Education: Some Hopeful News on D.C.’s ‘Reading Crisis’ 

January 22, 2024

Although D.C. public school students are suffering through a well-documented “reading crisis,” some hopeful signs for progress appear to be emerging on the city’s horizon.  Representing Ward 2 on the […]

Chip Reid’s ‘Battle Scars’ Talk at City Tavern on Jan. 25

January 18, 2024

Georgetown neighbor and retired journalist Chip Reid has authored an intense war book of action and remembrance. The urgency of  “Battle Scars: Twenty Years Later: 3d Battalion 5th Marines Looks […]

Kitty Kelley Book Club: ‘After Elizabeth: Can the Monarchy Save Itself?’ 

January 10, 2024

A brash young author offers dubious advice to the crown.    “After Elizabeth” purports to be the first life-saving buoy tossed to a drowning monarchy. “We’ve been conning ourselves,” writes […]

Book Watch: New Fairy Tales for Stepmothers 

December 4, 2023

[Sponsored Content] “You already know how the “wicked stepmother” has become enshrined in legend and folklore. But in this modern era, most of us who are stepmothers or have one […]

Q&A Cafe: Kitty Kelley, Neighbor and Author of ‘Unauthorized’ Books 

October 12, 2023

“I do not relish living in a world where information is authorized, sanitized and homogenized. I read banned books. I applaud whistleblowers, and I reject any suppression by church or […]

Laurence Leamer on ‘Hitchcock’s Blondes’

October 11, 2023

Laurence “Larry” Leamer lives “just over the bridge at 2501 M.” On decent days, he walks through Georgetown, enjoying the beauty of the neighborhood. Little do most know, the down-to-earth […]

Kitty Kelley Book Club: ‘August Wilson: A Life’ 

September 13, 2023

This biography’s brilliance approaches that of its subject.  The celebrated playwright August Wilson (1945-2005) was born Frederick August Kittel Jr. to a Black mother and a White father who abandoned […]

Mapping Georgetown: ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ Author Visits Sacred Spaces

August 21, 2023

Only in Georgetown… would a visiting gentleman, driving along Rock Creek, notice a cemetery and discover it to be The Oak Hill Cemetery where President Lincoln’s son Willie was laid […]

‘Dog Days of Summer’ Reading Suggestions

August 3, 2023

Though we’re now officially in the Dog Days of August and everyone’s gearing up for “Back to School,” there’s still plenty of time to delve into the delights of summer […]

Kitty Kelley Book Club: ‘Taking Things Hard: The Trials of F. Scott Fitzgerald’ 

July 12, 2023

Reviewed by Kitty Kelley  Analyzing the author via his lesser known stories.  Success is said to be a bitch goddess who sprays splendor like a shooting star in the night […]