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  • The Richmond skyline at dusk with the James River in the foreground. (Photo: Bill Draper Photography/Flickr)

    One Tank Trips

    Just under a 2-hour drive from D.C., Richmond, Va., is a place of deep historical significance as it was heavily involved in the Civil War.Read More
    15 Oct 2024
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  • Aubrey Plaza (left) and Maisy Stella sitting on a log in the woods at night in My Old Ass. (Photo: Shane Mahood/Amazon MGM Studios)

    My Old Ass: 3.5 ★

    In My Old Ass, director Megan Park flips the age-old question, having her young protagonist meet her future self during a night tripping on shrooms.Read More
    02 Oct 2024
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  • The Concord Point Lighthouse is a solid white lighthouse with a black point surrounded by bushes and benches. (Photo: Marcia Smith)

    One-Day Trips

    Hailed as one of the prettiest small towns in the U.S., Havre de Grace, Md., is on the waterfront where the Susquehanna River meets the Chesapeake Bay.Read More
    17 Sep 2024
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  • An Amish family riding in a black buggy drawn by a horse. (Photo Troyer's Amish Tours/Facebook)

    Road Trip

    A visit to Holmes County, Ohio, about an eight-hour drive from the DMV, is a trip back in time to when settlers drove across the county in horse and buggy.Read More
    25 Jul 2021
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  • People watching a movie at Can I Kick It? on the lawn of the National Building Museum. (Photo: Shaolin Jazz/Facebook)

    Outdoor Movie Guide

    Summer is here. Cool off and relax with outdoor movie screenings. We have complied a list of free movies under the stars in the DMV.Read More
    28 Jun 2021
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Reviews

Sylvester Stallone, Alan Arkin, Kevin Hart, Robert De Niro and Jon Bernthal (l to r) in Grudge Match. (Photo: Warner Bros.)

“Grudge Match” Movie Review

25 Dec 2013
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Stallone, De Niro Face Off in Grudge Match In Grudge Match, a pair of aging boxing rivals are coaxed out of retirement to fight one final bout — 30 years after their last match. In one corner, we have 67-year-old, two-time Oscar nominee Sylvester Stallone, who played Rocky
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Ben Stiller and Kristen Wiig in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. (Photo: Wilson Webb/20th Century Fox)

“The Secret LIfe of Walter Mitty” Movie Review

24 Dec 2013
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Afghanistan, Ben Stiller, Danny Kaye, eHarmony, Greenland, Himalayas, Iceland, James Thurber, Kathryn Hahn, Kristen Wiig, LIfe magazine, New Yorker, Patton Oswalt, Sean Penn, Shirley MacLaine, Steven Conrad, Stuart Dryburgh, the Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Theodore Shapiro, Yeman
Walter Mitty Embraces & Lives His Dreams Ben Stiller directs and stars in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, James Thurber’s classic story of a day-dreamer who escapes his anonymous life by disappearing into a world of fantasies filled with heroism, romance and action.
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“Inside Llewyn Davis” Movie Review

20 Dec 2013
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Movie Has No Point, Like Llewyn Davis’ Life Inside Llweyn Davis follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. Llewyn Davis is at a crossroads. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is
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PL Travers (Emma Thompson) and Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) on the carousel at Disneyland. (Photo: Walt Disney Studios)

“Saving Mr. Banks” Movie Review

12 Dec 2013
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Annie Rose Buckley, B.J. Novak, Colin Farrell, Emma Thompson, Jason Schwartzman, Mary Poppins, P.L. Travers, Paul Giamatti, Rachel Griffiths, Richard Sherman, Robert Sherman, Ruth Wilson, Saving Mr. Banks, Tom Hanks, Travers Goff, Walt Disney
The Story of the Making of Mary Poppins When Walt Disney’s daughters begged him to make a movie of their favorite book, P.L. Travers’ Mary Poppins, he made them a promise — one that he didn’t realize would take 20 years to keep. In his quest to obtain the
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Anna, Kristoff and Sven the reindeer meet Olaf the snowman. (Photo: Walt Disney Animation Studios)

“Frozen” Movie Review

26 Nov 2013
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3D, Alan Tudyk, Chris Buck, Disney, Frozen, Get a Horse!, Hans Christian Andersen, Indina Menzel, Jennifer Lee, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad, Kristen Bell, Lauren MacMullan, Little Mermaid, Mickey Mouse, Santino Fontana, Surf's Up, Tarzan, The Snow Queen, Wreck-It-Ralph
Frozen Will Warm Your Heart A prophecy traps a kingdom in eternal winter, so Anna, a fearless optimist, sets off on an epic journey — teaming up with rugged mountain man Kristoff and his loyal reindeer Sven — to find her sister Elsa, the Snow Queen whose icy powers
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Judi Dench and Steve Coogan in Philomena. (Photo: BBC Pictures)

“Philomena” Movie Review

23 Nov 2013
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Warm & Sobering, Philomena Is Powerful Based on the 2009 investigative book by BBC correspondent Martin Sixsmith, The Lost Child of Philomena Lee, Philomena focuses on the efforts of Philomena Lee, mother to a boy conceived out of wedlock — something her Irish-Catholic
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