Every year, the Rosslyn BID puts on free movies on a screen in Gateway Park (right near the Key Bridge, map here). this year they are doing 80’s flicks, and the lineup is excellent. As in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure Excellent. I encourage you to go if you have nothing pressing on your Friday evenings — it’s free, and you can bring a picnic dinner, or need I say some vino (keep it in cups of course). Full schedule:
Movie Year Date Rating
Goonies 1985 May 1 PG
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure 1989 May 8 PG
Dirty Dancing 1987 May 15 PG-13
16 Candles 1984 May 22 PG
Blues Brothers 1980 May 29 R
Weird Science 1985 June 5 PG-13
Breakfast Club 1985 June 12 R
Labyrinth 1986 June 19 PG
Footloose 1984 June 26 PG
Top Gun 1986 July 3 PG
Karate Kid 1984 July 10 PG
Back to the Future 1985 July 17 PG
Short Circuit 1986 July 24 PG
E.T. 1982 July 31 PG
Pretty in Pink 1986 Aug. 7 PG-13
Beetlejuice 1988 Aug. 14 PG
Ghostbusters 1984 Aug. 21 PG
Meatballs 1987 Aug.28 PG
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off 1986 Sept. 4 PG-13
Check it (no idea how reliable this is):
A television crew will create a special effects explosion on the Potomac River, near the Key Bridge, on Wednesday morning, according to city officials.
The following message has been forwarded to various neighborhood email lists by DDOT spokesperson Karyn LeBlanc.
Please be advised CBS Paramount will be filming for a television pilot titled “Washington Field” in the District for one day on Wednesday, March 25, 2009. This is a new television series about the elite Washington field office of the FBI and a team of agents with exceptional and diverse skills who are called together for only the most critical cases.
The first shot they will be shooting in the District takes place on the Potomac River just north of the Key Bridge and Jack’s Boathouse (K / Water Street, NW under the Whitehurst Freeway). In the scene, there will be six (6) sculling boats on the Potomac River and one of them blows up. The special effect simulating the explosion will occur on Wednesday March 25th between 9:30am and 12:00pm (noon).
NOTE: It will NOT blow the boat into a million little pieces. Instead there will be a 20′ to 30′ high fire ball that will last approximately two (2) seconds. All material will be vaporized and there may be a small plume of smoke. The sound will be a low thud; not a loud bang.
This is the view from my desk — hopefully I get to see some pyrotechnics:
I’m looking out from Rosslyn over the Potomac toward Georgetown, scrolling over to Key Bridge on left. Traffic doesn’t look too bad, and buses and metro seemed to run okay this morning.
I may from the area, but I can’t handle anything below 40 degrees. It also doesn’t help that the walk up N lynn st to work is like a wind tunnel. Yes, I am a huge wuss.
In sports news, Jodie Meeks lit up Tennessee for 54 points, including 10 3-pointers! I think Bruce Pearl and the bright orange jacket are overrated every year, and this should be no exception. The SEC in general is pretty awful, having no teams in the top 25 ranking for the first time in, like, forever.
