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Folk Life Festival Opens Today
Today marks the start of the Smithsonian Folk Life Festival. They’ve been setting up the last couple of weeks and the weather looks good (if a little warm) for the first day. This year the festival features the country of Wales, Las Americas (music in Latino culture), and Giving Voice (the power of words in African […]
Eritrea March?
Saturday afternoon we stopped to watch this march on E street. No one with the walk was talking or handing out information about the event (well one guy did yell out “down with Bush”) but some internet research tells us that the flag belongs to the African nation of Eritrea. With a little more research we learned that this […]
The Best Deal In Town
Behold the banana split. Delicious and nutritious (it contains potassium and calcium!) it is one of mankind’s greatest inventions. Despite the wonders that come from a banana split, few have mastered its creation. We in PQ are lucky however, living in the midst of a banana split making prodigy. At least we assume it was a […]
Technicolor Sunday
Come for the lecture, stay for the films. We love the various film and lecture series that go on at the National Gallery of Art’s East building auditorium, but we’re particularly interested in the combo being shown today. Starting at 2 pm archivist and historian David Pierce will be discussing the history and uses of […]