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Expect a couple hundred thousand participants and thousands of motorcycle riders supporting Rolling Thunder to roll through the National Mall in Washington, DC tomorrow, in the 21st annual moving fundraiser for veteran’s groups, veterans and their families.
Expect traffic tie-ups on the Mall, and lots of noise, but it’s all for a great cause […]
Sometimes I’ve seen some of the most enjoyable and affordable theater productions, not at the Kennedy Center or the National Theatre, but at some of the 80 small local community playhouses in the Washington, DC area. It’s usually easy to find a fun, interesting and hopefully great performance.
And where else can you find award-winning […]
Just 30 years ago, visiting the six wineries operating in Virginia was fairly easy. Today, with over 130 wineries in the Commonwealth, it could take months to visit them all.
The great thing about the many local summer and fall wine festivals, is that the wineries come to you.
At the Vintage Virginia Wine Festival, in […]
After 25 years of civil war and internal conflict in Afghanistan, it was thought that many of Afghanistan’s cultural and historical treasures had been lost or stolen. Luckily, three years after the fall of the Taliban in late 2001, over 22,000 artifacts were discovered in a vault located under the Presidential Palace in Kabul and […]
The 7th season of wildly popular “American Idol” is just about over, with the 2-night season finale ending tonight. Out of the original 24 American Idol contestants, only two, David Archuleta and David Cook remain.
The question remaining, is who will step up to the mic and blow the audience away?
Regardless who ultimately wins, […]
For over sixty years, the nation’s capital was without a parade on Memorial Day. Just four years ago, the World War II Veterans Committee reinstituted a parade honoring all Americans who served in the military and fought or died to preserve our freedom.
The Washington, DC Memorial Day parade boasts nearly 200 elements, including […]
Everything from vintage WW-II war birds to the latest F-35 Joint Strike fighter were on display this past weekend at Andrews Air Force Base for the annual Joint Service Open House and Air Show.
There was a great exhibit on the Berlin Airlift inside a vintage C-54 with a few volunteers, including one woman who […]
Jim Henson is best known as the creator of The Muppets, and the PBS television series for children, Sesame Street.
While in high school in the early 1950s, Henson started creating puppets for local television station, WTOP, (now WUSA channel 9) Saturday morning children’s program.
He later attended college at the University of Maryland’s studio […]
A couple weeks ago, after enjoying dinner on my deck, some massive thunderstorm clouds developed, just before sunset. Here’s what one looked like.
Luckily, the storm’s bark was worse than it’s bite.
Image - from personal collection - © 2008 - Jon Rochetti
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With lots of great original tunes and a few great covers like “Why Can’t We Be Friends” by War and The Four Seasons’ “Can’t Get Enough of You Baby”, Smash Mouth will be playing live on Sunday at Belmont Country Club in Ashburn, Virginia.
Smash Mouth has a rather unique sound, and the genre that fit […]
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