The Sixth of June
• June 6, 2019

Today is the 75th anniversary of D-Day, the invasion of Normandy, Operation Overlord, the first day of the grand effort to take back France and Europe from the armies of Hitler’s Nazi Germany.

Capital Pride: Trevor Project
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On Saturday, June 8, Long & Foster will host a fundraiser at its Logan Circle office during the Capital Pride Parade, still the signal event of the long-standing celebration.   

Capital Pride: 50 Years After Stonewall   
• June 5, 2019

It’s Capital Pride time, a prime time in the nation’s capital. We are once again in the midst of the Capital Pride Alliance’s annual LGBTQ festival, which began on May 31 […]

12 Lives Stolen in Virginia Beach
• June 3, 2019

Another place, another town, another American city where a mass shooting has occurred, where murder on a scale that is hard to fathom and digest as information has happened. Again.

Enduring Lives, Persistent Memory
• June 2, 2019

People die. That’s a fact. But trailing behind like a thick cape is another fact. It is the fact that memory rears its high-minded head: the memory of the life lived, […]

Memorial Day: A Time to Remember
• May 23, 2019

MacArthur’s “old soldiers” are fading away still, more and more every day, shrinking the number and memories of those who fought in World War II and subsequent actions. 

LAST CHANCE: Washington National Opera’s ‘Tosca’
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The final performance of the Puccini classic will be this Saturday, May 25, at 7 p.m. in the Kennedy Center Opera House.

Herman Wouk: Writer With a Big W
• May 20, 2019

For a considerable time, starting in 1951, Wouk and his wife Betty lived on the corner of Potomac and M Streets in a home that is part of Smith Row, dating to 1810.

Summer Arts Preview: Performance
• May 16, 2019

Highlights of the summer season in theater, opera, music and dance, along with the harder-to-classify By The People and Capital Fringe Festivals.

The 15th DC Annual Jazz Festival
• May 15, 2019

Don’t let the wet weather of late fool you. Celebration time is coming up in Washington, D.C., with the arrival of the DC Jazz Festival. When it rolls in next […]