“I have to say that my closets are still messy, but I’m in better shape than I’ve been in years.”
“The Blast” is a coordinated effort from 30 synagogues and Jewish organizations across the D.C. region on the eve of Rosh Hashanah.
Despite the fact that there’s little that’s truly Chinese about the District’s Chinatown, the annual celebration of the Chinese New Year — 2012 is the Year of the Dragon — took place yesterday. Plenty of the city’s great photographers were on hand to capture the color and character of the parade, and here’s but a small sampling of yesterday’s festivities.
Your guide to New Year’s Eve and a few other events going on around the region this weekend.
Photo by ::FiZ::. Happy New Year, D.C. Hope you rang the new year in style, your hangover isn’t too bad, and you aren’t doing much more than lazing about on the couch or seeing a movie. We’ll be back to regularly scheduled posts tomorrow….
Though there are a lot of great photos in the pool today, this image taken at Haines Point of The Awakening by Brandon Jones seemed like the perfect shot to start off the new year. EXIF. Did you resolve to enter the DCist Exposed Photography Show this year? You only have 11 more days to submit your application and put your entries in the pool. And since it is the beginning of a new…
The first baby born in the D.C. metro area in 2008 was Stella Jones. WJLA reported that little Stella was born at George Washington Hospital at 12:02 a.m. on New Year’s Day. Melanie Smith Jones and Justin Philip Jones are the proud parents of the baby girl, who weighed in at a healthy 8 pounds and 10 ounces. The Joneses live in the Columbia Heights neighborhood. So congratulations to the Joneses! Of course, it’s a…
Traditionally Christmas decorations stay up through New Year’s Day, which means today is the official start of the “chucking your dried-up tree onto the sidewalk without regard for your neighbors or trash collection schedule” season. Allow DCist to help point you in the proper direction for Christmas tree disposal. The District Department of Public Works is collecting trees from sidewalks starting today through Jan. 19. However, in order to be certain DPW will pick up…
Good morning, Washington. Well, this is it: the holidays are finally, tragically over. You’re once again sitting at your desk. And now we begin the slow, terrible death march toward spring, with only brief, inadequate celebrations of Presidents’ and MLK Day to sustain us. Stay strong, D.C. — we’ll get through this. Can You Hear Me Now? Hello? Hello?: The ball dropped, the phones came out and… nothing. “Y2K8 Bug” doesn’t sound very catchy,…
THURSDAY: Happy New Year! Jerrold M. Post will be at Politics and Prose to read from his latest book, The Mind of the Terrorist. Is there a more depressing way to start the new year than discussing the psychology of terrorism? Only in Washington. 7 p.m. Cultural historian Jane Rhodes will be at the Olsson’s in Penn Quarter to read from Framing the Black Panthers: The Spectacular Rise of a Black Power Icon. 7 p.m….
