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Close to 70 authors, illustrators, writers and poets join this year’s 2008 National Book Festival on the National Mall in Washington, DC.
This year the list of highly recognized authors includes:
Travel guidebook writers Arthur and Pauline Frommer.
CBS Evening News host, Bob Schieffer.
The last of Edward R. Murrow’s legendary gang of CBS reporters, Daniel Schorr.
No. 1 [...]
Join the famous Blue Angels along with stunt and acrobatic fliers, skywriters, barnstormers, dog-fighting jets and more as they perform at the annual Oceana Air Show, in Virginia Beach, VA.
The base is just 3 hours from Washington, DC and the East Coast’s only Master Jet Base, the largest type of tactical fighter air base. [...]
It’s voting season – but I’m not talking about the presidential election. It’s time to vote for your favorite “short”, short film, that is.
The 102 short films presented at the 5th annual DC Shorts Festival in Washington, DC run from just one minute to over 20 minutes, and include a wide ranges of genres [...]
One of the best and, best attended, neighborhood street festivals in Washington, DC is the annual Adams Morgan Day Festival.
As the longest running street festival in DC (30 years), it brings a full day of live music and exciting dance performances, artisans selling their original and hand-crafted goods, interactive performance workshops, and food from [...]
Travel back in time to the period of King Henry VIII and watch non-stop entertainment on 8 stages, ranging from performances for children to Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet as well as swashbuckling pirate shows and William Tell…well…telling stories.
All the the annual Maryland Renaissance Festival just out side of Annapolis, Maryland.
Enjoy over 35 [...]
Learn about you cat or the many breeds at the annual National Capital Cat Show in suburban Chantilly, Virginia.
Again this years, over 500 cats compete at the Cat Fanciers’ Association Debutante’s Ball in various competitions.
And remember, dogs have owners…cats simply have staffs.
There’s several categories of contacts including a cat agility competition. There’s also no [...]
Is there a more universally recognized toy than Legos?
Roughly 40 million children around the globe, spend 5 billion hours collectively playing with Legos each year, according to Lego.
And since 1949, 400 billion Lego elements have been manufactured or roughly, a 9,500 new pieces per minute.
With that many pieces floating around since 1948, [...]
Join roughly 27,000 people aged 50 and over at AARP’s 50th anniversary event in Washington, DC, Life@50+ National Show & Expo.
For 50 years, AARP has been representing the interests of people as they age gracefully. And another person turns 50 every 7 seconds in America. Now that AARP has turned 50, it’s time for a party!!
Besides [...]
If new and different world music is your thing, don’t miss the Planet Arlington World Music Festival on the grounds of the Iwo Jima Memorial just across the Potomac River from Washington, DC.
This year’s line up includes:
Solas, my new favorite a US-based Celtic band, featuring some lightening-fast and well-crafted traditional Irish [...]
Associate Conductor, Emil de Cou, conducts the National Symphony Orchestra for the annual Annual Labor Day Concert on the West lawn of the Capitol Building in Washington, DC.
National Symphony Orchestra Labor Day concert West lawn of the US Capitol Building E. Capitol and First [...]
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