Wide variety of events focus on cutting waste, feeding more people Get ready to save some food! DC Food Recovery Week is just around the corner. From Saturday, October 21 to Saturday, October 28, events across the region will spotlight, celebrate and advocate for all the ways we can reduce food waste and feed more…
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Unexpected Things To Do In D.C.
Washingon, D.C. is an incredibly attractive destination for tourists. Sure, it can be uncomfortably hot or cold at certain times of the year, and yes, the traffic can be a nightmare. But the American capital is breathtaking to behold in person, built as a combination of a modern city and a cluster of monuments that…
Impress Yourself with Cameron Hughes Wines
Let’s face it: drinking wine in DC is a pretty ego-centric affair. Unlike ordering your own cocktail, the choice of wine can be more about what you think others will like than what you like yourself. And it can be nerve wracking to try to select a wine others will enjoy. The only way to know…
How To: Bring Wine to a Holiday Party
And now, some advice on all the holiday parties and their ever-present companion, gifted wine. Today’s advice giver is Daniel Post Senning of the Emily Post Institute and co-host of personal favorite podcast Awesome Etiquette. Dinner parties are a time-honored tradition, from the days-long banquet feasts of the medieval times, to the Tupperware parties of…
Art and Politics Collide at Creative Time Summit October 13-16 at the Lincoln Theater
This October 14 – 16, Creative Time will hold its annual summit, the world’s largest conference on art and social change, at the Lincoln Theater in Washington, DC. Entitled “Occupy the Future,” it will bring together leaders in many fields, from Black Lives Matter leader Alicia Garza to Guardian and Harper’s columnist Thomas Frank to Minor Threat and Fugazi frontman Ian MacKaye, to discuss the future of American democracy in…
Fine Lines Paint Jam Comes to Rhode Island Ave April 30
After creating DC’s largest piece of public art at NOMA Storey Park, Hip-Hop nonprofit Words Beats & Life Inc. is bringing DC a 900 ft. long canvas and the artistic stylings of almost 100 artists from around the country for a full day of the arts on April 30th at 514-680 Rhode Island Ave NE…
Galley: Delivery That’s Delicious
Are you like me? Do you need to eat food to stay alive? Food is an essential element, so why do I neglect the quality of my meals? Well, thanks to my newly found best-friend-as-a-service Galley, I don’t have to. Galley is a DC startup: creating, dishing up and delivering original and delicious meals…
Columbia Heights Oktoberfest Community Party October 3
Following on the heels of their recent 10th annual Columbia Heights Day, the Columbia Heights Initiative will host another neighborhood-wide event on Saturday, October 3. The Columbia Heights Oktoberfest Community Party will feature a bilingual Children’s Story Time sponsored by the Mount Pleasant Library, children’s carnival games, a free moon bounce, outdoor yoga, and…
Wine and Design, Take Me Away
Taking a step away from the dusty yet somehow still humid DC summer and into the cool and calm recesses of a museum is one of the pleasures of living in this city of ours. Getting to spend time decompressing with a glass of wine and a project you don’t necessarily need to do…
DC Style Is Real 