Hanukkah Arrives in D.C. With National Menorah Lighting (photos)
• December 13, 2017

The Air Force Band and the “Three Cantors” provided the musical backdrop; Mushka Landa of Connecticut and Elias Greenwood of California read their prize-winning essays; and Dreidelman made his usual appearance.

Carol Schwartz’s ‘Quite a Life!’
• December 11, 2017

If there are people that don’t know Schwartz, that omission has been taken care of with the coming of her book “Quite a Life! From Defeat to Defeat … and Back.”

Georgetown U. Event Celebrates Holidays, Accomplishments
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One highlighted project was the Georgetown Health Justice Alliance, in which law and medical school students work together to help people living in poverty get access to needed health services.

Glass-Encased West End Library Opens
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The 21,000-square-foot library is the first in D.C. to be entirely planned, funded and constructed as a public-private partnership, according to Deputy Mayor Brian Kenner.

Curtain Falls on Suzanne Farrell Ballet
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Farrell, 72, will continue to teach her summer intensive program for dancers aged 14 to 18 at the center and is expected to oversee classes in the dance studios currently under construction.

Weekend Round Up December 7, 2017
• December 7, 2017

Presented by the Georgetown Business Improvement District, “Glow,” Georgetown’s exhibition of light art, will feature nine installations by local and international artists, with works lit from 5 to 10 p.m. nightly.

Breakfast With Woolly Mammoth’s Howard Shalwitz
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Among the last of the generation that founded D.C. companies in the late 1970s and 1980s, Shalwitz announced last June that he would retire at the end of the 2017-18 season.

Lighting the Capitol Christmas Tree (photos)
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During a Dec. 6 ceremony on the Capitol’s West Front Lawn, the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree was lit by Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) with the assistance of 11-year-old Ridley Brandmayr of Bozeman, Montana.

Neighborhood Visionary: Anne Truitt at the National Gallery
• December 6, 2017

The National Gallery of Art is not your average neighborhood art gallery. While part of the D.C. community, the National Gallery of Art is a colossal institution. On the entire […]

Antebellum Portraits by Mathew Brady
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This is a rare exhibition, in equal parts fine art, Americana and a history of photography. It is a remarkable opportunity to look into the eyes of the past — and have them staring right back at you.