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Good day, DC! Winter Restaurant Week is back with hundreds of eateries showcasing special pre-fixe menus. Also, Planet Word unveils the expansion of its teched-out language gallery this weekend. Best Things to Do This Week and Weekend January 20–January 25 Winter Restaurant Week. Eat discounted bites at local restaurants during DC’s Winter Restaurant Week. Foodies […] The post 23 Things to Do in the DC Area This Week and Weekend first appeared on Washingtonian.

The Green Bay Packers are going to need a backup QB and Justin Fields could be a nice option.

In All Is But Fantasy, the fates of Juliet, Lady Macbeth, Cleopatra and more are given a thrilling twist by US writer, director and singer Whitney White. She talks about untimely deaths – and being left speechless by Judi DenchWhitney White is practically swooning. “I have more respect and love for William Shakespeare than I can honestly communicate,” she says on a video call from Stratford-upon-Avon. When she went to Holy Trinity Church to visit his grave, she says: “I just wept, because the language is so beautiful to me.”White’s first encounter with Shakespeare’s work was in Chicago at high school, where A Midsummer Night’s Dream unleashed her inner “theatre nerd”, she says. “I remember thinking, ‘Shouldn’t all theatre have music and dance and text and fights and be as full as possible?’ Then you grow up and start doing theatre – and we segment the business into musicals and plays.” Continue reading...

Good morning. Sunny and very, very cold today. Wind will make the air feel much more frigid than the nominal high of 29. Cold and calmer overnight, with a low near 16. You can find me on Bluesky, I’m @abeaujon.87 on Signal, and there’s a link to my email address below. This roundup is available […] The post The DC Area Has Made It Through One Year of Trump, the Greenland Thing Somehow Gets Worse, and a Sphere Threatens to Rise Over National Harbor first appeared on Washingtonian.

It’s been almost exactly a year since Andrew Beaujon launched his daily news roundup, “Washingtonian Today.” At the time, he was sensing a shift in the public’s relationship to current events, a pervasive fatigue that was deepening with the approach of the second inauguration of Donald Trump. “Washingtonian Today” was an answer to that: a […] The post This Man Guzzles News So That You Don’t Have To first appeared on Washingtonian.