Intern Edition Summer 2008

Washington, D.C. celebrated its 16th Annual Caribbean Carnival this past June, during a two-day festival held on the 28th and 29th of the month. Caribbean bands and dancers decked out in colorful costumes laden with feathers, topped with exotic headdresses, swarmed the Georgia Avenue, NW, corridor during the first-day parade.
The festivities kicked off at 11 [...]

Popularity: 86% [?]

Last month, Carina Giamerese wrote a note about Playing the Building, an installation by David Byrne in New York City’s Battery Maritime Building. Recently I was lucky enough to visit Byrne’s installation, with Carina and some other friends and fellow interns, to play the building myself.

Popularity: 100% [?]

Popularity: 100% [?]

 
Shauna and I left Maryland around 1 p.m.  It was July 13 and a hell-hot day. 
I’ve never owned one of those thick, spiral-bound Thomas Guide-thingies and I don’t have a portable GPS. So I Googled the route to Winton, North Carolina.   I find it interesting that all those computer generated route-makers such as Mapquest and [...]

Popularity: 95% [?]

When you experience the excessive price points at boutiques like Cusp on M Street, Georgetown shopping can seem like it’s limited to getting fingerprints on the storefront glass.
With a little help from the District of Columbia’s Sales Tax Holiday, though, your window shopping dreams could finally come true.
Washington, D.C., is offering the city’s second Sales [...]

Popularity: 92% [?]

As the sun beat down on the National Mall on a Friday afternoon in June, a small crowd gathered under the Bhutanese “foodways” tent, where Dr. Karma Phuntsho was busy preparing for his afternoon cooking demonstration.
 
As people took their seats, Phuntsho posed a quick question to his audience: “Where is Bhutan located?”
 
But before anyone could [...]

Popularity: 91% [?]

While most people are just talking about the global food crisis, some people are taking action: forget the Freedom Fries, real patriots are planting Victory Gardens! Although the New York Times just told us we don’t have to worry about the environmental footprint of imported foods, Americans can still help out by producing some produce. [...]

Popularity: 33% [?]

Every week, I write a blog entry based solely on my experiences in D.C. I have noticed a continuing trend of complaints regarding how D.C. has let me down, whether slight or significant. With the exception of my first entry, I haven’t noted anything about this city that excites me, grabbing my attention at the [...]

Popularity: 30% [?]

“Afghanistan.” The exhibit’s name stared intensely, a tranquil blue text hanging against a deep black backdrop, luring visitors inside with its promise of treasures from Kabul. I went to the National Gallery of Art, in the heart of D.C., to discover a bit of Afghanistan.

Exquisite turquoise gems, rich gold and ivory lined the walls and [...]

Popularity: 28% [?]

When I ride the Red Line on the way to work every morning, usually lulled half-asleep by the train’s steady rattling, the only sounds I really hear are the station names as we pull into each Metro station.
“Dupont Circle,”…”Farragut North,”… “Metro Center,”… “Gallery Place – Chinatown – Verizon Center.”
That last trifecta of titles is my [...]

Popularity: 31% [?]

The other day, I was all set to go to Manhattan and get a few things done, but then this abominable, unpredictable east coast rain came my way.  After getting soggy socks, and realizing that my subway train was rerouted to make every local stop, I decided to stick out the storm at home.  The [...]

Popularity: 25% [?]