Musician Peter Fields has joined Blind Whino as its artist in residence. The multitalented guitarist has more than 40 years of experience performing and teaching music professionally. Fields has played just about everything, from rock and roll to country to classical to jazz to Latin and world music, the latter […]
DC Poet Laureate Dolores Kendrick passed away at her home in Southwest DC on the evening of Tuesday, Nov. 7 at the age of 90. She had just completed a manuscript for most recent work, to be entitled Rainbow on Fire. Best known for The Women of Plums: Poems in the Voices of Slave Women […]
Did you know that this year alone, the American Cancer Society (ACS) has more than $60 million invested in breast cancer research to find more cures and save more lives? Did you know that one out of eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime and possibly […]
As the sold-out crowd anxiously awaited the arrival of Queens of the Stone Age (lovingly known online as QOTSA), it was met with a stellar and diverse iTunes playlist, which included Dean Martin’s “Mambo Italiano” followed by “Afternoon Delight” (a crowd favorite, which inspired the song to be repeated once […]
The following Greenleaf Gardens Extension residents began their first year of college in this August. Donja Wilkinson graduated from Dunbar Senior High School, where she competed on her school’s track and field team. She is currently attending Georgia State University with plans to study pre-dentistry to become an orthodontist. Wilkinson excelled […]
Amidon-Bowen has welcomed a new Spanish teacher, Leonimel Martelo. Mr. Martelo is from Colombia and moved to Washington, DC, to “make a great contribution to children’s education by motivating them to learn a foreign language.” He holds a bachelor’s degree in teaching with a focus on language and literature from […]
In observation of Breast Cancer Month, Westminster Presbyterian Church’s Faith & Film Ministries is partnering with the Thelma D. Jones Breast Cancer Fund in presenting the documentary The Good Breast, an official selection of the 2016 Bentonville Film Festival. The documentary shares the diverse emotional journeys of four women and their surgeon […]
