For every game that my family bikes to, we use the wonderful valet service that I’ve written about in previous posts. Last night I realized that my previous post overlooked two key components: Olajawon Davis and Delonte Brown, the wonderful employees who make the bike valet station run. When we arrive at the garage on the corner […]
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 […]
Tonight at 7pm Taffety Punk Theatre Company is performing the rarely produced King John at the Folger Shakespeare Library. These hardcore Shakespeareans often produce the work of the Bard and other rock stars in the theater at the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop but tonight they take on the Elizabethan stage in manner not unlike that […]
I grew up in the country, on a farm, where fresh produce was in abundance all summer long. Our plates were full of fresh corn, okra, tomatoes, cabbage, kale, shallots, berries, and the likes all summer long. We never needed to visit the produce aisles of our local supermarket, because everything we needed was right […]
With DC schools welcoming students in less than a month, waiting lists at sought-after Hill elementary schools have shaken out a teensy bit to allow some lucky few to enroll their children come Aug. 22. But luck here is relative. Peabody Elementary preschool program here on the Hill has the longest waitlist in the city […]