Month: January 2014
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Year of the Horse
The Chinese calendar is a lunar calendar and so Chinese New Year falls on a different day every year (calling it Chinese New Year is actually inaccurate as many Asian cultures celebrate the Lunar New Year). This is the Year of the Horse, which is supposed to be a year of high energy. Different parts…
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Sips & Suppers 2014
We attended one of the Sips & Suppers that were hosted last night. Sips & Suppers benefits Martha’s Table and D.C. Central Kitchen. Chefs from across the country (and sometimes from around the world) cook meals in private homes to benefit the charities. Our dinner was prepared by Scott Drewno of The Source and Peter…
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Snow Day Activities
While the MLK long weekend gave us sunny and even warm (relatively speaking) weather, Tuesday brought us 6 inches of snow. For hardy Midwesterners and New Englanders, this amount might be a mere blip on the winter radar. However, for the mid-Atlantic and for DC in particular, it’s enough to shut down the federal government…
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Movie review: The Desolation of Smaug (Hobbit II)
While I’m a huge J.R.R. Tolkien fan, “The Hobbit” has always been my least favorite of his Lord of the Ring series of books. And I simply could not fathom how anyone could make three movies out of such a short book. I liked but didn’t love the first Hobbit movie (you can read that…