Adult dogs are also welcome to play in a second area.
The 40,000 people who eventually piled into the exclusive upper ballrooms and cavernous underbelly of the Walter E. Washington Convention Center looked like they were having a good time.
The Sweetlife Festival, sponsored by good-natured salad-makers Sweetgreen, announced the lineup for its 2012 edition today. The leafy vegetables might be locally sourced; the indie rock and hip-hop acts listed today for the April 28 concert are anything but.
Ah, the onset of winter. When we start talking about the ticket lottery for the National Christmas Tree lighting, you know it’s not far behind. But with winter comes the return of several much-loved traditions, like taking a spin around the Ice Rink at the National Gallery of Art’s Sculpture Garden.
Sure, they might be making life difficult for our local indie rock bands. But to the country’s credit, Canada’s Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, is posting adorable cat videos to YouTube.
What better place to have a little summer fun than the carnival? The D.C. Summer Carnival, which recently took up residence at the RFK Stadium Festival Grounds (also known as the parking lot), provided District residents with all the Tilt-A-Whirling and fried Oero-eating they could handle. The carnival’s over for the year, but the color always makes for some memorable photography.
Much like planking, I don’t claim to understand tarp-surfing. I just know that reader Andy Rothwell videotaped these people are doing it in the District of Columbia, and it looks like the kind of whimsical fun we should all be having instead of having to work on a Monday afternoon.
Yes, that’s right: today, the third Thursday in April, is National High Five Day.
Well, you kind of knew that this news would be coming, didn’t you? In what has become somewhat of a Washington wintertime tradition, a mass snowball fight has been scheduled to take place inside Dupont Circle at 8 p.m. tonight.
That’s right: it’s the complete set of National Zoo lion cub collectible identification cards!
