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Fun for your Humpday: Did you vote?

April 4th, 2012 · No Comments · Capitol Hill

Here’s hoping you got your civic duty on yesterday and voted. Your city needs you! I know it’s easy to become jaded with the electoral process, and indulge in the feeling that your vote does not count: many an argument has probably begun with someone giving their impassioned rally cry to engage in the electoral [...]

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Get Your Vitamin D Fix

March 21st, 2012 · No Comments · Barracks Row, Eastern Market, H Street

This warm weather has been an ideal way to usher in spring following the best (read: nonexistent) DC winter I’ve ever experienced. With so much sunshine and dare I say flip flops in your future, outdoors are the new indoors. And you don’t have to break the piggy bank to have some fun. This week, [...]

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Books! You Remember Those

March 9th, 2012 · No Comments · Capitol Hill North

Saturday’s forecast is predicted to be a sunny 50 degrees, with nary a cloud in sight. Why not leave all of the electronic gadgets that bind you behind and visit a place you may remember from childhood. The library! Specifically the Northeast Branch of the DC Public Library, which is having its 80th anniversary celebration [...]

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Kids Yoga began Sunday at Yoga District

March 1st, 2012 · No Comments · Capitol Hill, H Street

Budding tween yogis now have a local class just for them. Sunday February 26th the H Street branch of Yoga District began a six-week class designed for kids ages 7 -13. The hour-long classes begin at 1:30 and will cover yoga basics such as breathing and mediation techniques as well as simple and fun asanas [...]

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The To Do List

March 1st, 2012 · No Comments · Capitol Hill

Happy March to you all. “In like a lion?” Not so much. While our local weather has been utterly wonky, we do know that this month will present us with opportunities to both watch basketball and drink green beer. Nothing else is guaranteed, as far as I can tell. So let’s live in the moment..or [...]

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Take me out to the Ballgame: 10 reasons to cheer on the Nationals in 2012

February 28th, 2012 · No Comments · Capitol Hill, Capitol Riverfront/ Near Southeast, DC

By Andrea Klee This time of year, right before spring training really gets underway, is full of optimism and predictions among baseball fans. Your shiny new team—packaged or cobbled together over the off-season—has yet to take the field together, and anything can happen between spring training and the World Series: 162 games need to be [...]

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“The Gaming Table” at the Folger Theatre: Girl Power

February 24th, 2012 · 2 Comments · Capitol Hill, Capitol Hill South, DC

When we learn the unromantic truth regarding plays in Shakespeare’s time about women’s roles — that is, that they were usually played by younger men — it’s easy to chalk it up to the relatively restricted role of women in 17th century society. Virginia Woolf famously lamented the unhappy lot that would have meant being [...]

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Fun for your Humpday: What I do

February 22nd, 2012 · No Comments · Capitol Hill

Hello interwebbers! I’m back to bring you something completely time-killing and FUN, with that soupçon of depth that helps to cope with the fact that none of us is working around this time of day. Today’s installment? Surely you’ve seen versions of this meme cropping up like crazy all over your Facebooks! Here are a [...]

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The To Do List

February 2nd, 2012 · No Comments · Capitol Hill

So here we are: the first weekend of February in the good ol’ U S of A. What is there to do? For starters, there is apparently some fab game going on– they throw this funny-shaped ball back and forth and the players wear tight spandex. I hear it’s pretty good. If you want to [...]

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Fun For Your Humpday, not on Humpday: Sh!t Hill People Say?

January 19th, 2012 · 7 Comments · Capitol Hill

Hey there! Because I care for you and want you to be entertained, I have rounded up some of the funnier bits from that one great internet meme, Sh!t (insert group) say. As in, Sh!t Girls Say, etc. True, this particular meme may have jumped the shark, but you can decide which one is the [...]

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