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I might sound like your mother, but if you head out tonight to enjoy some of the many New Year’s Eve celebrations, please make sure you have a designated driver.  If you do overindulge and need a ride home, you can get home safely by using the
Drivers unable to safely drive their car can request a free cab ride home, up to a maximum value of $50, starting at 10:00 p.m. and until 6:00 am on January 1st. If the ride costs more then $50, the passenger is responsible anything in excess of the $50 maximum.
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Now that the trees are bare, here’s one last Fall color photo, caught in a business park in suburban Maryland a few weeks ago.
 
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One of DC’s top casual music venues, the Birchmere, has some great artists this month.
Upbeat blues-rock singer and songwriter Delbert McClinton musical roots start in Texas, playing in a bar band called the Straightjackets. They backed up some of the biggest legends in blues including Lightnin’ Hopkins, Joe Turner, Sonny Boy Williams, B.B. King, and Bobby Blue Bland.
His distinctive voice and harmonica playing led him to win a Grammy for a duet with Bonnie Raitt on “Good Man, Good Woman”, and a Top Ten hit with Tanya Tucker, “Tell Me About It.” Emmylou Harris also covered Delbert’s “Two More Bottles …read more

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Cut a New Year’s Eve rug — 1940s-style, with New York’s own George Gee & the Jump Jivin’ Wailers. And this ain’t no Mickey Mouse band, they jump daddy-o!
Dance to some high-energy finger zingers played by some cool hepcats at this classy clambake. No longhairs need apply Jackson.
Start your evening with a swing dance lesson that will get you warmed up to jump and jive until after midnight. 
The beautiful Art Deco Spanish Ballroom is a great place to dance, with room for 1,800 dancers.
 
 

This is a Jittersauce-free event (no alcohol served) but light refreshments will be …read more

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“I Write the Songs”, “Mandy”, and “Copacabana” are just a few of Barry Manilow hits.
In one year, 1978, he had 5 albums on best-selling charts - at the same time. Only Johnny Mathis and Old Blue Eyes, Frank Sanatra have achieved that type of popularity. But you either love him or…well, don’t care for him.
At the age of 5, Brooklyn-born Manilow recorded his first “record”, a version of “Happy Birthday” in a coin-operated recording booth. Almost sixty years later, and 40+ records later, his album sales has topped 70 million, with 31 records going platinum..
As a headliner at the Showroom …read more

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The neighborhood of Crystal City in southeast Arlington VA, is within walking distance of Reagan Washington National Airport, the Pentagon, Pentagon City Mall and the National Air Force Memorial.
This sparkling chrome and glass high-rise community was built on acreage comprising of mostly former industrial properties and railroad rights-of-ways. It now houses some of DC’s more desirable commercial properties, hotels, high-rise apartments and retail space.
The first building to be erected in the early 1960s, the Crystal House at 1900 South Eads Street, set the standard for naming buildings in the area, using the word “crystal” in its name, and eventually the area became known as Crystal City.
The …read more

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Hopefully your day will go a bit easier….

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And if you like the silly humor of Mr. Bean…
 
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Christmas Eve is a great time to visit the National Christmas Tree across from The White House. 
Around the tree are 56 smaller evergreens on the “Pathway of Peace”, with each representing one of the 50 U.S. states, plus the 5 territories and the District of Columbia.
If you get cold, stop by the National Yule Log, which gives visitors a change to warm themselves next to the roaring fire.  There’s also a manger scene of baby Jesus.
The tree is a live Colorado Blue Spruce from Pennsylvania and was transplanted in 1978.  Many trees in years past were transplanted …read more

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Each Memorial Day, Arlington National Cemetery honors soldiers killed or wounded in the line of duty by placing a small American flag on their grave site. The service is called Flags In.
The annual Wreaths Across America began in 1992 when the Worcester Wreath Company started laying 20-inch diameter wreaths with a hand-tied red bow on the headstones at Arlington National Cemetery.  Over the years, the program started accepting donations and grew to include over 200 national and veterans cemeteries across the country, including Arlington National Cemetery, nine cemeteries in Maryland and 21 in Virginia.

This year, the program at Arlington National …read more

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