1. While I was all excited about the opening of a Le Pain Quotidien in Clarendon ($3 for 3 cups of coffee, but not so good during brunch time when everyone wants to use it as a real restaurant), Julia went to Murky and noticed that they are closing! Long-time readers will remember how much Miss Self-Important hates Murky, which sucks at everything except espresso, including such basic things as paying its taxes and cleaning its premises. Now it turns out that the well-appointed restaurant across the street is buying them and will perform "a full renovation of the building"--excellent news for anyone who was concerned that the apparently condemned upstairs would fall on his head while he was sipping a latte below.
2. 94.7, the local classic rock station, has apparently become something called "Fresh FM." Their playlist is now identical to the general 80s-90s-00s that they play on 100.3 and 107.3. Is FM radio undergoing some kind of convergence of stations into one giant, indiscriminate iPod shuffle? Is that why my oldies station is now the same oldies station as in Chicago? And why it can only has one DJ?
Monday, April 06, 2009
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That 94.7 really burns my biscuits. And I too was excited by The Daily Bread opening in Clarendon.
It's hard to imagine now, but the Clarendon-Ballston corridor used to be just car dealerships and putt putt golf courses, before the C&B spaceship landed in Clarendon . . . rabid dogs roamed the streets, trash fires burned in empty lots . . . Well the Ballston mall was first, but that seemed to go downscale pretty rapidly, I've never really understood why, the sushi is firstrate.
WCKG in Chicago changed to the lame "Fresh" format. It appears that terrestrial radio has gone the way of network television. As the cognoscenti move to the unfettered, unregulated Internet (iPhone has a very reasonably priced application that allows one to access hundreds of Internet radio stations), traditional radio stations try to pull in as many listeners as possible.
As is the case with network TV, the conventional wisdom is to be as vanilla and inoffensive as possible. Plus, because it is free, terrestrial radio is bound by FCC regulations. That combination guarantees lameness.
flg: Why are you sassing Miss Self-Important?
lance: I believe it. There remain car dealerships and tire stores, but I fear that the bourgie home furnishings industry has run out of venders to take their place. We already have the C&B, Container Store, Ethan Allen, Pottery Barn and Williams Sonoma, all within two square blocks. Maybe Clarendon will need to diversify?
MGC: Well, there is always country. That has yet to succumb to the pop-shuffle format.
I'm not sassing. I'm truly bummed about The Globe and I was also excited about Le Pain Quotidien, which I always translate into English for the benefit of non-francophones, opening in Clarendon.
Just ran across your blog, but I live in Ballston, so I was delighted to see Clarendon news :). I had wanted to try Murky for months, but never got around to it. And, are you referring to 105.9 as the oldies station? Because, seriously, that guy is on all day, every day.
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