On Wednesday night, Washington Performing Arts Society opened its fall classical music season with a spectacular concert by the La Scala Philharmonic. Notably it did so not at the Kennedy Center, which has long been the organization’s main venue, but at the newer and growing Music Center at Strathmore. In spite of the suburban location, which doubled this disgruntled city dweller’s car trip, a VIP box at house left held such distinguished guests as First…
Via FreeRide, we read that WTOP’s Mark Plotkin spent part of his live chat with washingtonpost.com yesterday afternoon to call out Ward 3 residents for not caring enough, if at all, about the District’s lack of voting rights in Congress. Q: In your experience, do people from Ward 3 generally not support statehood/voting rights? I grew up in the ward – Forest Hills represent – and have found so many people on my parents block…
It’s shaping up to be a beautiful day here in Washington, with a high around 70 degrees and mostly sunny skies. Here’s hoping the great weather can brighten the days of Montgomery County election officials, who are reporting that they won’t have a final count of all provisional ballots in the county until sometime next week, thanks to mistakes which forced many early morning voters to cast the paper ballots. We know the idea that…
Devoted opera listeners delight in having lots of high-quality live performances to attend. So it should be no surprise to find that two of Washington’s most devoted fans of opera — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and yours truly — after hearing the premiere of Washington National Opera’s production of L’Elisir d’Amore on Saturday night, were reunited in the audience for Washington Concert Opera’s performance Sunday night at Lisner Auditorium. Artistic director and conductor…
Vace, 2Amys, Italian Store, Pizzeria Paradiso, Matchbox, and Radius. Finally, Washingtonians have a choice as to where to go for good pizza. Some old-school residents haven’t needed a new place though, since their pizza craving has been satiated for the past 50 years by A.V. Ristorante Italiano. Rarely, however, is it nominated as the city’s best pizza, nor is it mentioned as the place to go for authentic red sauce Italian fare. Except, of course,…
Every now and then, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has a hankering for graham crackers and shortbread. Like Pulp Fiction’s Jimmie, she buys the gourmet expensive stuff because when she eats it she wants to taste it. And so, rather than sending out her law clerks for Honey Maid grahams and Walkers shortbread, O’Connor calls Polly Brown. To say that Brown knows graham crackers and shortbread is a little like saying that O’Connor knows…
Renée Fleming has been called America’s diva, which means primarily that her profile as a celebrity is greater than that of most opera singers. In other words, she gets called to do things like sing the national anthem at the first Nationals game, sing at the memorial service at Ground Zero in Manhattan, lead holiday carols at the White House, get interviewed on Letterman, and sing on The Lord of the Rings soundtrack. Lots of…
MONDAY: >> We’ve been hearing an awful lot about certain journalists who’ve spent superfluous time in jail for ideals they supposedly believe in — but, before you make any contributions to that gravy train, why not hear from Marie-Helene Carleton, who’ll be in town discussing the travails of her filmmaker partner Micah Garen, who was taken hostage in Iraq in 2003. Even if you’re an avid news junkie, there’s still a lot you don’t know…
Written by new DCist food and wine contributor Michael Mugmon. In the spirit of SportsCenter, DCist asks: DID YOU KNOW that United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has moonlighted as a jurist on the 12-member judging panel for the annual International Wines for Oysters Competition –- the gold medal winners of which are trotted out at Old Ebbitt Grill’s Oyster Riot? In past years, Justice Scalia –- who quietly campaigned to replace William Rehnquist…
Even as the lazy dog days of August approach us in D.C., there’s an awful lot going on in this city — the Plame investigation, an announcement about a Supreme Court Justice nominee this evening, even the aftermath of Borf. And yet one issue seems to remain more divisive and turbulent than all the rest: the seemingly small matter of what one wears on one’s feet in certain situations. Yup, we’re talking about the flip-flop….
