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		<title>Details on Friday&#8217;s Metro Plan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Photo by * Chris D So, the Federal Government has decided that tomorrow is a work day, albeit with a 2-hour delay. The D.C. Government hasn't made a decision yet, but DCPS administration offices have already decided to open on time tomorrow (classes for students had already been canceled for professional development), which means odds are excellent the District will do the same. How are you going to get to work tomorrow? WMATA has released the details of its plan for Friday, but their web site has been crashing for some time now. In the interest of expediency, we've posted the entire press release below: The Metrorail system will open at 5 a.m. tomorrow, Friday, Feb. 12, with limited service and will close at midnight instead of 3 a.m. to allow work crews the additional overnight hours to continue to clear the tracks, rail yards and rail &#8220;switches,&#8221; which are critical track components that allow trains to maneuver around problem areas by switching tracks. A limited number of Metrobus routes will be in service Friday with the number expected to grow as more roadways become passable. MetroAccess trips will begin at 6:45 a.m., however the usual door-to-door service will be shifted to curb-to-curb service if it is not safe to offer door-to-door service. Nine of Metro&#8217;s 86 stations will remain closed to start the day on Friday as work crews continue to dig out the tracks, many of which have snow drifts of up to six feet. Metrorail service to start Friday morning will include all Green, Yellow and Blue line stations. The Red Line will operate between Medical Center and Glenmont Metrorail stations with Grosvenor-Strathmore, White Flint, Twinbrook, Rockville and Shady Grove Metrorail stations remaining closed due to heavy snow that remains on the tracks. The Orange Line will operate between New Carrollton and Ballston Metrorail stations with East Falls Church, West Falls Church-VT/UVA, Dunn Loring-Merrifield and Vienna/Fairfax-GMU Metrorail stations remaining closed, also due to heavy snow on the tracks, including snow drifts of three to six feet. Metrorail trains will operate at 20- to 25-minute intervals above ground and 10- to 15-minute intervals below ground. The longer than usual intervals are a result of 35 mph speed restrictions and the snow-covered switches. Approximately 70 percent of parking spaces at Metrorail stations will be available for automobiles as many surface parking spaces are being used to pile snow to make other spaces available for automobiles. The top levels of 22 Metrorail parking garages are not expected to be available for parking. Work crews will address those top levels starting Friday. Summary of Metrorail service expected for Friday, Feb. 12 • Red Line limited service: Medical Center to Glenmont • Orange Line limited service: Ballston to New Carrollton • Blue Line all stations open: Franconia-Springfield to Largo Town Center • Green Line all stations open: Greenbelt to Branch Avenue • Yellow Line all stations open: Huntington to Fort Totten Metrobus service Metrobus will operate starting at its normal time on Friday with most buses sticking to streets along snow emergency routes. Buses will serve more neighborhoods as the streets become passable. The routes listed below have been in service since Thursday afternoon with more routes expected to be operating Friday. As the Metrobus system expands to include more routes, those routes will be posted on Metro&#8217;s Web site, www.metroopensdoors.com. Customers are reminded to please use caution near bus stops as many remain under ice and snow. Local jurisdictions are responsible for clearing bus stops. Local residents can help their neighbors by shoveling the bus stops along the sidewalks near their homes so that people are not standing in the icy streets while traffic is passing. Bus routes operating in the District of Columbia 31 (Friendship Heights to Foggy Bottom-GWU) 32 and 36 (Friendship Heights to Potomac Ave) 34 (Archives to Branch Ave) 52 and 54 (From 14th Street and Colorado Ave to L'Enfant Plaza) 64 (Fort Totten to Georgia Ave-Petworth) 70 (Silver Spring to Canal and P Street, SW) 71 (Silver Spring to Archives) will terminate at Canal and P Street, SW 79 (Silver Spring to Archives) 80 (Fort Totten to Gallery Pl-Chinatown) 82 (Rhode Island Ave to Gallery Pl-Chinatown) P6 (Anacostia to Eckington) S4 (Silver Spring to Federal Triangle) U8 (Capitol Heights to Benning Heights) X2 (Minnesota Ave to Union Station) V7 line (Deanwood to Potomac Ave) Bus routes operating in Maryland J2 (Bethesda to Silver Spring) P12 (Eastover to Addison Road), bypassing United Medical Center Q2 (Silver Spring to Wheaton) Y5, Y7 and Y8 (Wheaton to Leisure World) Z8 and Z9 (Silver Spring to Briggs Chaney Road Park and Ride Bus routes operating in Virginia 1C (Fair Oaks to Dunn Loring) 2C (Washington Boulevard to Vienna) 16 line (Pentagon to Baileys Crossroads) 28A (Alexandria to Tysons Corner), bypassing Seven Corners and Southern Towers MetroAccess MetroAccess trips will begin at 6:45 a.m., however the usual door-to-door service will be shifted to curb-to-curb service if it is not safe to offer door-to-door service. How to get Updates on Winter Weather Conditions There are a variety of ways for customers to stay informed during a major storm. Metro constantly updates local news media of Metro service changes. Information is also available on Metro&#8217;s home page at www.metroopensdoors.com. Customers can also subscribe to e-Alerts and receive up-to-date service disruption information on Metrorail and MetroAccess. ]]></description>
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		<title>Popcorn &#38; Candy: May &#38; December</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Harold and Maude This cult classic was light years ahead of its time, a huge commercial flop and reviled by many critics at the time of its release before eventually finding its audience. In the early 70s, apparently, deft gallows humor and overt quirkiness were not as readily accepted by audiences as they might be today. Which may explain why, as the years go by, this film just seems to be more and more well-loved: it feels more like a product of the 00s than the 70s. The film stars Bud Cort as Harold, a death-obsessed 19-year-old with a penchant for staging his own suicide in creative ways in order to shock his conventionally-minded mother. It's cruel, but Hal Ashby's film, as is often the case in the director's work, exists just far enough outside any kind of familiar reality that it just comes across as funny, with a bit of added discomfort. Harold runs into the 79-year-old Maude (an unforgettable performance by Ruth Gordon) at a funeral, and the two strike up an unlikely friendship that, in an even more unlikely development, turns romantic. Sex between characters with a 60-year age gap seems impossible not to play for shock value, but Ashby doesn't really go there. That's just one of the many extraordinary things in a film that defies convention in every way imaginable, including its celebration of life even as it takes such a wry look at death. View the trailer . Friday and Saturday at midnight at E Street . --- Our City Film Festival For the third year, Yachad &#8212; a D.C. nonprofit focusing on community development and affordable housing &#8212; is sponsoring the Our City Film Festival, a festival dedicated to showing films about the District that go beyond the outward impression of D.C. as a strictly federal town. They've assembled four programs out of a dozen shorts and a couple of features (most, but not all, documentaries), all of which will screen on Sunday at the Goethe Institut. Subjects cover a lot of areas of the D.C. experience, among them: Anacostia pollution; farmers markets; go-go music; late night dining options; a men's checkers club; Silver Spring's B&#38;O rail station; a profile of Restaurant Nora founder, Nora Pouillon. Many of the filmmakers will be on hand for Q&#38;A sessions, and each programming block will also include ceremonies for films in that block that have been awarded prizes. Proceeds from the festival help support Yachad's mission of mobilizing skilled and unskilled volunteers to repair the homes and communities of low-income homeowners. All day Sunday at the Goethe Institut, with the first program beginning at 11 a.m. $10 for each block of films, $35 for an All Day Pass. Ticket prices will be slightly higher at the door, but with sellout crowds in previous years, it's a good idea to buy in advance. --- Reel Portraits: Edward Biberman and Lena Horne This weekend, the National Portrait gallery offers up a double feature loosely tied together by a single painting in their collection. The first is Jeffrey Kaufman's recent documentary, Brush with Life: The Art of Being Edward Biberman , a biography of the mid-century Los Angeles painter who dedicated much of his work to addressing the social injustices of the time. Kaufman will be in attendance for a discussion of the film and Biberman's work after the movie. Biberman has two portraits hanging in the NPG, one of which is of Lena Horne, who stars in the second of Saturday afternoon's features, director Andrew L. Stone's Stormy Weather . This film is loosely based on the life of its star, Bill "Bonjangles" Robinson, a talented tap-dancer who tries to make it as a performer after returning from service in the first World War. Horne plays his love interest, a jazz singer named Selina, and Horne performs in the film along with other great African-American performers of the period, including Cab Calloway, Fats Waller, and the first screen appearance of Eartha Kitt. View a Lena Horne performance from Stormy Weather . Saturday afternoon at the Smithsonian, first film begins at 2 p.m., the second at 4:30. Free. --- Agnès Varda: Short Films Though best known for her features &#8211; as with most well-known directors &#8211; Agnès Varda has also directed a number of short films during her long career. Like her features, her shorts cover a diverse range of subjects, and include both documentaries and narrative films. The National Gallery is presenting a two-hour program of Varda's shorts, including two of her earliest films from 1958, L'Opéra mouffe and Du côté de la côte . The first is a mixture of documentary and imagination looking at one Paris street through the eyes of a pregnant woman, the latter a French Riviera travelogue. Her 1968 documentary about the Black Panthers is also included here, as well as her 1984 look at Parisian statues, accompanied by the poems of Baudelaire, The So-called Caryatids , and a number of other titles. Saturday at 3:30 p.m. at the National Gallery . Free. --- The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers Among the nominees for Best Documentary Oscar is this Vietnam-era political film from directors Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith. The cumbersome title acts as a succinct synopsis of the subject: Daniel Ellsberg, the military analyst and member of Robert McNamara's Department of Defense during the 1960s, and his leak of 7,000 pages of extremely classified government documents &#8211; the McNamara-commissioned Pentagon Papers &#8211; that detailed U.S. policy in Vietnam going back to the end of World War II. Ellsberg released the papers as a matter of conscience, having switched his long-held belief in the war effort to opposition based on the information to which he was privy. Ellsberg ended up becoming a hero of the American left, a man who was willing to risk years of imprisonment to halt a war effort that he was in a unique position to impact. Ehrilich and Goldsmith's film reportedly makes no apologies for its own stance supporting the notion of Ellsberg as American hero, and suffers from a few badly animated reenactments, but has still been hailed as a clear and gripping account of Ellsberg's place in history. View the trailer . Opens tomorrow at E Street. --- Tomorrow also marks the local opening of my pick for the best film of last year (and the odds-on favorite for the Best Foreign Film Oscar), Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon . We'll run a full-length review of the film tomorrow. ]]></description>
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		<title>Both Williams Sisters to Play for Kastles This Summer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The Washington Kastles -- defending World Tennis Team champions , mind you -- announced a big move today: both Williams sisters, Serena and Venus, will play for D.C.'s WTT outfit this summer. "The historic opportunity to have both Serena and Venus on our team is a thrill, both for the success of our team and for our fans, whose support has been so integral to our success," said team owner Mark Ein. World number one Serena, who has been a Kastles mainstay since 2008, will be joined by fifth-ranked Venus, who will call Kastles Stadium home after a trade with Philadelphia. As far as the breakdown goes, Serena will play four matches for the Kastles, and Venus three -- one each at home. With Venus in the fold, the Kastles now boast two of the best tennis players of all time, in addition to cornering the WTT market on women's Wimbledon contenders and boosting the current team roster's total Grand Slam championships to a whopping 61. The Kastles will fill out the remainder of their roster on March 16. ]]></description>
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		<title>How Much Snow? This Much</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Flickr user valkyrieh116 added this striking comparison to the DCist pool. Nicely done. From the Flickr caption : "this is my back patio. it faces a narrow alley and gets significantly less snow than out on the street, but it was the only place that wasn't shoveled regularly." ]]></description>
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		<title>Metrorail Sees Record Low Ridership During Blizzard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Photo by marciadc Not exactly a shock, but WMATA has released its Metrorail ridership figures for the recent winter storm period, and yesterday saw the lowest number of rides in the system in recent years. Only 36,097 trips were taken on Wednesday, Feb. 10, smashing the previous record low of only 56,326, recorded on Christmas Day, 2006. The low number of rides came about thanks to the combination of white-out blizzard conditions and the fact that the system was operating in underground stations only. As for whether Wednesday's ridership figure was the lowest ever for the system, spokesperson Lisa Farbstein says it's impossible to measure. "It wouldn&#8217;t be fair to measure ridership today vs. 10 years ago because we had fewer stations 10 years ago," Farbstein wrote in an email. "What I know is that Christmas is always the lowest ridership day of the year. Until now." ]]></description>
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		<title>Midday Bus Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Photo by Mr. T in DC Pair of updates on bus service for you. First, a limited number of Metrobus routes started running again as of 1 p.m. Those routes are listed below the jump. Metro is urging riders to exercise cautioun when boarding and alighting buses, as there's still tons of snow piled up on streets and around bus stops. They're also asking residents to help out by shoveling out bus stops along the sidewalks near their homes. Second, DDOT has announced that the two Circulator routes that have been running today will stop service at 6 p.m., as icy conditions are expected to make it difficult for buses to continue running by that time. Given that prediction, it's likely WMATA will make a similar call at some point this evening. Washington DCon to find out if your bus route is up and running again. Metrobus routes running as of 1 p.m.: District of Columbia -20 routes 32 (Friendship Heights to Potomac Ave) 42 (Metro Center to Mt. Pleasant) 60, 64 (Fort Totten to Georgia Ave-Petworth) 82 (Rhode Island Avenue to Gallery Pl-Chinatown) 96 (East Capitol Street to Cardozo) A2, A4, A6 and A8 (Anacostia to Fort Drum, 3rd &#38; Livingston) snow emergency route B2 (Anacostia to Potomac Avenue and Stadium-Armory) E4 (Friendship Heights to Fort Totten) G8 (Brookland-CUA to Farragut Square) H4 (Brookland-CUA to VA Hospital) H6 (Brookland-CUA to Fort Lincoln) snow emergency route P6 (Rhode Island Ave to 11th and M St) M6 (Fairfax Village Line) snow emergency route S4 (Silver Spring to Federal Triangle) U2 (Minnesota Avenue to Anacostia) snow emergency route U8 (Capitol Heights to Minnesota Avenue) X2 (Minnesota Avenue to Lafayette Square) Maryland - 9 routes 83 (College Park) will bypass 7 Spring Apartments A12 (Martin King Jr. Highway) snow emergency route C8 (College Park to White Flint) snow emergency route P12 (Eastover-Addison Road) Q2, Q4, (Silver Spring to Wheaton), bypassing Montgomery College T2 (Friendship Heights- Rockville) T18 (Annapolis Road) Y8 (Georgia Ave) will bypass Leisure World Virginia - 18 routes 1 B (Ballston to Dunn Loring) will bypass Fairview Park 1C (Ballston to Fair Oaks Mall) 2C (Ballston to Tysons) 3A (East Falls Church to Rosslyn) 4A, (Pershing Drive-Arlington Boulevard to Court House and Rosslyn) 9A (Huntington to King Street and Pentagon) 9S (Crystal City to Pentagon) 10B (Huntington Towers to Ballston) will bypass Fairlington 16A, 16B, 16D, 16E, 16F and 16J (Columbia Pike to Pentagon and Pentagon City) 23A, (Crystal City to Tysons Corner) 28A (King Street to Tysons Corner) 28T (West Falls Church to West Park) 38B (Ballston to Farragut Square) snow emergency route ]]></description>
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		<title>The Real World D.C.: The Morning After, Pt. 7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ After being holed up in my basement apartment for five days, even the newest installment of The Real World D(upont) C(ircle) seemed like an exciting break from growing cabin fever. Unfortunately, what promised to be the most riveting inter-personal drama of the series ended up being nothing more than a tease. And yes, my growing fear of Ashley's tantrums made it hard to sleep. If you need to catch up on everything you've missed -- and really, if you're a federal employee, you've got the time -- check out our recaps to date . Our unnecessarily extensive bullet points, as usual, are below the jump. Now Erika has a "Taxation Without Representation" shirt on! Emily had previously been spotted in one. Did voting rights activists sneak into the house under cover of darkness and leave swag behind? It wasn't me, I swear. Gross. Ants everywhere. The house is a pigsty. Mike and his new local fling, Eric, are going on a date. To Front Page. Now Emily's got her "Taxation Without Representation" shirt on again. I can already feel angsty teens around the country seething with rage over our lack of voting rights. Beware, Congress -- these are the soldiers of our revolution. Mike admits that he only came out recently, and is still torn between whether he's into guys or into girls. Callie, Ashley and Erika head out to lunch at the Grill from Ipanema in AdMo. Erika talks about having been depressed in college. After a tough break-up, she was taken to a hospital by her parents for being suicidal, and committed. Ashley fesses up -- she too has been depressed. Erika enjoys talking about it, Ashley clams up every time the subject comes up. They're all heading out for the night! Ashley wants to leave, seems impatient. Everyone else is taking a while to get ready. Erika is last to be ready, but Ashley and the other roommates leave without her. Callie stays behind to wait. Erika's pissed that Ashley led everyone out without her. She theorizes that Ashley is mad at her because she can talk openly about her depression. The show's producers aren't terribly discrete when they want to foreshadow coming conflict, are they? More scenes of the dirty house. Andrew isn't just a sexual predator -- he's a messy sexual predator. "You don't clean the house, you kill the flies," he opines. Ashley really, really wants to do a Duck Tour. You know, those boat/bus combos that take loads of tourists around the monuments and into the Potomac. She calls them "cool." We call her "crazy." Oh no! Erika wants to go shopping instead! They fight over which is the lamer of the two options. Ashley asks Erika if she's on her period. Then she calls her a "Debbie Downer." Erika wins! They go shopping in Georgetown. Once they get there, everyone but Erika wants to get a bite to eat. Another fight ensues. Erika gets teary-eyed. Mike decides to take one for the team and goes shopping with Erika. "I hope I come back alive," he says. As long as you stay away from the she-monster Ashley, I think you'll be safe. Shot of the roommates walking down M Street. Andrew is wearing khaki shorts, sandals and is holding a football. He blends in perfectly. Laser tag! It's Erika, Callie, Emily and Mike on one team, Josh, Andrew, Ty and Ashley on the other. Have to be honest here. Nine years in the District and I have no clue where one would go to play laser tag. They're really letting Josh and Andrew into a confined, darkened space for an extended period of time? Ashley's on the phone, Erika tries to get her off to call a cab to go to laser tag. They fight. Again. Ashley flies off the handle when Erika calls her a bitch. I hide under my Snuggie. Erika doesn't see why "bitch" would be insulting. "Inappropriate would be, 'Could you get your vagina off the phone?'" she offers by way of defense. I would think that telling someone to get their vagina off the phone would be perfectly appropriate. But then again, I have no idea what's cool with the teens these days. "Laser tag is fucking awesome," says Emily. Yeah, and watching you guys at laser tag? Not so much. It was like a poor man's version of Tron. Erika's team wins! They come back to the house, which is still disgusting. Josh, Andrew and Ashley are apparently the sources of the mess. Erika starts cleaning, all the while tweaking Ashley about her not emptying the trash. Ashley: "This house is so frustrating." Erika, to Ashley: "You're so much drama." Ashley calls Erika a spoiled brat. Erika gets mad. Emily sides with Erika against Ashley. Callie joins in on Erika's side. Seriously, Callie's the only roommate with a shred of decency left, so if she comes out against you, that's pretty much the end of it. Now Mike joins Team Erika. Ashley tries to apologize to Erika, but instead starts crying about how she has no support network and that's why she's so mean. Erika is offended that an apology becomes a sobbing pity session. Mike and Eric talk on the phone. Mike asks if Eric would be upset if he hooked up with a girl. Eric says yes. Mike doesn't understand why. Somewhere, a man called Obvious slaps his forehead. Night out at McFadden's. Mike is hitting on some girls. Eric isn't happy. Even though I'm merely watching McFadden's on TV, I still feel dirty for it. Why does my Snuggie smell like cheap beer? Back at the house, Mike admits that he's worried that Eric wants to get more emotionally involved. Eric and Mike talk, Mike breaks up with Eric. Eric leaves house, gets hugs from roommates as he goes. "I love you," says Ashley. By "I love you," she of course means, "I love you, but if you ever dare to slight me I will tear off your head and spike it on the ground, football-style." She's such a sweetie, that Ashley. Emily has a D.C. United shirt on. So far, she's been showing the most D.C. pride. Eric calls Mike, and Eric apologizes. For what? Being dumped by Mike? Color me confused here. They head out to Nellie's. The last time any of the roommates were here, it was Ty, Andrew and Josh, and they were tricked into going. It was the "lion's den," Josh said. And yes, I remember that off the top of my head. This makes me sad. Ashley and Erika fight again. Erika can't take it. She marches outside, announces she's going home. YES! I knew the preceding 42 minutes of contrived drama would lead to something. Emily tries to console Erika. Ashley tries to help. And by help, she says, "Go the fuck home then!" Not once. But four times. If this is Ashley helping, what's Ashley hurting like? Something tells me that the b-roll footage we'll never see has a lot of Ashley raging at the crew and producers. Back at the house, Ashley approaches Erika and says, "I really want to have a friendship with you." By which she clearly means, "I want to pluck each and everyone of your eyebrow hairs out while listening to Slayer's 'Reign in Blood' and preparing you for ritual sacrifice." Leave, Erika. We'll support you. Hell, by now I'd be halfway to Baltimore. On the phone, Erika's Mom advises talking to Ashley. Erika steps up, talks to Ashley. Ashley plays it safe by being her usual mean and demanding self. But then she says, "I don't want to lose Erika as a friend." I nervously believe she's being sincere, but mostly out of sheer fear. They hug it out. Crisis averted. I'm pissed that I again sat through all of this, only to see the one mildly interesting drama in seven episodes crumble before my eyes. ]]></description>
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		<title>Photo of the Day: February 11, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Aaron.DeNu 's " Rooftop Rocket " comes to you as a result of the annual Search for Smiling Faces. In the midst of downtrodden expressions and backbreaking hassle , a happy woman standing on a chair on a rooftop in heavy wind gusts should brighten everyone's mood. EXIF . ]]></description>
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		<title>Racing Presidents Tryouts Set for Saturday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Photo by Scott Ableman Not even three feet of snow can stop the Racing Presidents. The Washington Nationals will host tryouts for the popular large-headed mascots at the ballpark on Saturday, despite current conditions on the ground. If you're thinking you'd like to tryout, it's too late to get a slot, however. About 60 candidates have already been chosen to participate out a pool of 150 applicants. We should also note that Saturday's even isn't open to the public. But will this year's tryouts, which include a fully costumed, timed 40-yard dash, be affected by the snoverkill? "We are actually still working all of that out," Nats spokesperson Lisa Pagano told us. "There is a chance we could hold them on the concourse level - we need to be sure it's a safe environment for everyone." A decision on the location should be made tomorrow, Pagano said, but the tryouts will go on at 3 p.m. someplace inside the ballpark, snow or shine. ]]></description>
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		<title>National Airport Reopens for Flights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Photo by andertho The airfield at National Airport reopened for flight operations as of 11 a.m. this morning, according to a message on its web site . Passengers are urged to contact their airlines to confirm their flights before heading to the airport. And that assumes most people can actually get to the airport in the first place. The Metrorail system remained underground-only Thursday, and many streets have yet to be cleared. Dulles and BWI reopened earlier this morning, though many airlines have yet to resume flight schedules. ]]></description>
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