If you’re like GM, you can only seem to get to church twice a year: Easter and Christmas. As such, you might not know what sort of options you have for that semi-annual visit. GM’s here to help you out. The who, what, where and when of Easter weekend in Georgetown after the jump: Continue reading
The Georgetown Garden Tour will be held on May 8th this year. This event gives you the chance to finally get behind all those secret garden walls you always crane your neck over (although GM should make sure you understand this event doesn’t give you carte blanche to just stroll into anyone’s backyard, no matter how awesome that would be).
Tickets are $30 if bought before May 2nd and $35 after. There will be seven homes’ gardens spread out across Georgetown open this year. The website offers descriptions of the gardens, but doesn’t actually identify which homes they are. See if you can figure them out: Continue reading
Photo by Stan Barouh.
GM was invited Tuesday night to come watch Woolly Mammoth’s newest production, Clybourne Park, and answer the question: is this Georgetown?
Clybourne Park is a wonderful new play by Bruce Norris that serves as an updated companion piece to Lorraine Hansberry’s legendary play A Raisin in the Sun. The new play explores two critical moments in the life of a house and a neighborhood: the first at the dawn of White flight and the second in the heart of the gentrification fight of today’s “post-racial” world.
The quick answer to Woolly Mammoth’s provocative question is: No, at least superficially, Georgetown is not Clybourne Park. Continue reading
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The 2010 Georgetown House Tour was just announced. It will take place on April 24th.
The Georgetown House Party is a tradition over 90 years old. It is reputed to be the oldest continuous private house tour in the nation. It is thrown each year to benefit St. John’s Episcopal Church on O St. The inimitable Frida Burling, who has been at or near the helm of the house tour for many, many years will once again be at the heart of the tour’s operations.
Oddly enough GM’s abode was not selected yet again this year (it’s the dead plants right?). Notwithstanding that grievous oversight, the tour will surely include a dozen or so lovely homes. Not to be missed, of course, is the tea held at St. John’s Parish Hall from 2:00 to 5:00. Continue reading
While 2009 is nearly done, there are still plenty of new year’s eve options available out and about in Georgetown. So chill the bubbly and check out GM’s list below.
Any discussion about new year’s eve in Georgetown must start with perennial aud lang syner Ahmad Jamal at Blues Alley. There are two shows that night, one at 6:30 and one at 10:00. Neither is cheap; the early show is $110 a person, the later show is $160 a person. Both types of tickets come with a dinner and free non-alcoholic drinks. The later show provides hats, noisemakers, and free champagne.
If, however, you’re looking for a truly decadent and extravagant new year’s, there’s just one option: Citronelle. They’re offering a “gourmand 6 course” prix fixe dinner. It’s a mere $300 per person. If you want wine with that, it’s only $150 more per person! Another reason to go? It may be your last chance to ring in the new year at the legendary restaurant since it may close in 2010. Continue reading
Come out this Sunday for the second annual Merriment in Georgetown festival. The festivities kick off at 3:00 and the current forecast is a high of 46 (so hopefully we’ll avoid last year’s bone-chilling colds).
There will be horse-drawn carriage rides, entertainment, food, Santa Claus and much, much more. This festival is a great addition to the Georgetown calender and GM hopes to see you all out there!
On another note: GM would like to compliment the BID on its great marketing of this event. The posters and website are wonderfully graphic and nostalgic. If only the BID could take the $30,000 it spends on its own website and make it look as good as the Merriment in Georgetown website. That would truly be money well spent.
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Last night CAG hosted an opening reception for its inaugural art show GeorgetownArts 2009 at the old Smith and Hawken space. To help mark the occasion, the founder of Govinda Gallery, Chris Murray, shared his story of art and Georgetown to the assembled crowd.
Murray came to Georgetown from Manhattan to attend Georgetown University. After seeing the university through the tumultuous late 60’s, Murray graduated in 1969. As he told the crowd, Govinda Gallery was born when he was driving back from his job teaching at Georgetown Day School. He passed the building on 34th and Prospect and saw that it was for rent. Out of curiosity he called up the landlord and found out that the rent was cheap. Although he lacked any idea or business plan for the space, he jumped at the chance to run a small shop. Govinda Gallery is still at that same spot 34 years later.
The idea to run a gallery grew slowly. At first he had a couple of artist friends and held a show for them. In telling this story, Murray waxed nostalgic for all the great galleries that existed in Georgetown in the early 70s. He mentioned Harry Lunn (who “discovered” Ansel Adams), Barbara Frederick, Jose Nunez, and Lee Silverstein (who, according to Murray, didn’t suffer fools gladly). It’s evident that even from the beginning Murray relished the village and all its comings and goings. Continue reading
Montrose Park is a beautiful park. In GM’s estimation, it’s the nicest urban park in the city. It’s only natural that people like to gather in the park and throw a picnic or a party. GM himself hosted a post-wedding brunch in the park (by-the-by, said brunch was catered by Griffin Market, who did an amazing job. GM heartily recommends their services for your next event).
Montrose Park only has a handful of picnic benches. As a result, when a family wants to host a birthday party there, a parent inevitably has to show up in the morning and “reserve” the table with table cloths and balloons.
This has created a relatively self-policing system. Groups get to host events in a beautiful setting, yet the parties are not so frequent or large as to affect regular users. That unfortunately may be starting to change. Continue reading
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This weekend, CAG is hosting GeorgetownArts 2009, a festival highlighting Georgetown artists. The show will take place at the old Smith and Hawken. It will be kicked off tomorrow night with a talk by Lovinda Gallery founder Chris Murray. Wine, cheese, and (of course) Georgetown Cupcakes will be served.
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This Friday at the Swedish embassy there will be the 12th annual EcoFest auction to benefit the Hyde-Addison School. Funds raised will be used to support the public elementary school’s programs.
Tickets are $50 per person to the fun-filled event. There are well over 100 cool items up for bidding, such as:
A 1951 Epiphone archtop guitar with 1940’s amplifier.
Spend a day sailing the Chesapeake Bay from beautiful Oxford, Md.
Or an evening with proud Hyde parent Peter Andreasson and his famous Swedish pancakes. As a bonus, Peter will play Swedish songs on his guitar as you munch down the lingonberry-topped treats.
So come on down to the Swedish Embassy this Friday night and take home some cool stuff and help out a great cause to boot.
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