Fashion designer Dyanne Marte has been bringing her sporty and catchy knitwear to the Eastern Market weekend market area for a couple of years, now. She and her clothes are hard to miss—Dyanne, 32, is as tall as a fashion model and has a smile to match, but she is demure beside her vibrant purple, […]
One of the things I hope to do sometime, sooner rather than later, is to be able to go to Munich, Germany, and raise a stein while singing drinking songs and partaking in the 16-day greatness that I imagine is Oktoberfest. But meanwhile (and thankfully), Barracks Row Main Street has brought the charm and spirit […]
Tunnicliff’s Tavern is a popular Hill watering hole that has been a local favorite since the early 1980s. Its name, however, has a much longer history reaching back to before Washington was the capital of the country. From the mid 1790s, during a ten-year period, a man named William Tunnicliff ran taverns that were important […]
If you’re like me (by that I mean nerdy), an opportunity to attend a free public lecture about an interesting topic is actually quite exciting. Pairing such an event with a cup of coffee or a beer with friends before or after sounds like even more fun. There are two such possible evenings coming up […]
If you’ve been a regular reader of my little column, you may have picked up that I grew up out West. Also, if you know me in person, you may know that I tend to mix up “out West” and “back East”. To me, it only made sense the other way around, after all. Why […]