Category: Washington, D.C.

Law Stuff

Sometimes I wonder where the Daily News gets their stories: a lawyer who loves being in parades.

Are blawgs dead? I’d say no, but then again, I’m not exactly a follower of blawgs and I’m still wondering about the state of the newspaper business.

Getting ready for the Senate hearings on the confirmation of Judge Sotomayor (or, at least, tolerate the Senators’ bloviating and bad questions) this week; Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick with the preview. An even more in depth preview from National Law Journal’s Marcia Coyle

Hat tip from a friend/colleague of mine – link to this moving story in the NY Times, about Lloyd Gaines, who sued to enter the U of Missouri Law School during the segregation era, and then disappeared after winning the case in the US Supreme Court. A timely reminder about law’s impact on lives and the role of the NAACP, in time for NAACP’s 100th anniversary.

Weekends

4th of July weekend was very nice. Watched Public Enemies (decent movie, but it had me wanting so much more texture and depth from Johnny Depp and Christian Bale). Checked out the Morgan Library and Museum – which is turning into one of my more favorite museums, simply because Morgan’s library and study are fabulous 19th Century pieces.

This 2nd weekend of July: weekend Road Trip!

Saturday: Philadelphia – As part of the road trip weekend, siblings and I checked out the Star Trek: The Exhibition” at the Franklin Institute on Saturday, in Philly. It was mildly entertaining, but as even this review in the NY Times noted, I personally wished there had been more of a Science Behind Star Trek theme (the Krauss book, by the way — which I’m amazed that the NY Times review referenced! – is quite good on the physics of Trek, even if it is several years old now).

Guess Franklin Institute’s got to be entertaining, rather than educational.

And, needless to say, I – the Trekkie – probably knew way too much for my own good. And, the exhibit played mostly the soundtrack from either the original Trek series or “First Contact,” the latter of which is really good – and reminded me how the last Next Generation movie “Nemesis” left so much to be desired.

Dinner in Phildelphia: Jade Harbor, in Chinatown. Pretty decent food; clean bathroom, more or less (yes, I do get fussy about that).

Sampled a cheesesteak from Geno’s. Probably should have tried Pat’s, the rival.

Sunday: Saturday overnight was spent in Baltimore. Walked around the Inner Harbor area, walked around Babe Ruth’s museum. Caught the game between the Orioles v. Blue Jays. Blue Jays lost. I kept looking for ex-Mets players. Sigh. Didn’t get to do crab cakes, but perhaps another time.

First Krispy Kreme, now it’s going to be Tim Hortons? Tim Hortons coming to NYC?! I could’ve sworn NYC was a Dunkin’ Donuts town, way back when I was a kid and watching those “Time to make the donuts” commercials. Canadian coffee and donuts? If it’s really going to be at Penn Station, it should at least make the hockey fans content when they head to or from the Madison Square Garden and the Rangers games.

This coming Thursday: Juan Diego Florez and Natalie Dessay, in “La Sonnambula” on Channel 13’s Great Performances! Well, I’m something of a fan of both of them – Florez especially, as noted in previous posts).

Here at Triscribe, we talk about APA’s and we have certainly talked a lot about David Chang (or maybe it’s me who has been talking about him, but that’s because the NY Times and Charlie Rose make it easy to learn so much about him) – here, here, here (which contains the link to the Charlie Rose interview with Chang), plus I spent my birthday dinner at the Momofuku Noodle Bar. The latest: how David Chang spends a lazy Sunday – at home, watching… Charlie Rose on DVR? What? So glad to know you like Charlie Rose, Mr. Chang!

Last, but not least: eventually, I got to check out the new MoCA! Not that its old location is/was bad – the Mulberry St place made it a part of the community, right in the middle of NYC’s Chinatown (Chinatowns being the heart of the concept of the Chinese diaspora), but it’s great that they’re transitioning into bigger space. Fascinating review in the NY Times.

June’s End

This year is going too fast for me. Gasp.

As of June 29, 2009:

Awww, is it really the end of this year’s Supreme Court Breakfast Table? Lithwick et al. did a fabulous job analyzing the New Haven firefighters case (which employers are going to have to grapple with from here on in; how much of an impact is there on disparate impact in employment discrimination cases remains very much to be seen).

Emily Bazelon’s analysis was a sharp follow up to her and co-writer Nicole Allan’s look at New Haven’s fire department. I think Walter Dellinger was on the money – and Linda Greenhouse – about whether the US S.Ct’s decision would have much of an impact on Judge Sotomayor’s confirmation process.

Anyway, so I’m still trying to digest the New Haven firefighter case, and that whole Bernie Madoff sentencing stuff.

An interesting look at the history of the stereotypical Asian Babe – and how demeaning it really is.

6/29/09 – Caught a little bit of roving Shakespeare in (Battery) Park – King Lear (more this summer!). It kind of reminded me of how they used to do Shakespeare at Alma Mater, with the troupe running around campus as they enacted each scene.