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Boaters call them Dingy Dine-Arounds, where you go from boat to boat in your row boat sampling a different dinner course at each host’s boat. On land, they’re commonly called Progressive Dinners. But today, I heard a new term, the “Ramble Dinner” - where one ‘rambles’ around to different places to enjoy in their dining courses.
Professionals in […]
For two hours, dogs* and their owners will be treated to fine champagne and wines and decadent desserts created by twenty of DC’s top chefs and cooking instructors at the fifth annual A Sugar and Champagne Affair.
Benefiting the Washington Humane Society’s Law Enforcement and Humane Education Programs, this event honors DC animal cops who rescue animals and fight animal […]
It’s the Year of the Pig (or Boar) and the annual Chinese New Year kicks off the year 4705 starting with the new moon on February 18th. Fifteen days later, it ends with the Lantern Festival.
On the days before the New Year celebration, Chinese families give their home a complete and through cleaning. It’s believed […]
South African jazz trumpeter – actually flugelhorn and cornet player, Hugh Masekela, has been a jazz pioneer since the 1950s.
His exposure to music when he was young helped mold his style. Influenced by the 78 RPM gramophone records that he listened to as a kid, starting with American jazz greats such as Louis Armstrong (who […]
The DC Shakespeare Festival is in full swing and dozens of the area theaters, museums and concert halls are putting on productions of Shakespeare’s works and other Bard related productions.
One caught my eye and raises the question… To hate or not to hate, that is the question —
I Hate Hamlet by Paul Rudnick is a […]
Looking up the marble spiral staircase off the Great Hall at the Supreme Court Building.
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As part of the ultimate citywide Shakespeare Festival running from January through June, venues across Washington DC will be presenting all kinds of Shakespearian events, including music, dance, plays, film, art and more. With over 20 classic retellings of Will’s most notable plays such as Hamlet and King Lear to more avant-garde or “unique” interpretations […]
No, you don’t need to travel to Alaska, Hawaii or the Baja Peninsula to watch the annual whale migration. Just off the coast of Virginia, near Virginia Beach (about 3 hours by car), you can take a winter whale watching boat trip.
Boats depart from the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center in Virginia Beach and take […]
The MOMIX dance-illusionist troupe combines physical theatre, circus, incredable athleticism, dance and comedy with dramatic lighting, multimedia images, exciting costumes and total body control to captivate audiences.
MOMIX returns to the DC area with another how-do-they-do-that performance of Lunar Sea, a fluid and surreal journey to an aquatic world. Using glow in the dark floating dancers, […]
The famous words by President Franklin Roosevelt in his first inagural address in 1933 “…we have nothing to fear, but fear itsef…” continues ”… nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance”.
Micheal Baldessari and Jim Helein co-authored and performed in Sacred Cows at the Conseratory; a funny and fast-paced set of skits […]
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