When we were in San Francisco over the Memorial Day weekend I was asked if I wanted a bag for some cards I purchased at the de Young Museum gift shop. Plastic bags are banned there and stores are required to charge 10 cents for a paper bag. I usually say I don't need one…
Best in Show
Sarah Cross, third from left, emailed a few months ago to ask if I could drop by the 8th annual Skinker DeBaliviere Dog Show the first Tuesday in June. I had covered the event three years ago (see post here), and was flattered to be asked back again. Sarah, who will be a junior at…
Odds and ends
Moonstruck opened the 2013 Movies on the Plaza series beside the Maryland Plaza fountain last Wednesday evening. Frances Thompson, marketing director for Maryland Plaza, who has organized the event for the past three years, lucked out with the weather. Wasn't that the only night it didn't rain, make that pour, last week? y Sponsors of…