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With the busy holiday travel season just starting, here’s a few tips for making your trip a bit easier.
The hectic holiday season, with rushed shopping, stressful trips out of town to visit relatives and vacation get-aways, all that require a lot of planning, can end up scrambling your brain.
Little details such as “Where’s […]
In effort to save money, immediately after Thanksgiving, Metro reduced the number of weekend and off-peak weekday subway train cars from 6 to 4. But the money-saving decision was not favorably received by riders.
After strong complaints from Metro riders regarding crowds when shorter trains arrived at stations full, causing some passengers to be unable […]
Looking for a few ideas for that perfect holiday gift for someone special?
Try a trip with your special woman to the Harry Winston Gallery in the Hall of Gems, at the Museum of Natural History in DC. And watch her reaction. You might learn exactly what she might might like, in a non-threatening environment, […]
We’ve had our first snowfall of the season. The first frost of the season has come and gone, killing any Fall bedding plants. And the annual tradition of people freaking out due to a trace of snow on the roads has occurred, all without major death and destruction.
And sadly, that means most of the trees […]
Grab your favorite Hawaiian shirt and flip-flops for a New Year’s Eve Parrot Head Voyage to Margaritaville celebration on the Potomac River, and ring in 2008 Jimmy Buffet style.
Party and dance the night away aboard The Cherry Blossom, a reproduction of a 19th-century Victorian sternwheeler riverboat. Two live bands will accompany the open bar, […]
With so many monuments and memorials around DC, here’s a few sources for monument and monument themed-related holiday gifts.
Air Force - gifts from the U.S. Air Force Memorial
Army - lots of Army-related gifts
Marines - from the National Museum of the Marine Corps
Navy - Navy related gifts form the U.S. Navy Memorial gift shop.
More Navy gifts - […]
Take the original Star Wars trilogy, let one man play all the characters and what do you get?
The One-Man Star Wars Trilogy… at a theater far, far away.
The sole performer and writer of this 75-minute high-energy, family-friendly production, Charles Ross, probably saw the Star Wars movies a few times too many. He’ll fight for both the […]
The cimbalom, the chapman stick, airpoles, drums, PVC tubes and gongs make up the instrumentation. Blue neon grease-painted faces, music, comedy and multimedia theatrics in a party atmosphere make up the rest.
The area closest to the stage as the “poncho section”, and patrons are provided ponchos to protect them from flying “materials” used in […]
On the eve of the birth of baby Jesus, three lowly shepherds bed down and fall asleep while tending to their flocks. A thief steals a prized sheep and with the help of his wife, disguises it as their own newborn son. The three wise shepherds eventually realize the theft and discover the thieves, bringing […]
If you can’t find enough holiday movies on television and need to jump start that festive feeling, visit The Arlington Cinema ‘N’ Drafthouse on Sunday for their 2007 Christmas Movie Festival.
Bring the kids to meet Santa, learn to make gingerbread houses and enjoy over 9 hours of feature films and classic holiday cartoons […]
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Written by Jon Rochetti [email] for b5media.
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