I love South Asian culture. I love it. I can’t get enough of the food (Saag Paneer? Chicken Korma Masala? Naan? Yes please). My favorite type of dancing (besides hip hop) is bhangra and I typically have no less than 10 bhangra songs on my iPod at any given time. If it wasn’t completely weird…
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Summer Mixing Guide
It’s summertime, kids. Alas, most of us working folk don’t get the luxury of several months-long vacations, and so we turn to our trustiest coping mechanism – booze. So, what better time to use two of the best mixing liqueurs? Well sidle on up and grab a seat – before you know it you’ll be…
PSA: D.C. Parents and Students Protest Cuts to School Librarians
Parents Give Out Baked Treats Outside Mayor’s Office to Raise Awareness and Funds for 16,000 Students (57 Schools) With No Librarian This Fall! Parents Tell Mayor and Chancellor – “Our Children Need Librarians!” D.C. Parents [will gather from 8am to 11am] gathered today outside the Mayor’s Office to protest the sudden cuts of school librarians from…
Weekend [East City] Arts Roundup
All Weekend Artland Temporium Brookland (Friday 6pm, Saturday 6pm and Sunday at 4pm) Artland is a 12 week public art celebration offering free cultural events and promoting creative expression that are housed in temporiums in an effort to revitalize two vacant storefronts in the Monroe Street NE area of Brookland. Like LUMEN8Anacostia, this project…
How To: Crush It At Outdoor Movies This Season
Outdoor movies: stiff necks, long waits at the Port-a-potty, and mosquitoes galore. Are you destined to be uncomfortable and disappointed at every outdoor movie you’ve rounded up the St. Elmo’s Fire crew to attend? Not if you follow the Boy Scout motto. Be prepared. I know we all expect to be able to waltz onto the green…
Pool Perfection: Modern Manners Takes a Dip
Modern Manners is feeling hot, hot, hot! It’s my most favorite of seasons, summer, and all this Vitamin D is making me dizzy with joy, so I’m sharing some thoughts about etiquette at that bastion of summer traditions, the pool. No possession is more coveted in DC during the summer than the rooftop pool. If…
Spotted: Jay and Daisy in DC
It’s that time of the year again. Special events outfit Dandies & Quaintrelles put on their annual Seersucker Social at Hillwood Estate in upper Northwest. Similar to the autumnal Tweed Ride, the Seersucker Social starts with an eight-mile bike ride through the city, after which the large enthusiastic group dressed up in their best 1920s and 1930s era clothes…
A [Not At All] Brief Tour of Malcolm X/Meridian Hill Park: Part the Second
Welcome back, virtual tourists! Where we last left off we were going to leave the lower, fountain-filled portion of the park to ascend to the upper, statue/grass-filled portion of the park. But in my haste to escape the steely yet incompetent glare of Statue President James Buchanan I neglected to point out the other statue…
A [Not at all] Brief Tour of Malcolm X/Meridian Hill Park: Part The First
Since DC Style Is Real editor-at-large has been largely out of the country for the past few weeks, a guest entry will ease us back into regular posting. For the better part of the time I’ve lived here in DC, I’ve lived within a syringe’s throw of Malcolm X/Meridian Hill Park. I’ve enjoyed this park…
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