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Matinees at the Memorial: The U.S. Navy in Film is the new free, public film program at the U.S. Naval Heritage Center.
Their schedule includes a few classics and mostly contemporary films, but all Navy related – fighting sailors, Navy pilots going Mach 2, POWS, sailors on leave, women joining up, ships, planes, submarines and even a talking […]
This summer is the 40th anniversary of the “Summer of Love”. In 1967, Hippies, revolutionaries, “peacenicks” and radicals fought against the establishment and The Man.
Young people from Haight-Ashbury to the East Village were told to “Turn on, tune in, drop out”. Hair got longer and the generation gap got wider.
Musical events helped define a […]
On the first Saturday of each month, the elegant Ritz Carlton in Washington DC, usually in conjunction with a local embassy, hosts a sampling of food and drinks from a foreign land.
The Ritz’s chefs create three dishes (smaller portions) plus dessert along with local cocktails from the featured land. The embassy or a travel bureau […]
Today, in 1961, the Berlin wall, or at least the first blockade between East and West Berlin was erected. The following day, the Brandenburg Gate between east and west Berlin was officially closed. The Iron Curtain was quickly assembled out of barbed wire with a stone wall constructed later.
There’s a piece of the Berlin Wall on […]
Ever try kayaking? Now that the waters of the Potomac are a bit warmer, it’s a perfect time to take a class and try your luck at paddling the rapids or just drifting on the river.
The 3-hour Basic Strokes introductory kayaking class at Piscataway Creek Kayak Center in nearby Fort Washington, MD can get you started quickly. […]
Albuquerque is known for it’s annual balloon festival, but next week you can attend a local balloon festive, complete with colorful, giant hot air balloons.
You can also take a ride in one of the balloons or a vintage biplane as well (subject to availability and weather).
Besides the balloons, there’s also the flying circus air […]
I recently wrote about the Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens and thought a few more photos would illustrate how truly beautiful the park is at this time of year.
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This weekend, the earth will be bombarded by a meteor shower called the Perseid. Extra-terrestrial debris and dust particles will hit the earth’s atmosphere at 37 miles per second or 133,000 mph and burn up creating a beautiful natural light show.
The best times to watch are this weekend starting tonight (Saturday) and running through Monday, […]
Once in a while the Travel & Culture Channel has a theme day and this month it was “reviews”. The topic was left fairly open, we were asked to review something - a restaurant, a travel destination, a travel-related product, whatever.
Here’s what some of my fellow writers came up with for their “reviews”. And thanks to Lynn […]
If there’s one king of pop parody, it’s “Weird Al“.
From his Michael Jackson “Beat It” parody video entitled “Eat It”, to “Smells Like Nirvana”, listed on Rolling Stone’s “Top 100 Music Videos Of All Time”, Al has generated 3 Grammy Awards, 28 Gold and Platinum records, plus more than a half dozen gold videos.
Al got […]
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