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Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus is coming to town. Human cannonballs, tiger tamers, elephants, horse acts, acrobats, jugglers, showgirls, high-wire acts, and of course, the clowns.
For 138 years, The Greatest Show On Earth has played to audiences around the globe. Starting in 1871, as P.T. Barnum’s Great Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan and [...]
The tune Sweet Georgia Brown is synonymous with The Harlem Globetrotters, who are in town this Saturday for two appearances, one at the Verizon Center and the second at George Mason University’s Patriot Center this Saturday.
The “Ambassadors of Goodwill“® have been entertaining basketball fans for 82 years.
The Harlem GlobetrottersVerizon Center601 F Street, NW, [...]
It’s said that everyone is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day so celebrate Irish-American Heritage Month by joining pipe bands, fife and drum corps, Irish dancers, mounted esquarian teams, police, and fire departments, antique automobiles, floats and more at this year’s annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Washington, DC.
The parade has been an yearly [...]
The Washington Home & Garden Show starts today and boasts over 700 exhibits and exhibitors, making it the largest annual home & garden show in the area.
See hundreds of displays featuring the latest trends and styles in home decorating, remodeling and landscaping.
The show’s Garden Marketplace offers gardening products, cut flowers, as well as exotic bulbs [...]
What can I say? The Ritz Carlton hotel chain is one of my favorite hotel chains. And there’s a good reason. They provide service as it should be.
I had the opportunity to tour and spend the night at the Pentagon City Ritz Carlton Hotel in suburban Arlington in mid-February.
Attached to the Pentagon [...]
In some great historical news, the Magna Carta, which had been on display until last October at the The National Archives, will be returning as a permanent public display at The National Archives, beginning this evening.
The 1297 charter of English la, which had been on display for over 20 at the Archives, and one [...]
In April, I wrote about the controversial plastination human body exhibit here in Washington, DC, Bodies - the Exhibition. The major controversy surrounding the exhibit were reports of questionable sourcing of Chinese bodies, for use in the preserved and skinless anatomical exhibit. The claims were that many of the bodies were used in Bodies [...]
And it’s not due to the latest Federal budget.
It’s the 5th Annual Congressional Blues Festival at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. And the lottery for FREE tickets starts tomorrow morning.
This year’s free concert includes performances by:
The Robert Cray Band,
Elvin Bishop - “Fooled Around and Fell In Love”,
Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion,
Beverly [...]
Remember, Daylight Savings Time began this morning, so don’t forget to set your clock ahead one hour this morning.
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The 16th annual Environmental Film Festival in Washington, DC presents 115 environmentally-focused films and shorts from 30 countries, on a range of green topics. Some of the more interesting environmental subjects and green films presented during the 12-day festival schedule include:
Water, including multiple films including a new episode of the Strange Days on Planet Earth [...]
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