by Peggy Robin
Still Life with Robin is posted on the Cleveland Park Listserv and on All Life Is Local on Saturdays.
by Peggy Robin
Still Life with Robin is posted on the Cleveland Park Listserv and on All Life Is Local on Saturdays.
by Peggy Robin
by Peggy Robin
"Thanks to students at Powell Elementary School, the Council moved legislation to designate the Red-Backed Salamander as the official state amphibian of the District of Columbia. As one Powell student testified, if we are going to be a state, we are going to need a state amphibian. I was pleased to join my colleagues in voting for the legislation. The deciding factor for me, and several other Councilmembers, was that the salamanders help to control our mosquito population by eating mosquito larvae."
by Peggy Robin
The popular Takoma Park Street Festival returns for its 43rd year of music, vendors, food and fun in Takoma Park. This year’s festival takes place on Sunday, October 6, 2024 from 10:00 am-5:00 pm on Carroll Avenue in Takoma Park, MD to Carroll Street, NW in Takoma, DC. Festival goers will enjoy the day exploring over 185 vendor booths, live music from 18 local bands, food trucks and more. Takoma’s unique shops, restaurants and cafes are all open and welcoming visitors. Event is rain or shine.
Map: https://maps.app.goo.gl/hv5nXcdxybncXYpt6
by Peggy Robin
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* You know, the white ones with a red pagoda on the sides and thin wire handles that always leaked the sauce all over the inside of the brown paper bag that carried the whole order. Ever forget to remove the wire handle before putting the container in the microwave? That's a mistake you will never make twice!
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by Peggy Robin
by Peggy Robin
by Peggy Robin
Let me be clear: I ❤️ Art All Night. Such a fun way to celebrate the work of artists and artisans of DC in neighborhoods all across the city1.
This year it's on Friday and Saturday nights, September 27th & 28th. This is the 13th year of this event -- long may it flourish!
But what's with the inaccurate name? In what universe is a 10 or 11pm closing time considered "all night"? To any night owl worth a hoot, that's when the party's just getting started! I took a quick look at ten of the neighborhoods hosting an Art All Night event and found that four of them folded at 11pm and another four closed even earlier than that, at 10pm. I saw just two, the DowntownDC Art All Night and the near-downtown Shaw event, that came anywhere close to a reasonable person's definition of "all night" with the closing bell ringing at 3am2.
Like so many of my linguistic crusades3 , this one's quixotic at best, and hopeless at worst. Even so, in my imagination I can see people from all over our great city gathering in front of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, linking arms, chanting with one voice: "10 PM IS NOT ALL NIGHT / GO TILL DAWN & MAKE IT RIGHT!" and "We demand Truth in ART-VERTISING!"
So what do I think would be a more accurate but still snappy title?
How about....?
Art Till the End of the Day
Art in the Dark
Art Under the Stars
Art Till the Clock Strikes 12 (this would entail moving the
closing time of the neighborhood Art All Night events to midnight)
Art DC 6-12 (same for this one)
But perhaps the simplest solution: just lose the "ALL" for a quick, 2-word title, ART NIGHT
Any other bright ideas?
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Endnotes:
(1) Cleveland Park's Art All Night is on Friday, Sept
28 from
5 - 10pm.
(2) Here are ten AAN locations that I checked for times: Anacostia
6-11pm; Cleveland Park 5-10pm; Downtown 7pm - 3am (2 nights); Dupont 6-11pm; Georgetown
6-11pm; Glover Park 5- Midnight; Lower Georgia Ave 3-7pm; (yes, really!); Mount Pleasant 5-10pm; Shaw 7pm – 3am; Tenleytown 7-10pm; U Street 6-11pm
(3) Here are 4 of my past grammatical/linguistic crusades: 1. How to pronounce years beginning in 20 https://alllifeislocal.blogspot.com/2011/12/still-life-with-robin-say-it-with-me.html; 2. Down with D-M-V https://alllifeislocal.blogspot.com/2013/03/still-life-with-robin-down-with-d-m-v.html, 3. Stop typing two spacing after a period https://alllifeislocal.blogspot.com/2024/06/still-life-with-robin-when-one-is-much.html and 4. Against the overuse of ellipsis: https://alllifeislocal.blogspot.com/2021/12/still-life-with-robin-my-war-against.html
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Still Life with Robin is published on the Cleveland Park Listserv and on All Life Is Local on Saturdays.
by Peggy Robin