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  • People ice skate at the National Gallery of Art's Sculpture Garden ice rink, adjacent to the National Archives (rear). (Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

    Hit the Ice

    Why not make the best of the cold temperatures this winter? Strap on some skates and go for a spin around the ice. Area ice skating rinks are now open.Read More
    19 Nov 2024
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  • A giant dragon lantern (Photo: Winter Lantern Festival)

    Holiday Happenings

    To help get you in the holiday spirit, we have put together a list of some holiday light displays and events in the DMV. Many are free, although not all.Read More
    12 Nov 2024
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  • A bowl full of Reese's Cups, Snickers, Kit Kats and Milky Ways sit on a porch beside a pumpkin. (Photo: Steve/Flickr)

    Sweet Tooth

    Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups are the most popular Halloween Candy in the DMV. In fact, Reese’s dominated the map, claiming the top spot in 40 states. Read More
    22 Oct 2024
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  • Participants at the Boo at the Zoo family-friendly Halloween event. A boy dressed as a vampire gets candy from a female volunteer. (Photo; National Zoo)

    Boo at the Zoo

    Boo at the Zoo trick-or-treat event for children returns to the National Zoo Oct. 18-20. Night of the Living Zoo, a 21-and-over party, is Oct. 25.Read More
    15 Oct 2024
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  • The Downtown Holiday Market in Penn Quarter features more than 150 vendors. (Photo: Downtown Holiday Market)

    Bah! Humbug!

    Two D.C. business improvement districts (BID) will hold dueling holiday markets this Christmas -- one in Dupont Circle and the other in Penn Quarter.Read More
    02 Oct 2024
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CITY SCENE

Scream City opens at the D.C. Armory and RFK Stadium on Saturday. (Photo: Scream City)Scream City opens at the D.C. Armory and RFK Stadium on Saturday. (Photo: Scream City)

Weekend Guide

02 Oct 2015
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1789 Restaurant, A Party for the Season: A Garden of Colors, Adam's Morgan, Alkemia Earth, Allison Janney, Art on the Avenue, Atlantic Ocean, Black Squirrel, Boulevard Brewing Co., Brave New World, Break & Brew, Busboys & Poets, Cafe Bonapart, Capital City Brewing, Carmen, Chuck Loree, Cinderella, Costume Sale, Craft2Wear, D.C. Armory, D.C. VegFest, Dama, Darryl Strawbery, Del Rey, DJ Alkimst, DJ Cavem, Dog Tag Bakery, Dolly Jacobs, Dr. Mehment Oz, Dr. Vivek H. Murthy, Exorcism Estate Haunted House, Field of Screams, Fort Belvoir, Georgetown Piano Bar, Gertrude Yukie Tsutsumi, Goo Goo Dolls, Great Walk of Art, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Hurricane Joaquin, I Thai Restaurant, John Gzenik, Library of Congress, Lisner Auditorium, Loving Mary, MacBeth, Mama Rouge, Manon Lescaut, Marco Werman, Michael Alpert, Mid-Atlantic Oktoberfest, mom, Mount Vernon, Mount Vernon Fall Wine Festival & Sunset Tour, National Building Museum, National Endowment for the Arts, National Gallery of Art, National Heritage Fellowships Concert, National Museum of African Art, National Portrait Party, Nor'Easter, Of Mice and men, Oktoberfest, Ommegang Brewery, Pat O'Brien, Rahim AlHaj, RFK Stadium, Russian Bazaar, Sackler-Freer Gallery, Scream City, Sheryl Crow, Shirlington, Sidonka Wadina, Slaughter Factory, Smashing Pumpkin Beer Fest, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian at 8, Smithsonian Castle, St. John the Baptist Russian Orthodox Cathedral, Steehead Productions, Steven Tyler, Tara Conner, taste of bethesda, Taste of Georgetown, The Fray, U.S. Capitol, Unite to Face Addiction Rally, washington national opera, waterfront, weekend guide, Woodland's Vegan Bistro, Yards Park
Weekend Events Up in the Air with Weather As we head into the weekend, the persistent rain in the DMV is a sign that a Nor’easter is passing through and Hurricane Joaquin is still churning in the Atlantic Ocean. A few events that had been scheduled for this weekend have
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The Barraks Row Fall Festival takes over Eighth Street SE on Saturday. (Photo: Popville)

Weekend Guide

25 Sep 2015
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2 Birds 1 Stone, Alt-J, Amsterdam Falafelshop, Arepa Zone, Art All Night, autumn, Baby Bry Bry, Barracks Row Fall Festival, Ben's Chili Bowl, Best of the Beatles, BonMi, by Drake, Calvert Marine Museum, CapMac, Chvrches, College Park Day, Crafty Bastards Arts and Crafts Show, Curley Q’s BBQ, D.C. Empanadas, D.C. Pollo, D.C. Public Library, Dan Deacon, Dangerously Delicious Pies, Dealfield String Band, Disney, Doi Moi, Duke’s Grocery, Dumbarton House, Eighth Street SE, Estadio, Explore@NASAGoddard, fall, George Ezra, Goddard Space Flight Center, Hubble Space Telescope, Jack Rose Dining Saloon, James and the Giant Peach, Landmark Music Festival, Lemongrass Food Truck, Lincoln Theatre, Loretta Lynn, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, Metro, Mockingbird Hill, Montpelier Mansion, Movies on the Potomac, Museum Day Live!, National Harbor, National Mall, National Museum of Women in the Arts, National Symphony Orchestra, New Belgium beer, Old Ebbitt Grill, oyamel, Pepe, Pete’s New Haven Style Pizza, Proof, Rajton, Red Hook Lobster Pound, Reginald Cyntje, Rocklands Barbeque & Grilling Co., Shake Shack, Strokes, Tapas Truck, The Big Cheese, the Hamilton, The Kennedy Center, the Kreeger, the National Building Museum, the National Inventors Hall, the Newseum, the War on Drugs, Turkish Festival, Uncensored: Opening Night, union market, Wale, weekend guide, West Potomac Park, Wiener 500 Dachshund Dash, Yards Park
It’s a Fun-Filled, First Weekend of Fall It’s the first weekend of fall, but the weekend is still full of outdoor activities. Although the forecasts calls for temperatures in the lower-70s, it is also calling for scattered showers. As long as you keep dry, it will be an
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Capt. Nicholas Eberling, Thunderbird 6, climbs prior to performing Vertical Rolls (Photo: Tech. Sg.t Manuel J. Martinez/U.S. Air Force)

Weekend Guide

18 Sep 2015
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After Hours, Agua 301, Alexander Gardner, Art League, Barry Lee Pearson, Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center, Bike-In Birthday Movie, Black Masala, Bluebird Blues Festival, Bluejacket, Branch Avenue, Breaking Away, Capital Bikeshare, Cheick Hamala Diabate, Clarence "The Bluesman" Turner, Colonial Market and Fair, Dark Fields of the Republic, Darryl Davis, F-22 Raptor, Father’s Children, FedEx Field, Full Power Blues, General Washington, H Street Festival, Hardway Connection, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Howard Alan Events, Ice Cream Bowl fundraiser, Ice Cream Jubilee, Jogo Project, Joint Base Andrews Air Show, King Street Art Festival, Kruba Thai, Lil Red and the Renegades, Maker Faire, Mount Vernon, Nando’s Peri Peri, National Building Museum, National Portrait Gallery, old town, Osteria Morini, Para-Commandos, Phil Wiggins and the Chesapeake Sheiks, Potomac Riverboat co., Prince George's Community College, Revolutionary War, Rodney Henry, Scott Hansen, Shirin Neshat: Facing History, Silver Spring Civic Building, Small Press Expo, Smithsonian, Spring Cruises, The Big Build, The Jewels, The Pocket, The Spaniels, The Yards Park, Thurderbirds, Tom Larson, Veterans Plaza, weekend guide
Festivals Fill the Weekend This is a weekend for festivals in the DMV – colonial, arts, comics and cartoons, air, blues and more. No matter what your interests, there is something for everyone and many are free. One you won’t want to miss is the semi-annual Joint Base Andrews Air
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The 17th Street Festival features arts and entertainment. (Photo: Huffington Post)

Weekend Guide

11 Sep 2015
Mark Heckathorn
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17th Street Festival, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Adams Morgan Day, astronaut, Birch & Barley, Buejacket, Capital Crab Soup Cook-Off, carnival rides, chainsaw art, ChurchKey, Columbia Heights Day, Curbside Cookoff, D.C. Shorts Film Festival, D.C. State Fair, DMV Food Truck Association, E Street Cinema, FedEx Field, food trucks, Free For All, GDB, Great Meadow, Greg Engert, Mary Cleave, Maryland Seafood Festival, Metro, Miami Dolphins, music, NASA, National Air and Space Museum, Nationals Park, Neighborhood Restaurant Group, NoMa Junction, Old City Farm and Guild, opening day, petting farm, pig races, Prince George's County Fair, Rappahannock Oyster Co., Red Apront, Rosecroft Raceway, Sandy Point Park, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Sidney Harman Hall, Snallygaster, Storey Park, The Fairgrounds, The Plains, the Yards, Truckeroo, U.S. Navy Memorial Heritage Center, Virginia Wine Festival, Washington Redskins, weekend guide, White Ford Bronco, Women in Aviation and Space
It’s a Food Lovers’ Weekend in the DMV Summer may be unofficially over, but this is one of the busiest weekends of the year, and Saturday is jam packed. It will be hard to pick just what to do. And looking over the schedule, it’s a food lovers’ weekend with Truckeroo, the
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Weekend Guide

04 Sep 2015
Mark Heckathorn
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A Mid Summers Night Dream, AFI Silver, Al Roker, Ann Hornaday, Antonio Ernesto, Best of Totally Awesome: Great Films of the 1980s, Bones in Whispers, Breakfast Club, Capitol Skyline Hotel, Carter Barron Amphitheatre, Cokie Roberts, Cyntia Levinson, D.C. Blues Festival, David Badacci, David Ignatius, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Fifth Harmony, Finding a Line: Skateboarding Music and Media, Flying V, Free For All, Full Power Blues, G-Mills, How We Did of Disease-Related Illness, Jackson & Oziel, James Armstrong, kennedy center, labor day, Latino Music Festival, Library of Congress, Longacre Lea, Maryland State Fair, Metro, Night Falls on the Blue Planet, Nora Pouillon, Page to State Festival, pool party, R5 and Bea Miller, Ravens, robin givhan, Shakespeare Theatre Co., Sharrie Williams, Sidney Harmon Hall National Book Festival, Sunday Splash, The Mojo Priests, The Oregon Trail, Theater Alliance, Timonium, tom brokaw, Venus Theatre Co., Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Watch Out for Flying Kids, weekend guide, William Joyce, Witches Vanish, Women Laughing Alone with Salad, Women's Voices Theater Festival, Woolly Mammoth, Yez
Activities to Fill Your Labor Day Weekend It is Labor Day weekend, the last unofficial weekend of summer. Remaining DMV students will head back to school next week, pools will close until next summer, but there is still plenty to do inside and out if you aren’t spending one
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King Henry VIII in the Royal Parade at the Maryland Renaissance Festival. (Photo: Marty Magic)

Weekend Guide

28 Aug 2015
Mark Heckathorn
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Adam LaRoche, Afro Bob Alliance, Afro-Cuban, back to school, BBQ, Blues, bobblehead, bourbon, Bourbon Steak, Capital Dragon Boat Regatta, Columbia Heights, Crownsville, Dumbarton House, dupont circle, East Park, england, fall, Fanfare, Gala Hispanic Theatre, Gateway Park, Jayson Werth, Jazz in the Garden, jousting, jugglers, King Henry VII, labor day, Maryland Renaissance Festival, Metro, Miami Merlins, mimes, minstrels, Movies on the Potomac, musicians, National Gallery of Art, National Harbor, Nationals Park, Oxfordshire, Pavilion Cafe, Plaza, Reel Affirmations Film Festival, Revel Grove, Rosslyn Outdoor Film Fest, Sculpture Garden, Silent Disco Dance Party, Southwest waterfront, summer, sword swallowing, The Kid, Tivoli Theater, Washington Channel, Washington Nationals, weekend guide, With Love DC, Yoga in the Park, Zoolander
Enjoy the Outdoors As Summer Wraps Up School is back in session in most area school districts, Labor Day is right around the corner and it will soon be time to put away your whites and shorts. But this last unofficial weekend of summer still has many outdoor activities for you to
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