In anticipation of Hamilton fever– which started when the tickets first went on sale but will officially reach fever pitch when the musical opens at the Kennedy Center on June 12– the National Postal Museum, a.k.a. the Smithsonian in our backyard, has a very cool exhibit about Alexander Hamilton opening today through March 3, 2019. […]
Greetings friends! Big holiday weekend ahead for some of us. DCPS is taking a mini-break and I am so grateful for the break from waking teens. Of course, this job is replaced by the “waiting up for teens” which is even less pleasant. The local pools should be opening even though the weather may not […]
The carnival at RFK is back next weekend! Now under the auspices of Broccoli City, the immensely successful event and community organizers who brought us the Broccoli City Festival back in April, the carnival, officially called The Smile Project: Carnival & Concert, will take over the post-apocalyptic parking lots of RFK for four glorious days: […]
While it has become less and less the case, Washington can be a reserved place where the status quo limits change, and passion and action-oriented enthusiasm gets squashed. There is no such tamping down in the award-winning Bedlam Theatre Company’s production of Saint Joan at the Folger Theatre. Joan and her message are as powerful as a […]
By Alan Chargin D.C. teams have lost 6 straight winner-take-all games: Nats to Cubs, Wizards to Celtics and Caps to Penguins all last year; Nats to Dodgers and Redskins to Packers in 2016; and the Caps again in 2015 to the Rangers. With the exception of the Redskins game, I’ve watched every minute of those […]