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Movie could pique interest in 'Great Gatsby' author's Rockville grave
Andy Brownfield
Updated: Wed, May 8, 2013
Peg Warshaw bent to collect coins that had fallen off the grave of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. The 71-year-old New Jersey resident carefully replaced them -- along with a pen, some loose stones and a one-ounce bottle of Seagram's 7 whiskey -- atop "The Great Gatsby" author's headstone....
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Rare JFK artifacts on display at Newseum
April Burbank
Published: Thu, Apr 11, 2013
Visitors to the Newseum will be able to view rarely-seen artifacts from the assassination of President John F. Kennedy starting Friday, including personal items owned by assassin Lee Harvey Oswald and the movie camera used to capture the Zapruder film of the shootings. The museum at 555...
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The 3-Minute Interview: DJ Ben Cohen
Eric P. Newcomer
Published: Thu, Mar 14, 2013
Ben Cohen, 31, has been a DJ for 12 years, and he's lived in the District for the past five. What's it like being a DJ in the District? It's such an international city and the challenges in D.C. come from the diversity of the crowd. You're trying to satisfy the hipster kids over here and the...
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The 3-Minute Interview: John Uselton, co-founder of New Columbia Distillers
Andy Brownfield
Updated: Thu, Mar 7, 2013
The Rickey was made D.C.'s official cocktail in 2011, but at the time, District residents didn't have any local spirits with which to make the drink. That was until 2012, when Uselton and Michael Lowe decided to lease a warehouse in the Northeast Washington neighborhood of Ivy City and start up...
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The 3-Minute Interview: Randy Barrett, president of the DC Bluegrass Union
April Burbank
Updated: Thu, Feb 21, 2013
Barrett is a banjo player and president of the DC Bluegrass Union, which is organizing the Fourth Annual DC Bluegrass Festival in College Park on Friday and Saturday. What do you have planned for the DC Bluegrass Festival? We start with a band contest called the Mid-Atlantic Bluegrass Band...