If you have been following our monthly updates you will quickly realize that Southwest has been and continues to be on an upward climb. I believe the numbers this month tell the story. March 2015 March 2014 %Change Sold Dollar Volume $7,72,600 $5,432,800 43.07% Avg Sold Price $370,124 $319,576 15.82% Median Sold Price $320,000 $305,000 […]
High School Sophomores, Juniors, and Parents: Start College Planning Now!
The college and financial aid planning process can be a confusing puzzle, so SWNA’s Education and Scholarship Task Force invites high school students and their parents to an afternoon with Cynthia Hammond-Davis, a college and financial advisor who has helped many parents and students navigate the process of applying for and getting into college. Ms. Hammond-Davis will […]
With Sherri L. Edelen of ‘Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike’
Sherri L. Edelen appears as Sonia in Arena Stage’s rollicking production of Christopher Durang’s Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. The show opens on April 3, just in time for Cherry Blossom celebrations. I started off by asking Sherri if she has any cherry blossom stories. “In my 27 years in the area, only one,” […]
A Date with Justice Scalia
Currently running at Arena Stage is one of the strongest performances of the season in The Originalist. Likely the most famous stage actor in the District, Edward Gero plays the iconoclast Justice Antonin ‘Nino’ Scalia. Through the single act, one hour and 45 minute play, Gero takes on a mentor role to a young law clerk with decidedly opposing […]
M Street Yoga Settles In
As an update to the “Know Your Neighborhood” article from our October 2014 issue, I met again with Pamela Fierst-Walsh, owner of M Street Yoga, to see how the studio has been doing since opening seven months ago. I first attended a class taught by James Fraser, who has been instructing yoga for four years. This […]
Southwest DC Youth Attend HBCU Fair
photo caption: (L to R) South Carolina State University Alumna Juanita Wilder, LaVance Parker, and PerChaya Hardison. Youth from Southwest DC attended a Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Fair at the Oxon Hill Library in Oxon Hill, Md. on Wednesday, Feb. 25. The event was sponsored by Friends of Oxon Hill Library. The event provided […]
Arena Stage Finishes Season with Familial Drama
The final two shows of Arena Stage’s 2014-15 season, have something in common—what happens when four sisters with very different ideas get together? Christopher Durang’s funny, award-winning play Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (April 3 to May 3) is a madcap mix-up of Anton Chekhov’s masterpiece. The gloomy characters are relocated to Bucks County, Pa., where […]