If you’re a fan of reality TV and food porn, mark your calendar for Saturday, May 28, and Sunday, May 29. “Top Chef: The Tour” will be rolling into Eastern Market for a veritable Food-a-palooza, complete with cook-offs between participating chefs. The event will also include demonstrations, raffles, games, and chances for photos and autographs with […]
Among many liquor license and zoning issue agenda items this month, the ANCs are all finalizing and voting on their resolutions on recommendations for the upcoming redistricting. I am expecting each group to recommend that the city leave their boundary lines as-is, but the City Council’s subcommittee will have the ultimate say. In other news, […]
In part one of this article we started to examine the pros and cons of synthetic turf, specifically with respect to the new installation at Watkins Elementary/Watkins Recreation Center. There’s more to say about plastic, though, and specifically when plastic is installed outside as a playing field. Another concern with regard to synthetic turf heating […]
Over the winter and early spring the grass field behind Watkins Elementary School was replaced with an artificial turf playing surface. I’d been wondering about the ecological impact of replacing live plant material with a synthetic system and I had a suspicion there were camps for and against the transition. The data I found wasn’t […]
Here is another great installment of Elizabeth’s gardening column. Have a question for Elizabeth? Send it to questionforelizabeth@gmail.com! –MHC It is hard not to stare in awe at the world around us when year after year our environment transforms from a brown, apparently lifeless, terrain into a lavish display of colors and textures. And every […]