September 2024 Downtowner

September 16, 2024

$42 Million in Residents’ Medical Debt Canceled Late last month, thousands of District residents (62,000 to be exact) got an exciting surprise: their medical debt had been canceled. A partnership between […]

Georgetown’s Poppy Guesthouse Is Blooming Wonderful

May 20, 2024

Does the Poppy Georgetown Guesthouse and Gardens have a “Wizard of Oz” connection? In “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,” the book by L. Frank Baum on which the 1939 Hollywood […]

Profs & Pints DC: The Great American Road Trip

May 2, 2024

Profs and Pints DC presents: “The Great American Road Trip,” a look at how long journeys and tales of them have shaped our nation, with Allen Pietrobon, historian and professor […]

Amelia Island, Florida’s ‘Concours d’Elegance’ Cruises into Town

February 21, 2024

Dubbed “a motoring event like no other,” Amelia Island, Florida’s “Concours d’Elegance” allows guests to get an up-close look at hundreds of vehicles you won’t see anywhere else. 2024 honoree […]

Richmond Getaway Guide

September 14, 2022

For your next getaway weekend, take an under two-hour drive down I-95 to explore a city where centuries of history meet an up-and-coming art and buzzworthy food scene — the […]

Nantucket Getaway Guide

August 4, 2022

Dreaming of a Nantucket getaway? This August, take the direct, under-two-hour flight from DCA to ACK to explore the 14-mile island off Massachusetts. Nantucket is a “tiny, isolated island off […]

Touring Egypt: From the Sublime to the Surreal

March 25, 2020

For the first two weeks of March, my main concerns were whether I was brave enough to ride a camel (no) and wondering out the window of an air-conditioned coach […]

Profs & Pints: The Great American Road Trip

July 8, 2019

Profs and Pints presidents: “The Great American Road Trip,” with Allen Pietrobon, adjunct professor of modern American history at American University and visiting professor at Trinity Washington University. Perhaps no […]

Voyages: Travel Photography by Michael Horan

February 15, 2019

The Glen Echo Park Partnership is pleased to present Voyages: Travel Photography by Michael Horan. This exhibition is a collection of travel photography spanning more than thirty years and drawn […]

Tailgating at the Middleburg Spring Races

February 4, 2019

Tailgate and picnic with fashionable Middleburg crowd all while watching the thrilling sport of horse racing. The Middleburg Spring Races is an exciting and fun event in our historic Virginia […]