This writer, as a young boy, loved a game we called “Running Bases.” I couldn’t get enough of it. I would enlist my dad and kid brother, my older sister, or anyone else I could charm or annoy into playing until they lost interest in it. It worked like this: […]
Night Basketball Teams Compete at King-Greenleaf Through July
Three-point basketball shots are amazing the crowd evenings at King-Greenleaf Recreation Center at Canal/First St. SW near M St. SW. Three weeks of young adult basketball under the lights are filling July evenings. Games start at 6 p.m., 7 p.m., 8 p.m., and 9 p.m., each Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday […]
Kathleen Turner Firing Up Arena Stage in ‘Red Hot Patriot’
Screen star Kathleen Turner brings political icon Molly Ivins to the stage in Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins. The D.C. premiere kicks off Arena Stage’s 2012/13 season, playing August 23 through October 28, 2012, in the Arlene and Robert Kogod Cradle. Turner, who starred as Titania […]
Highlights of June police meeting: Gunfire, traffic problems
June 21, 2012, 7-8:30 P.M., Greenleaf Seniors Building, 1200 Delaware Ave. SW Participants: Sgt. Michael Architzel and Officers Vogel and Smith, PSA 105; Naomi Monk and Irv Gamza, PSA 105 meeting coordinators/facilitators and John McGrath, recorder; Special Guests: Ward 6 Councilman Tommy Wells and his staff; ANC Commissioners Ron McBee […]
Save the Date for Southwest Nights at Arena
Arena Stage has announced the dates for Southwest Nights for the coming season. Tickets are $35 for musicals and $25 for non-musicals, plus fees. Proof of Southwest D.C. residency or employment for each member of the party must be presented at the time of purchase. Tickets are limited to four […]