Weekend Round Up February 2, 2017
• February 9, 2017

Celebrations of the Year of the Rooster continue at the Kennedy Center and the Freer and Sackler Galleries. This weekend also offers opportunities to hand-print valentines, take a dance master class, read your flash fiction aloud and eat Korean wings.

‘Walk the Beat’ Brings Gasps, Enlightenment
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A group of about 15 made the rounds on Saturday with Metropolitan Police Officer Atkins and U.S. Park Police Officer Laurel.

The Gorsuch Nomination: Were We Surprised? A Little
• February 6, 2017

Though the whole thing, as one observer noted, felt like “The Apprentice,” it wasn’t full of the usual sound and fury.

What’s a Laker to Eat (in Georgetown)?
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The players had just flown in. They had worked out. It was only 5 p.m. for them. And they were hungry…

British Paper Picks Up Georgetown Kidnapping Story
• February 2, 2017

Last Thursday’s weird alleged abduction of a Georgetown University student was in the Daily Mail today.

‘Walk the Beat,’ Feb. 1 and 4
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The first scheduled event, at which residents accompany police officers on part of a shift, is Wednesday.

Weekend Round Up January 5, 2017
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The Feast of the Epiphany is also known as Three Kings Day and — in Spain and Latin America — el Día de los Tres Reyes Mago. In D.C., GALA Hispanic Theatre will celebrate the holiday with a free fiesta on Sunday. Also this weekend: music from centuries past, trunk and wedding shows, two art openings at Strathmore and a closing (of the triennial Outwin exhibition) at the National Portrait Gallery.

Weekend Round Up January 26, 2017
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Underscoring the start of the Year of the Rooster, this weekend offers a lineup of big personalities: Mario Batali, John Cleese and James “Blood” Ulmer in the flesh, plus tributes to Ernest Hemingway, Mstislav Rostropovich and — in the play “Copenhagen” — physicists Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr.

Mary Tyler Moore, aka Laura Petrie and Mary Richards, Dies at 80
• January 30, 2017

“The Dick Van Dyke Show” and “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” were capstones of sorts, memorable to a fault, which said a lot about what Moore brought to both.

Georgetown Confers Honorary Degree on Museum Director
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In 2005, Lonnie Bunch was tapped to conceptualize, build and lead the construction of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.