It’s May and that means bike love and bike events. Today’s Bike and Roll to School Day looked like a lot of fun: The inaugural installment of Hill Family Biking seems to have been a success this past Saturday: Over 250 biking enthusiasts took to the road and enjoyed two-wheeled camaraderie. Want to be part […]
Let me start this week’s Buzz by issuing a huge and hearty congratulations to our local Petal Porch winner, Lauren Stockwell, whose masterpiece, “Somewhere Over the Cranebow” came back for a second year, in an even bigger, more lovely form. Big congratulations, Lauren! What a stunning entry! (Go to her Instagram so you can see […]
It’s Spring Break, so while many of you are enjoying/suffering through a very warm break, I am eating my weight in smoked meats over in Montréal. Not entirely sure if this is a yupster enough destination for Barred in DC, but then again, I am not a yupster, and I travel with two teens and […]
Happy Spring! There will be a high in the mid-80s today and the land is absolutely covered in thick pollen. Reproductive glands, indeed. What is happening around our Claritin-addled brains? Today, the Mayor kicked off Jazz in Bloom at Union Station. She also talked about the budget and monies needed for the revitalization of the […]
I recently gave a talk about the history of Eastern Market in its North Hall. Sadly, I was not able to cover everything I wanted to talk about, for the simple reason that I had 45 minutes, not several hours. So, herewith, another detail of the story of the market, and how its architect went […]