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: Minimum requirements: At least three […]
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 through July 28. The tournament […]
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 in Arena’s 1981 production of A […]
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 (6D03) and Roger Moffatt (6D05) […]
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 per person and are based […]