The Avalon Theatre’s gala on Sunday, May 5th will celebrate 90 years of Oscar-winning film scores. The next day, the theater will screen a documentary for a special audience that’s […]
April in the Neighborhood: A huge spring cleanup, a pop-up market, a Peirce Mill project, and a Big Band jazz fest
As spring cleaning goes, it’s a massive project. Volunteers are fanning out throughout the Rock Creek watershed this month to pick up litter. Rock Creek Conservancy’s annual Extreme Cleanup started […]
March in the Neighborhood: Welcome spring with dance, song, shopping, and planting
Spring has been welcoming us with the first tree blossoms emerging, and daffodils and other perennials bursting from the warming earth. Isn’t it time we welcomed it back? On March […]
February in the Neighborhood: Take out the big trash, and clean up the forest
Did you know? When a resident of a single-family home wants to throw out an old couch, the DC Department of Public Works will come and collect it for free. […]
Save the trees! At three local parks, volunteers are doing that and more – by attacking invasive weeds.
One day over Martin Luther King weekend, a few expert Weed Warriors and a large number of less-experienced volunteers gathered in the wooded area behind the Politics and Prose parking […]
UDC is preparing to train the next class of Master Gardeners. Will you be in it?
UDC’s Master Gardener program is accepting applications for its spring 2024 program. As we’ve written before, it teaches sustainable gardening techniques to those interested in taking their new skills into […]
January in the Neighborhood: Save local forests and sing to the trees
The world’s problems – political, environmental, and otherwise – can seem overwhelming, and it can feel like there’s little we can do as individuals to effect change. We do have […]
A local church’s part-time jazz club helped performers through covid
by Beth Beisel Covid-19 hit DC jazz artists hard as venues, restaurants, and bars closed, leaving them without performance spaces and income. “It was such an uncertain time for everyone,” […]
December in the Neighborhood: Holiday pop-up shopping and concerts, and a journey to the center of the Earth
A shopping roundup: Here’s another shop-small-and-local plug for the Van Ness Main Street Holiday Pop-Up on Saturday, December 2nd from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thirty DC-area creatives are stocking […]
Main Street updates: Holiday light competitions, winter markets, and a Santa-themed bar crawl and fundraiser
Small and local businesses have been gearing up for the holidays, and so have our area Main Streets, with events designed to bring people to their commercial corridors for shopping […]