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D.C. to Host Grand Events for America’s 250th Birthday
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Kennedy Center’s Rutter to Step Down
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Business Ins & Outs: Alara, Octobre Éditions, Arc’teryx, Ateliers Jacob
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60th Inaugural: A Day That Was All Trump
DREAMers’ Fate Hangs on Congress, Trump, SCOTUS
February 15, 2018
•As of Thursday morning, Feb. 15, there were four Republican proposals, ranging from more or less parroting the president’s four pillars to pushing broad immigration reform and legalizing the parents of DREAMers.
2 Powerful Operas: ‘Maria di Rohan’ and ‘Don Carlo’
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Washington Concert Opera presents Donizetti’s “Maria di Rohan” on Feb. 18; Washington National Opera follows with Verdi’s “Don Carlo” from March 3 to 17.
Obama Portraits Unveiled at National Portrait Gallery
February 12, 2018
•The Michelle Obama portrait will be up through November with other recent acquisitions; the Barack Obama portrait will be on permanent display in the America’s Presidents gallery.
Love Tokens for Valentine’s Day
February 9, 2018
•Whether you like it or loathe it, Valentine’s Day is an occasion to celebrate those special people in your life. This year, we have done the work for you with affordable gifts that won’t break the bank.
Love and the Olympics
February 8, 2018
•They are the most beautiful young people in the world: dedicated, focused, trained athletes who have devoted their lives to the sport they love and what they can achieve in it.
Cocktail of the Month: Soju
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If selling liquor were an Olympic sport, the Koreans would snag the gold medal in a win more convincing than Alex Ovechkin body checking a pee-wee league player.
Whole Foods Missed, Future Undecided
January 29, 2018
•On Jan. 23, Judge Royce Lamberth dismissed motions by both parties in the dispute between Whole Foods and Wical, landlord of the closed Glover Park store.
Protesters March for Trump’s Impeachment (photos)
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On Jan. 27, just four days before President Donald Trump’s State of the Union message, activists returned to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to march to the White House.
Halcyon Hosts Arts Lab Open House
January 25, 2018
•The former Fillmore School now houses studios for Halcyon’s artist fellows; a dance studio named for Septime Webre and the “one-room” Mysa School.
Encounters with ‘Hamlet’
January 24, 2018
•Once encountered — preferably onstage, acting a part, however small, but also as a high school English assignment — William Shakespeare and his most familiar creation, “Hamlet,” about that melancholy […]