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2011_CA_AAMSF_Bldg32CA -- San Francisco -- Asian Art Museum of San Francisco -- Building
2011_CA_AAMSF_China153CA -- San Francisco -- Asian Art Museum of San Francisco -- China Collection
2011_CA_AAMSF_Him36CA -- San Francisco -- Asian Art Museum of San Francisco -- Himilayas Collection
2011_CA_AAMSF_Japan106CA -- San Francisco -- Asian Art Museum of San Francisco -- Japan Collection
2011_CA_AAMSF_Korea20CA -- San Francisco -- Asian Art Museum of San Francisco -- Korea Collection
2011_CA_AAMSF_Persia6CA -- San Francisco -- Asian Art Museum of San Francisco -- Persia Collection
2011_CA_AAMSF_SAsia102CA -- San Francisco -- Asian Art Museum of San Francisco -- South Asia Collection
2011_CA_AAMSF_SEAsia55CA -- San Francisco -- Asian Art Museum of San Francisco -- Southeast Asia Collection
2011_CA_Balboa7CA -- San Diego -- Balboa Park -- Miscellaneous Sites
2011_CA_Barstow57CA -- Barstow
2011_CA_Calif_Citrus_SHP50CA -- Riverside -- California Citrus State Historic Park
2011_CA_CC_Plaza18CA -- San Francisco -- Civic Center Plaza
2011_CA_Centennial_Pk10CA -- Barstow -- Centennial Park
2011_CA_Chavez_Mem61CA -- San Fernando -- San Fernando Cesar E Chavez Memorial
2011_CA_Chicano_Park71CA -- San Diego -- Chicano Park
2011_CA_Coit_Tower104CA -- San Francisco -- Coit Tower
2011_CA_Coit_Vistas19CA -- San Francisco -- Coit Tower -- Views from...
2011_CA_DeYoung21CA -- San Francisco -- de Young Museum
The performers and art workshop were part of a series called "Friday Nights at the de Young".
2011_CA_DeYoung_Africa45CA -- San Francisco -- de Young Museum -- Africa
2011_CA_DeYoung_Contemp82CA -- San Francisco -- de Young Museum -- Contemporary
2011_CA_DeYoung_Guinea48CA -- San Francisco -- de Young Museum -- New Guinea/Oceania
2011_CA_DeYoung_Meso86CA -- San Francisco -- de Young Museum -- Mesoamerica
2011_CA_DeYoung_US294CA -- San Francisco -- de Young Museum -- US
2011_CA_DeYoung_Vw31CA -- San Francisco -- de Young Museum -- Views from the Observation Deck
I didn't realize there was an observation deck until about an hour before the museum closed. It was probably the highlight of the visit.
2011_CA_El_Capitan7CA -- Hollywood -- El Capitan Theatre
2011_CA_Exposition55CA -- Los Angeles -- Exposition Park (Expo Center)
2011_CA_Ft_Point9CA -- San Francisco -- Golden Gate NRA -- Fort Point NHS
It was late. The road to the fort was closed. These are evening pictures of the Golden Gate Bridge from the vicinity of the fort.
2011_CA_GGate_Bridge_NVC9CA -- San Francisco -- Golden Gate Bridge (North Side) Visitor Center
2011_CA_GGate_Bridge_N23CA -- San Francisco -- Golden Gate Bridge (North Side)
2011_CA_GGate_NRA_NVw9CA -- San Francisco -- Golden Gate NRA (North Side) -- View from...
2011_CA_GGate_NRA_N1CA -- San Francisco -- Golden Gate Natl Recreation Area (North Side) (Marin Headlands)
2011_CA_GGate_Park49CA -- San Francisco -- Golden Gate Park
2011_CA_Graumans32CA -- Hollywood -- TCL Chinese Theatre (Grauman's)
2011_CA_Harvey_House22CA -- Barstow -- Harvey House Railroad Depot
2011_CA_Hollywood15CA -- Hollywood
2011_CA_Hollywood_Highland61CA -- Hollywood -- Hollywood and Highland Center
2011_CA_I15_Nipton1CA -- I-15 driving near Nipton
This was one amazing back-up coming out of Vegas.
2011_CA_I5_Newman17CA -- I-5 @ Newman -- California Aqueduct Vista Point
2011_CA_I5_Westley10CA -- I-5 @ Wesley
2011_CA_La_Jolla32CA -- La Jolla
2011_CA_LA_Zoo104CA -- Los Angeles -- LA Zoo & Botanical Gardens
2011_CA_LegionO223CA -- San Francisco -- California Palace of the Legion of Honor -- Other
2011_CA_LegionP262CA -- San Francisco -- California Palace of the Legion of Honor -- Paintings
2011_CA_Livermore_Turbines5CA -- Livermore -- Wind Turbines
2011_CA_Lombard6CA -- San Francisco -- Lombard Street
The previous pictures from 2004 give you a better idea of what the "S" section of the road look like. This year's pictures are mostly of the crowds and the hill from the other side. I imagine it's hell living along the S section. People are constantly going up and down the one-lane road (I did it...
2011_CA_Mary_Star_Sea11CA -- La Jolla -- Mary, Star of the Sea Catholic Church
2011_CA_MCASD_La_Jolla27CA -- La Jolla -- Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) La Jolla
2011_CA_Mingei11CA -- San Diego -- Balboa Park -- Mingei International Museum
2011_CA_Mingei_Neko28CA -- San Diego -- Balboa Park -- Mingei International Museum -- Exhibit: Maneki Neko
Maneki Neko: Japan's Beckoning Cats - From Talisman to Pop Icon
Mar 03, 2011 - Jan 05, 2012
This exhibition includes selections from a collection of 155 cats given to the Museum by collector Billie Moffitt. Made in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, each cat is unique. Most are made of clay, but...
2011_CA_Mission_Trails52CA -- San Diego -- Mission Trails Regional Park
2011_CA_Mojave_RVM9CA -- Barstow -- Mojave River Valley Museum
2011_CA_Nethercutt107CA -- Sylmar -- The Nethercutt Collection and Nethercutt Museum
2011_CA_Olympic_Training56CA -- Chula Vista -- US Olympic Training Center
2011_CA_Pacheco_RS8CA -- Pacheco Ranger Station
2011_CA_Pala_Mission36CA -- Pala -- San Antonio de Pala Asistencia
2011_CA_PalomarV5CA -- Palomar Mountain -- Views from...
2011_CA_Palomar41CA -- Palomar Mountain -- Palomar Observatory
2011_CA_R66_MRM17CA -- Barstow -- Route 66 "Mother Road" Museum
2011_CA_Rainbow_Basin17CA -- Barstow -- Rainbow Basin National Natural Landmark
2011_CA_Reagan_AF169CA -- Simi Valley -- Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum -- Air Force One hangar
2011_CA_Reagan_Lib236CA -- Simi Valley -- Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum -- Inside
2011_CA_Reagan_Outside56CA -- Simi Valley -- Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum -- Outside Areas
2011_CA_Riverside_NC81CA -- Riverside -- Riverside National Cemetery
2011_CA_RosieEtc70CA -- Richmond -- Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front -- Miscellaneous
2011_CA_RosieMem59CA -- Richmond -- Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front -- Memorial
2011_CA_RosieRO7CA -- Richmond -- Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front -- Red Oak Victory Ship
2011_CA_RosieVw8CA -- Richmond -- Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front -- Views of the Bay
2011_CA_San_Fran25CA -- San Francisco
2011_CA_SciCen100CA -- Los Angeles -- Exposition Park -- California Science Center
2011_CA_SDASM_Gillespie82CA -- El Cajon -- San Diego Air & Space Museum Gillespie Field Annex
2011_CA_SDCCA224San Diego Comic-Con International (2011) -- Artists
Artists in sequence:

Preview Night:
Scott Shaw!, Don Rosa, Tiffany Taylor, Jessica Hinton, Dean Yeagle, Neal Adams, Stan Lee, ???, ???, Gary McIntire (Lego Master), ???, ???, Michael Broussard, Jeremy Haun, Brandon Thomas, Paul Morrissey, Joe LeFavi, Janet Lee, Chandra Free, Ken Lashley, Phil Yeh,...
2011_CA_SDCCP01_11072116San Diego Comic-Con International (2011) -- Panel: IDW and Hasbro: 2012 Transformations
IDW and Hasbro: 2012 Transformations -- What's coming up in IDW's Transformers, G.I. Joe, and Dungeons & Dragons titles? More important, who's taking over stewardship of Transformers and G.I. Joe? Find out as IDW's newest editor makes his presence known, alongside IDW's editorial team and creators such...
2011_CA_SDCCP01_11072219San Diego Comic-Con International (2011) -- Panel: Relativity Media: Raven and Haywire
Relativity Media: Raven and Haywire -- Two fantastic films from Relativity Media debut in this Hall H presentation.
Raven -- The film is a gritty thriller in which Edgar Allan Poe joins forces with a young Baltimore detective to hunt down a mad serial killer who's using Poe's own works as the basis...
2011_CA_SDCCP01_11072315San Diego Comic-Con International (2011) -- Panel: Marvel Television
Marvel Television -- Marvel's head of TV Jeph Loeb brings the inside scoop on Marvel's latest series that take your favorite heroes from page to screen. Get a first look at the premiere of The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes season two, a sneak peek at a certain ultimate webslinger, and a few other...
2011_CA_SDCCP01_11072416San Diego Comic-Con International (2011) -- Panel: Fish Hooks
Disney Channel: Fish Hooks -- Dive into the world of Disney Channel's newest animated hit Fish Hooks! Creator and executive producer Noah Z. Jones (Almost Naked Animals), executive producer Maxwell Atoms (The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy), and director Bill Reiss (Chowder) will be on hand along...
2011_CA_SDCCP02_11072121San Diego Comic-Con International (2011) -- Panel: Bongo Comics Sneak Peek
Bongo Comics Sneak Peek -- Bongo Comics offers a mouthwatering preview of upcoming projects featuring The Simpsons and Futurama and a few other surprises. Managing editor Terry Delegeane and creative director Bill Morrison host the writers and artists who create the comics and books based on Matt...
2011_CA_SDCCP02_11072212San Diego Comic-Con International (2011) -- Panel: Free 3D Glasses for You at the 3D Comics Panel!
Free 3D Glasses for You at the 3D Comics Panel!— This presentation in actual 3D will take you through the exciting history of million-selling 3D comics. It showcases their invention in 1953 by Joe Kubert and Norm Maurer and the artists who followed their lead: Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Bob Powell, Otto...
2011_CA_SDCCP02_11072373San Diego Comic-Con International (2011) -- Panel: Quick Draw!
Quick Draw! -- It's the annual Heavyweight Championship of Cartooning as three of the fastest minds (with the fastest pens) go mano a mano to create cartoon mirth before your very eyes! Be there as Sergio Aragonés (MAD magazine), Scott Shaw! (The Simpsons), and Mike Kazaleh (Futurama) are put through...
2011_CA_SDCCP02_11072473San Diego Comic-Con International (2011) -- Panel: Cartoon Voices 2
Cartoon Voices II -- It's another panel full of amazing folks who provide voices for animation. This one has Bill Farmer (Goofy), Laraine Newman (The Goode Family), Jason Marsden (The Fairly OddParents), Gregg Berger (The Garfield Show), Vanessa Marshall (The Avengers), and maybe a surprise or two....
2011_CA_SDCCP03_1107217San Diego Comic-Con International (2011) -- Panel: Kingdoms of Amalur
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning: Bringing Worlds to Life, From Concept to Pixel -- Todd McFarlane (award-winning artist and creator of Spawn), Big Huge Games art director Tim Coman, and a panel of Reckoning designers discuss the artistic process of creating a massive fantasy epic in this all-new...
2011_CA_SDCCP03_11072221San Diego Comic-Con International (2011) -- Panel: Marvel: Amazing Spider-Man and His Avenging Friends
Marvel: Amazing Spider-Man and His Avenging Friends -- Spider-Man's riding high after hitting the Big Time, but it'll all come crashing down this summer in Spider-Island! Get an in-depth look inside the event that changes the course of Peter Parker's life. But ol' Web-Head isn't the only New Yorker with...
2011_CA_SDCCP03_11072341San Diego Comic-Con International (2011) -- Panel: Cartoon Voices 1
Cartoon Voices I -- Meet some of the folks who speak for your favorite animated superstars...folks like Wally Wingert (The Avengers), Saratoga Ballantine (Spider-Man), Tara Strong (The Powerpuff Girls), Townsend Coleman (The Tick), Rob Paulsen (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), and Robin Atkin Downes...
2011_CA_SDCCP03_1107244San Diego Comic-Con International (2011) -- Panel: Drawing Manga and Dynamic Anatomy
Drawing Manga and Dynamic Anatomy -- Billy Martinez, publisher and artist of Neko Press, will demonstrate dynamic manga in action. This lesson will show step-by-step action poses with various characters in movement and foreshortening techniques. Perfect for beginners or seasoned artists.
2011_CA_SDCCP04_11072123San Diego Comic-Con International (2011) -- Panel: Classic Warner Bros./Hanna-Barbera Cartoons Going Blu-ray
Classic Warner Bros./Hanna-Barbera Cartoons Going Blu-ray -- Animation historian Jerry Beck and Warner Archives' George Feltenstein lead a panel of renowned animation and restoration experts, including Spike Brandt (The Looney Tunes Show), Tony Cervone (The Looney Tunes Show), and Paul Dini (Lost, Tower...
2011_CA_SDCCP04_11072221San Diego Comic-Con International (2011) -- Panel: That '70s Panel
That '70s Panel -- It was a decade of change in comics -- a new generation taking over. What made it all happen? That's what moderator Mark Evanier will ask artists Walt Simonson (Manhunter), Joe Staton (E-Man), Mike Royer (New Gods), and writer/editors Roy Thomas (Alter Ego) and Louise Simonson (Warren...
2011_CA_SDCCP04_1107237San Diego Comic-Con International (2011) -- Panel: DC Focus: Jim Lee
DC Focus: Jim Lee -- Comic-Con special guest Jim Lee is by far the most in-demand artist in comics, from his spectacular work on Batman, Superman, WildC.A.T.S. and so many other comics to his groundbreaking designs for the DC Universe MMO game. Now, as co-publisher of DC Entertainment, Jim has led the...
2011_CA_SDCCP04_11072420San Diego Comic-Con International (2011) -- Panel: Drawing The Simpsons
Drawing The Simpsons -- They're TV's first family of fun! Between their comics, television, and movie appearances, The Simpsons remain one of the most popular cartoons around the world. Emmy Award-winning artist Phil Ortiz (The Simpsons comic books) shows you how to draw Lisa and Bart in this fun...
2011_CA_SDCCP05_11072130San Diego Comic-Con International (2011) -- Panel: Penn & Teller Tell a Lie
Penn & Teller Tell a Lie -- They've been fooling people for years, and now they're going to do it on the Discovery Channel. Penn Jillette and [Raymond] Teller talk about their 35+-year careers, answer audience questions, and introduce their new fall series, Penn & Teller Tell a Lie. In each episode,...
2011_CA_SDCCP05_11072228San Diego Comic-Con International (2011) -- Panel: Image Comics Show
Image Comics Show -- The folks from Image Comics present a slew of exclusive announcements about upcoming projects, updates on ongoing projects, and a Q&A session with some of the best writers working in comics. Find out about what Image is up to before anyone else does, get cool giveaways, and ask...
2011_CA_SDCCP05_11072413San Diego Comic-Con International (2011) -- Panel: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia -- Join the hilarious cast -- Rob McElhenney, Glenn Howerton, Charlie Day, Kaitlin Olson, and Danny DeVito -- for a Q&A panel session.
Panel (left to right ???): ??? (moderator), Rob McElhenney, Kaitlin Olson, Glenn Howerton, Charlie Day, and Danny DeVito
2011_CA_SDCCP06_11072111San Diego Comic-Con International (2011) -- Panel: Cirque du Soleil
KA Cirque du Soleil (Live at MGM Grand) -- Battle at Comic-Con --
Live at PETCO Park, San Diego
KA by Cirque du Soleil will present a one-of-a-kind display of 3-D projections and live performers which will turn one of the outside walls of PETCO Park into a vertical "stage!". The event is free and...
2011_CA_SDCCP06_11072246San Diego Comic-Con International (2011) -- Panel: Teach Cartooning
Teach Cartooning -- Moderator Robert Gluckson (Cartooning for Fun) and cartoonist Phil Yeh (Cartoonists Across America & The World) share techniques to teach cartooning -- and find work -- in classrooms, libraries, and community centers. There is a huge demand for cartooning teachers!
2011_CA_SDCCP06_11072418San Diego Comic-Con International (2011) -- Panel: Sons of Anarchy
Sons of Anarchy -- Get an inside look into the world of FX's highest-rated series ever, Sons of Anarchy, with creator Kurt Sutter (The Shield) and stars Charlie Hunnam (Children of Men), Katey Sagal (Married...With Children), and Ron Perlman (Hellboy).
2011_CA_SDCCP07_11072231San Diego Comic-Con International (2011) -- Panel: World Premiere of Batman: Year One
World Premiere: Batman: Year One -- Warner Home Video, Warner Premiere, DC Entertainment, and Warner Bros. Animation proudly present the World Premiere of Batman: Year One, the highly anticipated next entry in the ongoing series of DC Universe Animated Original Movies. Based on the landmark 1987 DC...
2011_CA_SDCC264San Diego Comic-Con International (2011) -- Miscellaneous
2011_CA_SDCC_Masquerade_110723299San Diego Comic-Con International (2011) -- Masquerade
2011_CA_SD_ConvC1CA -- San Diego -- Convention Center
2011_CA_SD_Hotel_Churchill1CA -- San Diego -- Hotel Churchill
2011_CA_SD_Ped_Bridge6CA -- San Diego -- Harbor Drive Pedestrian Bridge @ Convention Center (incl views from)
2011_CA_SF_Holocaust20CA -- San Francisco -- Holocaust Memorial at California Palace of the Legion of Honor
2011_CA_SF_Lincoln_PkV7CA -- San Francisco -- Lincoln Park -- Views from...
2011_CA_SF_Lincoln_Pk22CA -- San Francisco -- Lincoln Park
2011_CA_SF_Presidio28CA -- San Francisco -- Presidio
2011_CA_SF_Presidio_WW2MIA14CA -- San Francisco -- Presidio -- World War II Memorial (and MIA)
2011_CA_Skyline12CA -- Oakland -- View of Oakland from Skyline Blvd
2011_CA_Tehachapi_Loop8CA -- Walong -- Tehachapi Loop
2011_CA_Torrey_PinesV10CA -- Del Mar -- Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve -- Views from...
2011_CA_Torrey_Pines74CA -- Del Mar -- Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve
2011_CA_Tule_Elk_SNR12CA -- Tule Elk SNR
2011_CA_Univ_Park6CA -- Los Angeles -- University Park (by USC)
2011_CA_USC115CA -- Los Angeles -- Univ of Southern California
2011_CA_Vista_Del_Lago20CA -- Vista del Lago Visitors Center (Pyramid Lake)
2011_CA_Walk_Fame12CA -- Hollywood -- Walk of Fame
2011_CA_Watts_Towers56CA -- Los Angeles -- Watts Towers
2011_CA_WA_RRM40CA -- Barstow -- West America Railroad Museum
2011_CA_WDFM69CA -- San Francisco -- Presidio -- Walt Disney Family Museum
Photography was only allowed in the reception room -- mostly awards and such. Which meant it was a pretty big room!
2011_DC_1000F2DC -- Penn Qtr -- 1000 F St NW block (near Petersen House)
2011_DC_10yr911_11090955Natl Archives -- Panel -- 10th Anniversary of 9/11
10th Anniversary of 9/11:
Gordon Peterson, senior correspondent and anchor of ABC 7/WJLA TV news, moderates a program reflecting upon the extraordinary stories of unity, selflessness, and resilience as well as the efforts and reactions by the first responders to the tragic events of 9/11. Panelists...
2011_DC_2011Review_11123051Newseum -- Inside Media w/Monica Hesse and Dan Zak (2011 Year in Review)
Inside Media: 2011 Year in Review: 0Monica Hesse and Dan Zak
Washington Post staff writers Monica Hesse and Dan Zak look back at the events of 2011 and explain what’s in and what’s out as 2012 begins.
Hesse and Zak are the authors of the annual Washington Post column “The List,” which has appeared New...
2011_DC_2200Penn13DC -- Foggy Bottom -- 2200 Penn Ave NW
I saw this building last year on a construction watch tour. Parts of it have opened.
2011_DC_2315Mass3DC -- Sheridan-Kalorama -- 2315 Mass. Ave NW (Moran House) (now Embassy of Pakistan)
2011_DC_911_Ten_11090785Newseum -- Panel -- 9/11: 10 Years Later (w/Charles Gibson, Victoria Clarke, Ari Fleischer, and Jim Miklaszewski)
"9/11: 10 Years Later"
As the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001 approaches, the Newseum presents a special evening program looking back at the events from that day and examining the impact of the terrorist attacks on life in America today.
Former ABC "World News" anchor Charles Gibson will moderate...
2011_DC_Abuelaish_11022895Politics & Prose @ Sixth & I Historic Synagogue -- Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish ("I Shall Not Hate")
Inspiring and heart-breaking, hopeful and horrifying, "I Shall Not Hate" is Dr. Abuelaish's account of his extraordinary life and a portrayal of everyday life in Gaza. The Harvard-trained Palestinian doctor born and raised in the Gaza Strip has been crossing the lines that divide Israelis and...
2011_DC_Ackerman_11041044Politics & Prose -- Diane Ackerman ("One Hundred Names for Love")
Diane Ackerman - One Hundred Names for Love:
In 2005 Ackerman’s husband, the British writer Paul West, suffered a stroke that severely damaged the language centers in his brain. She encouraged him to record his experience in The Shadow Factory, and now adds her own powerful and moving memoir from the...
2011_DC_ACofW3DC -- Downtown -- Arts Club of Washington (formerly James Monroe's house) (2017 I St NW)
2011_DC_Adams_Morgan11DC -- Adams Morgan neighborhood
2011_DC_Afraid_11021287Politics & Prose -- Ron Collins and Sam Chaltain ("We Must Not Be Afraid To Be Free")
Ron Collins and Sam Chaltain - We Must Not Be Afraid To Be Free:
This history of free speech in America by Collins, a professor at the Washington College of Law, and Chaltain, former national director of the Forum for Education and Democracy, draws its title from a statement by Justice Hugo Black, who...
2011_DC_AFRH4DC -- Armed Forces Retirement Home (Old Soldiers Home)
2011_DC_Alumni37_110502131Richard Nixon Alumni Association -- Inaugural meeting
Ronald H. Walker, Chairman, The Richard Nixon Foundation and Sandy Quinn, President, The Richard Nixon Foundation invite you to the inaugural gathering of The Richard Nixon Alumni Association.
Bringing together the February Group, White House Policy Planning Staff and other Nixon Alumni devoted to the...
2011_DC_AquariumDC45DC -- Natl Aquarium
2011_DC_Aquatic32DC -- Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens
Including a visit from Dad and Dixie.
2011_DC_Arboretum65DC -- U.S. Natl Arboretum
Time for fall colors!
2011_DC_Arboretum_Bonsai30DC -- U.S. Natl Arboretum -- National Bonsai & Penjing Museum
2011_DC_Arboretum_CapCols2DC -- U.S. Natl Arboretum -- National Capitol Columns
2011_DC_Archives13DC -- Federal Triangle -- Natl Archives -- Exterior
2011_DC_Archives_McGowan22DC -- Natl Archives -- McGowan Theatre renovation
The flooding in 2006 had pretty well wiped out the McGowan Theatre. They fixed it up but it needed more extensive work so they closed it later for awhile. Jason gave me a backstage tour of the work they were doing on it.
2011_DC_Archives_WCUS181DC -- Natl Archives -- Exhibit: What's Cooking, Uncle Sam
An exhibition at the National Archives through January 3, 2012.
Food. We love it, fear it, and obsess about it.
We demand that our Government ensure that it is safe, cheap, and abundant. In response, Government has been a factor in the production, regulation, research, innovation, and economics of our...
2011_DC_Archives_WCUS_PP_11060739Natl Archives -- Press Preview: What's Cooking, Uncle Sam? (Presentation)
Press Preview for “What’s Cooking, Uncle Sam?” Exhibit at the National Archives:
Groundbreaking exhibit explores nation’s love affair with, fear of, and obsession with food:
A special press only “sneak preview” to launch the new National Archives exhibition: What’s Cooking, Uncle Sam? The Government’s...
2011_DC_Archives_WCUS_PT_11060715Natl Archives -- Press Preview: What's Cooking, Uncle Sam? (Tour)
Press Preview for “What’s Cooking, Uncle Sam?” Exhibit at the National Archives:
Groundbreaking exhibit explores nation’s love affair with, fear of, and obsession with food:
A special press only “sneak preview” to launch the new National Archives exhibition: What’s Cooking, Uncle Sam? The Government’s...
2011_DC_Arena24DC -- Southwest -- Arena Stage
2011_DC_Arena_RWAC_1111274Arena Stage -- Rebel with a Cause panel talk
Rebel With a Cause
Join Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin, Equivocation playwright Bill Cain, and director Bill Rauch for a discussion on rebellion and conspiracy from the Gunpowder Plot to today.
2011_DC_Armstrong_11011094Politics & Prose @ Sixth & I Historic Synagogue -- Karen Armstrong ("Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life") -- All except presentation
Karen Armstrong - Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life:
In her many books on the history of religion (The Battle for God, The Great Transformation), Armstrong has advocated compassion as one of the greatest virtues. In her new book, she presents practical ways to practice compassion in everyday life,...
2011_DC_Artstronaut_110813111Reynolds Center -- Family Day -- Art-stronaut Family Day
Art-stronaut Family Day:
Reach for the stars with a family day that is out of this world! See how American inventiveness, as depicted in The Great American Hall of Wonders exhibition, led to the great leaps of science and technology behind space travel and flight. Try your hand at experiments and art...
2011_DC_Arts_On_Foot39DC -- Event: Arts on Foot
2011_DC_Art_Trails_11102259Reynolds Center -- Family Day -- Art Trails
Choose your own art-adventure on a trip through the halls of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Pick a theme, grab a guide, and discover a world of creativity and fun in the galleries! You'll meet friends along the way to tell you stories, play music for you, and help you find the clues you need to...
2011_DC_ATT_11120314Goethe-Institut & Natl Gallery -- Event: "African Twin Towers" screening (w/Alex Jovanovic)
Homage to Christoph Schlingensief: The African Twin Towers
Germany, 2006, 71 min, HD, Cast: Irm Hermann, Klaus Beyer, Stefan Kolosko, Robert Stadlober, Dirk Rohde, Christoph Schlingensief, Patti Smith
Introduction by Alex Jovanovic, personal assistant to Christoph Schlingensief, 2009-2010
Originally...
2011_DC_Ault_Opening_11031057Reynolds Center -- Event: Opening Reception -- "To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America"
2011_DC_AU13DC -- American University
School of International Service Building.
2011_DC_AU_Park9DC -- American University Park neighborhood
2011_DC_BallparkO_11060111US Census Bureau -- CFC event at Nationals Ballpark
2011_DC_BallparkVw26DC -- Southeast -- Washington Nationals ballpark -- Views from the park
2011_DC_Ballpark97DC -- Southeast -- Washington Nationals ballpark -- Game
Washington Nationals vs Philadelphia Phillies.
2011_DC_Baseball_11070976Reynolds Center -- Family Day -- Baseball (2011) (w/Todd Coffey and Alex Cora)
Nationals Baseball Family Day: Take me out to the museum! The American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery are pleased to welcome all to our fifth annual Baseball Family Day with the Washington Nationals Baseball Club. Come take your picture with ball players Todd Coffey and Alex Cora from noon...
2011_DC_Basilica_Out26DC -- Basilica of the Natl Shrine of the Immaculate Conception -- Outside views
Mostly exterior shots but also including a couple who needed their photo by an icon.
2011_DC_Bennett_11040582Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Talk: Bob Bennett (Collectors' Roundtable)
Collectors' Roundtable with Senator Bob Bennett
This annual series provides insight and invaluable advice on collecting art from museum directors, curators, collectors, art dealers, and consultants.
This evening, Senator Bob Bennett, collector, Utah and Washington, D.C., presents "Collecting...
2011_DC_Bergen_11011657Politics & Prose -- Peter Bergen ("The Longest War")
Peter Bergen - The Longest War:
CNN national security analyst and author of The Osama bin Laden I Know, Bergen is one of the foremost experts about al-Qaeda. Working from long-term knowledge of the region and extensive interviews with combatants, he argues here that mainstream Islam, not Western force,...
2011_DC_Bernard_11082597Politics & Prose -- Warren Bernard ("Drawing Power: A Compendium of Cartoon Advertising")
Warren Bernard - Drawing Power: A Compendium of Cartoon Advertising:
The comic strip has its roots in advertising as well as in art. In the first book-length study of these dual sources, Rick Marschall, founder of Nemo: The Classic Comics Library, and Warren Bernard, a prolific commentator on and...
2011_DC_Bikeshare2DC -- Bike Sharing / Racks
2011_DC_Blessed_Sacrament35DC -- Chevy Chase -- Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament (3630 Quesada St. NW)
2011_DC_Blur_11011785Politics & Prose -- Bill Kovach And Tom Rosenstiel ("Blur")
Bill Kovach And Tom Rosenstiel - Blur:
In their primer for consumers of information in the age of blogs and twitters, the authors, both experienced journalists, argue that readers must be editors, and they offer tips on fact-checking, prioritizing, and other skills needed to navigate the proliferating...
2011_DC_BobDay_11042192Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Talk: Robert Day ("An Evening with...")
An Evening with Robert Day:
Join us for an unforgettable evening with Robert Day, Washington College’s professor of English, emeritus, as he discusses his travels around the world in a talk entitled “Bar Art: John Sloan’s McSorley’s Old Ale House Paintings, a Vargas Girl behind the Bar at Ruby Red’s in...
2011_DC_Bodmers_11032150DC Env Film Festival (2011) -- "Bodmers Journey" (w/Luke Gasser) @ Swiss Embassy
BODMERS JOURNEY (BODMERS REISE) (Switzerland, 2010, 94 min.)
Wine reception follows screening
Washington, D.C. Premiere On May 17, 1832 the German ethnologist and naturalist Prince Maximilian zu Wied and the young Swiss artist Karl Bodmer set out on a long and adventurous journey into the vast...
2011_DC_Booths_11020710Ford's Theatre -- Nora Titone ("My Thoughts Be Bloody")
John Wilkes Booth: The Family Dysfunction That Led to Tragedy
Historian Nora Titone will read excerpts from and lead a discussion about her new book, My Thoughts Be Bloody. A fascinating look at the intense sibling rivalry between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth, My Thoughts Be Bloody explores how...
2011_DC_Botanic40DC -- U.S. Botanic Garden
2011_DC_Botanic_CAC_11121314DC -- U.S. Botanic Garden -- Performance: Christmas (2011) -- Capital Accord Chorus (choral performance)
2011_DC_Botanic_FloraP13DC -- U.S. Botanic Garden -- Exhibit: Flora Photographica
2011_DC_Botanic_Garden6DC -- U.S. Botanic Garden -- The National Garden
2011_DC_Botanic_Xmas76DC -- U.S. Botanic Garden -- Exhibit: Christmas (2011) -- Presidential Homes
2011_DC_Bowden_11100824Newseum -- Inside Media w/Mark Bowden ("Worm")
Inside Media: Worm: The First Digital World War: Mark Bowden
In late 2008, the Internet was suddenly hit by what best-selling author Mark Bowden called “a worldwide digital blitzkrieg.”
Bowden’s new book, “Worm: The First Digital World War,” chronicles how disaster was averted in this first skirmish...
2011_DC_Brady_11010737Natl Archives -- Patricia Brady ("A Being So Gentle")
A Being So Gentle: The Frontier Love Story of Rachel and Andrew Jackson
The 40-year love affair between Rachel and Andrew Jackson parallels a tumultuous period in American history. But like many great love stories, this one ended tragically when Rachel died only weeks after Andrew was elected...
2011_DC_Brentwood58DC -- Brentwood neighborhood
2011_DC_Breyer_11102751Sixth & I -- Justice Stephen Breyer ("Making Our Democracy Work") w/Leonard Baxt
Justice Stephen Breyer:
Charged with the responsibility of interpreting the Constitution, the Supreme Court has the awesome power to strike down laws enacted by our elected representatives. Why does the public accept the Court’s decisions and follow them, even when those decisions are highly unpopular?...
2011_DC_Brooks_11050985Politics & Prose @ Sixth & I Historic Synagogue -- Geraldine Brooks ("Caleb's Crossing")
Geraldine Brooks:
Once again, Geraldine Brooks takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha’s Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. The narrator of Caleb’s Crossing, Bethia Mayfield, grows up in Great Harbor amid...
2011_DC_Brown_11061133Newseum -- Inside Media w/Scott Brown and Gail Huff
Inside Media: Politics and Media: Sen. Scott Brown and Gail Huff
In a special “Inside Media,” Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., appears with his wife, Gail Huff, a reporter for ABC News affiliate ABC7 in Washington, D.C.
The couple will talk about their careers in politics and the media and the unique...
2011_DC_Brown_11110852Capitol Hill History Project -- Gordon Brown ("Captain Who Burned His Ships")
Reserve Now for Nov. 8 Overbeck Lecture: "The Captain Who Burned His Ships"
On Tuesday, November 8, local author Gordon S. Brown will deliver an Overbeck History Lecture on the growth of the Washington Navy Yard under its first commandant, Captain Thomas Tingey, and the terrible choice he faced...
2011_DC_Bryson_11101768Politics & Prose @ Sixth & I Historic Synagogue -- Bill Bryson ("At Home")
Bill Bryson: Join us for an evening in celebration of the paperback release of At Home: A Short History of Private Life.
Bill Bryson and his family live in a part of England where nothing of any great significance has happened since the Romans decamped. One day, he began to consider how little he knew...
2011_DC_Building12DC -- Natl Building Museum
2011_DC_Building_LegoM_11041054NBM -- LEGO Master In Action
LEGO® Master in Action:
Observe LEGO® certified professional Adam Reed Tucker as he returns to the National Building Museum’s exhibition LEGO® Architecture: Towering Ambition to complete his newest architectural triumph, the White House, for all to see. He is one of only 11 LEGO® certified...
2011_DC_Building_LEGO20DC -- Natl Building Museum -- Exhibit: LEGO Towering Ambition
2011_DC_Callbox9DC -- Callboxes
2011_DC_CalTort9California Tortilla @ Gallery Place (Halloween costumes)
2011_DC_CapHill31DC -- Capitol Hill neighborhood
Including Mark Warner, Governor of Virginia, being interviewed on the street.
2011_DC_CapitolX119DC -- U.S. Capitol Grounds -- Christmas Tree (2011)
2011 -- Sierra White Fir -- 63 feet (19 m) -- Stanislaus National Forest -- California -- Lit by John Boehner on December 6. Decorated with approximately 3,000 ornaments, showcasing the tree's theme "California Shines," made by people from across California. The entire tree was decorated using strands...
2011_DC_Capitol46DC -- U.S. Capitol (exterior)
2011_DC_Capitol_Amateis2DC -- U.S. Capitol (interior) -- Special: Amateis Doors
2011_DC_Capitol_C12DC -- U.S. Capitol (interior) -- Crypt
2011_DC_Capitol_I16DC -- U.S. Capitol (interior) -- Miscellaneous areas
2011_DC_Capitol_NSH23DC -- U.S. Capitol (interior) -- National Statuary Hall
2011_DC_Capitol_R37DC -- U.S. Capitol (interior) -- Rotunda
2011_DC_Capitol_SenatePk9DC -- U.S. Capitol Grounds -- Senate Park (Fountain, Reflecting Pool)
2011_DC_Capitol_VC36DC -- U.S. Capitol Visitor Center (Emancipation Hall)
2011_DC_Capitol_Westward134DC -- U.S. Capitol (interior) -- House Westward Expansion Corridor Murals
Steve Livengood, Chief Guide, US Capitol Historical Society, gave me a tour of the murals in the House wing of the Capitol. I had read about the new Westward Expansion Corridor in the Society's quarterly publication and asked how I could see them since they weren't on a regular tour route. Steve...
2011_DC_Cap_Hill_Club19DC -- Capitol Hill -- Capitol Hill Club (300 1st St SE)
2011_DC_Carleton_11031320Newseum -- Inside Media w/Don Carleton ("Life of Walter Cronkite")
Inside Media: The Life of Walter Cronkite w/Don Carleton
Author and historian Don Carleton talks about his new book “Conversations With Cronkite,” which provides a rare glimpse into the life and times of the legendary CBS News anchor in his own words.
The book features intimate conversations between...
2011_DC_Carnegie_LibI13DC -- Mt Vernon Triangle -- Carnegie Library of Washington, DC (Interior)
I had been told the previous month that the Historical Society of Washington had closed its facilities here. Yep! From their web site:
The Kiplinger Library of the Historical Society of Washington is temporarily closed because of ongoing financial difficulties. The Society's Board of Trustees is...
2011_DC_Carnegie_Lib13DC -- Mt Vernon Triangle -- Carnegie Library of Washington, DC (Exterior)
2011_DC_Carpetbaggers_11012039Ford's Theatre -- Reception for "Carpetbagger’s Children" dress rehearsal
You were recently invited to the dress rehearsal of The Carpetbagger’s Children on January 20. The RSVP deadline is today, January 14, and I truly hope to hear that you can come.
As the new Manager of Membership and Annual Giving, I look forward to meeting you and learning about what makes you excited...
2011_DC_CB_Macys13DC -- Natl Cherry Blossom Festival -- Macy's Cherry Blossom Show
A new tradition blooms at Macy's Metro Center in Washington, DC with the opening of Macy's Cherry Blossom Show, a whimsical floral fantasy highlighting the celebrated trees. The show will serve as a spectacular backdrop for two weeks of in-store special events, including musical and dance performances,...
2011_DC_CChase_Circle33DC -- Chevy Chase Circle
2011_DC_CCPC56DC -- Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church (1 Chevy Chase Circle, NW)
2011_DC_CFCH_Tour_11041922DC -- Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (CFCH) -- Tour
Ever wonder what goes on behind the scenes of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival and Folkways Recordings? What happens to the crafts and art from past Festivals? Find out on this tour of the offices of the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. The cases of crafts and the artwork adorning our office...
2011_DC_Chalk4Peace_11092471Reynolds Center -- Family Day -- Chalk4Piece
Join the American Art Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, and your friends outside on the F Street sidewalk for a day of chalk art, entertainment, and fun! Make your mark with chalk artist Michael Kirby and his team from Murals of Baltimore as they create a site-specific work in chalk.
2011_DC_Cherry41DC -- Cherry Blossoms around the Tidal Basin (2011)
2011_DC_Chevy_Chase4DC -- Chevy Chase neighborhood
2011_DC_Chinese_Food_11122536Sixth & I -- Chinese Food + Movies + Beer
Chinese Food + Movies + Beer:
What’s a Jew to do on Christmas? We’ve got you covered! Feast on all-you-can-eat kosher Chinese food, sample beer from Shmaltz Brewing Company (the maker of He’Brew) and watch Spaceballs, The Princess Bride, or The Big Lebowski while you sample tasty craft brews and gorge...
2011_DC_CIS10DC -- Carnegie Institute for Science
2011_DC_City_Center15DC -- CityCenterDC complex
2011_DC_Classroom_11110133Newseum -- "God in the Classroom: In God We Teach" screening (w/panel)
Special Program: "God in the Classroom"
WASHINGTON — As more study about religions enters the curriculum, how do we ensure that teachers neither inculcate nor denigrate religion?
Join us at the Knight Conference Center at the Newseum, Tuesday, Nov. 1, at 6:30 p.m., for a lively examination of the...
2011_DC_Close_110816115Politics & Prose -- Jennifer Close ("Girls In White Dresses")
Jennifer Close - Girls In White Dresses:
Close’s debut fiction chronicles the ups and downs, the heartaches and headaches, of three young women. Getting by with a little help from each other, Isabella, Mary, and Lauren work at jobs they feel ambivalent about and fall in love with men they know they...
2011_DC_Coco_Sala1DC -- Penn Qtr -- Co Co.Sala Chocolate Lounge & Boutique (929 F St NW)
2011_DC_Colby_111025154DC -- "The Man Nobody Knew" screening and reception (Tuesday night)
THE MAN NOBODY KNEW: IN SEARCH OF MY FATHER, CIA SPYMASTER WILLIAM COLBY
From Emmy Award winning filmmaker Carl Colby

THE MAN NOBODY KNEW is a new documentary which offers a son's powerful look at his mysterious father - legendary CIA spymaster and former CIA head, William Colby - whose life was...
2011_DC_Colby_11102894DC -- "The Man Nobody Knew" reception (Friday night)
THE MAN NOBODY KNEW: IN SEARCH OF MY FATHER, CIA SPYMASTER WILLIAM COLBY
From Emmy Award winning filmmaker Carl Colby

THE MAN NOBODY KNEW is a new documentary which offers a son's powerful look at his mysterious father - legendary CIA spymaster and former CIA head, William Colby - whose life was...
2011_DC_ColdWar37_11052797Nixon Legacy Forum & Navy Memorial – Richard Nixon as Cold War Strategist
Nixon's National Security Team Headline 12th Nixon Legacy Forum

The Nixon Foundation and the Navy Memorial invite you to the 12th Nixon Legacy Forum on Friday, May 27, at 10 a.m. at the Naval Heritage Center's Burke Theater. Nixon Administration national security officials will discuss how RN...
2011_DC_Columbia_Heights2DC -- Columbia Heights neighborhood
2011_DC_Conover_11032021DC Env Film Festival (2011) -- "Islands in the Wind" and "Creating Synthetic Life" (w/David Conover) @ Natl Museum of Natural History
ISLANDS IN THE WIND (USA, 2011, 22 min.)
World Premiere Tired of the hand-wringing, moaning, and societal inaction about climate change and high energy costs? The colorful characters of North Haven and Vinalhaven, two small islands off the Maine coast, decide overwhelmingly to do something about it....
2011_DC_Corcoran2DC -- Corcoran Gallery of Art (Through 2014)
2011_DC_Corcoran_Amer53DC -- Corcoran Gallery of Art -- American Galleries
2011_DC_Corcoran_Cont17DC -- Corcoran Gallery of Art -- Contemporary Galleries
2011_DC_Corcoran_Eur34DC -- Corcoran Gallery of Art -- European Galleries
2011_DC_Cornell_11041729Sixth & I -- Concert -- Chris Cornell w/William Elliott Whitmore
Chris Cornell with William Elliott Whitmore
Chris Cornell has the ability to connect with listeners like few others of our time. Maintaining a unique identity over two decades as a singer, songwriter, and lyricist, Cornell has been heralded as one of the pioneers of the grunge era for writing a string...
2011_DC_Coulter_11061725DC -- Heritage Foundation -- Ann Coulter ("Demonic")
630 WMAL and the Heritage Foundation Cordially Invite You to a Book-Signing for "Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America" featuring the best-selling author Ann Coulter who will be autographing copies of Demonic purchased at the event and answering audience questions.
Liberals activate mobs,...
2011_DC_Countdown_11032021DC Env Film Festival (2011) -- "Countdown to Zero" (w/Zia Mian) @ Carnegie Inst
COUNTDOWN TO ZERO (USA, 2010, 91 min.)
A fascinating and frightening exploration of the dangers of nuclear weapons, this film is a wake-up call about the urgency of the nuclear threat. It exposes a variety of present-day threats and features insights from a host of international experts and world...
2011_DC_Counterstrike_11091043Politics & Prose -- Eric Schmitt & Thom Shanker ("Counterstrike")
Eric Schmitt & Thom Shanker: Counterstrike:
National security correspondents for The New York Times, the authors recount the evolution of America’s struggle against Al Qaeda from the initial “war on terror” to a more nuanced approach. Using Cold War deterrence strategy, for instance, military,...
2011_DC_Courts37A_11111798Nixon Legacy Forum & Natl Archives -- Nixon and the Courts
It has been said that a President’s most lasting legacy is his appointments to the Supreme Court — because they decide cases long after he has left the White House. The impact of Richard Nixon’s judicial appointments is still being felt today in 2011. Nixon and the Courts examines the thirty-seventh...
2011_DC_Cover9_11111942Newseum -- Inside Media w/Joe Mathewson and Greg Stohr ("Supreme Court and the Press")
Inside Media: Covering the Nine: The Supreme Court and the Press
Guests: Joe Mathewson and Greg Stohr
Is the public served well by the relationship between the Fourth Estate and the third branch of government?
That’s the question put to Joe Mathewson, author of the new book “The Supreme Court and the...
2011_DC_CrittersDC3DC -- Critters -- Racoon @ Rhode Island Avenue shopping center
2011_DC_CW150_PC_11022373Ford's Theatre -- Civil War Sesquicentennial press conference
In Washington, D.C., at Ford's Theatre Museum NPS Director Jarvis will continue the conversation with students on the importance of understanding how this nation can reflect upon the sacrifices of men and women made 150 years ago are still relevant to issues in our communities today. As part of the...
2011_DC_CWAS_Etc_11042369Naval Heritage Center -- Civil War at Sea Symposium (1 of 9) -- All except presentations
Civil War at Sea:
U.S. Navy Memorial Hosts Educational Symposium to Highlight the 150th Anniversary of the Commencement of the Civil War:
The United States Navy Memorial is holding a symposium to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. The U.S. Naval Institute and the U.S. Naval History...
2011_DC_CWAS_S1_11042335Naval Heritage Center -- Civil War at Sea Symposium (2 of 9) -- Speakers: Jay DeLoach and David Freddoso
Civil War at Sea:
U.S. Navy Memorial Hosts Educational Symposium to Highlight the 150th Anniversary of the Commencement of the Civil War:
The United States Navy Memorial is holding a symposium to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. The U.S. Naval Institute and the U.S. Naval History...
2011_DC_CWAS_S2_11042343Naval Heritage Center -- Civil War at Sea Symposium (3 of 9) -- Speaker: Craig Symonds
Civil War at Sea:
U.S. Navy Memorial Hosts Educational Symposium to Highlight the 150th Anniversary of the Commencement of the Civil War:
The United States Navy Memorial is holding a symposium to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. The U.S. Naval Institute and the U.S. Naval History...
2011_DC_CWAS_S3_11042352Naval Heritage Center -- Civil War at Sea Symposium (4 of 9) -- Speakers: Robert Schneller Jr. and Andrew Jampoler
Civil War at Sea:
U.S. Navy Memorial Hosts Educational Symposium to Highlight the 150th Anniversary of the Commencement of the Civil War:
The United States Navy Memorial is holding a symposium to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. The U.S. Naval Institute and the U.S. Naval History...
2011_DC_CWAS_S4_11042376Naval Heritage Center -- Civil War at Sea Symposium (5 of 9) -- Speakers: Robert Browning and Gordon Calhoun
Civil War at Sea:
U.S. Navy Memorial Hosts Educational Symposium to Highlight the 150th Anniversary of the Commencement of the Civil War:
The United States Navy Memorial is holding a symposium to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. The U.S. Naval Institute and the U.S. Naval History...
2011_DC_CWAS_S5_11042332Naval Heritage Center -- Civil War at Sea Symposium (6 of 9) -- Speakers: Matthew Eng and Robert Schneller Jr.
Civil War at Sea:
U.S. Navy Memorial Hosts Educational Symposium to Highlight the 150th Anniversary of the Commencement of the Civil War:
The United States Navy Memorial is holding a symposium to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. The U.S. Naval Institute and the U.S. Naval History...
2011_DC_CWAS_S6_11042353Naval Heritage Center -- Civil War at Sea Symposium (7 of 9) -- Speaker: Howard Fuller
Civil War at Sea:
U.S. Navy Memorial Hosts Educational Symposium to Highlight the 150th Anniversary of the Commencement of the Civil War:
The United States Navy Memorial is holding a symposium to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. The U.S. Naval Institute and the U.S. Naval History...
2011_DC_CWAS_S7_11042355Naval Heritage Center -- Civil War at Sea Symposium (8 of 9) -- Speakers: William Thiesen and William Connery
Civil War at Sea:
U.S. Navy Memorial Hosts Educational Symposium to Highlight the 150th Anniversary of the Commencement of the Civil War:
The United States Navy Memorial is holding a symposium to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. The U.S. Naval Institute and the U.S. Naval History...
2011_DC_CWAS_S8_11042316Naval Heritage Center -- Civil War at Sea Symposium (9 of 9) -- Speaker: Bob Neyland
Civil War at Sea:
U.S. Navy Memorial Hosts Educational Symposium to Highlight the 150th Anniversary of the Commencement of the Civil War:
The United States Navy Memorial is holding a symposium to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. The U.S. Naval Institute and the U.S. Naval History...
2011_DC_CW_Cartoons_110106159Natl Archives -- Panel -- Political Cartoons of the Civil War
Political Cartoons of the Civil War and Their Role in Shaping History:
How do political cartoons from the Civil War era reveal what Americans thought about the war and how they participated in the politics of the day?
Join us for an illustrated discussion focusing on political cartoons — whether...
2011_DC_Dalai_11070965DC -- U.S. Capitol -- Dalai Lama (A Talk for World Peace)
July 9th - A Talk for World Peace

July 9, 2011 - His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet, one of the world’s most revered spiritual leaders, will be making a HISTORIC VISIT to Washington, DC in July 2011. During this time, he will be conferring the Kalachakra for World Peace for the first time in the...
2011_DC_Daser_11021635DC Art Science Evening Rendezvous (DASER) @ Keck Center -- First meeting
The introductory meeting of the DC Art Science Evening Rendezvous series. Panelists were:
* Lee Boot, multimedia artist, associate director, Imaging Research Center, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
* Thomas Skalak, vice president for research and professor for biomedical engineering,...
2011_DC_DC8_Totem23DC -- Public Art: DC8 Totem Poles (by Wilfredo Valladares) @ Edgewood (by Rhode Island Avenue Metro)
2011_DC_DCHist_OpenRec_11110312538th Annual Conference on DC Historical Studies -- Conference Reception @ Goethe-Institut
38th Annual Conference on DC Historical Studies -- November 3-6, 2011

The mission of the Annual Conference on Washington D.C. Historical Studies is to bring together the community interested and engaged in documenting the many varied aspects of the history of the Washington D.C. area and its...
2011_DC_DiFranco_11102643Sixth & I -- Concert -- Ani DiFranco w/Anais Mitchell
Ani DiFranco with Anais Mitchell
In support of her highly-anticipated new album, the Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter, guitarist, and poet will grace our stage for two intimate performances. The Buffalo folk-rock native has released more than 20 albums during her legendary career.
Righteous Babe...
2011_DC_Dirksen_SOB9DC -- Capitol Hill -- Dirksen Senate Office Building
2011_DC_DOC34DC -- Federal Triangle -- Dept of Commerce Building (Herbert C. Hoover Bldg)
Including:
* Temporary coral reef display in the lobby called "Our Changing Seas: A Coral Reef Story" by Courtney Mattison.
* New generator being lifted up to the Commerce Dept roof.
2011_DC_DOE_Museum15DC -- Dept of Energy -- Energy Museum
2011_DC_Downtown13DC -- Downtown area (K Street environs -- between New Hampshire and New York, Penn and M)
2011_DC_DT101_11021773Capitol -- Domestic Terrorism 101
Domestic Terrorism 101

WMAL, The Heritage Foundation, Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and Westminster Institute invite you to a panel discussion to explore the various aspects of the growing threat of domestic terrorism: counter-terrorism, home-grown plots, staying ahead of the threat, Sharia...
2011_DC_DukeEll_Br6DC -- Duke Ellington Bridge
2011_DC_DumbartonO1DC -- Georgetown -- Dumbarton Oaks (1703 32nd St NW)
The gardens at Dumbarton Oats don't open until 2pm on Sundays. There was quite a line to get in at opening time.
2011_DC_Dumbarton_Br19DC -- Dumbarton Bridge
2011_DC_Dunsmore_11121164Newseum -- Inside Media w/Barrie Dunsmore ("There and Back") w/Ted Koppel
Inside Media: Ted Koppel and Barrie Dunsmore:
Ted Koppel, former anchor for ABC's "Nightline" and a special correspondent for NBC's "Rock Center with Brian Williams," interviews former ABC News foreign correspondent Barrie Dunsmore on his new book "There and Back."
The book features a collection of...
2011_DC_Dupont_Circle4DC -- Dupont Circle neighborhood (but not the fountain)
2011_DC_Dupont_Fountain21DC -- Dupont Circle Fountain
2011_DC_Eco_11110923Politics & Prose @ Sixth & I Historic Synagogue -- Umberto Eco ("Prague Cemetery") w/Keith Donohue
Umberto Eco:
Nineteenth-century Europe -- from Turin to Prague to Paris -- abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Conspiracies rule history. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate Black...
2011_DC_ECrisis37_11101961Nixon Legacy Forum & CSIS -- Richard Nixon and America's First Energy Crisis
Join us at Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) for a lively discussion on how the 37th President responded to America’s first energy crisis.

For almost four decades America has had to deal with the costs and consequences on an ongoing energy crisis. But back in the 1970s, when the...
2011_DC_EC_Remembering_91120DC -- Embassy of Canada -- Exhibit: Remembering 9/11
In the days following September 11, 2001, Canada stood by the US; not only as an ally, but also as a friend and neighbour.
With American airspace shutdown, 17 airports across Canada took in 239 redirected planes. Whole communities -- like Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador; Halifax, Nova Scotia;...
2011_DC_EdgewoodM24DC -- Public Art: Edgewood Mural @ Rhode Island Avenue Metro
2011_DC_EFD_110219100NBM -- Engineering Family Day (2011)
Discover Engineering Family Day 2011:
The National Building Museum and the National Engineers Week Foundation invite you to debunk the myths of engineering and discover how professional engineers turn an idea into reality. Kick off and celebrate National Engineers Week by participating in this free,...
2011_DC_Eisenhower_Mem_111005116Natl Archives -- Frank Gehry and Robert Wilson ("Creating the Eisenhower National Memorial")
Creating the Eisenhower National Memorial:
Acclaimed architect Frank Gehry and his collaborator, theater artist Robert Wilson, discuss the creative process of developing the concept and design of the Eisenhower National Memorial. David S. Ferriero, Archivist of the United States, will moderate the...
2011_DC_Emb_Bolivia59DC -- Embassy of Bolivia
Part of Passport DC (Around the World) Open House 2011:
Come and join us in a celebration of our “Limitless Diversity” May 14th from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. From its traditions in regional folklore to its important archeological ruins, Bolivia is deeply rooted in a sense of history, and values its diverse...
2011_DC_Emb_Brazil35DC -- Embassy of Brazil
Part of Passport DC (Around the World) Open House 2011:
Learn about the Brazilian art form of Capoeira, which combines elements of martial arts, sports, and music. Explore the Brazilian Ambassador’s residence, designed in 1908 by John Russell Pope, architect of the National Archives, the Jefferson...
2011_DC_Emb_Britain36DC -- Embassy of Great Britain
Part of the EU Open House 2011.

The Best of Britain: Culture, Business, and Sport. The Embassy will showcase the Ambassador’s Gardens; a bazaar highlighting British business and trade; activities on culture and sport including the Royal Family and Cultural Olympiad. Highlights also include British...
2011_DC_Emb_CanadaX6DC -- Embassy of Canada -- Outdoor Christmas Tree
2011_DC_Emb_Croatia18DC -- Embassy of Croatia
Part of Passport DC (Around the World) Open House 2011:
Visit the home of seven World Heritage sites as you learn about the deep history of Croatia. The heritage of the people of Croatia reaches back tens of thousands of years, even thought the nation recently received sovereignty in 1992. The embassy...
2011_DC_Emb_Cyprus7DC -- Embassy of Cyprus
Part of the EU Open House 2011.

Welcome to the crossroads of civilizations, where the West and East meet. You will have the opportunity to taste our uniquely Cypriot Halloumi cheese and the fabulous dessert soudjouko, made from grape juice and almonds. You will also be able to view short films on...
2011_DC_Emb_Estonia24DC -- Embassy of Estonia
Part of the EU Open House 2011.

Visit the Embassy of Estonia and discover more about the homeland of Skype! Enjoy Estonian folk dance and get a glimpse of Tallinn, the European Cultural Capital 2011!
2011_DC_Emb_Greece2DC -- Embassy of Greece
Part of the EU Open House 2011. I didn't actually get in the embassy this year. The lines were awesome though!

Come celebrate with us 2500 years of Greek culture from Marathon to the Special Olympics World Summer Games, Athens 2011. Dance with the music of Zorba the Greek and indulge your palates in...
2011_DC_Emb_India1DC -- Embassy of India
Just a walk-by photo. I didn't get in this embassy this year.
2011_DC_Emb_Iraq38DC -- Embassy of Iraq
Part of Passport DC (Around the World) Open House 2011:
Come experience the wonders of ancient and modern day Iraq. Indulge your senses and discover ancient Babylonian and Assyrian artifacts, sample authentic Iraqi food, listen to Arabic music, learn traditional dance, and much more in this exciting...
2011_DC_Emb_Japan29DC -- Embassy of Japan, Japan Information and Cultural Center
Part of Passport DC (Around the World) Open House 2011:
Come to the Old Ambassador's Residence and experience different aspects of Japanese culture. Japan is known for a culture rooted in traditions and rituals kabuki, tea ceremonies, and Budō (martial arts). From Noh Theater to Karaoke, Japanese...
2011_DC_Emb_Korea44DC -- Embassy of Korea (KORUS)
Part of Passport DC (Around the World) Open House 2011:
Korus House, the cultural branch of the Embassy of the Republic of Korea, hosts events year round including taekwondo classes, film festivals, culinary expos, calligraphy exhibits, and much more. Be sure to visit Korus House to learn more about...
2011_DC_Emb_Latvia33DC -- Embassy of Latvia
Part of the EU Open House 2011.

Enjoy Latvian folk songs by Sudrabavots, a folk music ensemble from the Washington, DC area. Featured also: screening of films on the country, history and culture in the Reception Hall.
2011_DC_Emb_Latvia_Art16DC -- Embassy of Latvia -- Exhibit: Moments of Happiness
2011_DC_Emb_Luxembourg21DC -- Embassy of Luxembourg
Part of the EU Open House 2011.

Come visit the Embassy of Luxembourg for the day!
2011_DC_Emb_Nepal30DC -- Embassy of Nepal
Part of Passport DC (Around the World) Open House 2011:
Nepal, in South Asia, is a country of diverse culture, cuisine, music, and incredible geography. Eight of the world's 10 highest mountains, including Mt. Everest, are found in Nepal. The nation's rich tradition of storytelling is often conveyed...
2011_DC_Emb_Netherlands66DC -- Embassy of Netherlands
Part of the EU Open House 2011.

View paintings by 16th and 17th century Dutch Masters on display at the Residence of the Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the United States. The neo-classical Residence is home to tapestries and paintings by Dutch Masters such as Jan van Goyen and...
2011_DC_Emb_Norway3DC -- Embassy of Norway
Just a walk-by photo. I didn't get in this embassy this year.
2011_DC_Emb_Romania28DC -- Embassy of Romania
Part of the EU Open House 2011.

Come and visit the Beaux-Arts style embassy built in 1907 and you will have the chance to explore Romania through a video tour of its architectural treasures and vibrant cities. Leaflets on Romania’s history, culture and tourism will be available. Don’t miss the...
2011_DC_Emb_Slovenia5DC -- Embassy of Slovenia
Part of the EU Open House 2011.

Discover sLOVEnia and it's ECO tourism. While you enjoy the photographic exhibit of Lipizzaner horses, taste traditional food and listen to traditional beat, your children can watch the performance by Shaed Middle school, learn how to dance traditional dances and take...
2011_DC_Emb_Switzerland20DC -- Embassy of Switzerland
2011_DC_Emb_Turkey1DC -- Embassy of Turkey
Just a walk-by photo. I didn't get in this embassy this year.
2011_DC_Emb_Venezuela18DC -- Embassy of Venezuela
Part of Passport DC (Around the World) Open House 2011:
The Bolivarian Hall, located in 2443 Massachusetts Ave. NW, will be open to the public and offer Venezuelan traditional dances, music, appetizers, and games in an environment full of culture and fun. Additionally, an art exhibition will be...
2011_DC_Eugenides2_11103110Politics & Prose @ Sixth & I Historic Synagogue -- Jeffrey Eugenides ("Marriage Plot") -- Pictures taken during event, but not of Jeffrey
Jeffrey Eugenides:
The author of Middlesex (bestselling winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize) and The Virgin Suicides (made into a film by Sofia Coppola), is back––with a novel about modern love.
It’s the early 1980s and Madeleine Hanna, a dutiful English major, is writing her senior thesis on Jane...
2011_DC_ExperimentO_11071466Reynolds Center -- Event: Opening Reception -- Great American Experiment Exhibit (donor event)
2011_DC_F11_Opening_11031013DC -- Edison Place Gallery -- Opening: F11
Pepco’s Edison Place Gallery Hosts The Art League and f11 Women’s Photography Collective:
Pepco’s Edison Place Gallery will host The Art League’s exhibit, “A Room of Our Own,” featuring f11, A Women’s Photography Collective from Tuesday, March 1 through Friday, April 1. Opening reception will be held...
2011_DC_FarewellP_11011882Newseum & Eisenhower Institute -- Eisenhower's Farewell Address -- Presentation (w/James Fallows, Dana Priest, Evan Thomas, and David Gergen)
Eisenhower's Farewell Address: 50th Anniversary Program and Reception
Join us for a program hosted by the Eisenhower Institute of Gettysburg College, the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum and the Newseum.
David Gergen of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government will lead the...
2011_DC_Farewell_11011888Newseum & Eisenhower Institute -- Eisenhower's Farewell Address -- Receptions
Eisenhower's Farewell Address: 50th Anniversary Program and Reception
Join us for a program hosted by the Eisenhower Institute of Gettysburg College, the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum and the Newseum.
David Gergen of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government will lead the...
2011_DC_Farmers7DC -- Farmers Market by Gallery Place
I spotted chef Jose Andres shopping for food,
2011_DC_FCUCC7DC -- Penn Qtr -- First Congregational UCC (945 G St NW)
2011_DC_Feeding_111103116Natl Archives -- Gerald Darsch and Kathy Evangelos ("Feeding the Military")
Feeding the Military:
It was once said that an army marches on its stomach, yet soldiers seem to agree there is a conspiracy intent on rendering perfectly normal food unrecognizable. That may have been true of years gone by, but today's Army food laboratory creates rations that look and taste like the...
2011_DC_Feightner_11052458Natl Air and Space Museum -- Event: Edward "Whitey" Feightner
Charles A. Lindbergh Memorial Lecture: Memoirs from an Aviator’s Logbook
Presenter: Rear Adm. Edward “Whitey” Feightner
Admiral Edward L. “Whitey” Feightner is a nine-victory WWII ace who flew F4F Wildcats and F6F Hellcats. After the war, he was assigned as a test pilot at NATC Patuxent River,...
2011_DC_Ferrell_11102319DC -- Kennedy Center -- Mark Twain Prize (2011 -- Will Ferrell)
Pictured here are Jack Black, Andy Samberg, Paul Rudd, William Daley, Ed Asner, Conan O'Brien, and Will Ferrell.

Will Ferrell: 2011 Mark Twain Prize Recipient

The Kennedy Center will present the 14th Annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor to Will Ferrell on Sunday, October 23, 2011 at 7:30...
2011_DC_Fey_11041476Sixth & I -- Tina Fey ("Bossypants") w/Michel Martin
Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend Update," and before her portrayal of Sarah Palin, Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV....
2011_DC_Fink_Marxer_1106103Natl Archives -- Performance -- Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer
Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer: Two-time Grammy Award®–winners Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer perform traditional and contemporary folk, old-time country and swing, and children's music. This was tied into the official opening of the "What's Cooking, Uncle Sam?" exhibit.
2011_DC_Flashpoint18DC -- Flashpoint Gallery ("Site Aperture" by various)
2011_DC_Flay_11092179Sixth & I -- Bobby Flay ("Bar Americain Cookbook")
When Bobby Flay looks at a map of the U.S., he doesn’t see states—he sees ingredients: wild Alaskan king salmon, tiny Maine blueberries, fiery southwestern chiles. The Food Network celebrity and renowned chef-restaurateur created his Bar Americain restaurants to celebrate America’s regional flavors and...
2011_DC_Flood_11110556Politics & Prose -- Charles Flood ("Grant's Final Victory")
Charles Flood - Grant's Final Victory:
Grant’s Memoirs were an instant bestseller in 1885, and are still valued for their literary and historic merit. Gravely ill when he wrote, Grant died just four days after completing the manuscript. Flood’s moving account of Grant’s last years is as illuminating...
2011_DC_FNA_11060936Foundation for the Natl Archives -- "What's Cooking, Uncle Sam?" opening
David S. Ferriero, Archivist of the United States
Kenneth G. Lore, Chairman and President of the Foundation for the National Archives
Jose Andres, Chief Culinary Advisor
Invite you to join
Special Guest: The Honorable Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture
for a private reception and exhibition...
2011_DC_Foer_11031494Politics & Prose @ Sixth & I Historic Synagogue -- Joshua Foer ("Moonwalking with Einstein")
On average, people squander 40 days a year compensating for things they've forgotten. Joshua Foer used to be one of those people, but after a year of memory training, he found himself in the finals of the U.S. Memory Championship. Even more important, Foer found a vital truth we often forget: In every...
2011_DC_FoggyBk_11010836Politics & Prose -- Matthew Gilmore And Joshua Olsen ("Foggy Bottom And The West End In Vintage Images")
Matthew Gilmore And Joshua Olsen - Foggy Bottom And The West End In Vintage Images:
With period photographs and thoroughly researched text, the authors - both associated with the area’s history discussion list and web site H-DC - recreate the factories, breweries, and gasworks that once stood where...
2011_DC_Foggy_Bottom2DC -- Foggy Bottom neighborhood
2011_DC_FolgerOH_11041765DC -- Folger Shakespeare Library Open House
Free for All
Folger Events: Shakespeare's Birthday
It's April, the month we welcome spring at the Folger and celebrate Shakespeare. Enjoy music, games, spontaneous Shakespeare performances on the Folger stage, and more during our annual Birthday Open House ! Plus, get a special preview of the...
2011_DC_Folger82DC -- Capitol Hill -- Folger Shakespeare Library (201 E Capitol St SE)
2011_DC_FolklifeC105Smithsonian Folklife Festival (2011) -- Colombia
The bands at the end are (I think) Chirimia la Contundencia and then Grupo Cabrestero,
2011_DC_FolklifePC41Smithsonian Folklife Festival (2011) -- Peace Corps
Performers include San Dancers from Botswana.
2011_DC_FolklifeRB165Smithsonian Folklife Festival (2011) -- Rhythm and Blues
Performers include: The National Hand Dance Association, Stories from the Studio, Stax Music Academy with William Bell, Fernando Jones, Dixie Cups, the Jewels, The Monitors and The Swallows.
2011_DC_FONZ_CF_11110559DC -- FONZ Autumn Conservation Festival (2011) @ Holt House
Autumn Conservation Festival at the National Zoo

Due to construction projects on the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) campus in Front Royal, Virginia, the annual Autumn Conservation Festival event will not be held in 2011. As an alternative to this event, Conservation Research Club...
2011_DC_Fords5DC -- Ford's Theatre NHS (Theatre, Lobby)
The set of "Parade" was up when I visited.
2011_DC_Fords_CEL8DC -- Ford's Theatre NHS (Center for Education and Leadership)
2011_DC_Fords_Museum1DC -- Ford's Theatre NHS (Museum)
2011_DC_FOTHOC_11010176Friends of the Homeless on New Years (distribution)
Victor's report:

The December 31, 2010-January 1, 2011 Friends of the Homeless activity marked the 15th consecutive year that this project provided large gift bags filled with items -- some basic, some fun -- to men and women on the streets of Washington. It followed a year-long effort by Tom Block...
2011_DC_FotoDC54FotoWeek DC -- FotoWeek Central Gallery
2011_DC_FotoWk_EPOp_11110915DC -- Edison Place Gallery -- Opening: Fotoweek DC
FOTOWEEK DC (Two Part Exhibit)
Nov. 5 – 12, 2011
The FOTOWEEEK DC 2011 will include the National Geographic Image Collection exhibit at the Edison Place Art Gallery opening November 5, 2011. The exhibit presents the photography of B. Anthony Stewart and J. Baylor Roberts, two men that were part of...
2011_DC_FP_Occupy_DC77DC -- Protest: Occupy DC @ Freedom Plaza
2011_DC_FreedomM_110506111PBS American Experience @ Newseum -- "Freedom Riders" screening -- Miscellaneous pictures
Freedom Riders Reception and Program:
Join PBS, American Experience and the Newseum as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1961 Freedom Rides.
Congressman and Freedom Rider John Lewis and author Raymond Arsenault will sign copies of their books during the reception.
Following the screening of...
2011_DC_FreedomP_11050683PBS American Experience @ Newseum -- "Freedom Riders" screening -- Stage Presentation (w/Diane Nash, Stanley Nelson, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, Raymond Arsenault, and John Lewis)
Speakers in sequence:
* Paul Sparrow, Senior vice president/broadcasting, Newseum
* Paula A. Kerger, president and chief executive officer of PBS,
* Patricia de Stacy Harrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Corporation for Public Broadcasting
* Mark Samels, Executive Producer of...
2011_DC_Freezer33Albus Cavus Classroom @ Freezer
Peter Krsko (Albus Cavus) had mentioned that Chor Boogie was in town, working on his next show. I wanted to visit!
2011_DC_Fridge14DC -- Capitol Hill -- The Fridge (516 8th St NE)
2011_DC_Fridge_ChorO_11040929DC -- Capitol Hill -- The Fridge -- Event: Chor Boogie's "This Ain't No Place For No Hero" -- Opening
Chor Boogie Opening: This Aint No Place For No Hero
Chor Boogie has been in residency at The Freezer for three weeks preparing for his latest show at The Fridge -- This Aint No Place For No Hero!
Please join us Saturday night from 7:00 - 10:00 PM for the opening reception!
For more info on this show,...
2011_DC_Fridge_Chor33DC -- Capitol Hill -- The Fridge -- Exhibit: Chor Boogie's "This Ain't No Place For No Hero" -- Artwork
Chor Boogie Opening: This Aint No Place For No Hero
Chor Boogie has been in residency at The Freezer for three weeks preparing for his latest show at The Fridge -- This Aint No Place For No Hero!
Please join us Saturday night from 7:00 - 10:00 PM for the opening reception!
For more info on this show,...
2011_DC_Fridge_Fridge523DC -- Capitol Hill -- The Fridge -- Exhibit: "Fridge5
The Fridge is pleased to announce FRIDGE5, a group show featuring some of our best-loved "street" and gallery artists from around the United States, each of whom has previously shown at The Fridge -- inside and outside of the gallery. The show will feature all-new, original work created specifically for...
2011_DC_FTC13DC -- Federal Triangle -- Federal Trade Commission building (600 Penn Ave NW)
2011_DC_Ft_McNair6DC -- Fort Lesley J. McNair
2011_DC_Ft_Reno6DC -- Circle Forts -- Fort Reno Park and Reservoir
2011_DC_Ft_Stanton4DC -- Circle Forts -- Fort Stanton
2011_DC_Ft_StevensNC28DC -- Fort Stevens Park National Cemetery
2011_DC_Fukuyama_11042559Politics & Prose -- Francis Fukuyama ("The Origins Of Political Order")
Francis Fukuyama: The Origins Of Political Order
The first of a projected two-volume study of state formation, the latest work from the author of the much-discussed End of History takes a rich, multidisciplinary approach, examining how politics and government are grounded in geography, biology,...
2011_DC_G40_Art510G-40: The Summit art show (2011) -- Art
Art Whino returns in 2011 for the second edition of G40. The first G40 art summit in 2010 compounded artistically explosive cultures from all over the world and brought them to the DC metro area. By bringing all of these cultures from throughout the world to one place it allowed the visitor to be fully...
2011_DC_G40_People64G-40: The Summit art show (2011) -- People
Art Whino returns in 2011 for the second edition of G40. The first G40 art summit in 2010 compounded artistically explosive cultures from all over the world and brought them to the DC metro area. By bringing all of these cultures from throughout the world to one place it allowed the visitor to be fully...
2011_DC_GAHM_Fix_Foxi66DC -- German-American Heritage Museum -- Exhibit: Fix and Foxi
Rolf Kauka's Fix & Foxi Cartoon Universe on Show in Washington
Sep 16, 2011

Known as the German Walt Disney, Rolf Kauka is best remembered for his iconic Fix & Foxi characters. A new exhibition at the German-American Heritage Museum of the USA in Washington is now showcasing Kauka's cartoon...
2011_DC_Galifianakis_110211243Politics & Prose -- Nick Galifianakis ("If You Loved Me You'd Think This Was Cute")
Nick Galifianakis - If You Loved Me You'd Think This Was Cute:
Since 1997 Galifianakis has drawn the cartoons for the nationally syndicated advice column by Carolyn Hax, a selection of which appeared in the 2001 book, Tell Me About It: Lying, Sulking, Getting Fat ... and 56 Other Things NOT to Do While...
2011_DC_Gamboa_11052667Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Artist Talk: Harry Gamboa Jr. ("Erased: Limits and Borders")
Erased: Limits and Borders:
Artist and author Harry Gamboa Jr. reflects on the social and personal conditions of Chicanos during the second half of the 20th century, focusing on the development of Asco, a Los Angeles arts group whose key performances include Walking Mural, Instant Mural, and Spring...
2011_DC_Genealogy_Fair21Natl Archives -- Special -- Genealogy Fair
Seventh Annual Genealogy Fair -- Become Your Family’s Detective:
"Become Your Family’s Detective," the seventh annual Genealogy Fair at the National Archives, will take place on April 20 and 21, 2011, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. This two-day program showcases the Federal records located at the National...
2011_DC_Georgetown61DC -- Georgetown neighborhood
2011_DC_GIFF176GI Film Festival (2011) @ Navy Memorial -- Miscellaneous
Pictures out in the lobby between screenings.
2011_DC_GIFF_Award_11051198GI Film Festival (2011) @ Capitol -- Opening Awards
A Congressional Reception with Gary Sinise, Honoring Korean War Veterans:
In remembrance of the 60th Anniversary of the Korean War, the GI Film Festival will host a congressional reception honoring Korean War veterans. Special guests to include Award-winning actor and former GI Film Festival GI Spirit...
2011_DC_GIFF_Flag_11051351GI Film Festival (2011) @ Navy Memorial -- "Flag of My Father" Screening
Flag of My Father DC Premiere & A Salute to Hollywood Patriots with Special Guest William DeVane
Flag of My Father – DC Premiere!
Directed by Rodney Ray
Serving her country is an honor for Judith, (GiGi Ernetta) an army nurse whose Vietnam veteran father taught her the importance of sacrifice. After...
2011_DC_GIFF_Flag_Post_11051362GI Film Festival (2011) @ Navy Memorial -- "Flag of My Father" Post-screening reception
Flag of My Father DC Premiere & A Salute to Hollywood Patriots with Special Guest William DeVane
Flag of My Father – DC Premiere!
Directed by Rodney Ray
Serving her country is an honor for Judith, (GiGi Ernetta) an army nurse whose Vietnam veteran father taught her the importance of sacrifice. After...
2011_DC_GIFF_Flag_Pre_110513136GI Film Festival (2011) @ Navy Memorial -- "Flag of My Father" Pre-screening mingling
Flag of My Father DC Premiere & A Salute to Hollywood Patriots with Special Guest William DeVane
Flag of My Father – DC Premiere!
Directed by Rodney Ray
Serving her country is an honor for Judith, (GiGi Ernetta) an army nurse whose Vietnam veteran father taught her the importance of sacrifice. After...
2011_DC_GIFF_HC_11051523GI Film Festival (2011) @ Navy Memorial -- "Hold at all Costs" Screening
Hold at all Costs – World Premiere!
Directed by Glenn Palmedo Smith
For the first time, a documentary film examines a single battle of the Korean War. The film closely examines the forgotten war through interviews with historians and US politicians, exploring the actual participants of that conflict:...
2011_DC_GIFF_JG_11051452GI Film Festival (2011) @ Navy Memorial -- "Journey Home" and "Gold Star Children" Screenings
Journey Home – World Premiere!
Directed by Christopher Loverro
A film to honor the sacrifice of veterans and their families, Journey Home is written, directed, and acted by an Iraq war veteran. The main character is serving in Iraq with his best friend who is killed in an ambush.
The film explores...
2011_DC_GIFF_LB_11051582GI Film Festival (2011) @ Navy Memorial -- "Line of Departure" and "Beyond Courage" Screenings and Closing Awards
Line of Departure – DC Premiere!
Directed by Folleh Tamba
His mother hails from Sierra Leone, the land of blood diamonds; his father is from Liberia, in West Africa. He survived a civil war and now he is about to go war for his adopted country of America. Take a journey with award-winning filmmaker...
2011_DC_GIFF_LW_11051429GI Film Festival (2011) @ Navy Memorial -- "Last to Leave" and "Wereth Eleven" Screenings
The Last to Leave – East Coast Premiere!
Directed by Pat Clark
April 29, 1975: As the North Vietnamese Army surrounded Saigon, the order was given to evacuate. In 19 hours, 81 helicopters air lifted nearly 6,000 Vietnamese and more than 1,000 Americans from Saigon during the largest helicopter...
2011_DC_GIFF_Post_11051475GI Film Festival (2011) @ Navy Memorial -- "Beautiful Dreamer" Post-screening reception
This was the reception following the "Beautiful Dreamer" screening.
2011_DC_GIFF_Reception_110511150GI Film Festival (2011) @ Capitol -- Congressional Reception
A Congressional Reception with Gary Sinise, Honoring Korean War Veterans:
In remembrance of the 60th Anniversary of the Korean War, the GI Film Festival will host a congressional reception honoring Korean War veterans. Special guests to include Award-winning actor and former GI Film Festival GI Spirit...
2011_DC_GIFF_TB_11051433GI Film Festival (2011) @ Navy Memorial -- "Telegram Man" and "Beautiful Dreamer" Screenings
The Telegram Man – Encore Screening!
Directed by James Khehtie
During World War II, Australia’s small farming communities paid a terrible price. In the rural towns of New South Wales, one family each week discovered their son, husband, brother or father would not be coming home. In the throws of such...
2011_DC_GIFF_WI_11051158GI Film Festival (2011) @ Capitol -- "The War Inside" Screening
The War Inside: Produced by WILL Interactive
Designed for Army-wide distribution as a cornerstone soldier behavioral health and PTSD education program, The War Inside sheds light into the psychological challenges of coming home with combat stress and the toll it takes on individuals, families, and...
2011_DC_GMF_11120742DC -- Government Mobility Forum
Government Mobility Forum:

Welcome and Opening Remarks:
Executive Host: Anne Armstrong, President, 1105 Government Information Group

Session 1 – Opening Keynote Interview: Megatrends Driving the Mobile Enterprise
Moderator: Christopher Dorobek, Editor and Publisher, The DorobekInsider
Phil...
2011_DC_Goodheart_11042323Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Author Talk: Adam Goodheart ("1861: The Civil War Awakening")
1861: The Civil War Awakening"
Historian, journalist, and travel writer Adam Goodheart discusses his new book 1861: The Civil War Awakening, a gripping account of the early days of the Civil War. Goodheart is director of Washington College’s C. V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience....
2011_DC_Goodniks_11052528Natl Archives -- Performance -- Goodniks
This performance was in connection with the "Jewish Holiday Traditions and Cooking in America" talk.
2011_DC_GovDelivery_110203126DC -- FCG & GovDelivery -- Drive Mission Initiatives by Directly Connecting with the Public
Drive Mission Initiatives by Directly Connecting with the Public
* Opening Remarks The 3 Most Impactful Ways to Achieve Operational Efficiency
Bobbie Browning – Senior Vice President, Federal, GovDelivery
- Shift to “Cloud-First”
- Reaching an expanded audience
- Stakeholder engagement
*...
2011_DC_GovDelivery_111019100DC -- FCG & GovDelivery -- Social Media's Role in Cost-Effective Digital Communications
Social Media's Role in Cost-Effective Digital Communications
President Obama effectively utilized social media to win the White House. NASA astronauts are tweeting from space. The National Guard teamed up with WWE to create the hugely popular "Show Us Your Guns" program. These days, everyone in...
2011_DC_Grabowska_11032018DC Env Film Festival (2011) -- "Sky Island" and "Ribbon of Sky" (w/John Grabowska) @ Natl Museum of Natural History
SKY ISLAND (USA, 2010, 26 min.):
In northern New Mexico, a range of mountains rises up from the high desert: a wild, rugged land of the Faraway Nearby. The volcanic Jemez Mountains are isolated from all other ranges – an island in the sky, surrounded by a desert sea. Sky Island paints a lyrical and...
2011_DC_Graff_11041651Politics & Prose -- Garrett M. Graff ("The Threat Matrix")
The age of terrorism has introduced new kinds of threats that call for new strategies to keep America secure. In his portrait of today’s FBI, Graff, the editor-in-chief of The Washingtonian, draws on extensive interviews and once-secret documents to present a new generation of agents.
The speaker was...
2011_DC_Grant_Mem22DC -- U.S. Capitol Grounds -- Ulysses S. Grant Memorial
2011_DC_GWU14DC -- GWU (George Washington University)
2011_DC_GWU_Art9DC -- GWU -- Public Art
2011_DC_GWU_Lisner9DC -- GWU -- Lisner Auditorium
2011_DC_Halvorsen_11100646Natl Archives -- Gail Halvorsen ("Berlin Candy Bomber")
The Berlin Candy Bomber:
In June 1948, Russia blockaded the city of Berlin. The Americans, French, and British began a massive airlift of food and supplies. Gail Halvorsen was one of the hundreds of U.S. pilots involved in the airlift. On one flight, he met a group of children who were thrilled when he...
2011_DC_Hamill_11061822Newseum -- Inside Media w/Pete Hamill ("Tabloid City")
Inside Media: Pete Hamill
Pete Hamill is synonymous with New York City journalism.
The prolific author and screenwriter is the only person to have been editor-in-chief of both New York tabloids. As author of the classic New York novels “Downtown” and “Forever,” Hamill knows his subject like no one...
2011_DC_Hardin_11040614Natl Archives -- David Hardin ("After the War")
After the War: The Lives and Reputations of Great Civil War Figures after the Shooting Stopped:
Journalist David Hardin discusses his book After the War, which follows the lives of the Civil War’s principle players in the years after the conflict. Some figures continued their rise to greatness, while...
2011_DC_Hart_SOB2DC -- Capitol Hill -- Hart Senate Office Building
2011_DC_Harvest_110616132DC -- U.S. Capitol -- "The Harvest" premier (w/Eva Longoria)
Join actor Eva Longoria at a reception and special screening of the documentary "The Harvest."
Actor and activist Eva Longoria, executive producer of "The Harvest / La Cosecha," U.S. Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard, and MALDEF to announce push for stronger child labor laws for farmworkers.
THE HARVEST/LA...
2011_DC_HeritageV17DC -- Heritage Foundation -- Views from...
2011_DC_Heritage6DC -- Heritage Foundation
2011_DC_HillwoodGH48DC -- Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens -- Greenhouse
2011_DC_HillwoodI1323DC -- Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens -- Interior (1st Floor)
2011_DC_HillwoodI2130DC -- Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens -- Interior (2nd Floor)
2011_DC_HillwoodO160DC -- Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens -- Outside
2011_DC_HillwoodRSA10DC -- Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens -- Russian Sacred Arts Gallery
Russian Sacred Arts Gallery
The second floor hosts a peaceful gallery dedicated to sacred Russian Orthodox ecclesiastical objects: icons created for the veneration of saints, elaborate chalices used for communion, and vestments, chalice covers, altar cloths, and other religious textiles.
The Soviet...
2011_DC_Hispanic_110921104Dept of Commerce -- Event: 2011 National Hispanic Heritage Month
The Federal Triangle Partnership, consisting of the Department of Commerce, Environmental Protection Agency, Agency for International Development, and Customs and Border Protection, is pleased to announce its program commemorating 2011 National Hispanic Heritage Month, which is celebrated from September...
2011_DC_HI_Washington3DC -- Downtown -- HI Washington DC hostel (1009 11th St NW)
2011_DC_Holiday_Market19DC -- Downtown Holiday Market by the Reynolds Center
The snowman and the gingerbread lady showed up for photos!
2011_DC_Honors_111204133DC -- Kennedy Center -- Kennedy Center Honors (2011)
People photographed in sequence : Cal Ripken Jr., Lynda Carter, Carol Schwartz, Barbara Mikulski, Ken Salazar, Les Moonves, Julie Chen, Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki, Sonny Rollins, Rahm Emanuel, Vernon Jordan, Neil Diamond, Glenn Close, Norman Mineta, Robert DeNiro, Barbara Cook, Alan Greenspan, Andrea...
2011_DC_Hummingbirds_11032546DC Env Film Festival (2011) -- "Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air" (w/Ann Johnson Prum and Donna Stockton) @ Carnegie Inst
HUMMINGBIRDS: MAGIC IN THE AIR"
Produced by: Ann Johnson Prum
Presented by: Friends of the National Zoo (FONZ)
HUMMINGBIRDS: MAGIC IN THE AIR (USA, 2009, 50 min.)
The smallest warm-blooded creatures on the planet and also among the fastest, hummingbirds take extraordinary to a whole new level. With...
2011_DC_Hurricane_11021578Politics & Prose -- Dr. Rubin Carter and Ken Klonsky ("Eye Of The Hurricane")
Dr. Rubin Carter and Ken Klonsky - The Eye Of The Hurricane:
Dr. Carter, once a boxing champion, was wrongfully convicted of murder and served nineteen years in prison. His story has been told in the film The Hurricane; now he speaks for himself. Working with Klonsky, a journalist and prisoners’...
2011_DC_IDBCC_Canadian35DC -- IDB Cultural Center -- Exhibit: Canadian Impressions
Canadian Impressions
February 28 – April 29, 2011

An exhibition honoring Canada and the City of Calgary, in Alberta, site of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the Inter-American Development Bank. Twelve Canadian artists, selected from an open call, present 34 prints in various...
2011_DC_IDBCC_Jamaica26DC -- IDB Cultural Center -- Exhibit: Contemporary Jamaican Artists
Cultural Center Exhibition: Contemporary Jamaican Artists, Jamaica
18 May 2011 to 22 Jul 2011
A selection of contemporary Jamaican artists, invited by the World Bank to exhibit their work in the Caribbean segment of ABOUT CHANGE, the hemispheric survey organized by the World Bank Art Program in...
2011_DC_IDBCC_LAItaly31DC -- IDB Cultural Center -- Exhibit: Latin American Artists of Italian Descent
Cultural Center Exhibition: Latin American Artists of Italian Descent, Italy
15 Aug 2011 to 21 Oct 2011
This selection of art works by Latin American artists of Italian descent constitutes a symbolic yet significant exploration of the Italian cultural presence and its influence in Latin America. The...
2011_DC_IDBCC_Visions16DC -- IDB Cultural Center -- Exhibit: New Visions
The Cultural Center of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) announces the opening of the exhibition 
New Visions: A Selection of the Latest Acquisitions from the IDB Art Collection, 2008-2011
November 7, 2011 to February 3, 2012

The present exhibition entitled New Visions: A Selection of the...
2011_DC_II_11110965Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Talk: Steve Crocker and Vinton Cerf ("Conversation with Internet Inventors")
Join us for a conversation with Steve Crocker and Vinton Cerf, two of the Internet's founding fathers. Crocker established protocols necessary for the workings of the Internet, and Cerf, a computer scientist, was instrumental in the development of the first commercial email system. They will discuss how...
2011_DC_Ike_Mem2DC -- Eisenhower National Memorial
The site of the future Eisenhower Memorial.
2011_DC_Insider_11030142Newseum -- Reel Journalism: "The Insider" (w/Dan Rather)
Reel Journalism: The Insider (1999)
Guest: Dan Rather
Veteran journalist Dan Rather will join "Reel Journalism" host Nick Clooney to discuss the 1999 movie "The Insider." They will answer audience questions at the conclusion of the film.
"The Insider" is based on the true story of Jeffrey Wigand, a...
2011_DC_Isaacson_11120155Politics & Prose -- Walter Isaacson ("Steve Jobs")
Walter Isaacson - Steve Jobs:
To his string of bestselling biographies of Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Kissinger, and others, Isaacson now adds the life story of Steve Jobs. Written with the cooperation of its subject, this profile of the inventor, entrepreneur, leader, and visionary, offers a detailed...
2011_DC_Isakov_11022631Sixth & I -- Concert -- Gregory Alan Isakov w/Dietrich Strause
Gregory Alan Isakov w/Dietrich Strause
Gregory's humble presence, poetic songwriting, and mesmerizing voice have been treasured by an ever-growing fan base. He has shared the stage with some of today’s leading folk artists, including Brandi Carlile, The Indigo Girls and Ani Difranco. Having been been...
2011_DC_Islamic_Center3DC -- Sheridan-Kalorama -- Islamic Center of Washington (2551 Mass. Ave., NW)
2011_DC_IWP5DC -- Dupont Circle -- Institute of World Politics building (1621 16th St NW)
2011_DC_Jacobson_11040775Politics & Prose @ Sixth & I Historic Synagogue -- Howard Jacobson ("The Finkler Question")
Howard Jacobson: The Finkler Question:
Julian Treslove and Sam Finkler are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they've never lost touch with each other, or with their former teacher, Libor Sevcik.
Dining together one night, the men reminisce on a time before...
2011_DC_Jap_Amer10DC -- Natl Japanese-American Monument
2011_DC_Jeff_Mem11DC -- Thomas Jefferson Memorial
2011_DC_Journey_11032783DC Env Film Festival (2011) -- "Journey of the Universe" (w/Brian Swimme, Mary Evelyn Tucker, and Thomas E. Lovejoy) @ Carnegie Inst
Washington D.C. Premiere
JOURNEY OF THE UNIVERSE (USA, 2011, 60 min.)
Washington, D.C. Premiere One day on a Greek island and your perception of the universe will change forever. The epic Journey of the Universe is a tapestry that draws together scientific discoveries in astronomy,
geology, biology,...
2011_DC_JStreet_11040987DC -- Natl Cherry Blossom Festival -- Japanese Street Festival (2011)
Enjoy the family-friendly atmosphere of the largest Japanese cultural festival in the United States, featuring food, arts and culture, merchandise, and live traditional and J-Pop performances on four stages, including martial arts demonstrations.
2011_DC_Judd_11041168Sixth & I -- Ashley Judd ("All That Is Bitter and Sweet")
For the past seven years, actor and activist Ashley Judd has kept poignant journals of her travels into the world's human-rights hot spots, where as a global ambassador for PSI/Youth AIDS, she waded into slums, brothels, and war-torn villages on four continents, advocating programs to improve the lives...
2011_DC_Kalb_11013165NPC -- Kalb Report: "All The News That's Fit To Print" (w/Bill Keller and Dean Baquet)
“All the News That’s Fit to Print” Behind the Scenes at the New York Times on the Next Kalb Report, Jan. 31, 8 p.m.
Executive Editor Bill Keller and Washington Bureau Chief Dean Baquet Take Marvin Kalb Behind the Headlines, Bylines and Paywalls of a 21st Century Newsroom
Jan 19, 2011

WASHINGTON –...
2011_DC_Kalb_11070930Newseum -- Inside Media w/Marvin Kalb and Deborah Kalb ("Haunting Legacy")
Inside Media: Vietnam’s Legacy on the American Presidency
Guest(s): Marvin Kalb and Deborah Kalb
The legacy of the Vietnam War has haunted every president since Lyndon B. Johnson, especially on the decision of whether to commit troops to war.
In the new book “Haunting Legacy,” the father-and-daughter...
2011_DC_Kalb_11090944NPC -- Kalb Report: "Anchoring 9/11" (w/Charles Gibson, Dan Rather, Brit Hume, Frank Sesno)
Anchoring 9/11: The Day and the Decade:
Charles Gibson, Dan Rather, Brit Hume and Frank Sesno join moderator Marvin Kalb to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the devastating September 11 attacks and discuss the subsequent decade that changed the world.
The series is produced jointly by The George...
2011_DC_Kalb_11120759Natl Archives & Newseum -- Marvin Kalb ("70th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor")
In Commemoration of the 70th Anniversary of the Attack on Pearl Harbor
“It Is No Joke—It Is a Real War”: How Americans First Learned of Pearl Harbor
Marvin Kalb uses film, audio, and photographic records from the National Archives and the Newseum to discuss how the media informed Americans of the 1941...
2011_DC_KarabakhO_1102086DC -- Edison Place Gallery -- Opening: Karabakh on My Mind
Karabakh on My Mind: Paintings by Leyla Rzayeva and Yavar Rzayev
2011_DC_Karabakh17DC -- Edison Place Gallery -- Exhibit: Karabakh on My Mind
Karabakh on My Mind: Paintings by Leyla Rzayeva and Yavar Rzayev
2011_DC_KatzenO_110129114DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2011A Winter Opening Reception (Public)
2011_DC_KatzenO_11040254DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2011B1 Spring I Opening Reception (Public)
2011_DC_KatzenO_11042322DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2011B2 Spring II Opening Reception (Public)
2011_DC_KatzenO_11060420DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2011C Summer Opening Reception (Public)
2011_DC_KatzenO_11102931DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2011E Late Fall Opening Reception (Public)
Includes photos of artists: Courtney Smith, Laura Katzman, and Beverly W. Brannan
2011_DC_KatzenXT_11060485DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2011C Summer Artist Talk: E.CO
E.CO Artist Talk with artists Iata Cannabrava from Brazil and Sergi Camara from Spain:
Join the American University Museum and artists Iata Cannabrava from Brazil and Sergi Camara from Spain in an artists' talk through the E.CO exhibition, photographic projects by twenty Latin American and European...
2011_DC_KatzenXT_Meyers_11021246DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2011A Winter Artist Talk: Linn Meyers
Museum Gallery Talk with Linn Meyers:
"Linn Meyers: A Very Particular Moment" responds to the architecture of the museum by covering the walls with hand-drawn, repetitive, geometric lines, creating a hypnotic, meditative space. Meyers will discuss creating her largest temporary drawing to-date on a 23...
2011_DC_KatzenXT_Smith_11102994DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2011E Late Fall Artist Talk: Courtney Smith
2011_DC_KatzenX_2011A41DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2011A Winter Exhibitions
Pieces from these 2011 Winter exhibitions:
* Nicole Cohen: Driving in Circles
* The Dark and Humorous Mind of Heather Wilcoxon
* Dafna Kaffeman: What Could be Sweeter Than Going to Paradise?
* Julie Linowes: Stain
* Marisa Baumgartner: Grande Avenues
* Linn Meyers: A Very Particular Moment...
2011_DC_KatzenX_2011A_Meyers10DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2011A Winter Exhibit: Linn Meyers: A Very Particular Moment
Linn Meyers: A Very Particular Moment
January 25 through March 13, 2011
This exhibition explores the artist’s process, culminating in Linn Meyers’ largest temporary drawing to date. Meyers will spend two weeks in the museum creating a 35-foot-tall drawing made with sinuous and twisting lines. The...
2011_DC_KatzenX_2011B_Bravos34DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2011B Spring Exhibit: BRAVOS: Groundbreaking Spanish Design
BRAVOS: Groundbreaking Spanish Design
April 2 through May 15, 2011
BRAVOS introduces American audiences to new works by some of the most talented and successful young Spanish designers. The exhibition features 21 designers from throughout Spain, including internationally renowned Jaime Hayon and...
2011_DC_KatzenX_2011B_MFA_1Yr22DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2011B Spring Exhibit: First Year MFA Student Exhibition 2011
Art Department Student Exhibitions 2011 -- First Year MFA Students
April 2 to April 15, 2011
Temme Barkin-Leeds
Michele Colburn
Joo Yeon Ha
Adam Hager
Tyler Mullan
Camden Place
Sam Scharf
Ben Tolman
2011_DC_KatzenX_2011B_MFA_Thesis81DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2011B Spring Exhibit: MFA Thesis Exhibition
Art Department Student Exhibitions 2011 -- MFA Thesis Exhibition
April 23 to May 15, 2011
Emily Biondo
Jillian Bonahoom
Bobby Coleman
Michael Dotson
L. Kimberly Gillespie
Victoria Reeves Greising
Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi
Sarah Miller
Michael Sloan
2011_DC_KatzenX_2011C42DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2011C Summer Exhibitions
Pieces from these 2011 Summer exhibitions:
* E • CO
* Registro 02, Mirar por segunda vez

E • CO
June 4 through August 14, 2011
E • CO presents photographic projects by twenty Latin American and European photographic collectives, each tasked with crafting a visual essay about one of the most...
2011_DC_KatzenX_2011D63DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2011D Fall Exhibitions
Pieces from these 2011 Fall exhibitions:
* Inner Piece: Works from the Collection of Heather and Tony Podesta
* Re-viewing Documentary: The Photographic Life of Louise Rosskam --> SHOWN SEPARATELY
* Wayne Barrar: An Expanding Subterra
* Gifts of Duncan Phillips
* Seismic Dream: Sculpture &...
2011_DC_KatzenX_2011D_Rosskam22DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2011D Fall Exhibit: Re-viewing Documentary: The Photographic Life of Louise Rosskam
Re-viewing Documentary: The Photographic Life of Louise Rosskam
September 3 through December 14, 2011
This major retrospective examines the work of Louise Rosskam (1910-2003), an elusive pioneer of the golden age of American documentary photography. It highlights her poignant photographs of Southwest...
2011_DC_KatzenX_2011D_Seismic15DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2011D Fall Exhibit: Seismic Dream: Sculpture & Sound Installation by Firestone & Buchanan
Seismic Dream: Sculpture & Sound Installation by Firestone & Buchanan
September 3 through December 14, 2011
Seismic Dream combines original sculpture, music scores and poetry into a ‘dreamscape’ experience, conveying a wavelike energy that disrupts the few references of reality within the Sylvia...
2011_DC_KatzenX_2011E_Eisenman21DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2011E Late Fall Exhibit: Nicole Eisenman: Works on Paper:
Nicole Eisenman: Works on Paper:
October 29 through December 14, 2011
As John Yau observed in The Brooklyn Rail, Nicole Eisenman’s recent work "is a needed gust of fresh air in today’s I-wannabe-an-intellectual art world." Her works have great wit, visual elegance, and a thinking artist’s searing...
2011_DC_KatzenX_2011E_Spaces17DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2011E Late Fall Exhibit: Courtney Smith: Insatiable Spaces
Courtney Smith: Insatiable Spaces:
October 29 through December 14, 2011
Courtney Smith is known for her furniture-based sculpture and her investigation into the physical and psychological construction of interior spaces through the deconstruction of the domestic objects surrounding human life, which...
2011_DC_Katzen16DC -- American University -- Katzen Art Center
2011_DC_Keaton_11111732Sixth & I -- Diane Keaton ("Then Again")
In celebration of the release of Then Again, Diane Keaton’s unforgettable memoir about her mother and herself, the Academy Award-winning actress comes to DC as part of her exclusive 4-city book tour.
After making her film debut in 1970, Keaton has starred in some of the most memorable movies of the...
2011_DC_Keck44DC -- Keck Center of the National Academies
2011_DC_Keck_Art74DC -- National Academy of Sciences @ Keck Center -- Exhibit: Art & Science
Art & Science: Highlights from the Collection of the National Academy of Sciences
September 20, 2010 - March 12, 2012
Keck Center, First Floor Gallery, 500 Fifth St., N.W., Washington, D.C.
For more than 30 years, the Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences has exhibited and collected...
2011_DC_Kennedy_11092627Politics & Prose @ GWU Lisner -- Caroline Kennedy & Michael Beschloss ("Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations")
Caroline Kennedy & Michael Beschloss - Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations On Life With John F. Kennedy:
In March 1964 Jacqueline Kennedy sat down with Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and the two recorded a series of interviews, which were then sealed and deposited in the JFK Library. The...
2011_DC_KirbyDRC15Reynolds Center -- Special -- Michael Kirby's "Chalk4Peace" chalk art
Michael Kirby preparing his chalk piece for the upcoming "Chalk4Peace" family event.
2011_DC_Kitchen_11062954Natl Archives -- Panel -- 1959 Kitchen Debate (w/Timothy Naftali, Gilbert Robinson, Tatiana Sochurek, George Feifer)
The 1959 Kitchen Debate: The National Archives Experience and the Office of Presidential Libraries present an eyewitness account of the impromptu debate between then-Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschev on July 24, 1959, at the U.S. National Exhibition at Sokolniki Park in...
2011_DC_KSt_Occupy_DC79DC -- Protest: Occupy DC @ McPherson Sq (K Street)
2011_DC_Labor37_11120570Nixon Legacy Forum & Natl Archives -- Labor and Employment Policy in the Nixon Administration (w/William Kilberg, Ann McLaughlin, Michael Moskow, and Laurence Silberman)
Legacy Forum: Labor and Employment Policy
The 16th Nixon Legacy Forum will be a discussion on how under President Nixon, the White House and Labor Department promoted innovative legislative and administrative actions designed to appeal to Blue Collar workers including safety and health pension reform,...
2011_DC_Lamond_Riggs20DC -- Lamond Riggs neighborhood
2011_DC_Lansburgh1DC -- Penn Qtr -- Lansburgh Theatre: Shakespeare Theatre Company (450 7th St NW)
2011_DC_Law42DC -- Natl Law Enforcement Officers Memorial
2011_DC_LBJ_Tapes_11042845Natl Archives -- Panel -- "Presidential Recordings of Lyndon B. Johnson" (w/Taylor Branch, etc)
The Presidential Recordings of Lyndon B. Johnson:
In partnership with the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, we present the latest volumes in the Miller Center’s series of annotated transcripts of President Johnson’s White House tapes. The transcriptions focus on 34 critical...
2011_DC_Lee_11102614Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Author Talk: Barbara Lee ("Renegade for Peace and Justice")
Barbara Lee, “Renegade for Peace and Justice: A Memoir of Political and Personal Courage”:
This candid political memoir captures Barbara Lee's extraordinary life and political career from her early upbringing in El Paso, Texas to her service in the U.S. Congress. In a new Afterword, Lee pays tribute to...
2011_DC_Lego_Awards_111112152Reynolds Center -- Family Day (NPG) -- First LEGO(R) League Family Day
Invention is the theme of the regional First LEGO(R) League Tournament, in which student-designed robots work to solve problems of food safety. Come cheer on your favorite team during a day filled with music, demonstrations, and students working to solve real-world engineering challenges.
2011_DC_Lehrman_11051069Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Talk: Robert Lehrman (Collectors' Roundtable)
Collectors' Roundtable with Robert Lehrman
This annual series provides insight and invaluable advice on collecting art from museum directors, curators, collectors, art dealers, and consultants.
This evening, collector Robert Lehrman (Washington, D.C.) presents "Secrets of the Art World."
Robert...
2011_DC_LeiferR_11120995Newseum & Nikon -- Photo Finish reception w/Neil Leifer
On behalf of Nikon, the exclusive sponsor of "Photo Finish: The Sports Photography of Neil Leifer," you and a guest are invited to join the Newseum in celebrating this new exhibit.
Guests are invited to tour the exhibit, visit with legendary sports photographer Neil Leifer and enjoy hors d'oeuvres and...
2011_DC_Leifer_11121028Newseum -- Inside Media w/Neil Leifer
The Newseum hosts a special Inside Media program with guest Neil Leifer, to be followed by a book signing.
"Photo Finish" was created in collaboration with Sports Illustrated. Nikon is the exclusive sponsor of "Photo Finish: The Sports Photography of Neil Leifer."
Nikon Inc. is the world leader in...
2011_DC_Lincoln150_11022345DC -- Union Station -- Abraham Lincoln Arrives (Civil War Sesquicentennial Event)
National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis will mark the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's arrival in Washington, D.C. in 1861 prior to his first inauguration. Jarvis will join the last leg of the journey of President Lincoln's famous train trip from his home in Springfield, IL to...
2011_DC_LincolnAF_11061138Natl Air and Space Museum -- Family Day: Mr. Lincoln’s Air Force
Family Day: Mr. Lincoln’s Air Force
One hundred and fifty years ago this month, Thaddeus Lowe demonstrated to President Lincoln how a gas-filled balloon might be used to spy on the enemy, thus helping the Union Army and establishing the earliest "air force."
In celebration of this anniversary, the...
2011_DC_Lincoln_CottageVC67DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Visitor Center
2011_DC_Lincoln_Cottage29DC -- Lincoln Cottage (at the Armed Forces Retirement Home)
Including a visit by Dad and Dixie.
2011_DC_Lincoln_CVC_Being21DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Exhibit @ Visitor Center: Being Lincoln
Being Lincoln
August 2010 through September 2011
Since his presidency, Lincoln has been resurrected on stage and the silver screen. Lincoln still appears on stage and screen, but today it’s more common to find Lincoln posing for photo opportunities at private parties, waving to crowds from a parade...
2011_DC_LLJews_1110105Ford's Theatre -- Lincoln Legacy Project -- Jews and Race Relations in the South
2011_DC_Locke_11050575Dept of Commerce -- Event: Natl Asian Pacific Amer Heritage Month w/Gary Locke
The Federal Triangle Partnership, including the Department of Commerce, Agency for International Development, Environmental Protection Agency, and Customs and Border Protection, will hold its program commemorating 2011 Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month held on Thursday, May 5, 2011, from...
2011_DC_LOCVw6DC -- Library of Congress -- Views from...
2011_DC_LOC_Ext1DC -- Library of Congress -- Exterior Images
2011_DC_LOC_GHX12DC -- Library of Congress -- Room: The Great Hall -- Holiday Display
2011_DC_LOC_GH52DC -- Library of Congress -- Room: The Great Hall
2011_DC_LOC_Herblock22DC -- Library of Congress -- Exhibit: Herblock Gallery (2011)
Herblock Looks at 1961: Fifty Years Ago in Editorial Cartoons
Exhibition dates: September 10, 2011–March 16, 2012
For many Americans, the tensions of 1961—conflicts between East and West, the use of nuclear weapons and traditional warfare, political battles between conservatives and liberals, and...
2011_DC_LOC_Lucy43DC -- Library of Congress -- Exhibit (Performing Arts): I Love Lucy: An American Legend
I Love Lucy: An American Legend
August 4, 2011–January 28, 2012
In celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of the show's debut, the Library of Congress presents I Love Lucy: An American Legend. This exhibition explores the show's history through the Ball and Arnaz family scrapbooks as well as...
2011_DC_LOC_MRRCC8DC -- Library of Congress -- Room: Main Reading Room -- Card Catalog
2011_DC_LOC_MRR29DC -- Library of Congress -- Room: Main Reading Room (room itself)
2011_DC_LOC_Swann74DC -- Library of Congress -- Exhibit: Swann Gallery
March 18, 2011–Ongoing
The exhibition reveals the power of cartoons to illuminate both human nature and history as well as provoke laughter and reflection. The diverse selection of images on display here represents the fascinating world of caricatures, political cartoons, comics, animation art, graphic...
2011_DC_Logan13DC -- Logan Circle neighborhood (but not Logan Statue)
2011_DC_Lovejoy_11022367Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Talk: Tom Lovejoy (Art and Science Lecture Series)
Art and Science Lecture Series: Tom Lovejoy:
In conjunction with the exhibition Alexis Rockman: A Fable for Tomorrow, the American Art Museum presents a lecture series that places the science of climate change within a cultural context. The series invites leading environmental scientists to discuss the...
2011_DC_LSailor_Misc1_110922149DC -- Lone Sailor Award (2011) -- (Page 1 of 3) Pictures from the opening reception
The Lone Sailor Award is given to Sea Service veterans who have excelled with distinction in their respective civilian careers while exemplifying the Navy core values of Honor, Courage and Commitment. In receiving the Lone Sailor Award, the Bridges family, Lamb, Coleman and Feller join an impressive...
2011_DC_LSailor_Misc2_110922106DC -- Lone Sailor Award (2011) -- (Page 3 of 3) Pictures from the dinner and closing presentation
The Lone Sailor Award is given to Sea Service veterans who have excelled with distinction in their respective civilian careers while exemplifying the Navy core values of Honor, Courage and Commitment. In receiving the Lone Sailor Award, the Bridges family, Lamb, Coleman and Feller join an impressive...
2011_DC_LSailor_Pgm_110922127DC -- Lone Sailor Award (2011) -- (Page 2 of 3) The program itself
The Lone Sailor Award is given to Sea Service veterans who have excelled with distinction in their respective civilian careers while exemplifying the Navy core values of Honor, Courage and Commitment. In receiving the Lone Sailor Award, the Bridges family, Lamb, Coleman and Feller join an impressive...
2011_DC_Lusane_11021966Politics & Prose -- Clarence Lusane ("Black History Of The White House")
Clarence Lusane - The Black History Of The White House:
Lusane’s chronicle of the White House is also the story of the struggle for civil rights in America. A professor at American University and former editor of Black Political Agenda, Lusane recounts the stories of the black laborers who built the...
2011_DC_Madrigal_1112107Newseum -- Special -- Barrington High School Madrigal Singers
2011_DC_Mall34DC -- Natl Mall area
Reflecting Pool to close for repairs
Pool will close for two years to receive filtration system
The GW Hatchet, October 21, 2010
by Bilikisu Adeyemi
Hatchet Reporter

D.C. residents should take a last look at the reflecting pool this month, as the site is set to close in November for about two...
2011_DC_Mann_11091139Politics & Prose -- Charles C. Mann ("1493")
Charles C. Mann - 1493:
The author of the best-selling 1491, the story of pre-Colombian America, here looks at the enormous impact of the European arrival in the New World. The ramifications were global: while trade altered the balance of power and wealth among nations, the Colombian Exchange, often...
2011_DC_Marconi_Statue8DC -- Mt Pleasant -- Guglielmo Marconi (Piccirilli) Statue (16th and Lamont Streets, NW)
2011_DC_Marlantes_11091952Politics & Prose -- Karl Marlantes ("What It's Like To Go To War")
Karl Marlantes - What It's Like To Go To War:
What Marlantes experienced in Vietnam as a twenty-three-year-old lieutenant of a platoon of forty marines has haunted him since 1969. He turned his tour of duty into the acclaimed novel Matterhorn, and in his first book of nonfiction he continues his...
2011_DC_Martin_110427105Sixth & I -- Demetri Martin ("This Is A Book")
Demetri Martin’s first book, This Is a Book, is the renowned comedian’s hilarious foray into prose comedy. In these pages, Martin expands on the sensibility he’s developed on stage as an award-winning stand-up comedian and on television as a writer-performer on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, The Daily...
2011_DC_Massie_11112837Politics & Prose -- Robert K. Massie ("Catherine The Great")
Robert K. Massie - Catherine The Great:
With award-winning biographies of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and the Romanovs already under his belt, Massie is a natural to tell the story of Catherine (1729-1796). And it’s a remarkable story: born to a minor noble family in Germany, she was only...
2011_DC_Matthews_11112966Politics & Prose -- Chris Matthews ("Jack Kennedy")
Chris Matthews - Jack Kennedy:
The highlights of JFK’s life are well known. In his recounting of Kennedy’s family life, his PT boat rescue, his stellar rise in politics, Matthews draws on interviews with Kennedy’s associates, oral histories, and a range of other documents to show how Kennedy really...
2011_DC_Matthews_11121361Natl Archives -- Chris Matthews ("Jack Kennedy")
Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero:
Chris Matthews weaves first-hand accounts of John F. Kennedy together to tell the tale of how Kennedy grew from a child of privilege into a war hero and finally became President of the United States, all the while coping with a life-threatening disease. A book signing will...
2011_DC_McCullough_110602108Politics & Prose @ Sixth & I Historic Synagogue -- David McCullough ("Greater Journey")
The Greater Journey is the enthralling—and until now, untold—story of American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, architects, and others of high aspiration who set off for Paris between 1830 and 1900. After risking the hazardous journey across the Atlantic, these Americans embarked on a greater...
2011_DC_Meade_Mem8DC -- George Meade Memorial
2011_DC_Mehretu_11110299Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Julie Mehretu ("Grey") (Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture)
Julie Mehretu, internationally renowned artist -- "Grey":
The Clarice Smith Distinguished Lectures in American Art are a forum for discussing the creative experience and exploring what American art is today. Reception follows each lecture.
2011_DC_Meritalk_11082350DC -- MeriTalk 2011 Innovation Nation Forum (w/Alan Greenspan)
The 2011 MeriTalk Innovation Nation Forum convened the leading voices in both government and industry IT to answer today’s leading questions – what do these new initiatives mean? How’s OMB keeping score? What are the best practices to get change done?
Morning Keynote --
A Conversation with Dr. Alan...
2011_DC_Metropolis_11051470Reynolds Center -- Performance -- Silent Orchestra ("Metropolis")
Silent Orchestra and Metropolis:
Silent Orchestra returns to the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery to premiere an original score for the classic film Metropolis. This 1927 silent German film is set in a society divided into two classes: one of planners and managers who live...
2011_DC_Metro_EN5Metro Station -- L'Enfant Plaza
The Wegman artwork.
2011_DC_Metro_FB9Metro Station -- Foggy Bottom
There had been a power failure in the station so these pictures are what you see when they're on emergency lighting.
2011_DC_Metro_FT6Metro Station -- Fort Totten
Working on the railroad and the plaque for the crash victims.
2011_DC_Metro_TP2Metro Station -- Takoma Park
They were single-tracking yet again at the Takoma Park station.
2011_DC_MGR_Misc_11111292DC -- Fort McNair -- McClellan's Grand Review Re-enactment -- Miscellaneous
Union General George B. McClellan's Grand Review of the newly reorganized and enlarged Army of the Potomac, held at Bailey's Crossroads, Va., on November 20, 1861, before President Abraham Lincoln and members of his Cabinet, will be re-enacted November 12, 2011, at the Fort McNair Parade Field,...
2011_DC_MGR_Parade_11111263DC -- Fort McNair -- McClellan's Grand Review Re-enactment -- Parade
Union General George B. McClellan's Grand Review of the newly reorganized and enlarged Army of the Potomac, held at Bailey's Crossroads, Va., on November 20, 1861, before President Abraham Lincoln and members of his Cabinet, will be re-enacted November 12, 2011, at the Fort McNair Parade Field,...
2011_DC_MGR_Present_11111299DC -- Fort McNair -- McClellan's Grand Review Re-enactment -- Presentation
President Lincoln's 1861 Grand Review of the Army of the Potomac at Bailey's Crossroads
Fort McNair Parade Field
Military District of Washington
Sesquicentennial Commemoration

Program:
* Grand Marshal: Ed Bearss, Chief Historian Emeritus, National Park Service
* Musical Prelude
* March...
2011_DC_Mineta_11091062Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Talk: Norman Mineta
In the weekly talk, a National Portrait Gallery staff member or guest speaker offers insight into the person in the selected portrait.
Today, Norman Mineta, secretary of transportation on September 11, 2001, discusses his life and the events of 9/11. Mineta's portrait is on view at the National...
2011_DC_Miss_Amer_CB_110329682011 Miss District of Columbia / America Experience @ Cherry Blossoms
2011_DC_Miss_Amer_CHC_1103292692011 Miss District of Columbia / America Experience @ Capital Hill Club
For this reception, the Miss America contestants were joined by Teresa Scanlan, 2011 Miss America.
2011_DC_Miss_Amer_Newseum_110329372011 Miss District of Columbia / America Experience @ Newseum
2011_DC_Miss_Amer_VSA_110329742011 Miss District of Columbia / America Experience @ Van Scoyoc Associates
2011_DC_Miss_DCM_1101051572010 Miss District of Columbia Send-Off (Page 1 of 2) -- Stephanie Williams to Miss America Pageant @ Institute of World Politics -- Mingling
The Miss District of Columbia Send-off Party! Stephanie Williams heads to Las Vegas to compete for the title of Miss America 2011
Join Us to celebrate at The Institute of World Politics, 1521 Sixteenth Street, NW.

ALSO FEATURING:
* Jen Corey – Miss DC 2009
* Kate Marie Grinold – Miss DC 2008
...
2011_DC_Miss_DCP_1101051582010 Miss District of Columbia Send-Off (Page 2 of 2) -- Stephanie Williams to Miss America Pageant @ Institute of World Politics -- Presentation
The Miss District of Columbia Send-off Party! Stephanie Williams heads to Las Vegas to compete for the title of Miss America 2011
Join Us to celebrate at The Institute of World Politics, 1521 Sixteenth Street, NW.
Tickets can be purchased at MissDC.org by clicking “SUPPORT” or e-mail...
2011_DC_Miss_DCS1_111215952011 Miss District of Columbia Send-Off (Page 1 of 4) -- Ashley Boalch to Miss America Pageant @ Institute of World Politics -- Mingling
The Miss District of Columbia Send-off
Ashley Boalch heads to Las Vegas to compete for the title of Miss America 2012. [The pageant airs at 9pm EST on Saturday, January 14, 2012.]
Join us to celebrate
6:30-8:30 pm
Thursday, December 15
The Institute of World Politics

Also Featuring:
* Jen...
2011_DC_Miss_DCS2_111215732011 Miss District of Columbia Send-Off (Page 2 of 4) -- Ashley Boalch to Miss America Pageant @ Institute of World Politics -- Presentation except dresses
The Miss District of Columbia Send-off
Ashley Boalch heads to Las Vegas to compete for the title of Miss America 2012. [The pageant airs at 9pm EST on Saturday, January 14, 2012.]
Join us to celebrate
6:30-8:30 pm
Thursday, December 15
The Institute of World Politics

Also Featuring:
* Jen...
2011_DC_Miss_DCS3_111215452011 Miss District of Columbia Send-Off (Page 3 of 4) -- Ashley Boalch to Miss America Pageant @ Institute of World Politics -- Presentation dresses
The Miss District of Columbia Send-off
Ashley Boalch heads to Las Vegas to compete for the title of Miss America 2012. [The pageant airs at 9pm EST on Saturday, January 14, 2012.]
Join us to celebrate
6:30-8:30 pm
Thursday, December 15
The Institute of World Politics

Also Featuring:
* Jen...
2011_DC_Miss_DCS4_111215702011 Miss District of Columbia Send-Off (Page 4 of 4) -- Ashley Boalch to Miss America Pageant @ Institute of World Politics -- Posed pictures after presentation
The Miss District of Columbia Send-off
Ashley Boalch heads to Las Vegas to compete for the title of Miss America 2012. [The pageant airs at 9pm EST on Saturday, January 14, 2012.]
Join us to celebrate
6:30-8:30 pm
Thursday, December 15
The Institute of World Politics

Also Featuring:
* Jen...
2011_DC_Miss_Innocence_111003107Newseum & University of Mississippi -- "Mississippi Innocence" premier (w/Tucker Carrington, John Grisham, Harry Edwards, and Angela Davis)
Newseum and The University of Mississippi invite you to the Washington, D.C., screening and discussion of Mississippi Innocence www.mississippiinnocencefilm.com Film by Joe York.
Speakers in sequence:
* Charles L. Overby, Chief Executive Officer, Freedom Forum, Newseum and Diversity Institute.
*...
2011_DC_MLK_Mem103DC -- Martin Luther King Jr. Natl Memorial
Pictures taken before it opened, the first day it was open to the public, and a nighttime visit.
2011_DC_Monfort_110330103Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Talk: Steve Monfort (Art and Science Lecture Series)
Art and Science Lecture Series: Steve Monfort
In conjunction with the exhibition Alexis Rockman: A Fable for Tomorrow, the American Art Museum presents a lecture series that places the science of climate change within a cultural context. The series invites leading environmental scientists to discuss...
2011_DC_Montrose_Pk4DC -- Georgetown -- Montrose and Dumbarton Park
2011_DC_Moore_111002118Politics & Prose @ Sixth & I Historic Synagogue -- Michael Moore ("Here Comes Trouble")
Michael Moore:
"I had an unusually large-sized head, though this was not uncommon for a baby in the Midwest. The craniums in our part of the country were designed to leave a little extra room for the brain to grow in case one day we found ourselves exposed to something we didn't understand, like a...
2011_DC_MPPLCW_Ext_11040916DC -- Mt Pleasant Public Library -- Construction Watch Tour -- Exteriors
Construction Watch Tour: Mount Pleasant Library:
Originally designed in 1924 by New York architect Edward Lippincott Tilton, the historic Mt. Pleasant Library in Northwest Washington, D.C., is now undergoing modernization and expansion, designed by CORE Group and HMA2 Architects. Ginnie Cooper, chief...
2011_DC_MPPLCW_Grp_11040927DC -- Mt Pleasant Public Library -- Construction Watch Tour -- Group
Construction Watch Tour: Mount Pleasant Library:
Originally designed in 1924 by New York architect Edward Lippincott Tilton, the historic Mt. Pleasant Library in Northwest Washington, D.C., is now undergoing modernization and expansion, designed by CORE Group and HMA2 Architects. Ginnie Cooper, chief...
2011_DC_MPPLCW_Int_11040996DC -- Mt Pleasant Public Library -- Construction Watch Tour -- Interiors
Construction Watch Tour: Mount Pleasant Library:
Originally designed in 1924 by New York architect Edward Lippincott Tilton, the historic Mt. Pleasant Library in Northwest Washington, D.C., is now undergoing modernization and expansion, designed by CORE Group and HMA2 Architects. Ginnie Cooper, chief...
2011_DC_MPPL4DC -- Mt Pleasant Public Library
2011_DC_Mt_Gilead_BC7DC -- Logan Circle -- Mt Gilead Baptist Church (1625 13th St NW)
2011_DC_Mt_Pleasant8DC -- Mt Pleasant neighborhood
2011_DC_Mt_Vernon2DC -- Mt Vernon Triangle neighborhood
2011_DC_Mullen_11092084Jewish Primary Day School & Sixth and I -- Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Lecture: Admiral Mike Mullen w/David Brooks
Admiral Mike Mullen, JPDS-NC Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Lecture
Like the late General and Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Admiral Mike Mullen has spent his adult life pursuing and promoting peace while also taking up arms in the defense of his country. In the spirit of Rabin, he has frequently spoken about...
2011_DC_Murals21DC -- Public Art: Murals (not shown by artist)
2011_DC_Murals_ACavus12DC -- Public Art: Murals by Albus Cavus Art Collective
2011_DC_Murals_Aniekan17DC -- Public Art: Murals by Aniekan Udofia
2011_DC_Murals_HMetaferia1DC -- Public Art: Murals by Helina Metaferia
2011_DC_Murals_JBergner8DC -- Public Art: Murals by Joel Bergner (aka Joel Artista)
2011_DC_Murals_Karlisima7DC -- Public Art: Murals by Karla "Karlisima" Rodas
2011_DC_NAOscA_11022620Natl Archives -- Academy Award Animated Short Film Nominees (introduced by Marvin Pinkert and WIFV members)
The National Archives Experience hosts the seventh annual free screenings of the Academy Award® nominees in four categories—Documentary Feature, Documentary Short Subject, Live Action Short Film, and Animated Short Film.
The screenings are presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in...
2011_DC_NAOscD_11022614Natl Archives -- Academy Award Live Action Short Film Nominees (introduced by Margaret Parsons)
The National Archives Experience hosts the seventh annual free screenings of the Academy Award® nominees in four categories—Documentary Feature, Documentary Short Subject, Live Action Short Film, and Animated Short Film.
The screenings are presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in...
2011_DC_NAOscG_1102248Natl Archives -- Academy Award Documentary Feature Nominee: "Gasland" (introduced by Willie Waffle)
The National Archives Experience hosts the seventh annual free screenings of the Academy Award® nominees in four categories—Documentary Feature, Documentary Short Subject, Live Action Short Film, and Animated Short Film.
The screenings are presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in...
2011_DC_NAOscS_1102271Natl Archives -- Academy Award Documentary Short Subject Nominees (introduced by Tom Nastick)
The National Archives Experience hosts the seventh annual free screenings of the Academy Award® nominees in four categories—Documentary Feature, Documentary Short Subject, Live Action Short Film, and Animated Short Film.
The screenings are presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in...
2011_DC_NAOscX_1102276Natl Archives -- Academy Award Documentary Feature Nominee: "Exit Through the Gift Shop" (introduced by Willie Waffle)
The National Archives Experience hosts the seventh annual free screenings of the Academy Award® nominees in four categories—Documentary Feature, Documentary Short Subject, Live Action Short Film, and Animated Short Film.
The screenings are presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in...
2011_DC_Nathan_11052541Natl Archives -- Joan Nathan ("Jewish Holiday Traditions and Cooking in America") w/Spike Mendelsohn
Jewish Holiday Traditions and Cooking in America:
In celebration of Jewish American Heritage Month and our upcoming exhibition “What’s Cooking, Uncle Sam?,” which opens on June 10, we welcome award-winning television personality and cookbook author Joan Nathan. Jewish holidays are defined by food,...
2011_DC_Natl_Pres_Ctr11DC -- AU Park -- National Presbyterian Church and Center (4101 Nebraska Ave., NW)
2011_DC_Naval_Aviation13DC -- U.S. Naval Heritage Center -- Exhibit: Year of Naval Aviation
2011_DC_Naval_BlessingF_110409133Naval Heritage Center -- Blessing of the Fleets (2011) -- Outdoor ceremony
20th Annual Blessing of the Fleets
Passed down through generations of mariners and navies around the world, the annual Blessing of the Fleets tradition will be held for the 20th consecutive year at the United States Navy Memorial on Saturday, April 9 at 1:00pm. Held on the outdoor plaza, the event is...
2011_DC_Naval_BlessingN_11040924Naval Heritage Center -- Blessing of the Fleets (2011) -- Indoor events
20th Annual Blessing of the Fleets
Passed down through generations of mariners and navies around the world, the annual Blessing of the Fleets tradition will be held for the 20th consecutive year at the United States Navy Memorial on Saturday, April 9 at 1:00pm. Held on the outdoor plaza, the event is...
2011_DC_Naval_Center4DC -- U.S. Naval Heritage Center
The Art of Naval Aviation
Featuring 28 original artworks from the U.S. Navy’s Art Collection, the Coast Guard Art Program and the Navy Memorial’s collection, this exhibit illustrates the history and evolution of Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard aviation. “The Art of Naval Aviation” will be on display...
2011_DC_Naval_Memorial7DC -- U.S. Navy Memorial
2011_DC_NBC45DC -- AU Park -- NBC4 Television Station (4001 Nebraska Ave NW)
2011_DC_NBF_Achenbach_1109251Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Joel Achenbach
Joel Achenbach
Washington Post science and politics writer Joel Achenbach was the newspaper's first online columnist with "Rough Draft" in 1999. His latest and seventh book is "A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea: The Race to Kill the BP Oil Gusher" (Simon & Schuster). Achenbach's other books include "The...
2011_DC_NBF_Alexie_1109254Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie
"The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" was both a critical and commercial success for author Sherman Alexie. The multitalented Alexie is also a poet, filmmaker and occasional comedian who often draws on his experiences as a Native American for his work. The 1998 independent...
2011_DC_NBF_Amos_11092514Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Wally Amos
Wally Amos
Today, his name is a household word. Wally founded the Read It Loud! Foundation in 2005, urging parents and caregivers to read aloud to children for at least 10 minutes each day from birth to 6 years old. Read It Loud! is partnered with MARSYS, the Center for the Book in the Library of...
2011_DC_NBF_Banks_11092411Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Russell Banks
Russell Banks
The author of more than a dozen works of fiction, Russell Banks' newest novel is "Lost Memory of Skin" (Ecco). His work has been translated into more than 20 languages, and two of his novels have been adapted into award-winning films: "The Sweet Hereafter" and "Affliction." His novel...
2011_DC_NBF_Billington_11092429Natl Book Festival 2011 -- James H. Billington
James H. Billington
James Hadley Billington was sworn in as the Librarian of Congress on September 14, 1987. He is the 13th person to hold the position since the Library was established in 1800.
2011_DC_NBF_Chua_11092418Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Amy Chua
Amy Chua
"Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" (Penguin) has created a sensation with its depiction of the strict, traditional child-rearing of the author's children. Her two daughters were never allowed to watch television or play computer games, be in a school play, have a play date, get any grade less...
2011_DC_NBF_Cooper_1109252Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Susan Cooper
Susan Cooper
Susan Cooper has been writing for over 30 years. In this time she has written numerous newspaper articles, books for children and adults, screenplays for TV and the cinema and a Broadway play. She is best known for her five-book series, "The Dark Is Rising," which includes the Newbery...
2011_DC_NBF_dePaola_1109242Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Tomie dePaola
Tomie dePaola
More than 250 books feature the name Tomie dePaola as the illustrator, writer or both. He has been published for more than 40 years and has sold more than 15 million books worldwide. He was also the United States nominee in 1990 for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in illustration. The...
2011_DC_NBF_Dessen_1109244Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Sarah Dessen
Sarah Dessen
Sarah Dessen grew up in Chapel Hill, N.C., and attended UNC-Chapel Hill, graduating with highest honors in creative writing. She is the author of several novels, including "Someone Like You," "Just Listen" and "Along for the Ride." A motion picture based on her first two books, called "How...
2011_DC_NBF_Dove_1109248Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Rita Dove
Rita Dove
In 1993 Rita Dove was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States by the Library of Congress, making her the youngest person -- and the first African-American -- to receive this honor; she held the position for two years. She was reappointed Special Consultant in Poetry for 2000, the Library...
2011_DC_NBF_Egan_1109245Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Egan is the author of "The Invisible Circus," a novel that became a feature film starring Cameron Diaz in 2001; "Look at Me," a finalist for the National Book Award in fiction; and "The Keep," which was a national best-seller. Her nonfiction articles appear frequently in The New...
2011_DC_NBF_Eggers_1109249Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers
The author of the best-selling memoir "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" is also the founder of the literacy project called 826 Valencia, named after its address in San Francisco. "A Heartbreaking Work" is the story of the author's struggle to raise his younger brother in San...
2011_DC_NBF_Emerson_1109241Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Claudia Emerson
Claudia Emerson
All of Claudia Emerson's books, "Pharaoh, Pharaoh," "Pinion: An Elegy," "Late Wife" and her latest work, "Figure Studies," were published as part of Louisiana State University Press's signature series, Southern Messenger Poets, edited by Dave Smith. "Late Wife" won the 2006 Pulitzer...
2011_DC_NBF_Exquisite_1109245Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Exquisite Corpse Adventure
Exquisite Corpse Adventure
Join emcee Mary Brigid Barrett and authors and illustrators Calef Brown, Susan Cooper, Jack Gantos, Gregory Maguire, Patricia McKissack, Katherine Paterson and Chris Van Dusen for a session of fun and surprises as they bring you excerpts from the episodic story "The Exquisite...
2011_DC_NBF_Fleisher_1109243Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Leon Fleisher
Leon Fleisher
In what The New York Times calls "a candid and lively memoir," world-renowned pianist Leon Fleisher frankly discusses how his thoughts turned to suicide when, in 1965, his left hand became crippled by a disease that was not diagnosed until 1991. During that interval, unwilling to concede...
2011_DC_NBF_Foer_11092525Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Joshua Foer
Joshua Foer
Joshua Foer's writing has appeared in National Geographic, Esquire, Slate, Outside, The New York Times and other publications. He is the co-founder of the Atlas Obscura, an online guide to the world's wonders and curiosities. He is also the co-founder of the design competition Sukkah City....
2011_DC_NBF_Goodheart_11092514Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Adam Goodheart
Adam Goodheart
Adam Goodheart is a historian, journalist and critic whose new book is the New York Times best-selling and critically praised "1861: The Civil War Awakening" (Knopf). He has contributed frequent essays and reviews to The New York Times (where he also served as deputy editor of the Op-Ed...
2011_DC_NBF_Jasonoff_1109244Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Maya Jasanoff
Maya Jasanoff
Maya Jasanoff is currently an associate professor of history at Harvard University. Her first book, "Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture and Conquest in the East, 1750–1850," was awarded the 2005 Duff Cooper Prize and was a book of the year selection in numerous publications, including The...
2011_DC_NBF_JMoore_11092420Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Julianne Moore
Julianne Moore
Julianne Moore is a four-time Academy Award-nominated actress and the New York Times best-selling author of three books about Freckleface Strawberry, a character inspired by her own childhood experiences. She is also an avid reader, a literacy advocate and the mother of two young...
2011_DC_NBF_Kaufman_1109256Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Marc Kaufman
Marc Kaufman
Are we alone in the universe? In “First Contact: Scientific Breakthroughs in the Hunt for Life Beyond Earth” (Simon & Schuster), Washington Post science writer Marc Kaufman suggests that, as never before, we now have the knowledge and technology to answer that question, and will likely...
2011_DC_NBF_Keillor_1109258Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Garrison Keillor
Garrison Keillor
The place "where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking and all the children are above average" is the creation of Lake Wobegon's founder, Garrison Keillor. The show began as a morning radio program on Minnesota Public Radio in 1969, called "A Prairie Home Companion"...
2011_DC_NBF_Kendrick_1109251Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Dolores Kendrick
Dolores Kendrick
Dolores Kendrick is poet laureate of the District of Columbia. She is the author of the award-winning "The Women of Plums: Poems in the Voices of Slave Women," as well as "Why the Woman Is Singing on the Corner: A Verse Narrative" (Peter E. Randall Publisher), a collection of poems on...
2011_DC_NBF_Kibuishi_11092513Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Kazu Kibuishi
Kazu Kibuishi
Kazu Kibuishi is the founder and editor of the "Flight Anthologies,"a critically acclaimed comics series, as well as the creator of "Daisy Kutter: The Last Train," a winner of the YALSA Best Books for Young Adults Award. Born in Tokyo, Kibuishi moved to the U.S. with his mother and...
2011_DC_NBF_Krishnaswami_1109244Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Uma Krishnaswami
Uma Krishnaswami
Uma Krishnaswami, who was born in New Delhi, was an only child who moved often for her father's career. She says she befriended books and made up stories in her head to compensate for her loneliness. She published her first story when she was 13, in Children's World, a magazine...
2011_DC_NBF_Lawson_1109248Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Dorie McCullough Lawson
Dorie McCullough Lawson
Dorie McCullough Lawson is the author of the novel “Along Comes a Stranger.” Her first book was “Posterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their Children,” which was an anthology of the words and wisdom of 68 Americans, including Ansel Adams, Thomas Edison, Sam Houston, Mary Todd...
2011_DC_NBF_Lehrer_1109245Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Jim Lehrer
Jim Lehrer
In October 1975, the half-hour "Robert MacNeil Report," with Jim Lehrer as the Washington correspondent, premiered on Thirteen/WNET New York. Over the next seven years, "The MacNeil/Lehrer Report" (as it was renamed in 1976) won more than 30 awards. In September 1983, Lehrer and MacNeil...
2011_DC_NBF_Marciano_1109254Natl Book Festival 2011 -- John Bemelmans Marciano
John Bemelmans Marciano
John Bemelmans Marciano says that “it really, really helped that my grandfather, Ludwig Bemelmans, had created the Madeline books and left a story unfinished for me to work on.” And that Marciano has done. “Madeline at the White House” (Viking Juvenile) is the latest book...
2011_DC_NBF_Martin_1109247Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Justin Martin
Justin Martin
Justin Martin is the author of the widely acclaimed biographies "Greenspan: The Man Behind the Money," about the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, and "Nader: Crusader, Spoiler, Icon," about the consumer advocate and failed presidential candidate. His new book, "Genius of Place: The...
2011_DC_NBF_McBratney_1109255Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Sam McBratney
Sam McBratney
A native of Northern Ireland, Sam McBratney was a teacher in his 30s when he started writing children's books. He wanted to help children with reading problems. Now, with the 57th book of his career, "Guess How Much I Love You" has been issued in a pop-up version by Candlewick Press. All...
2011_DC_NBF_McCullough_11092530Natl Book Festival 2011 -- David McCullough
David McCullough
Librarian of Congress James H. Billington has called David McCullough the "citizen chronicler" for his meticulously researched and beautifully written historical books, such as the Pulitzer Prize winners "Truman" and "John Adams," the latter of which became an Emmy Award-winning...
2011_DC_NBF_McCutcheon_1109258Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Carmen Agra Deedy and John McCutcheon
Carmen Agra Deedy
Children's book author and storyteller Carmen Agra Deedy has won more than a dozen awards for her work. She was born in Havana, Cuba, and emigrated to the United States with her family in 1963 during the aftermath of the Cuban Revolution. Her most recent books are "The Cheshire Cheese...
2011_DC_NBF_Millard_11092410Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Candice Millard
Candice Millard
Candice Millard is a former writer and editor for National Geographic magazine. Her first book, "The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey," was a New York Times best-seller and was named one of the best books of the year by, among others, The New York Times, The...
2011_DC_NBF_Miller_1109255Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Kristie Miller
Kristie Miller
Kristie Miller is a research associate at the Southwest Center of the University of Arizona and author of "Isabella Greenway: An Enterprising Woman" and "Ruth Hanna McCormick: A Life in Politics, 1880-1944." She is also co-editor of "A Volume of Friendship: The Letters of Eleanor...
2011_DC_NBF_Misc28Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Miscellaneous
2011_DC_NBF_Moona_1109247Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Moona Luna
Moona Luna
Moona Luna is the passionate second project of New York-based songwriter Sandra Velasquez and her critically acclaimed Latin band, Pistolera. With her daughter as inspiration, Velasquez wrote an album's worth of songs geared for families. After writing exclusively in Spanish for Pistolera,...
2011_DC_NBF_Morrison_1109248Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison
The work of Toni Morrison has gained worldwide acclaim. The 1993 Nobel Prize in literature was awarded to Morrison, "who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality." Her novel "Beloved" won the Pulitzer Prize for...
2011_DC_NBF_Morris_1109244Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Edmund Morris
Edmund Morris
"The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt," the first in a trilogy about the 26th U.S. president, won both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for its author, Edmund Morris. The second in the series was the award winning "Theodore Rex," and the final volume is 2010's "Colonel Roosevelt"...
2011_DC_NBF_Mukherjee_1109258Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Siddhartha Mukherjee
Siddhartha Mukherjee
"The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer" (Scribner), which won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, is Siddhartha Mukherjee's story of this dreaded disease -- from its origins to the global battle to cure, control and conquer it. Mukherjee is a cancer...
2011_DC_NBF_Muth_1109255Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Jon J Muth
Jon J Muth
Artist Jon J Muth is the creator of this year's art for the National Book Festival poster. He studied stone sculpture and calligraphy in Japan, and the Japanese influence is readily apparent in his "Zen" series of illustrated books. The first in the series, "Zen Shorts," won the prestigious...
2011_DC_NBF_Nelson_11092511Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Kadir Nelson
Kadir Nelson
Writer and illustrator Kadir Nelson, who began drawing at age 3 and painting at age 10, says, "I have always been an artist. It's part of my DNA." He began collaborating with writers in 1999, including choreographer Debbie Allen ("Dancing in the Wings") and Ntozake Shange ("Ellington Was...
2011_DC_NBF_Paretsky_1109247Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Sara Paretsky
Sara Paretsky
When detective V.I. Warshawski debuted in 1982 in "Indemnity Only," its author, Sara Paretsky, created a sensation by creating a female investigator who uses her wits as well as her fists. Paretsky challenged a genre in which women typically were either vamps or victims. "Body Work"...
2011_DC_NBF_Peterson_1109254Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Carla L. Peterson
Carla L. Peterson
Carla L. Peterson is an English professor and affiliate faculty member of the American Studies, African-American Studies and Women's Studies departments at the University of Maryland at College Park. Her works include "African-American Women Orators in the Antebellum North,"...
2011_DC_NBF_Plumly_1109254Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Stanley Plumly
Stanley Plumly
Stanley Plumly is poet laureate of Maryland. His most recent poetry collection, "Old Heart" (W.W. Norton), was a National Book Award finalist. His work has been honored with eight Pushcart prizes, a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship and many other awards. He is a Maryland Distinguished...
2011_DC_NBF_Reinhart_1109246Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Matthew Reinhart
Matthew Reinhart
Matthew Reinhart is the co-creator of the "Encyclopedia Prehistorica" and "Encyclopedia Mythologica" series. He has also created many other award-winning pop-up books, including "Mommy?" by Maurice Sendak and Arthur Yorinks and "Star Wars: A Pop-Up Guide to the Galaxy."
2011_DC_NBF_Robinson_1109245Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Eugene Robinson
Eugene Robinson
Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 2009 for his "eloquent columns on the 2008 presidential campaign that focus[ed] on the election of the first African-American president, showcasing graceful writing and grasp of the larger historic...
2011_DC_NBF_Say_11092521Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Allen Say
Allen Say
Allen Say was born in Yokohama, Japan, and he dreamed of becoming a cartoonist from the age of 6. When he was 12, he apprenticed for his favorite cartoonist, Noro Shinpei. In 1972, Say illustrated his first children's book, and until 1987 was a part-time illustrator. That year, while...
2011_DC_NBF_Selznick_11092417Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Brian Selznick
Brian Selznick
“The Invention of Hugo Cabret" won a Caldecott Medal for its author and illustrator, Brian Selznick. It was also a finalist for a National Book Award, and Martin Scorsese has directed the film version, which will be released this November. His other books have received many awards and...
2011_DC_NBF_Stephenson_1109253Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Neal Stephenson
Neal Stephenson
Neal Stephenson is the author of the three-volume historical epic "The Baroque Cycle" ("Quicksilver," "The Confusion" and "The System of the World") and the novels "Cryptonomicon," "The Diamond Age," "Snow Crash," "Zodiac" and "Anathem." Last year, Stephenson introduced "The...
2011_DC_NBF_Swanson_11092421Natl Book Festival 2011 -- James L. Swanson
James L. Swanson
James Swanson, who shares Abraham Lincoln's Feb. 12 birthday, is the author of the New York Times best-seller "Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer," upon which the young people's version, "Chasing Lincoln's Killer," is based. Swanson has written for The Wall Street Journal,...
2011_DC_NBF_Thompson_11092543Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Richard Thompson
Richard Thompson
The most recent Reuben Award, cartooning's equivalent of the Oscar, went to Richard Thompson, creator of "Cul de Sac," a strip born in The Washington Post seven years ago featuring the Otterloop family. Thompson also draws the "Richard's Poor Almanac" cartoon, and his new book is...
2011_DC_NBF_VanDusen_11092417Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Chris Van Dusen
Chris Van Dusen
Chris Van Dusen writes: “As a child, my brothers and I would spend hours drawing pictures. We didn’t have video games or computers to entertain us, so we drew instead. … I had no idea back then that I’d end up writing and illustrating children’s books when I grew up.” Since then, Van...
2011_DC_NBF_Waller_1109257Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Douglas Waller
Douglas Waller
Douglas Waller, a former veteran correspondent for Newsweek and Time, has reported on the CIA for six years. Waller also covered the Pentagon, State Department, White House and Congress. He is the author of the best-sellers "The Commandos: The Inside Story of America's Secret Soldiers,"...
2011_DC_NBF_Watkins_1109253Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Angela Farris Watkins
Angela Farris Watkins
Angela Farris Watkins, Ph.D., is an associate professor of psychology at Spelman College. She is Martin Luther King Jr.'s niece, and her new book is "My Uncle Martin's Words for America: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Niece Tells How He Made a Difference."
2011_DC_NBF_Wilkerson_1109244Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Isabel Wilkerson
Isabel Wilkerson
Isabel Wilkerson, who spent most of her career as a national correspondent and bureau chief at The New York Times, is the first African American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in the history of American journalism and the first black American to win for individual reporting. Inspired by...
2011_DC_NBF_WmsGarcia_1109242Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Rita Williams-Garcia
Rita Williams-Garcia
In "One Crazy Summer" (Amistad) winner of the 2011 Coretta Scott King and Newbery Honor awards, Rita Williams-Garcia places her main character, Delphine, in Oakland, Calif., in 1968--a tumultuous period in American history. Nevertheless, Delphine triumphs over the adversity of...
2011_DC_NCath_CSA7DC -- Washington Natl Cathedral -- Stained Glass -- Confederate Windows
2011_DC_NCath_Disp23DC -- Washington Natl Cathedral -- History Displays
2011_DC_NCath_Glass61DC -- Washington Natl Cathedral -- Stained glass
2011_DC_NCath_I109DC -- Washington Natl Cathedral -- Interior Images (except stained glass)
2011_DC_NCath_O34DC -- Washington Natl Cathedral -- Outside Images
2011_DC_NCath_Quake80DC -- Washington Natl Cathedral -- Event: Quake results
2011_DC_NCath_Views55DC -- Washington Natl Cathedral -- Views from...
2011_DC_NCath_XMas34DC -- Washington Natl Cathedral -- Christmas Creches
2011_DC_NewseumMN_11120584Newseum -- Members' Night -- Artifact viewing
Members' Night with Artifacts "From the Vault"
As a special thank you for your support and to celebrate the holiday season, we’d like to welcome you to the Newseum for Members’ Night. Press Pass members are invited to an exclusive reception and program featuring the Newseum’s curatorial team and a few...
2011_DC_NewseumMP_1108317Newseum -- Members' Preview -- FBI Exhibit September 11 update
Unfortunately, the Newseum asked me to not post pictures of their exhibits (weird, isn't it?) so you won't find the exhibit itself on this site.
2011_DC_NewseumVD_11111216DC -- Newseum -- Veteran's Day Weekend
2011_DC_NewseumV67DC -- Newseum -- Views from terrace
Including a view of the Capitol Pride festival on the street below.
2011_DC_Newseum1DC -- Newseum
2011_DC_Newseum_91126DC -- Newseum -- Exhibits -- (4) 9/11 Gallery
2011_DC_Newseum_Berlin13DC -- Newseum -- Exhibits -- (C) Berlin Wall
I spotted Charles Overby escorting Maureen Orth, Tim Russert's widow, through the Newseum.
2011_DC_Newseum_CR91141DC -- Newseum -- Exhibits -- (1) Cartoonists Remember 9/11
Cartoonists Remember September 11, 2001-2011:
To mark the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, more than 90 artists from the major comic syndicates are dedicating their Sunday strips on Sept. 11, 2011, to those who lost their lives in the attack.
This selection features some of America's...
2011_DC_Newseum_GMen42DC -- Newseum -- Exhibits -- (C) G-Men and Journalists
This is the new September 11 addition.
2011_DC_Newseum_Katrina1DC -- Newseum -- Exhibits -- (6) Covering Katrina
Just the front-page coverage wall. The main bulk of pictures from the exhibit are on the 2010 page.
2011_DC_Newseum_PFinish29DC -- Newseum -- Exhibits -- (C) Photo Finish
Photo Finish: The Sports Photography of Neil Leifer
Nov. 18, 2011 through Aug. 12, 2012
“Photo Finish: The Sports Photography of Neil Leifer” featured nearly 50 of the celebrated sports photographer’s best-known images, including the one of boxer Muhammad Ali standing over Sonny Liston after knocking...
2011_DC_Newseum_POYi60DC -- Newseum -- Exhibits -- (C) Pictures of the Year (2011)
'PICTURES OF THE YEAR' OPENS APRIL 22 AT THE NEWSEUM
WASHINGTON — On April 22, 2011, the Newseum will open "Pictures of the Year," a new exhibit that showcases dramatic, award-winning images of the people, events and issues that shaped the world in 2010. The display features nearly 70 of the year's...
2011_DC_Newseum_Pulitzer4DC -- Newseum -- Exhibits -- (1) Pulitzer Prize Photographs
2011_DC_Newton_11111045Eisenhower Institute -- Jim Newton ("Eisenhower: White House Years")
The Eisenhower Institute of Gettysburg College cordially invites you to an Author Series Event featuring Jim Newton and his newest book:
Eisenhower: The White House Years
The event will include a brief reception with light fare and refreshments, followed by the lecture, a question and answer session,...
2011_DC_NGAAH16DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Armand Hammer Collection
2011_DC_NGAEWS1DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Sculpture in common areas
2011_DC_NGAEW_Bldg33DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Building and Public Space
2011_DC_NGAEW_Christo7DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Exhibit: Christo: Over the River Project
Christo Donates Two Preparatory Collages for Over The River Project to National Gallery of Art, Washington
On View with Related Works from Gallery Collection through January 23, 2012

Washington, DC—The artist Christo presented the National Gallery of Art with two original preparatory collages for...
2011_DC_NGAEW_Cutouts5DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Exhibit: Matisse: The Cut-Outs
Matisse: The Cut-Outs
September 10 – October 24, 1977

Overview: 57 works in cut paper by Henri Matisse included 5 acquired in 1973 for the opening of the Gallery's East Building. The exhibition was organized by Jack Cowart of the Saint Louis Art Museum and John Hallmark Neff of the Detroit Institute...
2011_DC_NGAEW_Dali5DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Exhibit: Chester Dale and Salvador Dali
2011_DC_NGAEW_Galleries108DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Permanent Galleries
2011_DC_NGAEW_Venice9DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Exhibit: Venice: Canaletto and His Rivals
Venice: Canaletto and His Rivals
February 20–May 30, 2011

Venice inspired a school of competitive view painters whose achievements are among the most brilliant in 18th-century art. The exhibition celebrates the rich variety of these Venetian views, known as vedute, through some 20 masterworks by...
2011_DC_NGAP64DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Paintings
Including William J. Stone's "Declaration of Independence"
2011_DC_NGA_Capitoline10DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Capitoline Venus
Important Roman Statue Capitoline Venus Leaves Rome for Second Time Since 1797; Officially on View at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, June 8 to September 5, 2011

Presentation of Sculpture is First Act of New Sister Cities Relationship; Mayor of Rome to Announce Dream of Rome...
2011_DC_NGA_Louvre31DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Samuel F.B. Morse's Gallery of the Louvre
A New Look: Samuel F. B. Morse's Gallery of the Louvre
June 25, 2011–July 8, 2012
Known today primarily for his role in the development of the electromagnetic telegraph, Samuel F. B. Morse began his career as a painter. One of his most important works is on loan from the Terra Foundation for American...
2011_DC_Nichols_11021668American University -- Event: 3rd Annual Eisenhower Symposium w/David Nichols
The third annual Eisenhower Symposium was held at American University's Abramson Family Founders Room in American University’s new School of International Service Building. The title of the symposium is Eisenhower 1956: The President’s Year of Crisis-Suez and the Brink of War, a “book launch” of the...
2011_DC_Nichols_11042268Natl Archives -- David Nichols ("Eisenhower 1956: The President's Year of Crisis")
Eisenhower 1956: The President’s Year of Crisis—Suez and the Brink of War:
David A. Nichols, a leading expert on the Eisenhower presidency and author of Eisenhower 1956, discusses how the thirty-fourth president of the United States skillfully negotiated to avert global warfare during the Suez crisis,...
2011_DC_NMHMDC46DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed)
2011_DC_NMHMDC_CW56DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Exhibit: Civil War
2011_DC_NMHMDC_History20DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Exhibit: History of the Medical Museum
2011_DC_NMHMDC_ID_Dead1DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Exhibit: Resolved: Advances in Forensic Identification of U.S. War Dead
2011_DC_NMHMDC_Korea19DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Exhibit: Blood, Sweat and Saline (Korean War Medicine)
2011_DC_NMHMDC_Lincoln19DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Exhibit: His Wound is Mortal: The Final Hours of President Abraham Lincoln
2011_DC_NMHMDC_Microscopes8DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Exhibit: Evolution of the Microscope
2011_DC_NMHMDC_Trauma_Bay7DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Exhibit: Trauma Bay II (Iraq)
2011_DC_NMHMDC_Whitman1DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Exhibit: Walt Whitman's Soldiers
2011_DC_North_Cleveland_Pk2DC -- North Cleveland Park neighborhood (between Albemarle, Rodman + Quebec, Wisconsin + Nebraska, Connecticut)
2011_DC_NPC_Bookfair_11111594NPC -- 34th Annual Book Fair & Author's Night (2011)
Authors in sequence:
* John Farrell ("Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned"),
* Richard L. Holm ("The Craft We Chose: My Life in the CIA"),
* John Swenson ("New Atlantis: Musicians Battle for the Survival of New Orleans"),
* Lisa Yockelson ("Baking Style: Art, Craft, Recipes"),
*...
2011_DC_NYTCW_11041035Newseum -- Inside Media w/Harold Holzer and Craig Symonds ("New York Times: Complete Civil War")
Inside Media: The New York Times and the Civil War
Guest(s): Harold Holzer and Craig L. Symonds
The New York Times was one of the few newspapers with correspondents on the front lines throughout the Civil War, which began 150 years ago on April 12, 1861.
“The New York Times Complete Civil War,...
2011_DC_Oak_Hill34DC -- Oak Hill Cemetery
2011_DC_OAS13DC -- Foggy Bottom -- Organization of American States -- Main Bldg + Museum Exterior
2011_DC_OAS_Corridor29Art Museum of the Americas -- Exhibit: Corridor
Corridor
On view March 24 - June 26, 2011

AMA / Art Museum of the Americas announces the opening of Corridor, an unusual exhibition showcasing the work of twelve established artists, six from Baltimore and six from Washington, D.C., a show that flips the conventional artist-curator relationship on...
2011_DC_OAS_FusionR_11012159OAS Main Bldg -- Event: "Fusion of Spirits" Reception
Pictures here were taken of people at a reception that was held in the main building.
2011_DC_OAS_Int9DC -- Foggy Bottom -- Organization of American States -- Main Bldg Interior
2011_DC_OAS_Light_Place32Art Museum of the Americas -- Exhibits: Traveling Light & Common Place
CONTEMPORARY ART FROM CHILE:
2 Exhibitions, 7 Artists
Traveling Light Photo Gallery | Common Place Photo Gallery
September 15 - January 22, 2012

TRAVELING LIGHT - Ground Floor
Curated by Laura Roulet
Traveling Light, Five Artists from Chile, is an exhibition featuring five contemporary Chilean...
2011_DC_OAS_Museum2DC -- Foggy Bottom -- Art Museum of the Americas (201 18th St NW) -- Museum Bldg Interior
2011_DC_OAS_WrestlingO_11012174OAS Museum -- Event: "Wrestling with the Image: Caribbean Interventions" -- Opening Reception
Pictures here were taken inside the museum of the people attending the opening.
2011_DC_OAS_Wrestling58Art Museum of the Americas -- Exhibit: Wrestling with the Image: Caribbean Interventions
Wrestling with the Image: Caribbean Interventions
On view January 21–March 10, 2011
 
The Art Museum of the Americas (AMA) announces the opening of Wrestling with the Image: Caribbean Interventions, an exhibition of contemporary art from twelve Caribbean countries. Featuring work by artists from the...
2011_DC_Office_Molloy_11083166Office (STAT-USA) -- Jane Molloy Retirement Party
This was the last social event I photographed downtown after being reassigned to the Census Bureau out in god-forsaken Suitland.
2011_DC_Oil_Rocks_11031626DC Env Film Festival (2011) -- Marc Wolfensberger ("Oil Rocks") @ Swiss Embassy
OIL ROCKS – CITY ABOVE THE SEA (LA CITÉ DU PÉTROLE) (Switzerland / Azerbaijan, 2009, 52 min.)
Winner of the second annual Polly Krakora Award for artistry in film, presented by the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital
Shown as part of the multi-day, multi-venue Energy Film...
2011_DC_Old_PostV12DC -- Federal Triangle -- Old Post Office -- Views from tower
2011_DC_Old_Post18DC -- Federal Triangle -- Old Post Office / Trump Finger -- Outside
2011_DC_Ondaatje_11111637Politics & Prose @ Sixth & I Historic Synagogue -- Michael Ondaatje ("The Cat's Table")
Set on a ship bound from Colombo to England in the 1950s, the haunting new novel by the Booker Prize-winning author of The English Patient is the coming-of-age story of an eleven-year-old boy. Finding unlikely tutors on jazz, literature, and women among his fellow passengers, the boy also glimpses...
2011_DC_ONOVw4DC -- Old Naval Observatory -- Views from ...
2011_DC_ONO97DC -- Old Naval Observatory
2011_DC_Page1_11061570Newseum -- "Page One: Inside the New York Times" screening (w/David Carr, Brian Stelter, Lynn Sweet, Margaret Carlson, Marc Ambinder, Kate Novack, and Andrew Rossi)
The Newseum, Participant Media, Magnolia Pictures and HISTORY Films invite you and a guest to the Washington premiere of
"Page One: Inside the New York Times"
A documentary film directed by Andrew Rossi
Produced and written by Kate Novack and Andrew Rossi.
The screening will be followed by a...
2011_DC_Pageant_1Other_1107101282011 Miss District of Columbia Pageant (1 of 7) -- Other
Among others shown here are this year's judges:
* Mario Acosta Velez
* Dennis Momyer
* Chartese Burnett
* John Kelly
* Angie Goff
* Chef Spike Mendelsohn
2011_DC_Pageant_2Swimsuit_110710622011 Miss District of Columbia Pageant (2 of 7) -- Welcome and Swim Suit
2011_DC_Pageant_3Inter_110710642011 Miss District of Columbia Pageant (3 of 7) -- Interviews (Miss DC)
2011_DC_Pageant_4Talent_110710942011 Miss District of Columbia Pageant (4 of 7) -- Talent
2011_DC_Pageant_5InterT_110710692011 Miss District of Columbia Pageant (5 of 7) -- Interviews (Miss Teen DC)
2011_DC_Pageant_6Awards_110710772011 Miss District of Columbia Pageant (6 of 7) -- Crowning (Ashley Boalch)
Miss District of Columbia Class of 2011:

* ASHLEY BOALCH -- 2011 Miss District of Columbia

* Perianne Boring
* Maria-Teresa Grinneby
* Sarah Hillware
* Helen Hua
* Haely Jardas
* Giovanna Jean-Baptiste
* LeMia Jenkins
* Alexa Kuhn
* Echoe Malone
* Chelsea Partridge
* Mary...
2011_DC_Pageant_7Post_1107101572011 Miss District of Columbia Pageant (7 of 7) -- Post-Crowning Photos
2011_DC_Party_Animals37DC -- Public Art: Party Animals
Including party Animals at the Swiss Embassy and the DC Convention Center.
2011_DC_Patterson5DC -- Dupont Circle -- Patterson House
2011_DC_Paygov_11110932DC -- Pay.Gov Agency Forum
JoDee DeVillier and Mike MacKay -- Welcome, Team Introduction, and Forum Overview
??? -- The State of pay.gov: Where we are today, Product Road Map, and TCS
Lisa Conroy -- Pay.gov PCI Compliance
Mike Norman -- Pay.gov and GWA
Joe Harwood -- Pay.gov Credit Card Services
Stanley Frye -- Pay.gov and...
2011_DC_PCartoons_110413169Natl Archives -- Stephen Hess and Sandy Northrop ("American Political Cartoons")
American Political Cartoons: The Evolution of a National Identity 1754–2010
From Benjamin Franklin’s drawing in 1754 to contemporary cartoons, editorial cartoons have always been a part of American journalism and politics, despite the discomfort of the cartoons’ targets—and to the delight of their...
2011_DC_Peace_Corps_11031762Natl Archives -- Panel -- Early Years of the Peace Corps
The Early Years of the Peace Corps:
On March 1, 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed the Executive order that created the Peace Corps. Since then, more than 200,000 Americans have served as Peace Corps volunteers in 139 countries around the world. In commemoration of the agency’s 50th anniversary, we...
2011_DC_Penn_Qtr14DC -- Penn Quarter neighborhood
2011_DC_Perry_11071418Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Talk: Claire Perry ("Great American Experiment")
The Great American Experiment:
The Great American Hall of Wonders exhibition curator Claire Perry discusses the idea of the United States as a “great experiment” and how inventive energies in art, science, and technology shaped the nation during the 19th century. Exploring 19th-century citizens’ belief...
2011_DC_Petraeus_11031842Newseum & National Journal -- A Conversation with General David Petraeus
The National Journal and the Newseum invite you and a guest to
A Conversation with General David Petraeus
Journalist and author Michael O'Hanlon, recently returned from Afghanistan, will interview General Petraeus.
Welcoming remarks were provided by Major Garrett, Congressional Correspondent,...
2011_DC_Peyton_11101283Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Elizabeth Peyton (Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture)
Elizabeth Peyton uses rich, gem-like colors and masterful graphic precision to create visually arresting portraits of fellow artists, friends, and cultural icons. She is widely recognized for bringing new dimensions to figurative painting in the 1990s and is among the most celebrated painters of her...
2011_DC_Picoult_11032284Sixth & I -- Jodi Picoult ("Sing You Home") w/Ellen Wilber and Ron Charles
Of all the hot-button issues Jodi Picoult has explored in her bestselling novels, probably none is more divisive and emotional than the one at the heart of her new book, Sing You Home, about a same-sex couple and their attempts to have a child.
Zoe is a music therapist who spent years trying to get...
2011_DC_Portrait_11021637American University -- Eisenhower portrait unveiling
The university unveiled a Karsh portrait of Eisenhower. The unveiling was done by:
* Louis W. Goodman, Dean, School of International Service, American University
* Jack Rasmussen, Director and Curator of the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center.
2011_DC_POYI_Ceremony_11042986Newseum -- Special -- Pictures of the Year 68th Reception and Ceremony
You and a guest are invited to join the Newseum and Pictures of the Year International in celebrating the opening of the Pictures of the Year exhibition.
Guests are invited to tour the new exhibit and visit with winning photographers.
2011_DC_POYi_MP_11042014Newseum -- Members' Preview -- "Pictures of the Year" 68th annual exhibit
"Pictures of the Year" Member Preview:
Newseum members are invited to see "Pictures of the Year" before the exhibit opens to the public on April 22.
The Pictures of the Year Exhibit at the Newseum will feature the best photojournalism of 2010, including print and digital images reflecting the...
2011_DC_PProse22DC -- Chevy Chase -- Politics & Prose (Main Store @ 5015 Connecticut Ave NW)
Including the Christmas window display as well as the new owners Bradley Graham and Lissa Muscatine and the new print-on-demand machine.
2011_DC_Prakash_110618119Politics & Prose -- Snigdha Prakash ("All The Justice Money Can Buy")
Snigdha Prakash - All The Justice Money Can Buy:
The investigative journalist goes behind the scenes of a high-stakes trial, shadowing a top trial lawyer as he takes on one of the nation’s most respected drug companies. Building on Prakash’s NPR reports on Merck’s painkiller, Vioxx.
The speaker was...
2011_DC_PresFD_110219120Reynolds Center -- Family Day -- Presidential Family Fun Day (2011)
The National Portrait Gallery and American Art Museum celebrate our nation’s presidents with a day full of craft activities, performances, and scavenger hunts. Make a "Happy Presidents' Day Card" to send to the White House, or dress up as a future President and get your official portrait taken. You can...
2011_DC_Pride_Festival_11061253DC -- Capital Pride Festival (2011)
2011_DC_PrintMakers_11111663Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Panel -- Washington Printmakers
Joann Moser, senior curator, moderates a discussion among artists Linn Meyers, Michael Platt, Lou Stovall, and Andrea Way, all of whom are featured in Multiplicity. The artists will talk about their printmaking techniques and the influence the art scene in D.C. has had on their work.
2011_DC_PStory_11042649Newseum -- Reel Journalism: "Philadelphia Story" (w/Andrea Mitchell and Alan Greenspan)
Reel Journalism: The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Guests: : Andrea Mitchell and Alan Greenspan
"The Philadelphia Story" stars Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant as Philadelphia socialites Tracy Lord and C.K. Dexter Haven who divorce two years after their impetuous marriage. When Tracy prepares to marry a...
2011_DC_Pyramid_11120876Natl Archives -- Panel -- Food Pyramid and Government Dietary Guidelines (w/Jose Andres, Michele Norris, Robert Post, Margo Wootan)
America Eats Series: The Food Pyramid and Government Dietary Guidelines:
As part of our America Eats series, join us this evening for an illustrated discussion on the history and future of USDA dietary recommendations, how they have changed over the years, and featuring historical images and food...
2011_DC_Quake_11082318DC -- Quake
People milling around after the quake hit. I was at a Meritalk innovation conference whose title this year was, appropriately, "Shake It Up."
2011_DC_Rasmussen_11011577Politics & Prose -- Daniel Rasmussen ("American Uprising")
Daniel Rasmussen - American Uprising:
The largest slave rebellion in American history took place in New Orleans in January 1811. Of 500 armed slaves, more than 100 were killed by federal troops and French planters, after which news of the incident was suppressed. Rasmussen’s extensive research into the...
2011_DC_Reagan_11012564Politics & Prose -- Ron Reagan ("My Father At 100")
Ron Reagan - My Father At 100:
Were he still alive, President Reagan would turn 100 on February 6, 2011. To mark the centennial, his son, a political commentator for MSNBC and host of his own radio show, has written an intimate memoir about the father he knew—and the one he didn’t. This moving...
2011_DC_ReformationDC16DC -- Capitol Hill -- Lutheran Church of the Reformation (212 E Capitol St., NE)
2011_DC_Rehm_11040943Newseum -- Inside Media w/Diane Rehm ("Life with Maxie")
Diane Rehm, host of WAMU’s long-running “The Diane Rehm Show,” talks about her new book “Life With Maxie,” which takes an inside look at her life through the story of her Chihuahua, Maxie.
The legendary radio host will also discuss her career and issues of the day.
Rehm is a native Washingtonian who...
2011_DC_Reisman_11070764Politics & Prose -- Bob Riesman ("I Feel So Good")
Bob Riesman - I Feel So Good:
Riesman’s life of Big Bill Broonzy (1903–1958) encompasses the bluesman’s many pivotal roles. From melding the traditional, rural blues of his native Arkansas Delta region with the urban sound in 1930s Chicago, to influencing the resurgence of folk music after World War II...
2011_DC_RestoreA43DC -- Lamont Bishop Gallery -- RESTORE: Japan -- Artwork
As the waters recede on the coasts of Japan the DC art community joins together to provide relief for all those who have lost everything in one of the most devastating natural disasters in the history of man.
On Thursday, March 31st, 2011, ReadysetDC and Curating for a Cause team up to host RESTORE:...
2011_DC_RestoreO_11033184DC -- Lamont Bishop Gallery -- RESTORE: Japan -- Opening
As the waters recede on the coasts of Japan the DC art community joins together to provide relief for all those who have lost everything in one of the most devastating natural disasters in the history of man.
On Thursday, March 31st, 2011, ReadysetDC and Curating for a Cause team up to host RESTORE:...
2011_DC_Roberts_11032393Sixth & I -- Cokie & Steve Roberts ("Our Haggadah: Uniting Traditions for Interfaith Families")
Cokie & Steve Roberts: Our Haggadah: Uniting Traditions for Interfaith Families:
When Cokie and Steve Roberts met in college, they believed their different traditions—she is Catholic, he is Jewish—would prevent them from getting married. Forty-five years later, they have learned not only to respect and...
2011_DC_Rockman_11011239Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Artist Talk: Alexis Rockman (Art and Science Lecture Series)
Art and Science Lecture Series: Alexis Rockman:
In conjunction with the exhibition Alexis Rockman: A Fable for Tomorrow, the American Art Museum presents a lecture series that places the science of climate change within a cultural context. The series invites leading environmental scientists to discuss...
2011_DC_Rock_Creek_Cem483DC -- Rock Creek Cemetery
This page includes pictures of the gorgeous James Marshall Barnett memorial which was stolen in March 2011 and apparently melted down for its bronze. I find it hard to underestimate how horrible some people are.
Periodically, I use a site called http://www.findagrave.com to find who's buried at a...
2011_DC_Rock_Creek_Pk3DC -- Rock Creek Park
Fall color from the Duke Ellington Bridge.
2011_DC_Roper_11030219Natl Archives -- Robert Roper ("Now the Drum of War")
Now the Drum of War: Walt Whitman and his Brothers in the Civil War:
Join us today as educator and author Robert Roper discusses his book Now the Drum of War, which chronicles the experiences of the Whitman family through their wartime letters. The story covers their lives on the home front, military...
2011_DC_RRB3DC -- Federal Triangle -- Ronald Reagan Building (Exterior Images)
2011_DC_Russell_SOB2DC -- Capitol Hill -- Russell Senate Office Bldg
2011_DC_SAAW_11063018Natl Archives -- Academy Award "2011 Student Academy Award Winners" (introduced by Willie Waffle)
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, in partnership with The Charles Guggenheim Center for the Documentary Film and the Foundation for the National Archives, presents the Gold Medal winners of the 2011 Student Academy Awards®. Established in 1972, the Student Academy Awards support and...
2011_DC_Sawyer_11041940Newseum -- Reel Journalism: "China Syndrome" (w/Diane Sawyer)
Reel Journalism: The China Syndrome (1979)
Guest: : Diane Sawyer
"The China Syndrome" stars Jane Fonda as human-interest TV reporter Kimberly Wells who, with her camera man (Michael Douglas), witnesses a near disaster at a nuclear power plant. When she tries to pursue the story, she is stopped by...
2011_DC_Schieffer_11030774Newseum -- Members' Night -- Bob Schieffer
Members' Night with Special Guest Bob Schieffer:
As a special thank you for your support, we'd like to welcome you to the Newseum for a special Members' Night on Monday, March 7. Press Pass members are invited to an exclusive reception and program with special guest Bob Schieffer, CBS News’ chief...
2011_DC_SEME_11120814DC -- Secure Enterprise Mobility Expo (2011)
Keynote speakers featured:
* "Partnering Against Cyber Threats" -- Shawn Henry, Executive Assistant Director, Criminal, Cyber, Response and Services Branch, Federal Bureau of Investigation
* "Advances in Network Based Security" -- Dr. Edward Amoroso, Senior Vice President and Chief Security...
2011_DC_SFBales_11101353Renwick Gallery -- Talk: Susan Ford Bates ("A Firsthand Experience with...")
A Firsthand Experience with Susan Ford Bales:
Ever wonder what it would be like to hold your senior prom in the East Room of the White House? Susan Ford Bales, daughter of former President and Mrs. Ford, shares memories of this and other special events during an afternoon of reflections on life in the...
2011_DC_Sfirri_110123114Renwick Gallery -- Talk: Mark Sfirri
Artist Talk with Mark Sfirri:
Wood artist and 2009 James Renwick Alliance distinguished educator Mark Sfirri, whose work is on view in A Revolution in Wood, explains his passion for wood turning and the artistic process. Join Sfirri as he discusses his body of work and current projects.
2011_DC_Shaw36DC -- Shaw neighborhood
2011_DC_Sheridan14DC -- Sheridan-Kalorama neighborhood
2011_DC_Sheridan_Statue10DC -- Philip Sheridan Statue
2011_DC_Shockey_11030843Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Talk: Hugh Shockey (Washington Resigning His Commission: A History of Damage and Repair)
Washington Resigning His Commission: A History of Damage and Repair:
Take a look into the conservation of Ferdinand Pettrich’s 1841 larger-than-life statue of George Washington with conservator Hugh Shockey. See actual conservation records, hear about an ongoing problem with the sculpture, and learn...
2011_DC_Showalter_11012743Politics & Prose -- Elaine Showalter ("The Vintage Book Of American Women Writers")
Elaine Showalter - The Vintage Book Of American Women Writers:
Showalter introduced readers to dozens of heretofore overlooked literary figures in A Jury of her Peers, her comprehensive study of women writers. Now she has edited a rich selection of poetry and fiction by American women from Anne...
2011_DC_Showalter_11022651Sixth & I -- Michael Showalter ("Mr. Funny Pants")
Michael Showalter, the writer and star of The State, Wet Hot American Summer, The Baxter, and Michael & Michael Have Issues, combines funny anecdotes, stories, jokes, observations, and graphic elements in his first book, Mr. Funny Pants.
Full of Showalter's odd charm, Mr. Funny Pants journeys into the...
2011_DC_SIAfri2DC -- Natl Museum of African Art -- Not Covered Elsewhere
2011_DC_SIAfri_Tishman93DC -- Natl Museum of African Art -- Exhibit: Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection Highlights
2011_DC_SIAH_91167DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: September 11: Remembrance and Reflection
September 11: Remembrance and Reflection
September 3-11, 2011
11am to 3pm

To commemorate the tenth anniversary of September 11, the National Museum of American History is providing visitors with a close-up view of more than 50 objects recovered from the three sites attacked that fateful day—New...
2011_DC_SIAH_Int3DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Miscellaneous Interior Shots
2011_DC_SIAH_Money87DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: Stories on Money
2011_DC_SIAH_PopCult24DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: Pop Culture
2011_DC_SIAIB35DC -- Arts and Industries Bldg
2011_DC_SIAIR_Art5085DC -- Natl Air and Space Museum -- Temporary Exhibit: NASA / Art: 50 Years of Exploration (in Gallery 211)
NASA / ART: 50 Years of Exploration
May 28, 2011 – October 10, 2011
Commissioned by the NASA Art Program, 72 works ranging from the illustrative to the abstract communicate the accomplishments, setbacks, and sheer excitement of space exploration over the past five decades. The selected works span the...
2011_DC_SIAIR_Gall110A27DC -- Natl Air and Space Museum -- Gallery 110: (a) Looking at Earth
2011_DC_SIAIR_Gall114A1DC -- Natl Air and Space Museum -- Gallery 114: (a) Space Race
2011_DC_SIAIR_Gall213A1DC -- Natl Air and Space Museum -- Gallery 213: (a) Time and Navigation
2011_DC_SIFG56DC -- Freer Gallery of Art -- Not Covered Elsewhere
2011_DC_SIFG_Peacock20DC -- Freer Gallery of Art -- Exhibit: Peacock Room
2011_DC_Signs7DC -- Temporary Signs
There was a whacko religious group that prophesied that the earth would end on May 21. Whoops... Afterward, they claimed there were false prophets and the actual demise of the earth would be on, oh, let's say October 21 instead. You have to wonder about folks like this.

From their site at...
2011_DC_SINH_Bldg2DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History
2011_DC_SINH_Gems29DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History -- Exhibit: Geology, Gems, and Minerals
2011_DC_SINH_Miners10DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History -- Exhibit: Against All Odds: Rescue at the Chilean Mine
Against All Odds: Rescue at the Chilean Mine
August 5, 2011 – September 30, 2012
During the autumn of 2010, the world watched as rescuers in Chile ferried 33 miners to safety after nearly two months trapped in a collapsed mine. One of the capsules used for testing the rescue shaft, new video footage,...
2011_DC_SINH_Mummies52DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History -- Exhibit: Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt (Mummies)
2011_DC_SINH_Orchids78DC -- Smithsonian Gardens & USBG -- Orchids: A View From The East @ Natural History Museum
Orchids: A View From The East: January 29 - April 24, 2011:
Orchids have been a part of Chinese culture for many centuries, permeating Chinese history, legends, literature, and art. Since ancient times, orchids have been celebrated in China for their beauty and fragrance, and appreciated as symbols of...
2011_DC_SINH_Race63DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History -- Exhibit: Race: Are We So Different?
Race: Are We So Different?
June 18, 2011 – January 8, 2012
This traveling exhibition looks at race and racism in the United States through biological, cultural, and historical points of view and reveals the profound effects of race and racism on everyone's life. It explores the history of the idea of...
2011_DC_SINH_Reef_Art80DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History -- Exhibit: Hyperbolic Chrochet Coral Reef
The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef
October 16, 2010 – April 24, 2011
Endless variations evolving over time—much like life itself. The hyperbolic crochet coral reef has grown from the discovery that cutting-edge hyperbolic geometry could be found in the intricate structures of coral reefs and...
2011_DC_SINZ_Cat35DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Big Cats
All seven of the cubs out in the yard.
2011_DC_SINZ_Holt90DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Science Resource and Collaboration Center (Holt House)
2011_DC_SINZ_Main5DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Parts not covered elsewhere
2011_DC_SINZ_RPanda15DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Red Pandas
2011_DC_SIPG_Big_Lives46DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (Archives of American Art) -- Exhibit: Little Pictures, Big Lives
Little Pictures, Big Lives: Snapshots from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art
July 1, 2011 – October 3, 2011

Some 150 images of celebrated and famous artists offer clues to the intimate side of public personae: to the people and the things they cared about, where they’ve been, what they did,...
2011_DC_SIPG_Bldg17DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center -- Building
Including cracks after the earthquake.
2011_DC_SIPG_Catepillar_11040513Reynolds Center -- Performance -- Dance Rehearsal for Catepillar Tractor event
2011_DC_SIPG_Chicago26DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Exhibit: Made in Chicago: The Koffler Collection
Made in Chicago: The Koffler Collection
August 12, 2011 - January 2, 2012
On view are 26 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper created by Chicago artists, including works by Roger Brown, Leon Golub, Theodore Halkin, Vera Klement, Ellen Lanyon, Jim Nutt, Ed Paschke, Barry Tinsley, and Ray Yoshida....
2011_DC_SIPG_Contemp23DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Galleries for Modern and Contemporary Art
2011_DC_SIPG_Courtyard4DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center -- Kogod Courtyard
2011_DC_SIPG_CW68DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: Civil War
2011_DC_SIPG_CW_15th16DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: Civil War -- Detail: "Fifteenth Amendment"
2011_DC_SIPG_Discord_Ells39DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: Faces of Discord -- Death of Ellsworth
150th Commemoration of the Civil War: The Death of Ellsworth
April 29, 2011 – March 18, 2012
On the site of a former Civil War hospital, the National Portrait Gallery marks the 150th anniversary of the war through a series of four alcove exhibitions—one each year—commemorating this period of American...
2011_DC_SIPG_Folk32DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Exhibit: Folk Art
2011_DC_SIPG_Jobs1DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: In Memoriam: Steve Jobs, 1955-2011
Steve Jobs Portrait
October 12, 2011 – March 1, 2012
A portrait of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs (1955-2011) by photographer Diana Walker is on view.
2011_DC_SIPG_Multi40DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Exhibit: Multiplicity
Multiplicity:
November 11, 2011 – March 11, 2012

Multiplicity features 83 works from the museum’s permanent collection by such outstanding contemporary artists as John Baldessari, John Cage, Vija Celmins, Chuck Close, R. Luke DuBois, Sol LeWitt, Brice Marden, Julie Mehretu, Martin Puryear, Susan...
2011_DC_SIPG_Painting78DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center -- Paintings
2011_DC_SIPG_Portrait60DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center -- Portraits
2011_DC_SIPG_Preamble3DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Exhibit: Preamble (by Mike Wilkins)
2011_DC_SIPG_Pres23DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: America's Presidents
2011_DC_SIPG_Recent42DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: Recent Acquisitions (2011)
Recent Acquisitions
November 18, 2011 – November 4, 2012
On view are approximately 40 new works of art acquired by the museum from 2007 to 2011, including caricatures of Beverly Sills and Earl “Fatha” Hines by Al Hirschfeld, photographs of former first ladies Nancy Reagan and Barbara Bush by Diana...
2011_DC_SIPG_Rentals17DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center -- Rentals (usually in Kogod courtyard)
These dancers were preparing for a private event by the Council on Competitiveness.
2011_DC_SIPG_Scholars4DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: 2011 Presidential Scholars in the Arts
2011_DC_SIPG_Sculpture12DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center -- Sculpture
The license plate piece is back!
2011_DC_SIPG_Words8DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (Archives of American Art) -- Exhibit: Words Cannot Express
Words Cannot Express: Death in the Archives
October 31, 2011 – December 31, 2011

Death is perhaps the only certainty in life. For those experiencing the death of a friend, family member, loved one, or an admired figure, words are often inadequate to give voice to the intense emotions involved. When...
2011_DC_SIPM6DC -- Natl Postal Museum -- Not Covered Elsewhere
2011_DC_SIPM_AtoZ182DC -- Natl Postal Museum -- Exhibit (MIA Galleries 6): Alphabetilately: An Alphabet of Philately
Alphabetilately: An Alphabet of Philately
September 26, 2008 – October 12, 2015
Level 1: Mail in America Galleries
This exhibition presents an alphabet of philately through 26 topics, in which each letter stands for some aspect of stamp collecting or the sending of mail. From Advertising Covers to...
2011_DC_SIPM_Moving12DC -- Natl Postal Museum -- Exhibit (MIA Galleries 1): Moving the Mail
2011_DC_SIPM_Negro_Leagues12DC -- Natl Postal Museum -- Exhibit (Case): Negro Leagues Baseball Stamp Art
Negro Leagues Baseball Stamp Art
October 20, 2010 – June 5, 2011
On view is original art produced by Kadir Nelson for the creation of the Negro Leagues Baseball stamps, which pay tribute to the all-black professional baseball leagues that operated from 1920 to approximatley 1960.
2011_DC_SIPM_Owney13DC -- Natl Postal Museum -- Exhibit (Case): Art of the Stamp: Owney the Postal Dog
Art of the Stamp: Owney the Postal Dog
July 20, 2011 – August 5, 2012
Bill Bond's original painting of Owney, created for the Owney commemorative postage stamp, is accompanied by 6 sketches of Owney in various poses that Bond created as he developed his final portrait. As background for his stamp art,...
2011_DC_SIPM_Tour_1111197Natl Postal Museum -- Event: Public Tour
2011_DC_SIRG_Holiday_11120363Renwick Gallery -- Family Day -- Holiday Festival (2011)
Renwick Holiday Festival:
Celebrate the holiday season in presidential fashion! Go on a scavenger hunt through Something of Splendor: Decorative Arts from the White House, where you might spot Grace Coolidge, Dolly Madison, and Teddy Roosevelt; then join us for a family day filled with music, crafts,...
2011_DC_Sixth_I20DC -- Chinatown -- Sixth & I Historic Synagogue (600 I St NW)
2011_DC_Sixth_Rye40Sixth & I -- Sixth and Rye truck
DC's First Kosher Deli on Wheels:
Pairing the aroma of smoked corned beef and the distinct crunch of a salty pickle, the Sixth & Rye food truck is here to satisfy DC's long-standing craving for old-fashioned kosher deli cuisine.
Sixth & Rye is made possible in part by a grant from The Natan Fund,...
2011_DC_Sixth_Wall125Sixth & I -- Wall of Fame
2011_DC_Smith_11030827Capitol Hill History Project -- Kathryn Schneider Smith ("Washington at Home")
On Tuesday, March 8, Kathryn Schneider Smith will present an Overbeck History Lecture based on the completely updated second edition of her book Washington at Home: An Illustrated History of Neighborhoods in the Nation's Capital.
Using Capitol Hill as a starting point, Smith will explore how DC became...
2011_DC_Smokin_1103297DC -- Smoke from the Franklin Towers building
There was a fire that popped up while I was reviewing the cherry blossoms. This is from WAMU's web site:

Fire Breaks Out In Franklin Towers In D.C.
Greg Peppers

March 29, 2011 - In the District, fire officials are trying to determine what caused Tuesday morning's fire at the Franklin Towers...
2011_DC_SMPA7DC -- GWU -- School of Media & Public Affairs
2011_DC_Solar162DC -- Mall -- Event: Solar Decathlon (2011)
2011_DC_Sorley_11101242Natl Archives -- Lewis Sorley ("Westmoreland")
Westmoreland: Military historian Lewis Sorley discusses how General William Westmoreland, commander of the 101st Airborne Division and Superintendent of West Point, was chosen to lead the war effort in Vietnam—and why this selection turned out to be a disaster for the American military. A book signing...
2011_DC_So_Called_111221121Sixth & I and SpeakeasyDC -- My So-Called Jewish Life (2011)
My So-Called Jewish Life:
Sixth & I and SpeakeasyDC present the third annual night of funny, poignant, powerful, and peculiar autobiographical stories about all things Jewish, not-so-Jewish, and wanna-be Jewish on the second night of Chanukah.

Storytellers:
(1) HOST -- Amy Saidman, SpeakeasyDC’s...
2011_DC_Spies_11020850Natl Archives & International Spy Museum -- Panel -- Spies and Conspiracies
Spies and Conspiracies: Espionage in the Civil War:
During the Civil War both sides conducted intelligence operations to give their side an advantage. Despite the often disorderly nature of these efforts, there were successes, including the use of Union codes to protect communications, and both sides...
2011_DC_Spousonomics_11040314Politics & Prose -- Paula Szuchman & Jenny Anderson ("Spousonomics")
Paula Szuchman & Jenny Anderson - Spousonomics:
Applying economic theory to marital relations, the authors examine marriage in terms of loss- aversion, division of labor, information asymmetry, and the like to help couples resolve the daily trials of togetherness. Letting theory play out in case...
2011_DC_SSHP_11121352Smithsonian -- Smithsonian Staff Holiday Party (2011) @ Reynolds Center
Smithsonian chiefs that I saw at this event included: Lonnie Bunch (National Museum of African American History and Culture), Bob Lamb (FONZ), Wayne Clough (head of the Smithsonian), Christian Samper (National Museum of Natural History), Dennis Kelly (National Zoo)
2011_DC_Stanford_WAG39DC -- Woodley Park -- Stanford in Washington Art Gallery (2661 Conn Ave NW)
Insight and Identity : Contemporary Artists and Gertrude Stein
October 25, 2011 through March 18, 2012 (exhibition extended)
The Stanford in Washington Art Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Insight and Identity: Contemporary Artists and Gertrude Stein. The exhibition was developed to...
2011_DC_Starr_11102946Politics & Prose -- Paul Starr ("Remedy And Reaction")
Paul Starr - Remedy And Reaction:
Why is America’s health-care system so difficult to reform? In his history of recent health-care battles, Starr offers both an insider’s perspective, drawing on his experience as a senior advisor on health care policy to President Clinton, as well as that of a...
2011_DC_Stead31DC -- Dupont Circle -- Stead Playground
2011_DC_Stewart_11081550Politics & Prose -- Rory Stewart ("Can Intervention Work?")
Rory Stewart - Can Intervention Work?:
Combining first-hand experience in Afghanistan, Iraq, the Balkans, and other regions with a survey of philosophies that have informed state-building, Stewart, author of The Places in Between and King of the Marshes, and co-author Gerald Knaus, founding chairman of...
2011_DC_Stewart_11120641Natl Archives -- David O. Stewart ("American Emperor")
American Emperor: Aaron Burr’s Challenge to Jefferson’s America:
David O. Stewart discusses Aaron Burr in his book, American Emperor. With his political career in tatters following his indictment for Alexander Hamilton’s murder, Burr plotted an insurrection and invasion of the Spanish colonies of...
2011_DC_Still_Live_Here_11032543DC Env Film Festival (2011) -- "We Still Live Here" (w/Anne Makepeace and Judi Urquhart) @ Carnegie Inst
Washington D.C. Premiere
WE STILL LIVE HERE: AS NUTAYUNEAN
Directed by: Anne Makepeace
Presented with: National Geographic All Roads
WE STILL LIVE HERE: AS NUTAYUNEAN (USA, 2010, 56 min.)
Washington, D.C. Premiere A remarkable story of cultural revival by the Wampanoag of southeastern...
2011_DC_STN_111021158Smithsonian Teachers' Night (2011) @ Natl Museum of American Indian
2011_DC_St_Ann40DC -- AU Park -- Saint Ann Catholic Church (4001 Yuma St. NW)
2011_DC_Supreme_Ct14DC -- Supreme Court Building -- Exterior
2011_DC_Takoma31DC -- Takoma neighborhood
2011_DC_Talasek_11020930Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Talk: J.D. Talasek (Art and Science Lecture Series)
Art and Science Lecture Series: J.D. Talasek:
In conjunction with the exhibition Alexis Rockman: A Fable for Tomorrow, the American Art Museum presents a lecture series that places the science of climate change within a cultural context. The series invites leading environmental scientists to discuss...
2011_DC_Tanner_11012171Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Talk: Brian Baade & Amber Kerr-Allison ("Painting Techniques of Henry Ossawa Tanner")
Painting Techniques of Henry Ossawa Tanner:
Conservators Amber Kerr-Allison and Brian Baade present findings of their recent study and analysis of six of Tanner’s works in the permanent collection, including the newly conserved Flight into Egypt. Learn how Tanner’s documented painting recipe, preserved...
2011_DC_Teddy_IslandV8DC -- GW Memorial Parkway -- Theodore Roosevelt Island Park -- View from
2011_DC_Teddy_Island16DC -- GW Memorial Parkway -- Theodore Roosevelt Island Park
2011_DC_Telework_11101859DC -- Telework Exchange Town Hall Meeting (Fall 2011)
Fall 2011 Telework Exchange Town Hall Meeting:
Telework Exchange will host its semi-annual Town Hall Meeting on October 18, 2011 at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, DC. Consisting of two tracks, the event will address both technology requirements and management needs for putting telework...
2011_DC_Tenleytown41DC -- Tenleytown neighborhood
2011_DC_Tenley_Lib4DC -- AU Park -- Tenley Friendship Neighborhood Library (4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW)
2011_DC_Ten_11060796Sixth & I -- Nathan Englander ("The Ten") w/David Segal
THE TEN is an innovative take on Shavuot, the holiday traditionally celebrated by studying Torah and enjoying the first fruits of the harvest.

The high-energy, entertainment-rich, and thought-provoking evening features Nathan Englander, one of The New Yorker's “20 Writers for the 21st Century,”...
2011_DC_Ten_YearsO_11090841DC -- Edison Place Gallery -- Opening: Ten Years After 9/11
The 9/11 Arts Project
August 23 - September 30
"Ten Years After 9/11" is an exhibition commemorating the tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001, featuring the work of 39 international artists. Co-curators Helen Frederick and William Dunlap recruited the artists, not specific artwork, which allows...
2011_DC_Ten_Years57DC -- Edison Place Gallery -- Exhibit: Ten Years After 9/11
The 9/11 Arts Project
August 23 - September 30
"Ten Years After 9/11" is an exhibition commemorating the tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001, featuring the work of 39 international artists. Co-curators Helen Frederick and William Dunlap recruited the artists, not specific artwork, which allows...
2011_DC_Their_Stories_11031097Natl Archives -- Panel -- Their Stories, Their Voices (w/John Amos)
Their Stories, Their Voices: African American WWII Veterans Who Served on Iwo Jima:
Actor John Amos recently sat down for a conversation with six African American veterans who served America during World War II. The resulting short documentary acknowledges and pays tribute to all African American...
2011_DC_Tibetan_Market15DC -- Tibetan Market by the Reynolds Center
This was set up near the Verizon Center for participants in the Dalai Lama weeklong event.
2011_DC_Tidal6DC -- Tidal Basin
Including a wedding party getting their photos taken during the Cherry Blossom period.
2011_DC_Titone_11031820Natl Archives -- Nora Titone ("My Thoughts Be Bloody")
My Thoughts be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth that Led to an American Tragedy:
Historian Nora Titone discusses her book My Thoughts be Bloody, which chronicles the rivalry between the Booth brothers Edwin and John Wilkes in their efforts to claim their father's legacy on...
2011_DC_Toomey_11091067Newseum -- Inside Media w/Jim Toomey (Cartoonists Remember 9/11)
Inside Media: Cartoonists Remember 9/11: Jim Toomey
To mark the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, more than 90 artists from the major comic syndicates will dedicate their Sunday strips on Sept. 11, 2011, to those who lost their lives in the attacks.
Jim Toomey, one of the...
2011_DC_Tories_11010529International Spy Museum -- Thomas Allen ("Tories: Fighting for King")
Tories: Fighting for the King in America's First Civil War
Not simply a struggle between independence-minded colonists and the oppressive British, the American Revolution was also a savage and often deeply personal civil war. Conflicting visions of America pitted neighbor against neighbor and Patriot...
2011_DC_Toynbee17DC -- Public Art: Stikman Robots
These little stick human things keep showing up around town. (Officially, they are called a "Stikman".) I can't find any of the original Toynbee tiles anymore but the modern successors are popular.
2011_DC_TPC83DC -- The Phillips Collection
2011_DC_TPC_Migration7DC -- The Phillips Collection -- Exhibit: Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series
2011_DC_Trails_Brightwood1DC Heritage Trails: Battleground to Community: Brightwood Heritage Trail
2011_DC_Trails_Tenleytown12DC Heritage Trails: Top of the Town: Tenleytown Heritage Trail
2011_DC_Tudor_Place41DC -- Tudor Place
2011_DC_Tunstall_11041342Sixth & I -- Concert -- KT Tunstall with Robert Francis and Miggs
KT Tunstall, with Robert Francis and Miggs
On the heels of her latest release, Tiger Suit, Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall continues to wow audiences all over the world. Anyone who caught her stellar performance at 9:30 Club last year will attest: Tunstall brings one of the best live shows in...
2011_DC_Turner_1109288Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Author Talk: Robert Turner ("Jefferson-Hemings Controversy")
Robert F. Turner, editor and Scholars Commission chairman, discusses and signs copies of The Jefferson-Hemings Controversy: Report of the Scholars Commission. In 2000, the newly formed Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society asked a group of more than a dozen senior scholars from across the country to...
2011_DC_Union_Columbus3DC -- Union Station -- Columbus Fountain
2011_DC_Union_StationCC_111010189DC -- Union Station -- Event: Columbus Day Ceremony
Civil Ceremony
Sponsored by
National Columbus Celebration Association
in cooperation with the
US Department of the Interior
National Park Service
National Mall & Memorial Parks

Monday, October 10, 2011
Columbus Plaza -- Union Station

* Music Prelude -- "The President's Own" US Marine...
2011_DC_Union_StationI11DC -- Union Station (Interior)
2011_DC_Union_StationX13DC -- Union Station -- Exhibit: Christmas Display
Because of the scaffolding and such, they gave up on the traditional Christmas tree this year and also shrunk the train set down to maybe one-fifth of its normal size.
2011_DC_United_Way13DC -- Edison Place Gallery -- Exhibit: United Way Photo Contest
United Way Photo Contest
January 5-14, 2011
Nearly 100 photographs by employees of Pepco Holdings, Inc. are on display through Jan. 14. The works are entries in PHI's 2010 United Way Photo Contest. PHI's Corporate Communications Group started the annual contest in 2007 as a United Way fundraiser.
PHI...
2011_DC_USCHS_11050567USCHS -- Annual Symposium 2011 "Emancipation During the Civil War" -- Keynote: Gary Gallagher
U.S. Capitol Historical Society presents: Emancipation during the Civil War. Eighth in the series. The National Capital in a Nation Divided: Congress and the District of Columbia Confront Sectionalism and Slavery.
Opening Keynote: Dr. Gary W. Gallagher the, John L. Nau III Professor in the History of...
2011_DC_Used2BUs_11090849Politics & Prose @ Sixth & I Historic Synagogue -- Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum ("That Used To Be Us")
Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum:
America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them. In That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back, Friedman and Mandelbaum analyze those...
2011_DC_U_Street13DC -- U Street Heritage neighborhood
2011_DC_Vega_111119100Sixth & I -- Concert -- Suzanne Vega
Suzanne Vega:
Widely regarded as one of the most brilliant songwriters of her generation, Vega emerged as a leading figure of the folk-music revival of the early 1980s after getting her start playing neofolk songs in Greenwich Village clubs.
Since the release of her self-titled, critically acclaimed...
2011_DC_Verizon5DC -- Penn Qtr -- Verizon Center
Outside the center for the Dalai Lama week-long event.
2011_DC_Waller_11021367Politics & Prose -- Douglas Waller ("Wild Bill Donovan")
Douglas Waller - Wild Bill Donovan:
Called “Wild Bill” for his battlefield bravado in World War I, Donovan led the Office of Strategic Services during the Second World War, introducing covert methods of warfare that became the stuff of spy legends. Separating the man from the myths, Waller, author of A...
2011_DC_WCCanal6DC -- Mall -- Lockkeepers House (Washington City Canal House)
2011_DC_WCCVw55DC -- Washington Convention Center -- Views from...
2011_DC_WCC9DC -- Washington Convention Center
2011_DC_WCC_Art86DC -- Washington Convention Center -- Art
2011_DC_WHCD_110430509DC -- White House Correspondent's Dinner (2011)
Folks here include Sean Penn, Ryan Kwanten, Russell Simmons, Eric Stonestreet, George Stephanopoulos, Bob Schieffer, Chris Wallace, Tom Toles, Jonathan Capehart, Chris Colfer, Andy Samberg, Bristol Palin, Newt Gingrich, Elizabeth Banks, Michael Stipe, Carolyn Maloney, Mila Kunis, John Huntsman, Paul...
2011_DC_WHNPA_Opening_11071245DC -- Edison Place Gallery -- Opening: Eyes of History (WHNPA 2011 Exhibit)
The Pepco Edison Place Gallery Features White House News Photographers Association’s 2011 Exhibit
“Eyes of History,” the White House News Photographers Association’s 2011 Exhibit, featuring award winning photographs will be on display at Pepco’s Edison Place Gallery July 12 through August 12. An...
2011_DC_WHomer_11020768Natl Archives -- Peter Wood ("Near Andersonville, Winslow Homer's Civil War")
Near Andersonville, Winslow Homer's Civil War: American painter Winslow Homer rose to national attention during the Civil War, but one of his most important early paintings, “Near Andersonville,” remained unknown for a century. In this illustrated lecture, author Peter Wood reveals the long-hidden story...
2011_DC_Willard49DC -- Penn Qtr -- Willard InterContinental Washington (1401 Penn Ave NW)
2011_DC_Willman_11111225Newseum -- Inside Media w/David Willman (Anthrax Attacks on America)
Inside Media: The Anthrax Attacks on America
Guest: David Willman
The mailings of anthrax in 2001 triggered one of the largest and most complicated investigations in the annals of American law enforcement.
The letters targeted two U.S. senators, a network news anchor and others in the media. Five...
2011_DC_Wilson_11031858DC Env Film Festival (2011) -- E.O. Wilson @ Natl Museum of Natural History
Lecture by E.O. Wilson, Biologist, Naturalist, Writer, Professor and Environmentalist
One of the world’s greatest biologists, E.O. Wilson has won two Pulitzer Prizes for his pioneering books, “The Ants” and “On Human Nature.” Professor emeritus and honorary curator in entomology at Harvard University,...
2011_DC_Wilson_11111020Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Eldredge Prize: Kristina Wilson ("MoMA and the Art of the Exhibition: 1924-1934")
Join Kristina Wilson, associate professor of art history at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts and winner of the museum's 2011 Charles C. Eldredge Prize for distinguished scholarship, for a discussion on her book The Modern Eye: Stieglitz, MoMA, and the Art of the Exhibition, 1925-1934 (Yale...
2011_DC_Wilson_House138DC -- Sheridan-Kalorama -- Woodrow Wilson House (2340 S St NW)
2011_DC_Wilson_House_AWRF10DC -- Sheridan-Kalorama -- Woodrow Wilson House -- Exhibit: American Women Rebuild France
American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Thursday, May 05, 2011
The exhibition American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924 is now open at Woodrow Wilson House where it will be on view until September 18th.

This exhibition, organized by the Franco-American Museum, Chateau de Blerancourt, France,...
2011_DC_Wolfe_11101965Newseum -- Special -- "Wolfe!" reading (w/Tom Wolfe, Rene and Judith Auberjonois)
Special Program: WOLFE! The Electric Kool-Aid Ice-Cream-Suited Right Stuff Man-in Full-On-the-Beat
Guests: Tom Wolfe, Rene Auberjonois and Judith Auberjonois
Join author Tom Wolfe, actor Rene Auberjonois and playwright Judith Auberjonois for a reception, conversation and a premiering excerpt from the...
2011_DC_Woodies15DC -- Penn Qtr -- Woodies Bldg (1025 F St NW) incl Forever 21
2011_DC_Woodley15DC -- Woodley Park neighborhood
2011_DC_Wood_11051827Natl Archives -- Gordon Wood ("Idea of America") w/Jay Winik
The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States:
More than almost any other nation in the world, the United States began as an idea. Tonight, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Gordon S. Wood reveals how the revolutionary generation, despite living in a distant, sparsely populated...
2011_DC_Worldviews_11100668Sixth & I -- Deepak Chopra and Leonard Mlodinow ("In War of the Worldviews") w/Tim Shriver
Deepak Chopra and Leonard Mlodinow:
In War of the Worldviews: Science vs. Spirituality, the two bestselling authors debate the most fundamental questions of human existence.
How did the universe begin? Where did life come from? Is there design in nature?
Without defending organized religion, Chopra...
2011_DC_WPC_Dedication_11021184DC -- Willard Hotel -- Washington Peace Conference -- Dedication ceremony
After lunch, conference participants met outside for the dedication of a 150th anniversary commemorative plaque which will be placed on the facade of The Willard Hotel beneath the plaque erected by the Civil War Centennial Commission of 1961. The plaque is an elongated bronze bar (38" x 18") denoting...
2011_DC_WPC_Misc_110211117DC -- Willard Hotel -- Washington Peace Conference -- Miscellaneous
This page contains all images except those of the presentation itself or of the dedication ceremony outside. This page therefore includes random audience shots, conversation shots, posed shots, etc.

This sesquicentennial symposium, "The Peace Conference at 150: A Call to Compromise," examines the...
2011_DC_WPC_Speakers_110211126DC -- Willard Hotel -- Washington Peace Conference -- Speakers
Speakers in sequence:
* Kim B. Holien, Professional Military Historian, Master of Ceremonies
* James Veil, Willard InterContinental Hotel, Welcoming Remarks
* Professor James I. (Bud) Robertson, Jr., a leading expert in Civil War history and Executive Director for Civil War Studies at Virginia...
2011_DC_WRAMC52DC -- Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Pictures of the chapel. It closes the week after the medical museum does.
2011_DC_Writing37_11041881Nixon Legacy Forum & Natl Archives – Writing For 37
Join us for a historic reunion of former White House speechwriters for a freewheeling discussion about how they helped craft and communicate the message and vision of America’s 37th President.
Richard Nixon assembled one of the most brilliant and colorful collection of speechwriters and wordsmiths in...
2011_DC_WWII11DC -- World War II Memorial
2011_DC_WWilsonHS16DC -- Tenleytown -- Woodrow Wilson High School
2011_DC_WWI5DC -- District of Columbia World War I Memorial
Being reconditioned.
2011_DC_Yockelson_11051162Natl Archives -- Mitch Yockelson ("MacArthur: America's General")
MacArthur: America’s General:
When Douglas MacArthur addressed Congress in 1951, he was the most popular man in America after having served his country in a military career that spanned 52 years and service in three major wars. Archivist Mitch Yockelson takes a fresh look at the fascinating and...
2011_DC_Zoo_LightsGB57DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Zoo Lights (2011) -- Gingerbread house competition and trains
This year's theme was the Kid's Farm, which State Farm Insurance had donated $1.4 million to the Zoo to keep open.
2011_DC_Zoo_Lights87DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Zoo Lights (2011)
2011_DE_Brandywine_Pk17DE -- Wilmington -- Brandywine Park
2011_DE_Dino_Days40DE -- Wilmington -- Dino Days artwork
Wilmington Renaissance Corporation announced today that Wilmington's Downtown Dino Days will unveil Wednesday, May 1, 2002 at noon in front of the Delaware College of Art & Design at 600 N. Market Street.  Downtown Dino Days is a public art project, presented by DuPont in partnership with the Office of...
2011_DE_Riverfront_W87DE -- Wilmington -- Riverfront Wilmington
2011_GA_6thCav_Mus29GA -- Fort Oglethorpe -- Sixth Cavalry Museum
2011_GA_Cathedral_St_John64GA -- Savannah -- Cathedral of St. John the Baptist
Including pictures inside.
2011_GA_Chick_Demo15GA -- Chickamauga Natl Military Park -- Infantry demo
2011_GA_Chick_Other282GA -- Chickamauga Natl Military Park -- Other items
2011_GA_Chick_State58GA -- Chickamauga Natl Military Park -- State monuments
2011_GA_Chick_VC159GA -- Chickamauga Natl Military Park -- Visitor Center
2011_GA_Colonial_Pk57GA -- Savannah -- Colonial Park Cemetery
2011_GA_CWT_Board_11030456CWT Color Bearer Thank You Weekend (2011) in Savannah, GA -- Board meeting
2011_GA_CWT_ChickA_11091793CWT Grand Review (2011) in Chattanooga, TN -- Chickamauga tour
Most of the pictures were of the tour group conducted by William Glenn Robertson.
2011_GA_CWT_Ft_McAllister_11030563CWT Color Bearer Thank You Weekend (2011) in Savannah, GA -- Tour Group: Fort McAllister
2011_GA_CWT_Ft_PulaskiAD_11030531CWT Color Bearer Thank You Weekend (2011) in Savannah, GA -- Tour Group: Fort Pulaski -- Artillery Demo
2011_GA_CWT_Ft_Pulaski_11030537CWT Color Bearer Thank You Weekend (2011) in Savannah, GA -- Tour Group: Fort Pulaski
2011_GA_CWT_Group_11035CWT Color Bearer Thank You Weekend (2011) in Savannah, GA -- Miscellaneous shots
2011_GA_CWT_OFt_JacksonAD_11030518CWT Color Bearer Thank You Weekend (2011) in Savannah, GA -- Tour Group: Old Fort Jackson -- Artillery Demo
2011_GA_CWT_OFt_Jackson_11030539CWT Color Bearer Thank You Weekend (2011) in Savannah, GA -- Tour Group: Old Fort Jackson
2011_GA_CWT_Plaque_110304123CWT Color Bearer Thank You Weekend (2011) in Savannah, GA -- Plaque dedication
2011_GA_CWT_Reception_11030448CWT Color Bearer Thank You Weekend (2011) in Savannah, GA -- Tour group: Opening Reception
2011_GA_CWT_Resaca_11091862CWT Grand Review (2011) in Chattanooga, TN -- Resaca Tour
Charlie Crawford was the group leader for this tour.
2011_GA_CWT_Shaws_11030545CWT Color Bearer Thank You Weekend (2011) in Savannah, GA -- Tour Group: Shaw's Dam
2011_GA_CWT_Slaves_11030633CWT Color Bearer Thank You Weekend (2011) in Savannah, GA -- Tour Group: Slave sites
2011_GA_Forsyth59GA -- Savannah -- Forsyth Park
2011_GA_Ft_James_Jackson8GA -- Savannah -- Fort James Jackson
2011_GA_Ft_McAllister132GA -- Fort McAllister State Historic Park
Including another artillery demo.
2011_GA_Ft_Pulaski203GA -- Fort Pulaski Natl Monument
I flew into Savannah the day before the Civil War Trust conference. The weather was sunny (albeit windy). The group would visit the fort on Saturday but rain was predicted and it would certainly be overcast so I decided to strike out early and get sunny photographs.
2011_GA_HiltonVw48GA -- Savannah -- Hilton DeSota -- Views from...
I went up to the 15th floor and took these.
2011_GA_Hilton_DeSoto7GA -- Savannah -- Hilton DeSoto hotel
2011_GA_Old_Ft_Jackson72GA -- Savannah -- Old Fort Jackson
2011_GA_ResacaCC19GA -- Resaca -- Confederate Cemetery
2011_GA_Resaca45GA -- Resaca
2011_GA_Savannah_City_Hall20GA -- Savannah -- City Hall
The Savannah City Hall building is beautiful. It ended up in my sites on three separate days.
2011_GA_Savannah_Historic258GA -- Savannah -- Historic District
I wandered through the city taking pictures over a four-day period. Often, the pictures were of the same places with but some were taken in the sun, others in the shade, and others at night. I'll consolidate them later.
2011_GA_Savannah_Movie17GA -- Savannah -- Filming of "Savannah"
They were filming a movie called "Savannah" while we were there. I didn't know about it but I ran into the bright lights while I was wandering off to photograph Forsyth Park. I waited an hour without seeing a darn thing and finally gave up. I'm told I missed seeing Sam Shepherd but I didn't lose...
2011_GA_Savannah_River104GA -- Savannah -- River Street area
I wandered through the city taking pictures over a four-day period. I made it to the river three times.
2011_GA_Savannah_Squares137GA -- Savannah -- Squares
The squares within Savannah are certainly the most fun to photograph. Whether it's a statue or an area where Forrest Gump was photographed waiting on his park bench (which I'm told is now in a museum and is now a tulip bed) or just trees and flowers, all of the squares have their own beauty. I...
2011_GA_Shaws_Dam15GA -- Savannah -- Shaw's Dam
2011_GA_Telfair_Academy18GA -- Savannah -- Telfair Museum -- Telfair Academy
I was a bit disappointed that no photography was allowed in any of the Telfair-associated sites. I enjoyed the Academy's older artworks more than the modern Jepson gallery across the street. I guess the Academy's main claim to fame is the statue that was featured in "Midnight in the Garden of Good and...
2011_GA_Telfair_Jepson8GA -- Savannah -- Telfair Museum -- Jepson Center
The only place you were allowed to photograph in Jepson was in the main atrium.
2011_GA_Telfair_OTH19GA -- Savannah -- Telfair Museum -- Owens-Thomas House
2011_MD_AFI21MD -- Silver Spring -- AFI Silver Theatre
Various lobby exhibits, staff shots, etc.
2011_MD_Annapolis24MD -- Annapolis
2011_MD_Annapolis_CapBJDK3MD -- Annapolis -- State Capitol -- Baron Johann de Kalb Statue
2011_MD_Annapolis_CapI36MD -- Annapolis -- State Capitol -- Interior Images
2011_MD_Annapolis_CapRT2MD -- Annapolis -- State Capitol -- Roger B. Taney Sculpture
2011_MD_Annapolis_CapTMM12MD -- Annapolis -- State Capitol -- Thurgood Marshall Memorial
2011_MD_Annapolis_Cap17MD -- Annapolis -- State Capitol -- Exterior Images
2011_MD_AntietamNC28MD -- Antietam National Cemetery
2011_MD_AntietamVC31MD -- Antietam Natl Battlefield -- Visitor Center
2011_MD_Antietam_Lower2MD -- Antietam Natl Battlefield -- Lower Bridge (Burnside Bridge/Flank Attack)
2011_MD_Antietam_Newcomer12MD -- Antietam Natl Battlefield -- Newcomer Farm
2011_MD_Antietam_Upper40MD -- Antietam Natl Battlefield -- Upper Bridge (Woods, Cornfield, Dunker Church, Mumma)
2011_MD_APA_11050457US Census Bureau -- Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month Celebration
The Census Bureau Announces its 2011 Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Celebration
The Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Committee of the Census Bureau is pleased to announce the Bureau’s commemorative events, and activities, for Asian Pacific American (APA) Heritage Month, celebrated in the...
2011_MD_Bag_It_11041737AFI -- "Bag It" (w/Heather White and Bag Monster)
BAG IT
Special appearance by the Bag Monster!
Introduction by Heather White, Environmental Working Group
This highly entertaining and eye-opening documentary follows everyman Jeb Berrier as he navigates today's plastic-reliant world. Jeb is not a radical environmentalist, but an average American who...
2011_MD_Bala_111007151AFI -- Latin American Film Festival (2011) -- "Miss Bala" (w/Gerardo Naranjo)
Closing Night: MISS BALA (Mexico)
In Person: filmmaker Gerardo Naranjo
Gerardo Naranjo's riveting thriller about a Baja California beauty queen caught up in a maddening cycle of drug cartel violence is the AFI alum's most impressive, innovative and unforgettable film yet. Newcomer Stephanie Sigman...
2011_MD_Baltimore5MD -- Baltimore
2011_MD_Baltimore_Art2MD -- Baltimore -- Public Art (except murals)
2011_MD_Baltimore_NYE_11123146MD -- Baltimore -- New Year's Eve (2011/2012) -- Except fireworks
Baltimore's New Years Eve Spectacular
Ring in 2012 alongside family and friends with live music by the 8 Ohms Band and a dazzling fireworks display at Baltimore's New Year's Eve Spectacular!
At the stroke of midnight, the skies over the Inner Harbor will explode with the region's largest fireworks...
2011_MD_Baltimore_NYE_FW_11123171MD -- Baltimore -- New Year's Eve (2011/2012) -- Fireworks
Baltimore's New Years Eve Spectacular
Ring in 2012 alongside family and friends with live music by the 8 Ohms Band and a dazzling fireworks display at Baltimore's New Year's Eve Spectacular!
At the stroke of midnight, the skies over the Inner Harbor will explode with the region's largest fireworks...
2011_MD_BCCA147Baltimore Comic-Con (2011) -- Artists
Artists photographed on Saturday (in sequence):
Nelson Marehalau, Jesse Cowan, Mark Wheatley, Jerry Carr, Neil Vokes, Bob McLeod, John K Snyder III, Don Rosa, Billy Tucci, Jeff Smith, Stan Sakai, David Finch, Antonio Romero, Keith Murphey, ???, Greg Horn, John Workman, Cliff Chiang, JM DeMatteis, Kevin...
2011_MD_BCCCC_Groups_11082083Baltimore Comic-Con (2011) -- Costume Contest (3 of 7) Initial Judging -- Groups
Third Annual Costume Contest.
2011_MD_BCCCC_Kids_110820124Baltimore Comic-Con (2011) -- Costume Contest (2 of 7) Initial Judging -- 13 and under
Third Annual Costume Contest.
2011_MD_BCCCC_Men_110820108Baltimore Comic-Con (2011) -- Costume Contest (5 of 7) Initial Judging -- Adult Males
Third Annual Costume Contest.
2011_MD_BCCCC_Prep_110820121Baltimore Comic-Con (2011) -- Costume Contest (1 of 7) Preparation and Audience
Third Annual Costume Contest.
2011_MD_BCCCC_Term_11082052Baltimore Comic-Con (2011) -- Costume Contest (7 of 7) -- Brooklyn Terminator
Third Annual Costume Contest.

I thought this was a really cool outfit! The 300 hours of work involved in creating this outfit are described on Peter Kosis' site at http://www.BrooklynTerminator.com
2011_MD_BCCCC_Winners_11082035Baltimore Comic-Con (2011) -- Costume Contest (6 of 7) Final Judging
Baltimore Comic-Con Announces Costume Contest Winners

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND - August 24, 2011 - The Baltimore Comic-Con is happy to announce the winners of the 3rd annual Costume Contest. The contest took place this past Saturday, August 20, 2011and saw a myriad of incredible and creative costumes....
2011_MD_BCCCC_Women_11082063Baltimore Comic-Con (2011) -- Costume Contest (4 of 7) Initial Judging -- Adult Females
Third Annual Costume Contest.
2011_MD_BCCP1_1108202Baltimore Comic-Con (2011) -- Panel: Creating Your Comic/Manga from Concept to Publication
Creating Your Comic/Manga from Concept to Publication – Husband and wife creators (and Harvey Award Nominees) Comfort Love and Adam Withers teach you how to create your own comic. The entire process – concepting, scripting, thumbnails, pencils, color, PDF’s and CBZ’s, printing, distribution, the web,...
2011_MD_BCCP1_11082110Baltimore Comic-Con (2011) -- Panel: Comics Jukebox: All-Ages Comics in the Digital Age
Comics Jukebox: All-Ages Comics in the Digital Age – Digital, web, & downloadable comics are a growing trend in the medium, but where do kids comics stand in this arena? Creators John Gallagher and Steve Conley moderate over a panel of experts, including Dan Parent (Archie), Steve Hamaker (Bone, Fish &...
2011_MD_BCCP2_11082027Baltimore Comic-Con (2011) -- Panel: Visionary Enters the Deadlands
Visionary Enters the Deadlands – Join Visionary Comics and their all-star roster of creators who launched Deadlands from Image this summer. Join Ron Marz, David Gallaher, Steve Ellis, Jimmy Palmiotti, Lee Moder, and Visionary’s own C. Edward Sellner as they reflect on the weird west revival in comics...
2011_MD_BCCP2_11082113Baltimore Comic-Con (2011) -- Panel: Insight Studios
Insight Studios – Meet Baltimore’s very own legendary creators of some of comic-dom’s most explosive stories and art with this amazing retrospective – and new announcements of projects! Focusing on Marc Hempel, Robert Tinnell, and Mark Wheatley, get an insider’s perspective on their inner-workings as...
2011_MD_BCCP3_1108202Baltimore Comic-Con (2011) -- Panel: Spotlight on Keith Giffen, J.M. DeMatteis & Kevin Maguire
Spotlight on Keith Giffen, J.M. DeMatteis & Kevin Maguire – Giffen, DeMatteis, and Maguire are the fan-favorite creative team behind Defenders, Metal Men, and Justice League. With stories that blend adventure and humor, their books are like no other. Join the men who put the "Bwah" in "Bwah-ha-ha" as...
2011_MD_BCCP3_1108216Baltimore Comic-Con (2011) -- Panel: Spotlight on Ron Frenz
Spotlight on Ron Frenz – Ron Frenz’s art is well known to fans of Spider-Man, Thor, Spider-Girl (whom he co-created), Superman, and many, many others. We shine the spotlight on Ron in this panel that takes a look at his impressive body of work and where he’s headed in the future.
His partner on the...
2011_MD_BCCP4_11082014Baltimore Comic-Con (2011) -- Panel: Top Cow: We Create
Top Cow: We Create… – Join Top Cow Publisher Filip Sablik along with Top Cow architect Ron Marz and Echoes writer Joshua Hale Fialkov for a colorful & lively look at the last year of Top Cow releases and what the coming year has in store for Artifacts, Pilot Season, Witchblade, The Darkness, Magdalena...
2011_MD_BCCP4_11082139Baltimore Comic-Con (2011) -- Panel: Frank Cho Live Drawing Demonstration
Frank Cho Live Drawing Demonstration – Watch and be amazed as Frank Cho creates a drawing masterpiece right before your eyes. Audience will suggest one character, one action, one setting and Frank Cho will draw it in one hour on stage. The original art created by Frank Cho will be raffled off at the end...
2011_MD_BCCP5_1108206Baltimore Comic-Con (2011) -- Panel: BOOM! 6th Anniversary panel
BOOM! 6th Anniversary panel – Join BOOM! Studios Founder and Chief Executive Officer Ross Richie as he pulls the curtain back on BOOM! Studios. From an upstart one-book-a-month publisher debuting in 2005 to 2011′s powerhouse comic publisher, BOOM! Studios has had one of the most meteoric rises of any...
2011_MD_BCCP5_11082117Baltimore Comic-Con (2011) -- Panel: Going Digital: Day and Date, and what you need to know
Going Digital: Day and Date, and what you need to know – With Marvel announcing their same-day-strategy and DC distributing their entire line starting August 31st to provide you with their acclaimed line of comics the same day digitally as they come out in print, you need to make sure you are prepared....
2011_MD_BCCP6_11082010Baltimore Comic-Con (2011) -- Panel: Spotlight on Charles Vess
Spotlight on Charles Vess – The work of award-winning artist Charles Vess can be seen in such books as Sandman, Stardust, Rose, Book of Ballads and Sagas, and many others. Join Charles and moderator Terry Moore as they look at his art, his career, and what he’s working on now.
2011_MD_BCCP6_1108217Baltimore Comic-Con (2011) -- Panel: CBLDF: Censorship Then & Now
CBLDF: Censorship Then & Now – Earlier this year the Comics Code Authority closed its doors forever, ending an era of self-censorship where comics were stigmatized in the general culture. Though the threats that brought about the Comics Code are the stuff of history books, real threats to comics are...
2011_MD_BCCP7_1108208Baltimore Comic-Con (2011) -- Panel: A Conversation with Jeff Smith & Stan Sakai
A Conversation with Jeff Smith & Stan Sakai – Jeff Smith’s Bone celebrates its 20th Anniversary this year. Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo will soon reach its 200th issue. Now, these two talented creators sit down to discuss their work; from their beginnings to future plans. Join Jeff & Stan for what is sure...
2011_MD_BCCP7_11082127Baltimore Comic-Con (2011) -- Panel: Stan Lee Spotlight
Stan Lee Spotlight – Face Front, True Believers! This is a panel no comics fan will want to miss as Jimmy Palmiotti sits down with the one and only Stan “The Man” Lee! He is a Founding Father of the Marvel Universe and the face of Marvel Comics to legions of fans. Join the writer, editor, actor, and...
2011_MD_BCCP8_11082017Baltimore Comic-Con (2011) -- Panel: Marvel Universe
Marvel Universe – Wondering what’s up with the X-Men? Thinking of visiting Spider Island? Curious about the future of Daredevil? Just plain want to know what’s up with the Marvel Universe? Then this is the place for you! Join Marvel Architect Jason Aaron, Mark Waid, Barry Kitson, Paul Tobin, and Tom...
2011_MD_BCCP8_1108217Baltimore Comic-Con (2011) -- Panel: Avatar Press: News and Q&A
Avatar Press: News and Q&A – Here’s your chance to meet the creative minds behind Avatar Press, the industry’s most ground-breaking, risk-taking publisher! Hosted by marketing director, Keith Davidsen, this panel features Mike Wolfer, whose creepy storytelling terrified readers of books like Night of...
2011_MD_BCC106Baltimore Comic-Con (2011) -- Miscellaneous
2011_MD_BCC_Harvey1_110820116Baltimore Comic-Con (2011) -- Harvey Awards: Pre-Ceremony Reception and Dinner
Lots of folks here:
(Reception) Stan Lee, Franco Aureliani, Art Baltazar, Stan Sakai, Terry Moore, Jeff Smith, Walt and Louise Simonson, Barry Kitson, Michael Golden, and Jim Starlin.
(Dinner) Jose Villarrubia, Dean Haspiel, Andy Runton, Mark Waid, Stan Lee, Paul Storrie, Barry Kitson, Bryan J.L....
2011_MD_BCC_Harvey2_110820151Baltimore Comic-Con (2011) -- Harvey Awards: Ceremony and Afterwards
2011 Presenters:
Welcoming Remarks: Paul McSpadden
Emcee: Scott Kurtz
Presenter: Bryan J.L. Glass --
* Best Letterer: John Workman, THOR, Marvel Comics -- accepted by John Workman
* Best Colorist: Jose Villarrubia, CUBA : MY REVOLUTION, Vertigo/DC Comics -- accepted by Jose...
2011_MD_Beats_11062118AFI Silverdocs 2011 -- "Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest" (w/Michael Rapaport and Phife Dawg)
BEATS, RHYMES & LIFE: THE TRAVELS OF A TRIBE CALLED QUEST: Michael Rapaport 2010
Acclaimed actor Michael Rapaport goes behind the camera to document the inner workings and behind-the-scenes drama of one of the most innovative and influential hip-hop bands of all time, A Tribe Called Quest. For twenty...
2011_MD_Being_Elmo_11062155AFI Silverdocs 2011 -- "Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey" (w/Kevin Clash)
BEING ELMO: A PUPPETEER'S JOURNEY: Constance Marks 2011
Elmo is an instantly recognizable icon that brings joy to people all over the globe on “Sesame Street,” but who is the man behind the lovable red puppet? This inspiring film tells the story of Baltimore native Kevin Clash, who dreamed of being a...
2011_MD_Better_11062316AFI Silverdocs 2011 -- "Better This World"
BETTER THIS WORLD: Kelly Duane de la Vega, Katie Galloway 2011
When childhood friends David McKay and Bradley Crowder make Molotov cocktails at the 2008 Republican Convention under the tutelage of their charismatic leader, Brandon Darby, a dramatic story unfolds, with multiple domestic terrorism...
2011_MD_Between_Us_11062230AFI Silverdocs 2011 -- "Shorts Program: Between Us"
SHORTS PROGRAM: BETWEEN US

BLUE RINSE | Matt Leigh 2010
FOR MARIA | Tora Mårtens 2010
MINKA | Davina Pardo 2011
NIGHT AT THE DANCE | Annie Silverstein 2011
STILL HERE | Alex Camilleri 2010
MOTHERSBANE | Jason Jakaitis 2010
OH MY GOD, DEAR GOD | Julia Poplawska 2010

BLUE RINSE: Matt...
2011_MD_Big_Uneasy_11031594AFI -- DC LaborFest (2011) -- Film: "The Big Uneasy" (w/Harry Shearer and Maria Garzino)
THE BIG UNEASY
In Person: director Harry Shearer and Maria Garzino, whistleblowing engineer/2009 Public Servant of the Year!
Five years ago, a disaster struck New Orleans. In this feature-length documentary, humorist and New Orleans resident Harry Shearer gets the inside story from the people who were...
2011_MD_Blackmail_11032749AFI -- Silent Cinema -- "Blackmail" (w/Alloy Orchestra)
BLACKMAIL (Silent Version)
Live Musical Accompaniment by Alloy Orchestra!
Originally made and released in 1929 as a silent film, BLACKMAIL was partly reshot and released that same year as the first British talkie. The enormous success of the sound version and the passing of the silent film era...
2011_MD_Bladensburg11MD -- Bladensburg
2011_MD_Bladensburg_WPark53MD -- Bladensburg -- Waterfront Park
2011_MD_Blad_MonXRoads4MD -- Bladensburg -- Monument Crossroads (Alt US 1 and 450)
2011_MD_Boonwee_1103197DC Env Film Festival (2011) -- "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives" @ AFI
UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES [Loong Boonmee raleuk chat]
Washington, DC, Premiere
Winner of the Palme d'Or, 2010 Cannes Film Festival
Suffering from acute kidney failure, Uncle Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside. Surprisingly,...
2011_MD_Brookside97MD -- Wheaton -- Brookside Gardens
2011_MD_Buck_11062135AFI Silverdocs 2011 -- "Buck"
BUCK: Cindy Meehl 2010
Cindy Meehl’s lyrical film BUCK profiles the real-life inspiration for the bestselling book and hit film THE HORSE WHISPERER, Buck Brannaman. Based on his own harrowing experiences while growing up, Buck’s remarkable rapport with animals helps fix “horses with people problems.” A...
2011_MD_Bully82AFI Silverdocs 2011 -- "Bully Project" (w/Lee Hirsch) (two sessions)
THE BULLY PROJECT: Lee Hirsch 2011
Director Lee Hirsch tackles the timely topic of bullying in this sensitive examination of an urgent crisis in American society. The film follows five students and their families over the course of one school year as their lives are affected in different ways by...

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