Cherry blossom links

[hilarytamar]

The cherry trees have started blooming! Peak bloom for the Tidal Basin is predicted to be April 1-4, but cherry trees of various sorts continue to bloom for at least two weeks both around the Basin and elsewhere in the city.

I'm a fan of the cherry blossoms, so I wrote a post in my journal last year with quite a few links (mainly the history of the trees, an overview of the National Park Service information, maps, and Washington Post coverage). I updated those links today and made another post with some new links, including the Washington Post's audio tour and their latest list of non-touristy places to see the blossoms. Those places often have different bloom dates, so if you miss the trees at the Tidal Basin, you'll have a second chance.

If anybody's got recommendations for other things to include, let me know – I'd love to have them.

three weeks for dreamwidth

[zvi]

I'd love to see this community get some real and vibrant use, so I'd love to see if we can't generate some content for The Dreamwidth Anniversary Fest.

Part of that, however, depends on knowing what people want from this community. I always envisioned it as a place where people could say, "Hey, here is this cool thing happening between Baltimore and Richmond which you might enjoy attending." or, "I'm going to do this cool thing between Baltimore and Richmond, and I'd like company."

I also was hoping we could serve as a hub for local, not cool, but important things; if there's another Metro accident, I'd hope people would either actually check in here or post to say that they'd heard from third parties, that sort of thing.

My definition of cool thing is pretty broad: not just museums and festivals and street fairs and plays, but also a new restaurant, or an amazing class at the library, or a brand new gaming night looking for players, or anything really local and really cool. Is there general interest for that sort of content, or were you thinking of something different when you signed up? How do we encourage one another to post that sort of content here, or link to it here when we post it in our own journals?

Ideas welcome.

Discovering Einstein's God: An Evening with Krista Tippett and Michel Martin

[zvi]

Discovering Einstein's God: An Evening with Krista Tippett and Michel Martin
Live at the Shakespeare Theatre Company's Sidney Harman Hall
7 p.m., Monday, Apr. 5
Tickets

Be part of the discussion when Krista Tippett, host of American Public Media's Speaking of Faith and Michel Martin, host of NPR's Tell Me More, get together for a dialogue about the role of faith in their lives. Krista will talk about her new book, Einstein's God: Conversations About Science and the Human Spirit, which explores the nexus of science and spirituality with leading scientists and physicians.

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Tickets are $33.