Car-free Day is next week, Wednesday the 22nd. What in the world does that mean? This seems like a day when people who care about not driving (or want others to think they care about not driving) can try to make a statement, then immediately go back to the way things were on Thursday. But…
Author: Haley Fults
It's not New York or San Francisco, but DC has some surprising cultural moments to be discovered. And I'm going to tell you about them. Special attention to free, super cool, or just plain strange events.
It’s Never Too Early for H Street
I know it’s only Wednesday. But Wednesday is the day before Thursday, which, as the guy outside the Metro one day yelled to me, is Friday Junior. And Friday is the day before H Street Festival! This will be the Seventh Annual H Street Festival. This year, with even more new restaurants, bars, coffee shops,…
Trunk Show and Sociology
It’s been said that you can eat and drink for free in DC. That is, you can eat and drink if you know the right people, show up at the right place at the right time and are properly dressed. The opportunites are there and can be to the advantage of one who knows what…
High Heels Are Complicated, n’est-ce pas?
Well readers, it’s time to grow up and start wearing high heels to work. At least, so I thought this morning. The shoes were new, fairly conservative leather sandals with three inches on them. They were comfortable and very reasonably priced (besides being privy to all things cultural in DC, your intrepid blogger is also…
Sticking Around the House
There comes a time when you’ve just been doing TOO MUCH (being too fabulous, going to too many galleries, drinking too many glasses of free chardonnay) and you just need to go to the rainy Midwest and stay inside all day. Cooking. I can’t give a balanced opinion of northeast Wisconsin from the past weekend,…
The Midwest–expanse of bliss
As ever, in the hopes of bringing you, dear reader, an increasingly well-informed and well-rounded, as well as well-funded, blog, I am off to the Midwest to compare DC big city life to small town Americana…in Wisconsin! Remember the rules. The key to happiness (at least as far as living goes) consists of 1. Eye…
Biking in the City
It has come to my attention that cyclists riding in DC are experiencing higher levels of stress than usual, especially now that school is back in session and children are clogging crosswalks everywhere during rush hour. Even though the thought of biking between angry drivers and oblivious pedestrians strikes me as truly terrifying, there are some pro…
What’s Really Real?
Look at the picture at left. Is this art? You’re probably saying “hellz no, that’s just an empty gallery!” But what if that space was carefully constructed to make you think of “an empty gallery between exhibitions?” This is what artist Rebecca Key has done for the Transformer Gallery on P Street in Logan Circle….
Lady Gaga Leaves Me Speechless
I’m sure anything that can be written about Lady Gaga has already been written about Lady Gaga. But since I went to the concert at the Verizon Center last night, I’m sure going to try. Now. Lady Gaga. No one does not love Lady Gaga. There it is, I said it. She is so talented,…
DC Style Is Real 