Boat Show Docks at National Harbor, May 2-4
• April 24, 2025

Not to be confused with the Washington Harbour, National Harbor omits the definite article ‘the’ and the British ‘u.’ Georgetown’s postmodern mixed-use waterfront complex, designed by Arthur Cotton Moore in […]

‘Frida: Beyond the Myth’ at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 
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By Sheila Wickouski While movies, documentaries and books tell the story of legendary Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, “Frida: Beyond the Myth” — at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond […]

In Old Town: A Garden Tour and 2 Reborn Hotels
• April 10, 2025

Can’t wait for this year’s Georgetown Garden Tour on May 10? Across the river in Alexandria, you can start your spring horticultural sightseeing two weeks sooner. During the Garden Club […]

Songwriters Converge on Amelia Island, April 10-12 
• March 11, 2025

 The northernmost community on Amelia Island — and the northernmost on all of Florida’s Atlantic Coast — is Fernandina Beach (pop. 13,000). Home to eagles, egrets, pelicans, foxes, armadillos, gopher […]

New Haven: British Art, Brutalist Architecture
• February 27, 2025

Philanthropist, connoisseur and horse breeder Paul Mellon, who died in 1999, was devoted to three art museums: the National Gallery of Art, his father Andrew’s gift to the nation; the […]

Amelia Island Hosts 30th Concours d’Elegance 
• February 12, 2025

Concours d’Elegance — meaning “competition of elegance” — originally referred to horse-drawn carriage parades in Paris. Since cars replaced carriages, the term has been applied to events featuring high-style and […]

‘Make Way for Berthe Weill’ in New York
• January 27, 2025

Q: Does Columbia, New York City’s Ivy League university, established by royal charter as King’s College in 1754, have an art museum? A: The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art […]

Philly in January
• December 23, 2024

Philadelphia’s Mummers Parade, the city’s New Year’s Day version of Mardi Gras, will step off at 17th and Market Streets at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 1, looping to the […]

A Winter Holiday Hotel: The St. Gregory
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This winter, making the gratifying transition from frosty outdoors to toasty indoors is guaranteed at the St. Gregory Hotel. The West End property’s top-to-bottom renovation in 2018 — by Philadelphia’s […]

In Country: Virginia’s Hotel Petersburg to Reopen Next Month 
• November 13, 2024

After decades of dormancy in the wake of a destructive 1969 fire, the historic Hotel Petersburg, located at 20 West Tabb St. in Petersburg, Virginia, will reopen as part of […]