Music listings
18th Street Lounge
Blues Alley
Bohemian Caverns
Twins Jazz Club
HR-57 Center for the Preservation of Jazz
and Blues
Half Moon Bar-B-Que
Takoma Station
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here are you going to stay?
My favorite hotels and such are:
- Carlyle Suites Hotel
I love the Carlyle - The rooms are big, the place is friendly, and the rates are great. The corner suites are the best with nice windows. Art deco decor in Dupont Circle neighborhood - close to subway and nightlife.
- Adams Inn
1744 Lanier Place NW, Washington, DC 20009
Phone: 202 745-3600/toll free 800 578-6807/ Fax: 202 319-7958
Email: adamsinn@adamsinn.com
The Adams Inn has dorm and regular rooms. They are located on one of the streets where I used to live in Adams Morgan.
- Kalorama Guest House
1854 Mintwood Pl Nw, Washington, DC
(202) 667-6369
This is closer to the subway and in a slightly more upscale block but it is more expensive.
- Swann House
1808 New Hampshire Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20009
tel. (202) 265-4414 fax (202) 265-6755
- Hotel Harrington
Eleventh & E Streets, N.W. Washington DC 20004 -4389
Tel. 1-800-424-8532 202-628-8140
Email: reservations@hotel-harrington.com
If you want cheap and downtown you got it!
- Tabard Inn
1739 N St. NW
Hands down winner for location, odd charm and interesting staff.
- Madison Hotel
15th & M Streets NW, Washington, DC 20005
The Madison is the place I would stay if I had buckets of money to spend.
Neighborhoods
Mt. Pleasant
No mountain and sometimes not so pleasant but it was my home for several years. I love the in-town funky birky-shod politicos mixed with salvadron/dominican family life. The new, about five year old, park at the old trolley turn-around was designed by Hester Nelson who grew up in Adams Morgan. When I first moved to Mt. Pleasent the neighborhood was full of strip clubs and men with hats, high heeled boots and fur coats. We lived next door from a basement stirp club that was so scary that I never set foot inside. At night the street would be lined with hispanics kids on one side and black kids on the opposite sidewalk who would pitch empty beer bottles at each other.
Adams Morgan was my home for many years. Here's what the Washingtonian has to say about my hood. Here is another page devoted to Madam's Organ. Comet Liqours was the spot for coffee and Bagel in the morning and Beer and Chips in the evening. Here is a great picture of 18th street with the Cafe Lautrec mural but the eatin' and drinkin' spot I will miss the most is Cafe Riche with the legendary Bennie at the helm ( I once saw Bennie chase a man down 18th street waving a 5 foot 2x4 and shouting in french at him becuase the man had insulted his cooking and I have sat outside at a little table, drinking bottle after bottle of wine, nibbling little dishes that Bennie would appear with and discussing the state of the world - 18th street and beyond - until the sun came up and the beat cops came out) .
Read an interesting article on Dupont Circle as urban gay city space. I first encountered Dupont Circle as a thirteen year old run away. At that time there was a runaway house on the corner of 18th and Riggs Street, listed in the white pages as Rigg's National Bunk. Later I sold Washington Free Press papers on the circle and braided leather strips into necklaces for love beads. During the demonstrations against the war in Vietnam Dupont Circle was the site of massive arrests for blocking of traffic. The corridor between the Circle and Greorgetown down P Street, past P street beach, was a daily march for a whole crew of barefoot long-hairs. The chess tables and weekend morning drum sessions are a long standing tradition. The circle has always been a magnet! now it is centerpoint and heart of DC's guy neighborhood and the courier crowd afternoon gathering spot. This page is awfull pretty and I love his wish list.
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The Potomac, Canal and Cabin John
The Billy Goat trail was a great middle of the night adventure. At the top of the trail is a set of rocks that overlook the Potomac River and the Madira School. This is a very romantic place to watch the sun come up. The trail starts right off the C&O canal.
C&O Canal:
- Chesapeake & Ohio Canal & Towpath
- Potomac Conservancy C&O Canal Page
- Kathy Bilton's C&O Canal Page
- C&O Canal Association
If you follow the canal, over the city line into Maryland, you come to Glen Echo Park. The park is another special spot in this town. It was at the end of the trolley line that went from Georgetown out to the wilds of Glen Echo. There was an amusement park at the end of the line. When I was a little girl if I got A's on my report card my father would take me to the park. It was an old fashioned amusement park when I was a little girl and now it is a true relic. It has been in disrepair and a state of gentle and not-so-gentle decline for years. It was the object of anti-segregaton protests in the sixties and I remember when the park opened its doors to all of Washington after they built an amazing swimming pool that kids from all over the city where bused to once a week during the summertime.
When I was in high school my friend Heidi run away with a potter to live in a commune in Maine/New Hampsire. She met this potter fellow at Glen Echo Park. Then it had become a hippy-dippy artist residence complete with yurts and annual folk festivals. They still have the old ballroom, shooting galleries, bumper car house, and a working pristine merry-go-round. When I lived in Cabin John I used to hang out and eat bowls of chili at Trav's.
In-town sweet spots
A nice afternoon picnic spot? My two picks for a picnic are the graveyard by Dumbarton Oaks and the Meridian Hill Park. My favorite graveyard isn't listed here but they have my second favorite one. D.C. is a great town for walking. The mall, Dupont Circle and Georgetown are all within a brisk twenty minute stroll from each other. Additionally, Rock Creek Park is the largest urban park in the country and in-town trails are numerous.
The Cosmos Club is a stuffed shirt place near Dupont Circle but it has that certain something that has always made me want to have a drink in a big club chair there.
Miscelleny
Miss Metro-Manner's web page,
opps Ms. Metro-Manners. This page has a very usefull blurb on the unwritten rules of the subway system, esp escalator customs - out-of-towners you are warned!
No money, no problem! Check out this list of free stuff to do.
D.C. Online is an emerging web-based linkage service for the District of Columbia.
Other key organizations, spots, and folks in my home town.
Potomac Appalachian Trail Club
National Arboretum
Washington Women Outdoors
Wings Over Washington kite club
Sea Kayaking in the Annapolis/Baltimore/Washington Area
Thompson's Boat Center
Washington D.C. Area Rail Trails
Washington Canoe Club
Oddities DAR Museum
Octagon House
Textile Museum
National Academy of Sciences
Arthur Ashe Library
Washington Historical Society
Walter Reed
Anacostia Museum
View of Washington from the grounds of St. Elizabeth
