This weekend is jam-packed with cherry blossom events. There’s the lantern walks on Friday evening, the Southwest Waterfront fireworks show on Saturday night and the Cherry Blossom 10-miler on Sunday morning. You won’t want to miss a chance to visit the Tidal Basin this weekend. But, once you’ve elbowed your way through the throngs to see [...]
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I know it’s cool to trash Valentine’s Day, but I fail to see the problem with a holiday made up to sell more chocolate. (And, um, if anyone asks, I like good chocolate. Preferably dark. I’m also fond of daisies. All the colors.) Life is too short to gripe and moan about candy heart with [...]
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Friday, November 16 The Fridge (7 p.m. to 11 p.m.) The Fridge presents Relax, an exchange print portfolio show featuring student work from the Corcoran’s graduate Art and The Book program An opening reception is scheduled for Friday November 16 from 7pm to 11pm. The portfolio includes woodcut, linocut, silkscreen, lithography, etching, letterpress, and digital [...]
The decorations are already up and the carols are starting to spin despite Thanksgiving being a week away. How will you spend this last weekend before the holiday buzz begins? Here are a few suggestions… Tonight the Hill Center presents a new installation of paintings, photography, digital images and mobiles at a free reception with the [...]
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You guys! What are we going to do now that the election is over? Don’t you feel just a bit empty, having nothing to speculate about and obsess over? Before we start plotting for 2016 let’s get out and have a little fun this weekend. Tonight from 6:30 -8:30 practice some public speaking of your own over at the [...]
Most of us seem to have made it through the hurricane intact– maybe a a few leaks here and there. I’ve been glued to news coverage, feeling helpless as I watch the flooded or destroyed streets and beaches of my youth in Staten Island and the Jersey Shore. I’ve been feeling so guilty as my parents and [...]
Hello everyone we are back and getting ready for another weekend. The major fall festivals are behind us and we have some time before the mandatory fun season of Halloween through New Year’s begins. This is our time to be reflective, maybe? Or perhaps you will take this time to check out some performance art [...]
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This Saturday presents a confusing cultural conundrum. It is the day of the Kentucky Derby, the tradition-bound horse race that somehow also celebrates seersucker and mint juleps. Saturday is also Cinco De Mayo (no relation) a Mexican holiday that celebrates margaritas and sombreros. Many people who have zero affiliation with, or even understanding of, either culture [...]
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We have much to celebrate this weekend, what with the Nats home opener this afternoon. They are looking good, so spirits will be high. Of course taxes are due next week so the (surely very few) procrastinators among us may be frantically digging for deductions this weekend as well. Aside from taxes and baseball what [...]
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