The Nats did a nice thing for 15,000 of their closest friends on Sunday afternoon. After soundly defeating the Phillies, 6-0, on a day perfectly suited to the game of baseball (75 degrees, cool breeze, sunshine), the team had a Picnic at the Park for season ticket holders. Now I have not purchased season tickets, but I was with a friend who did, and so I went along for the ride. This sort of mass…

On Monday we reported on a new Verizon advertising campaign that involved spray-on chalk graffiti on city sidewalks. Today we find that many District residents are none-too-happy with the campaign, and have expressed their complaints to city officials. In response, the District Department of Transportation issued this statement yesterday: There is a guerilla advertising group that is paid to place graffiti advertising on sidewalks in public space. Another location was identified to me yesterday. It…

To those readers who missed their Classical Music Agenda last week, apologies are in order. Your faithful chronicler was in Paris for the week and experiencing a general lack of Internet connectivity. Now I am back, and there a lot of concerts to tell you about. We may not emphasize this enough, but “classical music” does not mean only music that is old. In fact, living composers are still writing works that continue and modify…

Well, it looks like the folks up at the James Beard foundation sobered up enough to call the office to have the intern hit the “publish” button late yesterday afternoon. The 2006 James Beard nominees are here! All 75,384 of them! Well almost. With 58 categories, the Foundation might be going a little overboard with its awards, but we digress. The D.C. area fares O.K. in terms of nominations this year, hopefully giving us…