All Time Low have never been in their eponymous emotional state: their particular brand has always rung out with crisp dynamics and happily chanted choruses about girls and all the fun of summer. One can always expect an onslaught of this type of music being released throughout the summer, as teeny boppers look around for a new soundtrack to their dramatic lifestyles and their first experiences with boys, alcohol, and the like. Not that you can blame them: there is something comfortable about blasting over-produced pop-punk on your car stereo while driving to your friend’s house, expectations for the night ahead rushing through your mind.

So with the July 7th release of their latest album, Nothing Personal, All Time Low are sure to find their way into the stereos of anyone looking for a way to pass the time with a smile on their face. Don’t expect your indie or punk cred blasting this while rolling down M Street—there is no vast soundscape or Pitchfork-glam material to be found here. But for those with more easygoing taste, for the most part, something about this just works.

Ever since they released So Wrong, It’s Right, with its hippity-hoppity, chart-riding hits in 2007, All Time Low has found success in many scenes: the fact that its fans range from the colorful, Hot Topic-adorning bunch to the more straight-laced demonstrate how much of a guilty pleasure these guys have become. With their swelling, simple riffs that fall into half-tempo breakdowns, it’s clear that they haven’t reinvented the wheel with their sound; but it’s also clear that they do what they do far better than the hundreds of similar bands that find their way onto MySpace and Warped Tour every year.

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Produce stands at the new Hardy School farmers’ market

Until this year, Georgetown farmers’ market aficionados only had one option: the Wednesday afternoon market at Rose Park. This summer, though, the Burleith and Glover Park Citizens Associations teamed up to put together a second farmers’ market Sunday mornings at the newly-renovated Hardy School.

So how do the Rose Park and Hardy School farmers’ markets stack up? Vox visited both this past week—check out our findings after the jump!

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The Corp has recently received project approvals to move forward on their newest venture, a café in the Davis Performing Arts Center, according to Corp CEO Ryan Callahan (SFS ‘10). Callahan predicts that the new venue will be open by late October or early November.

The new café will serve full meals and is being worked on in cooperation with the Davis Center in attempt to make the building more of a “cultural hub” on campus (the Davis Center and the Corp are splitting the costs upfront). According to Callahan, the menu for the café is not yet set, but will probably include sandwiches, breakfast foods and possibly Sweetgreen-style frozen yogurt.

The Corp hopes that the new café will have strong cultural programming, with a performance area that could be used for open-mic nights, a cappella groups, or staging promotional scenes for campus productions (if the café takes Uncommon Grounds’ mantle as the “artsy” Corp venue, UG might work on being more oriented towards the new business school, Callahan said).

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Free(dom).

4th of July

The best day of the year for free events, and there is no better place in the country to celebrate the nation’s independence. Starting the day off with an Independence Day Parade at 11:45 a.m., find yourself en route on Constitution Avenue from 7th to 17th streets, and enjoy the marching bands, the military persons, the floats, and whatever else happens to be coming down the street.

After the parade, head down to the National Mall anytime between 11:00 a.m .and 5:00 p.m. to witness the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, an experience filled with music and dance performances, storytelling, and cultural discussion. The themes of this year’s program are Giving Voice: The Power of Words in African American Culture, The Americas: A Musical World, and Wales Smithsonian Cymru. For more information on the programs and the festival itself, head over to the website.

When you’ve finished getting culturally certified by the Folklife Festival, head over to the Washington Monument grounds for a 6:00 p.m. concert, featuring the U.S. Army Concert Band and the U.S. Army Band Downrange. Make your way to the Southwest corner of the grounds to see the troops.

If you haven’t been musically sated by this point, head down to the West Lawn of the Capitol Building by 8:00 p.m. for the 4th of July tradition, including a performance by the National Symphony Orchestra. If you’re more into the pop scene, we can’t bring back the King for you, but the concert will be sure to satisfy your needs too, with performances by Aretha Franklin, Natasha Bedingfield, and even the cast of Sesame Street.

When all is said and done, you’ll surely want to find a spot on the National Mall by 9:15 pm for fireworks (they’re scheduled for “at dark,” but generally begin around that time). Launched from the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and up over the Washington Monument, the District’s monuments provide a perfect backdrop. This is not to be missed.

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Now that we’re keeping an updated campus crime map, we figured at the end of every month we should give you a roundup of what (and how many) dastardly deeds were committed on campus over the past month. Here’s what happened this June:

View Georgetown Voice Crime Map: June 2009 in a larger map

Like May, June was a quiet month for Georgetown, with a total of 19 on-campus incidents reported in the DPS log. They breakdown as follows:

• 11 thefts
• 6 cases of unlawful entry or trespassing
• 1 case of destruction of property
• 1 case of threats

Probably the most intriguing incident of the month is the case of threats, for which the DPS log entry reads as follows:

June 12, 2009. 8:03 p.m.
Leavey Center—GUASFCU
Suspect threatened complainant over phone. Suspect identified. MPD notified.

We asked GUASFCU CEO Justin Lo Iacono about the incident, but he said that “the credit union does not discuss member details with the press, as all member details are confidential.”

The 11 cases of theft were mostly standard stuff (bicycles, wallets, electronics, laptops, etc), but there were a couple odd ones. On June 11, DPS reports the theft of “an electronic game and cord” from McCarthy Hall. On the 20th, someone stole hubcaps from a vehicle in the Southwest Quad Garage.

Additional seating: A true menace to society

The real fireworks at last night’s meeting were over the proposed moratorium on additional seating for restaurants in the Georgetown Court complex near the intersection of Prospect St. and Wisconsin Ave. The complex houses seven successful restaurants (such as Cafe Milano, Bangkok Bistro and Morton’s) and is one of the few areas in Georgetown not subject to the liquor license moratorium.

When Morton’s recently applied for additional seating, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board approved the request despite neighbors’ protestations, but said that it would “entertain a motion for a moratorium on additional seats,” according to ANC Commissioner Bill Starrels.

Starrels and Karen “Cookie” Cruse, a member of the Citizen’s Association of Georgetown’s Board of Directors, argued at last night’s meeting that the area is already “over-saturated” and that neighbors are tired of spending time fighting every request for more seats.

Robert Elliott, Georgetown Court’s landlord, countered that the alleged complaints about lack of parking and traffic problems are exaggerated and that the ANC and neighbors would still have input into future seating expansions even without a moratorium. Elliott also raised objections to the fact that he was only presented with the nine page text of the proposed moratorium 90 minutes before the ANC meeting started, despite asking for it a week ago and offering to collaborate on it.

ANC Chair Ron Lewis was dismissive of Elliott’s complaints, telling him that he was just “throwing sand in our eyes.”

“I know nothing I say here is going to affect what you do,” Elliott replied. “You could’ve called me. I don’t think you should’ve had this document put together in private. I don’t think that’s right.”

Elliott was at least partially correct—his objections didn’t have much of an impact on the ANC. They voted 4—1 to co-sponsor the moratorium with CAG, with Georgetown University student rep Aaron Golds (COL ‘11) casting the lone vote of opposition.

After the jump: We finally get around to replacing 109-year-old bridges and Tackle Box proves no match for Cookie Cruse.

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Usually the only Georgetown athletes fortunate (or unfortunate, if you believe in the cover jinx) enough to see their name in Sports Illustrated are the University’s basketball stars. But this week SI’s editors showed that Hoya sports extend outside of the Verizon Center, featuring sailor Charlie Buckingham in the current issue’s Faces in the Crowd section.

Buckingham, who was featured in the Voice’s cover story on the sailing team earlier this year, earned his place in the magazine by winning the Everett B. Morris Trophy as the nation’s top collegiate sailor. Only the second sophomore ever to win the award, Buckingham joins Andrew Campbell and Chris Behm as the third Hoya to take home the Morris Trophy in the past four years.

The rising junior skipper helped lead the Hoyas to a third-place finish at this year’s sailing national championships. With the collegiate sailing season concluded, Buckingham now hopes to bring home hardware for a new team: the USA. He will spend his summer with the US Sailing Team, travelling the world to compete in regattas.

Nathan Srinivas found out what Georgetown’s being a “global university” really means.

Kelsey Ryan was not impressed by the programming at Yates.

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Mitch Hurwitz, the creator of the cult classic Arrested Development and a Georgetown grad, was recently interviewed by Mike Sacks for his new book “And Here’s the Kicker: Conversations with Top Humor Writers About Their Craft.”

“And Here’s the Kicker” is out in bookstores now, and its website includes some excerpts from each of its subject’s interviews.  In his interview, Hurwitz muses a bit on his time at Georgetown:

Is it true that you were a theology major at Georgetown University when you attended in the early to mid-80s?

Yes, I earned a theology degree as well as an English degree. I put the English degree to better work. I never pursued theology after college, but I did learn quite a few answers to some major questions.

I wish I could share them with you—I just can’t.

Maybe for the next edition.

I know whether God exists or not. That’s all I can say …

Here’s a funny thing about Georgetown: At the end of each year the college would create this mathematical formula to figure out the average salary each major would eventually earn. English majors earned, on average, about $30,000 a year. But majors in the fine arts earned more than $1,000,000 a year. And that was because there were only six of them, and one had been [Knicks basketball-team center] Patrick Ewing. So fine arts seemed really good to me. [Laughs] I thought about it, but, in the end, I never went through with it.

Last Friday’s thunderstorm caused four big trees in Burleith to fall, crushing the cars parked near them. Now some neighbors are suggesting that some of the damage could have been prevented if the D.C. government had been more responsive to complaints.

On the Burleith neighborhood listserv, Martha Ann Clark, who lives on T Street between 36th and 37th said she had alerted the Urban Forestry Administration that several trees on her block—including the one pictured above that ended up crushing a car on Friday—might fall because of termite damage.

In her email, Clark included a time line of her interactions with the D.C. government about the problem, dating back to the beginning of the April.  In early June she wrote to a Brian LeCouteur, a Senior Environmental Planner with the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments:

I inspected other trees and found at least five where termite invasion had begun and reported this back to the powers that be. So far no one has inquired about those additional trees.

Is there anything at all you can do to hurry this along before a storm knocks over the tree and/or a limb injures someone? Because if injury does occur or tree does damage my house by falling on it during a thunder storm I am holding the City responsible with all the notice they have received on this matter.

Officials at the UFA and MWCOG have not responded to requests for comment, but we’ll update you if they do.