As I ride my Capital Bikeshare up 4th Street towards the National Mall, I start to remember my college years back at North Georgia College and the many nights I spent looking up at the stars. For three years I worked at our school’s observatory, including two at the planetarium. […]
Blind Whino Hosts Dinner Lab, DC’s Newest Food Experience
When you think of upscale dinner locales, you don’t normally think of Blind Whino. Why would you? The ultra-hip, reclaimed church is not a food venue. It doesn’t even have a kitchen. None of that mattered on the evening of May 15, however. DC’s newest food experience took over Delaware […]
KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD: Trapeze School of New York
For our first foray into Navy Yard for the Know Your Neighborhood series, we looked at one of the most known unknowns of our neighborhood: the Trapeze School of New York—Washington, DC. It’s Sunday morning and the sun is shining, the birds are chirping, and I’ve got a spring in […]
KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD: Arena Stage
Arena Stage is one of our neighborhood’s most prized possessions, but relatively underutilized by the people who live here. In talking with neighbors and friends, the answer for why this is usually, “I think it’s too fancy for me to just walk in. I don’t know what I would be […]
Know Your Neighborhood: DISTRICT CROSSFIT
It’s 5:33am and 13 inches of snow have shut down the District. I roll over to turn off my alarm only to see a text message: Pick you up in 10? “Why would anyone think to be awake this early on a snowy Thursday morning?” I say to myself. Nonetheless, I […]
MAYORAL DEBATE COMES TO WATERFRONT
On Saturday, February 22, the democratic candidates for mayor assembled at Arena Stage for a two-hour debate moderated by Shannon Vaughn, the Editor-in-Chief of this very paper. Candidates Muriel Bowser, Vincent Orange, Andy Shallal, and Tommy Wells were in attendance, while Mayor Vincent Gray and Jack Evans were notably absent. […]