Something’s Really Happening Here: DC Week

What if you could look on one screen at all of the public transportation options in DC at the same time and choose the best route home (Metro, bus, Capital Bikeshare, Zipcar, and car2go)? Have you ever tried to cook from a recipe on your iPad or smartphone without getting food on the screen? A…

Weekend [East City] Event Round Up: Steppin’ Out Edition

Friday November 2   Honfleur Gallery (7pm to 9pm) Both Honfleur Gallery and The Gallery at Vivid Solutions will be hosting exhibitions in historic Anacostia that are part of DC Fotoweek 2012.  Steppin’ Out, at Honfleur Gallery by DC-based artist Michael Platt, defies conventional notions of photography.  Referring to himself as an “imagemaker”, Platt uses…

Weekend East City Event Round Up: Halloween Edition

All Weekend Hill Center Pottery Exhibition The Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital presents a group exhibition of 15 potters from around the United States. This ambitious project is open to the public on Saturday October 27 from 10am to 5pm and Sunday October 28 from noon to 4pm. A cocktail reception on Friday…

Weekend East City Event Round Up: Outsider Art Edition

Saturday October 12   Capitol Hill Arts Workshop (CHAW) (10am) CHAW will be hosting a film festival in honor of their year-long 40th anniversary celebration.  Featured films include “Attack of the Giant Pants” and “Alien Invasion,” short films made by CHAW students, and “CHAW@40,” a 15 minute film stitching together vintage footage, video interviews, historical…

And Here’s To You, Union Station

Union Station isn’t as exciting as it used to be.  But as DC lives with the monumental landmark through the next few years, Union Station will undergo a 15 to 20 year Master Plan to triple capacity, improve the building and its transit, and probably a bunch of stuff we don’t even know about yet….

Fashion’s Night Out: DC Style

Whoever described Washington as “Hollywood for ugly people” clearly never visited Fashion’s Night Out: Georgetown. This past Thursday, September 6th, M Street played host to a variety of fashion-centric events, deals, parties, and well, some frankly beautiful people. DC Style Is Real was on hand to capture some of those faces and stories and to…

Weekend [East City] Event Roundup: September Super Saturday Edition

Friday September 7  Honfleur Gallery (7pm to 9pm) ARCH Development Corporation will officially present the First Annual East of the River Distinguished Artist Award to B.K. Adams at a reception at Honfleur Gallery.  The award is presented to a seasoned artist of any discipline who lives and work East of the River and has impacted…

Fashion’s Night Out: Four Years Young

This Thursday, Georgetown will play host to a bevy of stylish (and thirsty) fashionistas ready to shop, snack, and dance til they drop. Fashion’s Night Out is an annual and international event in which stores band together to stay open later, offer better deals, and provide all manner of ways for customers to spend their…

Shakespeare Theater Free For All: All’s Well That Ends Well

Until September 5, The Shakespeare Theater will continue their over twenty year tradition of offering free tickets to their summer show. By lottery or first-come-first-served basis, the theater is giving away tickets to their so-good-it’s-back production of All’s Well That Ends Well.  Tickets can be had for free by enrolling in the online lottery or…