May 21, 2007
About Tonight
>> As we mentioned earlier in Reader, Meet Author, Vanity Fair editor Cullen Murphy will be at Politics and Prose tonight to read from and sign copies of Are We Rome? As long as we can ruled by Simon Woods, I’m all for saying, yes, please, let’s be Rome. 7 p.m. >> Tickets are still available for tonight’s performance of Leoš Janáček’s Jenůfa at Washington National Opera. Our critic called this production WNO’s “best…
Feb 21, 2007
National Air and Space Museum Sad, Lonely
Our friends over at the Associated Press have dug deep into a story that’s weighing heavily on all of our minds today: Why is it that the National Air and Space Museum, once the proud champion of the Smithsonian’s annual Awesomest Awards for Attendance, has fallen from favor with the museum-attending set. Air and Space’s attendance fell below that of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History for the first time in recent memory last…
Dec 21, 2006
Go Home Already: Hot or Not Edition
>> While we don’t know anyone who’s hit the new Posh supper club, if their VIP list is any indication, it’s the new place to hobnob with B-list local celebs. We’ve just been waiting to get in good with “Northern Virginia moneymen Michael Saylor, Mark Ein and Joe Robert.” Not! [Yeas and Nays] >> Our continuing search for a neighborhood that ISN’T a historic district is highlighted by an elderly couple’s plight in newly-hot Mt….