Green is good and red is bad

Walkscore recently rated Washington the country’s 12th 7th most walkable city, with Georgetown barely breaking into the “walker’s paradise” category. What the ratings can’t show, of course, is how darn unwalkable Georgetown is if you want to leave it.

Picture and via to Greater Greater Washington

Gone the way of the dodo

Despite not actually accomplishing its titular goal, Take Back Georgetown Day, the College Republicans’ annual lecture-fest, will not be returning this year. That news comes from GUCR president Erika Barger (COL ‘10), who said in an email that the Republicans will focus their energies on individual events instead. Hoyas raised on a steady ironic diet of Rush Limbaugh and Townhall.com are understandably anguished.

It didn’t happen last year, either, but Barger’s email just started my grieving. To mourn an event that always had the potential to make a lot of people mad, but never lived up to those expectations, let’s remember TBGD the way it would want to be remembered–angsty about women, and through the recollections of some crazy Catholics:

A busy line-up of prominent conservative speakers and workshops ran from 9:30AM to 4:30PM. In the lobby, representatives from various Washington, D.C. think tanks displayed literature and shared information. Members of TFP Student Action had their own table and were engaged in lively discussion during the greater part of the day. Many students promptly joined the TFP’s petition against the immoral “V-Monologues” scheduled to play again at Georgetown on February 17-18.

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Synth-pop duo Yaz (also known as Yazoo) will be reuniting at the 9:30 Club this Sunday.

Formed by Alison Moyet  and Depeche Mode’s Vince Clark in 1981, the pair had success in the U.K. with singles “Only You” and “Situation” in early 1982. Their albums Upstairs at Eric’s and You and Me Both also reached the top of the charts before the group disbanded in 1983. Moyet would go onto a solo career; Clark formed synth-group Erasure.

25 years later, Yaz is together again with a tour of Europe and the U.S. entitled ‘Yazoo Reconnected: Live.’

You can catch them at the 9:30, but only if you’ve been making bank since the ’80s — tickets cost $50.

Earlier this year, we  touted the virtues of local coffee shop Murky Coffee. Not everyone seems to share our admiration, though: the Post reports that blogger Jeff Simmermon went on an online rampage against the shop after he was told that his order (three shots of espresso on ice) violated company policy.

Owner Nicholas Cho didn’t take Simmermon’s trash talk lying down; instead, he posted an equally angry response on the Murky Coffee site, defending the ice rule with the notorious “It’s cool because we’re saints” argument:

When it comes to my shop, engaging in the transaction that makes us customer and barista, or customer and “server,” means that we’ve engaged in a transaction, and we have an obligation: to give you the best product we can, with customer service that’s equal to the respect and courtesy that any two people should (hopefully) expect from one another.

As a former coffee shop employee myself, I’m confused by the logistics of the debate. An iced Americano is okay, but a triple shot over ice isn’t? An Americano is just espresso shots with water, so it’s unclear why diluting the drink makes it all right. I would ask, but tangling with these two looks like a dangerous game.

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