Weekend Round Up September 29, 2016

September 29, 2016

It’s a weekend of but-once-a-year events: the Taste of Georgetown, the DC Design House preview, the Smithsonian’s Autumn Conservation Festival, Rosh Hashanah and the Blessing of the Animals at St. John’s.

Weekend Round Up September 22, 2016

September 26, 2016

The weekend starts with jazz and ends with Bach. In between, there are three festivals — the National Book Festival, the Alexandria Symphony Family Fall Festival and a harvest festival at the Glover Park & Burleith Farmers Market — plus walking tours of assassinations and Gilded Age mansions.

Weekend Round Up September 22, 2016

September 21, 2016

The weekend starts with jazz and ends with Bach. In between, there are three festivals — the National Book Festival, the Alexandria Symphony Family Fall Festival and a harvest festival at the Glover Park & Burleith Farmers Market — plus walking tours of assassinations and Gilded Age mansions.

Weekend Round Up September 15, 2016

September 19, 2016

Washington goes Germanic and Viennese this weekend, with at least Oktoberfests, Mozart at Harman Hall and Beethoven at Strathmore. If that’s not your style, how about the Book Hill Art Walk, classical guitar and ice cream?

Weekend Round Up August 18, 2016


Choose from UB40 and the Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra on Friday, Chuck Brown and Ira Glass on Saturday and the Suicide Squad and the Pirates of Penzance on Sunday…

Bethlehem, Pa.: A New Capital for Industrial Heritage


The Aug. 2 opening of the National Museum of Industrial History makes Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, about 70 miles north of Philadelphia, the undisputed capital of America’s industrial heritage. The NMIH occupies […]

Visual Arts Highlights

September 15, 2016

**National Museum of African American History and Culture Freedom Sounds: A Community Celebration** *Sept. 23 through Sept. 25* Four or 10 or 13 or 15 or 25 or 101 years […]

Musings on the African American History Museum

September 14, 2016

You can feel a surge, a buzz building in this city about a building. It is about one thing, and one thing only. On Sept. 24, the National Museum of […]

Musings on the African American History Museum


You can feel a surge, a buzz building in this city about a building.

Weekend Round Up September 15, 2016


Washington goes Germanic and Viennese this weekend, with at least Oktoberfests, Mozart at Harman Hall and Beethoven at Strathmore. If that’s not your style, how about the Book Hill Art Walk, classical guitar and ice cream?