The DC Traveler

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  manages a sophisticated array of attack and support aircraft of over 250 aircraft, including both F/A-18 Hornet and Navy F-14 Tomcat squadrons.
 
From vintage aviation to the latest in military firepower, the show includes demonstrations from the hottest fighters in the U.S. arsenal including the …read more

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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 around the world.
With two main stages feature live music from a wide range of genres from Rock, Latin, jazz to Americana, bluegrass and funk, and more. Plus dance performances from Bolivia to Africa , Cuba to Spain.
Located on a tree-lined street, Arts on Belmont …read more

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Since It’s Monday, and I typically write a Monument Monday, but here’s one that’s monument to the performing arts – The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Next weekend, enjoy over 30 FREE music, dance and artistic performances at Washington, DC’s premiere center for the arts, The Kennedy Center and their annual Open House.
The range of entertainment of as varied as the number of performers.
Here’s just a sampling of the many free performances:

The Kennedy Center’s own Suzanne Farrell Ballet. Suzanne Ferrell  who was one of one of George Balanchine’s most celebrated ballerinas.
Washington’s own, National Symphony …read more

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The Bull Run Shooting Center in suburban Centreville, VA lets shotgun shooters looking to simulate the hunting experience and practice shooting targets without actually killing anything.
Skeet shooting and its related cousins, trap and sporting clays, is a competitive sport where participants try to break clay disks (pigeons). The neon colored “birds”  are flung into the air, at high speed, from a variety of positions on the shooting range. The shooter must quickly react, site and shoot at the pigeon with a shotgun.  The targets fly at different speeds, angles and trajectories, making it a challenging skill to learn.
The pigeons …read more

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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 groups of musicians and dancers, or cheer for your favorite mounted knight during the exciting jousting match.  But don’t miss some of the faire’s classic Renaissance food – like the hot apple dumplings, steak-on-a-stake or a classic smoked turkey leg, fit for a king.
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There are over 40 Washington, DC radio stations within listening distance to downtown.  Most DC-based radio transmitter towers are shorter than in most cities, since most are located on shorter buildings or in the suburbs. This causes reception to be poor. It is partially because Washington, DC allows no buildings to be built that are taller than the tip of the statute on the Capitol Building (228 feet), other than the Washington Monument (555 feet).
The tallest radio/TV tower (also the tallest structure) in the District is located at 6001 Georgia Ave., at 9th and Peabody Streets, NW. At 761 feet …read more

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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 over 300 exhibits, attendees can enjoy concerts and dancing events, movies, educational sessions with a wide range of topics, such as senior lifestyle, travel, family relationships, health and health care, managing your finances, retirement, entertainment and sex and love and more.
Celebrities in attendance include:

Natalie Cole …read more

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American painter, Richard Diebenkorn’s early abstract impressionism work is not well known. But his Albuquerque period (1950-52), created a solid foundation for future work.

His individualist style were based, in part, of earlier works of abstract expressionists from a decade earlier. 
By the 1960s, he had become a known and respected abstract expressionist on America’s Pacific coast.
Closing soon is an exhibit of his influential work, at The Phillips Collection, in Washington, DC.
Diebenkorn in New Mexico
The Phillips Collection
1600 21st Street, NW, between Q and R Streets
Washington, DC 20009 (map it)
Dates and Times – Through Sept. 7, 2008
Hours – Saturday 10:00 a.m.– 6:00 …read more

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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 music. 
Lebanese vocalist Tania Saleh, who will be featured in an upcoming documentary on PBS on Lebanese musicians and singer who performed at the Roxy Theater in Hollywood.
The Jimmy Hendrick’s of the Chinese two-stringed bowed erhu, Yang Ying, from China. 
Congolese-Angolan spicy salsa of …read more

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I really enjoyed the preserved bodies exhibit and so did close to 300,000 other visitors to Body Worlds 2, at the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.
The exhibit is closing on September 1st, 2008, so here’s you last chance to experience the inner workings of the human body.
For the final weeks, the hours are extended from 9:00 am, until 9:00 p.m. daily.
Body Worlds 2 Maryland Science Center 601 Light Street, at the Inner Harbor Baltimore, MD 21230 (map it)
Dates and Times – Daily 9:00 a.m. – …read more

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