The inaugural Rock ‘n’ Roll Health & Fitness Expo (with half and full marathon) is coming to Washington DC on March 15-17, 2012. Are you running Rock ‘n’ Roll Washington DC? Here’s your chance to run with a Biggest Loser and make every mile count! Team Future is the Kids Fit Foundation’s fundraising and training program. Whether [...]

Dancing in Light Margaret Jenkins has been creating dances out of San Francisco for almost forty years now, and her company has toured the country extensively since the late 1970s. Her latest composition, Light Moves, which draws heavily on lighting effects and projected figures, premiered in November, and the company will perform it for only [...]

The National Cherry Blosssom Festival orginizers have released the following information: “The National Cherry Blossom Festival unveiled key initiatives and programming that will comprise the unprecedented five week 2012 Centennial Celebration, March 20 – April 27, in honor of the 100 year anniversary of the gift of trees from Tokyo to Washington, DC. The gift [...]

February 1 – 29 In observance of Black History Month, February 1 through 29, Mount Vernon interpreters highlight at the slave quarters the lives and contributions of the slaves who built and operated the plantation home of George and Martha Washington. The refurbished slave quarters building is now open. Reproduction clothing, tools, furniture, cookware, ceramics, [...]

The Original that Spawned All the Samples Other than James Brown and George Clinton, perhaps no musician has been sampled more often in modern hip-hop than jazz/soul vibraphonist Roy Ayers, best known for his highly regarded 1973 soundtrack to Coffy and his 1980 collaboration with Fela Kuti Music of Many Colors. This weekend is your [...]