Beginning Monday, DC Parks and Recreation is hosting a four course series on Urban Beekeeping at Sherwood Recreation Center, 640 10th Street, NE. (Pre-registration required. Contact Kelly.Melsted [at] dc.gov to reserve your space.) The classes, on February 22nd, March 1st, 8th and 15th, from 6:30-9 PM, will be taught by local beekeeper Toni Burnham. Uncertain […]
So, it’s the first weekend after almost a week back to school and work post-Snowmapocoloozalypse. Routines are slowly (very damn slowly) returning to normal. It’s been a rough week (whether you were trying to navigate downtown traffic or whooping it up for Mardi Gras) but with highs in the low 40s predicted all weekend, at […]
The District is a city filled with transplants and long-time residents, and the only thing we can agree on is that we don’t agree when it comes to the best place to call for take out. Being from the suburbs of Philly, my first choice for take out on a cold Friday night is my […]
Now that actress Natalie Portman’s vegan shoe line has gone extinct, er, belly up, what’s a vegan girl to do when she wants to look fashionable? And stay chic and comfy without feathers, fur, or fluffy, warm wool, spun silk or those toasty cashmere socks from The Forecast? Sure, it is easy to avoid fur, but […]
It seems that most of us have made it intact through the worst the Snowpocalypse had to offer: we have shoveled until we were blue in the face; we have salted and we have dug, and we have checked roofs and lived in fear that these old houses might turn on us and not be […]