Weekend Round Up August 1, 2019: Let Them Eat Oysters!
More than 80 restaurants in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington, D.C. — including Martin’s Tavern and Tony and Joe’s — are supporting the Oyster Recovery Partnership this weekend.
Maureen Dowd Party Trashed on Twitter
The dust-up concerned the New York Times columnist’s July 24 party at her N Street home for Times colleague Carl Hulse and his new book.
Weekend Round Up July 25, 2019
On Friday and Saturday, you can preview Spring/Summer 2020 fashions at DC Swim Week at the Italian Embassy. And Sunday is your last chance to get unhinged at Capital Fringe.
Jim Bouton: Yankee Pitcher, ‘Ball Four’ Author
Baseball was America’s green-grass-in-the-outfield game, often made romantic, patriotic and whatnot, and the baseball upholders of the faith didn’t like locker room stories.
‘Food on the Move: Dining on the Legendary Railway Journeys of the World’
Reviewed by Kitty Kelly
“Food on the Move” is an uninspired title, especially for a book that presents epicurean dining on some of the world’s...
‘The Naked Truth’: Q&A With Leslie Morgan
Morgan, a former general manager of the Washington Post Magazine, is the author of “Mommy Wars,” “Crazy Love," “The Baby Chase” and now “The Naked Truth.”
Herman Wouk: Writer With a Big W
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.
Appreciating D.C.’s Jazz History
On April 17, at Mt. Zion United Methodist Church, the Citizens Association of Georgetown hosts Georgetown University professor Maurice Jackson conversing with local jazz greats.
Bob Levey’s ‘Novel’ Candidate: Too Good to Be True
“Larry Felder, Candidate,” the debut novel by Bob Levey — who wrote daily columns about Washington life in the Washington Post for decades — takes a dramatic turn mid-book.
Weekend Round Up February 21, 2019
The Atlas Intersections Festival is in full swing (with a Sunday screening of “The Adventures of Prince Achmed”) and the Architecture & Design Film Festival runs throughout the weekend.
