You are invited to join a conversation about creating and executing art projects in and around Amidon-Bowen Elementary School on April 18 at 6 p.m. in the auditorium at the school at 4th and I Streets. Imagine a stairwell filled with whimsical mobiles and colorful banners, or a playground fence […]
Highlights of Monthly PSA 105 Meeting
February 21, 2013, 7-8:30 p.m., Harbour Square Cooperative, 500 N St. SW Participants: Sgt. Michael Architzel and Officers Mopkins and Wong of PSA 105; Naomi Monk and Irv Gamza, PSA 105 meeting coordinators/facilitators and John McGrath recorder. A total of 22 persons were in attendance. Sgt. Architzel reviewed the PSA […]
St. Dominic Church Raising Funds for New Books for Local Students
St. Dominic Catholic Church, 6th and E Streets SW, will again donate new books to students at Amidon-Bowen Elementary School. The children will be allowed to keep the books and encouraged to read more over the summer. Several studies have demonstrated that children who have books at home are more […]
Arena Stage Announces 2013-2014 Season
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Artistic Director Molly Smith described Arena Stage’s 2013-14 season as one filled with “ideas and stories that will powerfully remind us what it is to be human.” “From Afghanistan to the Apollo Theater,” she continued, “these stories about people such as Paul Robeson, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, Anwar Sadat, Menachem […]
Bethesda Chamber Singers Art & Sprit Coffeehouse Performance Postponed
The Bethesda Chamber Singers’ March 6th performance at St. Augustine’s Art & Spirit Coffeehouse was postponed due to weather. It will instead be held on Wednesday, April 3rd, at 7:00 pm. For more information on the group, see our original article on the concert (2/26/13). .
You Go, Girl! Celebrating Women’s History Month
“A good wife is a woman who loves her husband and her country with no desire to run either.” – President Grover Cleveland. A new poll is asking lots of questions about what people think of America’s First Ladies. Questions like: How much influence should she have? Should she get […]
A World Premiere and MLK at Arena
Arena’s two plays in March — The Mountaintop and Mary T. and Lizzie K. — are both built around this question: What if we could listen in on the private conversations of historical characters? First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln and her talented seamstress Elizabeth Keckly (also spelled Keckley) both have their moment to […]