To be fair, let me say that I’m not a connoisseur of the red line, especially once it goes beyond Union Station. The first time I ever took the red line and got off just one stop after that, at New York Ave, I was a shivering 19-year-old student who had been cajoled into going […]
When I think of farmers, it’s hard to shake the image associated with all those childhood sing-a-longs of “Old McDonald”—the big red barn, the American denim overalls, the thin piece of straw sticking out his mouth as he rides a tractor or visits the chickens, etc. I certainly never pictured Old McDonald sending out a […]
If you’re interested in taking advantage of the booming H Street corridor with your own business aspirations, now is your big chance — and apparently you don’t have to go broke doing it. DC is introducing an incentive program to build retail on H Street, NE, currently home to trendy hotspots like H Street Country […]
A classmate I had at GW once told me, during our final week as students, that she wasn’t afraid of not being able to find a job after graduation. What scared her the most, she said, was not singing. After four years in the choir and in an a Capella group, it was easy for […]
Just because the 4th of July is over doesn’t mean you have to stop being patriotic. Only now, instead of the US, it’s time to celebrate France for Bastille Day! Before you get out your freedom fries, let me just say, as a child of two very French natives (I can decipher any accent from […]