This one is for all the local creative types who want to network and meet like-minded individuals, and who are just a little tired of having to explain that, yes, you can have a creative career in DC not directly linked to politics. You guys: you need to meet Morgan Hungerford West. If her name […]
It’s too hot to exert too much energy gallivanting outside the Hill this week, and why should you? There’s lots of high and low key events going on to keep you busy. Capitol Hill Art Workshop’s annual summer of Gilbert & Sullivan is back in full –and, as always, slightly twisted– form. The production of […]
There is a barricade situation going on at Kingman Park right now in the 500 block of 25th Place NE, near Benning Road NE and close to the RFK parking lots. According to residents who have been tweeting the blog Frozen Tropics and us for the past hour (since 7:27 a.m. as of this post), there […]
I have considered getting Massachusetts Avenue tattooed onto my forearm–although that tattoo would run from my wrist and clear to my shoulder and I’m not ready for that kind of commitment. Running from Southeast DC, briefly interrupted by the Anacostia River, passing through many a landmark and not slowed down by the most fearsome traffic circle in […]
Lately, it feels inescapable, more so than other years: everywhere you turn, there is a friend or acquaintance whose car windows were bashed in or who had a package stolen. Someone you know was mugged. Someone you know was stabbed randomly. Is crime really that much worse this summer than all others? Well, yes, and no. According […]