Posts Tagged “dc”
Everybody out there is an expert on something. For some people, it’s nuclear engineering. For others, maybe it’s how to develop sophisticated computer programs. I happen to know how to make it through a hurricane. Which is lucky for you if you happen to be in the supposed path of Hurricane Sandy, aka FRANKENSTORM. Before [...]
Neighborhood festivals are a huge part of what makes DC a beautiful place to live. Even though, geographically, our fair district is on the tiny side (D.C. covers 68.3 sq miles of land; for comparison, Chicago covers 234 square miles), we have a huge variety of culturally distinct neighborhoods and enclaves which love to celebrate [...]
Happy Labor Day weekend to everyone! Yesterday evening I had the wonderful pleasure of visiting one of DC’s most historic neighborhoods, Capitol Hill, to attend a happy hour in support of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation’s 2012 Cycle for Life event. This year’s ride will be in Germantown on October 21st. Please click the link for [...]
Here’s a quick list of the best of the weekend’s event round ups from across the DC-centric internet: Brightest Young Things DC: This weekend BYT is playing up the Capital Fringe Festival, Bastille Day, and Paul Mooney comedy show over at Howard. Going Out Gurus: The Washington Post’s nexus for local and area happenings. I [...]
A twitter friend of mine, @dancetotheradio, is doing something this month that I think is pretty neat. She’s decided to spend all of July totally sober and to blog about what it’s like on her new tumblr, aptly named SoberJuly. She’s not doing it because she has a problem; as she writes in her first [...]
There’s not much out there more Washingtonian than presidential politics. With Election Day ever-looming but still months away, we’re all growing a bit weary of friends’ Facebook rants and emails from Joe Biden. Though, I’ll admit it, I did get a momentary thrill out of that email from Sarah Jessica Parker with the simple subject [...]
Oh, man. I almost forgot. The weekend is upon us again. Praise be. Here’s a quick list of the best of it from where I’m sitting: Brightest Young Things DC: This list of awesomeness is infused with the best of the best gifs of Channing Tatum. Going Out Gurus: The Washington Post’s nexus for local [...]
It took me several years to overcome my fear of the National Mall on big event days. Like many a DC resident, for years I dutifully avoided any patch of tourist-teeming grass between the Monument and the Capitol Building on major holidays or whenever angry protesting mobs were set to be mobilizing (God bless ‘em [...]
**Update: The DC drybar will be located right by the Social Safeway at 1825 Wisconsin Ave NW. Hoorah!** Boy, did Washingtonian publish a titillating scoop on Tuesday when its Shop Around blog announced news that Washington is getting its very own drybar location. The new place should be somewhere on upper Wisconsin Ave in Georgetown [...]
