebody managed to use up the $20. Die!!!!