I have something to say.  And even I don’t want to hear it.  But coming from a group dance class as I have, I have to say: Ladies, do not go to these classes with your friends!  You will just annoy everyone else. Maybe I was wishing I had been there with a friend I…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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….

We all already know this, but the people at Continental Airlines need to be reminded.  On my flights to and from Texas, I was enticed to watch terrible (just terrible) movies during the two-hour-plus flight.  On the way there, I was able to make a new friend thanks to Jennifer Lopez and The Back-up Plan (20%). …