Cool Shopping
  1. Apartment Zero - furnishings and homewares
  2. Contemporaria - furnishings
  3. Design Within Reach - Georgetown and Bethesda
  4. Good Eye - mid century furnishings and accessories
  5. Home Rule - homewares
  6. Muleh - furnishings
  7. Vastu - furnishings and art
  8. Washington Design Center - to the trade, but open to public at times
Events and classes
  1. Corcoran - fine arts and design
  2. DC Society of Young Professionals - various
  3. First Class - various short courses
  4. l'Academie de Cuisine - cooking
  5. Learning Escapes - various
  6. National Geographic - adventure films and speakers
  7. Single Volunteers of DC - one time vounteer opportunities
  8. Smithsonian classes - from fine arts to smart speakers
  9. Taste DC - wine and food events
  10. Taste of DC - October food festival
  11. WIT - Improv classes and performances
Gyms and Spas
  1. Serenity Day Spa - four locations
  2. Sports Club LA in the Ritz Carlton
  3. Results, The Gym
  4. Washington Sports Club
  5. Gold's Gym
Hip Art Galleries
  1. Adamson Gallery
  2. Conner Contemporary
  3. Flashpoint - gallery, performance space, arts incubator
  4. Fusebox
  5. G Fine Art
  6. Numark Gallery
  7. Transformer
Live music
  1. Birchmere - acoustic, folk and rock
  2. The Black Cat - live music in the heart of U Street
  3. Blues Alley - blues and jazz
  4. Bohemian Caverns - the original DC jazz joint
  5. HR57 - jazz and blues
  6. 9.30 Club - rock and alternative music venue
  7. Republic Gardens - restaurant, bar and live music
  8. Wolf Trap - from opera to rock
Movies - foreign, arthouse and festivals
  1. American Film Institute
  2. DC Film Society
  3. DC Independent Film Festival - March
  4. Filmfest DC - April/May
  5. Jewish Film Festival - December
  6. Landmark Theatres - downtown and Bethesda
  7. Reel Affirmations - October
  8. Underground Film Festival - May
  9. Visions cinema and bar
Publications
  1. Washington Post
  2. Washington Times
  3. Washington Business Journal
  4. Washingtonian Magazine
  5. Georgetowner
  6. Washington City Paper
  7. Washington Blade
Theatre and live arts
  1. Arena Stage Theatre
  2. Ford's Theatre
  3. The Foundry Players
  4. GALA Hispanic Theatre
  5. H Street Playhouse
  6. Kennedy Center
  7. Shakespeare Theatre
  8. Source Theatre
  9. Studio Theatre
  10. Warner Theatre
  11. Woolly Mammoth Theatre
Tourist for the day
  1. Corcoran Gallery
  2. Walking tours of DC and neighborhoods
  3. Smithsonian museums
  4. Folger Shakespeare Library
  5. Philips Collection
  6. The National Mall
  7. National Zoo - FONZ
  8. Library of Congress
  9. National Building Museum - architecture and urban planning
  10. City Museum
Urban Hangouts
  1. Tryst - THE best coffee, comfy couches, free WiFi
  2. Aroma - Stoli in a sixties environment
  3. Atomic, Buffalo , Bedrock, Carpool - hip pool halls
  4. Cake Love and Love Cafe - the sweetest temptations
  5. Kramerbooks - books, bar, restaurant, not in that order
  6. Politics and Prose - the best books
Voting rights and other DC disgraces
  1. 600,000 Americans, 0 votes in Congress
  2. Congress keeps DC underfunded
  3. And so many other local issues