Monthly Archives: April 2009

Red Herring

Posted on Wednesday, 29 April 2009 by David Gorsline

Fairfax County’s newest professional company turns in a balanced ensemble performance of John Hollinger’s waterfront sendup of assumed identities, 1950s-era Commies, and the G-women who chase them. 1st Stage meets the challenges inherent in the script—lots of little scenes scattered … Continue reading →

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At the park: 29

Posted on Monday, 27 April 2009 by David Gorsline

The subject of my term paper for the Introduction to Ecology class that I recently completed is Huntley Meadows Park. The paper is a little long on data and short on analysis, but I’m happy with it. From the introduction: … Continue reading →

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At the park: 28

Posted on Sunday, 26 April 2009 by David Gorsline

Maples are leafing out, offering some shade in the unseasonal midsummer heat. Frogs are everywhere, including a pair of Green Treefrogs (Hyla cinerea) resting inside our one plastic nest box. At least something is getting some value from it. New … Continue reading →

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That would be me

Posted on Saturday, 25 April 2009 by David Gorsline

As if I needed one more profile page: David Gorsline has a Google Profile.

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Silver Line progress report: 5

Posted on Friday, 24 April 2009 by David Gorsline

Michael Perkins for GGW reproduces the public art under review for the new Silver Line stations.

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And another one down

Posted on Thursday, 23 April 2009 by David Gorsline

Yahoo! will be shuttering GeoCities later this year. We’ll have to decide what to do with Coffee Contact; it’s not like we’ve been actively maintaining the site, but it would be good to keep the content available online somewhere. I … Continue reading →

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Another one down

Posted on Tuesday, 21 April 2009 by David Gorsline

From Missy Frederick for the Washington Business Journal comes the unhappy news that Timberlake’s restaurant in Dupont Circle will be closing at the end of May, to reopen under a new identity. Timberlake’s was one of my favorite places to … Continue reading →

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All My Sons: an update: 1

Posted on Sunday, 19 April 2009 by David Gorsline

We did a stumble-through of Act I of All My Sons outdoors in the Saturday sun, which is appropriate as that act takes place on a hot weekend morning. Then we moved indoors to get through most of Act II. … Continue reading →

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At the park: 26

Posted on Sunday, 19 April 2009 by David Gorsline

New cattail growth is ankle-high, and the understory in the forest is starting to green up. We had our first box hatch out on Friday (according to reports from a photographer), and the hen and thirteen ducklings put on a … Continue reading →

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Not for unsteady souls

Posted on Thursday, 16 April 2009 by David Gorsline

Happy 90th to living national treasure Merce Cunningham. Alastair Macaulay’s piece for the Times provides the headline for this post. I saw Cunningham with his company in the Eisenhower in 2004.

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Round Arch Style

Posted on Wednesday, 15 April 2009 by David Gorsline

Earlier this week a train malfunction led to my early exit from Metro at McPherson Square, and a fortunate exit it was, for my path took me within a block of a downtown building I’d never noticed before, at 13th … Continue reading →

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Now and there

Posted on Monday, 13 April 2009 by David Gorsline

Kent Boese has started a swell series of Then and now posts for Greater Greater Washington.

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No applicable category

Posted on Sunday, 12 April 2009 by David Gorsline

Very nice profile of sui generis cartoonist Lynda Barry by Christopher Borrelli for the Chicago Tribune. The richest praise is from fellow cartoonist Chris Ware: “…just as Charles Schultz created the first sympathetic cartoon character in Charlie Brown, Lynda was … Continue reading →

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Antebellum

Posted on Sunday, 12 April 2009 by David Gorsline

A young and naive Jewish woman of Atlanta, looking forward to seeing the world premiere of Gone with the Wind with her husband, is accosted by a mysterious black woman; while the commandant of a mid-1930s German prison camp maintains … Continue reading →

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Good on ya: 5

Posted on Thursday, 9 April 2009 by David Gorsline

Congratulations to the Columbus Blue Jackets–the expansion team with the the peculiar logo that incorporates the Ohio state flag and the demure name that is a nod to the state’s Civil War history–for making their first Stanley Cup Playoffs.

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