Weekend Roundup: May 15-18

May 15, 2025

Another weekend awaits with plenty to do. Isaac Mizrahi will be at Sixth and I, Folger closes its season, and a new exhibit opens at the Capital Jewish Museum and […]

May All That Jazz, Georgetown

May 14, 2025

By Mark Edelman  Sinatra intoned the Maxwell Anderson lyric “it’s a long, long while from May to December,” (music by Kurt Weill) but with this great weather, who’s counting winter? […]

Kitty Kelley Book Club: ‘Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt’  


An able corrective to the notion that great men are self-made.    Canadian author Charlotte Gray spent her pandemic lockdown examining the lives of two American mothers previously disregarded by male […]

House Tour Patrons’ Party Luxuriates at Larz Anderson House


The Patrons’ Party for the Georgetown House Tour was held April 23 at the Larz Anderson House. House Tour Chair Azali Kassum and Patrons’ Party Chairs Malcolm Dilley and Alexander […]

Summer Arts Preview   


D.C. Arts: 25 Ways to Spend the Summer of ’25 Cut out this page — or bookmark it if you’re reading it online — for the perfect summer 2025 D.C. […]

Elegant Patron Party Dazzles at the Glasses Home

May 8, 2025

A party to honor the Garden Hosts of the 95th Georgetown Garden Tour was hosted by Jessica and Ezra Glass at their 30th Street house on May 7. Friends, benefactors […]

For Ryan Brown’s ‘Swan Song’: An Opera Lafayette Highlight Reel


Wrapping up a 30-year run, Ryan Brown, founder and artistic director of Opera Lafayette, conducted his “swan song” on April 30 in the magnificent sanctuary of St. Bartholomew’s Church on […]

Weekend Roundup: May 8-11

May 7, 2025

Another weekend awaits! There are lots of fun things to do, including the first of the Nats Post-Game Concerts, a Language Science Fair at Planet Word and a concert at […]

Author Laurence Leamer Explores Warhol’s Muses

May 5, 2025

There is perhaps no one who defined the 1960s more than the artist Andy Warhol, and author Laurence Leamer set out to discover more about not just the intriguing figure, […]

Friday Art Walk, Saturday Carousel Day at Glen Echo Park

May 1, 2025

The first weekend in May is a guaranteed crowd-pleaser at Glen Echo Park, the historic amusement park on the C&O Canal in Maryland — originally a Chautauqua Assembly — that […]