Dream Jobs

Dream Jobs: Josh Phelps, World Central Kitchen

Kaylee DuganMay 14, 2019

"Working in a place where you know that everyone has your back, that's important... That's everything."...

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Dream Jobs: Nina O’Neil, Monochrome Collective

Kaylee Dugan and Jeff MartinMarch 28, 2019

"Making connections and building collections, that's what I'm doing."...

ArtDream JobsFeaturedInterviews 019 min read

Dream Jobs: Hannah Oliver Depp, Loyalty Books

Kaylee Dugan and Clarissa VillondoMarch 15, 2019

"Book selling is a strange alchemy."...

BooksDream JobsFeaturedInterviews 128 min read

Dream Jobs + First Look: Suns Cinema

Kaylee Dugan and Nicholas KarlinMarch 13, 2019

"Every night we have to pull off the con."...

Dream JobsFeaturedInterviews 09 min read

Dream Jobs: Caryn Coleman, Nitehawk Cinema

Megan BurnsMarch 5, 2019

A chat with Nitehawk's Director of Programming/Special Projects about how the Future of Film is Female...

Dream JobsFeaturedFilm & TVInterviews 013 min read

Dream Job: Stephanie Monseu, Big Apple Circus Ringleader

Kaylee Dugan and Clarissa VillondoMarch 5, 2019

"We're all experiencing superhuman feats and dreams taking flight and I can stare across the ring and see someone else being transported in the same way I am..."...

Dream JobsFeaturedInterviewsPhotos 113 min read

Dream Job: Linsey Read, Monster Truck Driver

Kaylee Dugan and Clarissa VillondoFebruary 5, 2019

"If I’m going to flip over, I want to be doing something cool."...

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Startups to Start Noticing: Frères Branchiaux

Kaylee DuganNovember 29, 2018

"We started the business because we wanted to buy games and nerf guns."...

Dream JobsStyle & Shopping 17 min read

Inside the Artist Studio: Riley Sheehey

Kaylee Dugan and Armando GallardoNovember 27, 2018

"Drawing more Christmas and Hanukkah stuff has gotten me more excited about the holidays."...

ArtDream JobsFeaturedInterviewsPhotos 415 min read

Dream Jobs: Alexandra Waldman, Universal Standard

Megan BurnsNovember 14, 2018

"There's just no such thing as impossible."...

Dream JobsInterviewsStyle & Shopping 112 min read

Dream Jobs: Robin Thomas, Whitman-Walker

Kaylee Dugan and Jeff MartinOctober 18, 2018

"The job I never really wanted ended up being the best thing that ever happened to me."...

Dream JobsInterviews 019 min read

Dream Jobs: Artechouse

Kaylee Dugan and Jeff MartinOctober 9, 2018

"If that's not art, I don't know what art is."...

ArtDream JobsFeaturedInterviews 017 min read

Dream Jobs: Office of the Chief Medical Examiner

Jenn Tisdale, Nicholas Karlin and Kaylee DuganOctober 3, 2018

"If you visualize the chalk outline around a body, we’re only focused on what’s inside that chalk outline."...

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Dream Jobs: Julie Kent, The Washington Ballet

Kaylee Dugan and Nicholas KarlinSeptember 20, 2018

"I'm really looking forward to the day when The Washington Ballet is the great pride of the city."...

Dream JobsFeaturedPhotosTheatre & Dance 021 min read

Dream Jobs: Sunyatta Amen, Calabash Tea

Kaylee Dugan and Nicholas KarlinSeptember 18, 2018

"I always say to my students, mastery can not be microwaved."...

Dream JobsEat & DrinkFeatured 018 min read

Startups to Start Noticing: Sip City

Kaylee DuganAugust 23, 2018

Maybe you're sick of kombucha....

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16jul10:00 am10:30 pmART TECH Exhibition: Infinite Space by Refik Anadolat ARTECHOUSE10:00 am - 10:30 pm ARTECHOUSE

16jul6:00 pm8:30 pmProfs & Pints: The Worst President Ever?6:00 pm - 8:30 pm Bier Baron Tavern

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Profs and Pints presents: “The Worst President Ever?” with Michael Ross, professor of history at the University of Maryland at College Park.

As talk of impeachment stirs in Washington, it’s worth taking a trip back into history and examining the troubled political career of the first president ever to be impeached by the House of Representatives, Andrew Johnson.

Johnson was deeply insecure, racist, ill mannered, and prone to drink. His political instincts were usually wrong, and he confused stubbornness with strength. Yet in 1864 President Abraham Lincoln, a Republican, picked Johnson, a Democrat, as his running mate in order to demonstrate national unity during a close election and divisive war.

No one thought Johnson would ever be president. Then an assassin intervened and on April 15, 1865, Johnson assumed the presidency at one of the most critical moments in American History. With Robert E. Lee having just surrendered at Appomattox, Washington needed to answer critical questions about the nation’s future: What would happen to the states that had joined the Confederacy? Should there be treason trials for Jefferson Davis and other Confederate leaders? What would freedom look like for the four million former slaves recently liberated from bondage? Some Republicans had confidence that Johnson, who had talked tough about punishing the planter class and redistributing land in the South, was up to the task. But others, like the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass, quickly realized Johnson was the wrong man with the wrong values at the wrong time. “Whatever Andrew Johnson may be, he is no friend of our race,” Douglass remarked bitterly after the two met.

Professor Ross will guide the audience through what happened next: Johnson’s disastrous plan for Reconstruction, his titanic struggles with Republicans in Congress, and his impeachment and trial. After assessing Johnson’s lasting impact on American race relations and the United States Constitution, Ross will put up for debate the question of whether Johnson was the worst president in American History, as some scholars claim. You’ll walk out with important historical perspective. (Advance tickets: $12. Door: $15, save $2 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. Talk starts 30 minutes later. Please give yourself plenty of time to place an order and get settled in.)

Time

(Tuesday) 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Location

Bier Baron Tavern

1523 22nd St NW Washington DC 20037

Cost

Advance tickets: $12. Door: $15, save $2 with a student ID.

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16jul6:00 pm9:00 pmFuture of Relationships Netwalk: The Role of Online to Offline RelationshipsPresented by Netwalking, LLC6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Corps d E'lite

Event Details

You are cordially invited to the Future of Relationship Netwalk on Tuesday, July 16, 2019, at 6 pm. Join local experts as they share insight into the role of online to offline relationships in an experiential setting that combines wellness, engagement, and creativity.

You’ll gain tips on:

Perfecting your online dating profile
Mindset
Networking
Shop local
Inner / Outer Beauty
Dating on a Budget

You will connect with Netwalking Leaders:

Shun Pittman (Beauty Expert, Owner of Corps d’Elite LLC), @theshunpittman, http://www.corpsdelitesalon.com/
Eve Monica (Matchmaker, Dating Coach, Founder of Sip with Socialites), @eve_monica, http://sipwithsocialites.com/
Khadija Jordan (Executive Mindset Coach, Founder of Jordan’s Best), @khadijajordan, www.jordansbest.com
Erika Ettin (Online Dating Coach, Founder of A Little Nudge), @alittlenudge, https://www.alittlenudge.com/
TBD Speaker (Budget Expert)

Event Schedule: We will walk approximately 2 miles at a leisurely pace.

Along the Netwalk you are paired up (walking side by side feel at more at ease with meeting someone new) Netwalkers and repaired during the 3-4 breaks. During these breaks you have an opportunity for photos, storytelling from Netwalking leaders, try new food and/or drink, connect with local storefront businesses (women, veteran and minority-owned), see the city in a new way and meet Netwalkers.

End at a happy hour spot featured in the Happied App. The Netwalks are created for all fitness levels and ADA accessible for a more welcoming environment.

The event will begin inside Corps d’Elite. We start promptly at 6:15 pm.

Description: We will be updating the downtown and Shaw area local businesses participating!

Chaia Tacos – Taco Tuesdays!
Corps d’Elite – Feel beautiful inside and out!

Limited to 30 Netwalkers

For further information on sponsorship tiers and packages, please email us at [email protected] There are limited partnerships available, so don’t delay!

Learn more, netwalkglobal.com.

Time

(Tuesday) 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Location

Corps d E'lite

1015 U St NW Washington, DC 20009

Cost

$22.00

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16jul7:00 pmAmyl and the Sniffers7:00 pm U Street Music Hall

16jul8:45 pm9:45 pmACUÑA ACUNA (ONE-PERSON COMEDY SHOW ABOUT A PERUVIAN'S JOURNEY TO AMERICA)CAPITAL FRINGE FESTIVAL8:45 pm - 9:45 pm Westminster DC

17jul10:00 am10:30 pmART TECH Exhibition: Infinite Space by Refik Anadolat ARTECHOUSE10:00 am - 10:30 pm ARTECHOUSE

17jul6:00 pm8:30 pmProfs & Pints: The Fight to Save Sharks6:00 pm - 8:30 pm Bier Baron Tavern

Event Details

Profs and Pints presents: “The Fight to Save Sharks,” with David Shiffman, marine conservation biologist, environmental policy consultant, and college guest-lecturer.

It’s the perfect talk to gear up for Shark Week. Dive deep into the murky waters of marine conversation—and, specifically, the effort to protect shark species—with marine conservation biologist David Shiffman, an award-winning science communicator who frequently guest-lectures at the University of Maryland and other higher-education institutions.

Sharks and their relatives are in more trouble than most other vertebrate animals on Earth, with nearly one out of species assessed as threatened with extinction on the “Red List” maintained by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Although they were swimming in the oceans before the existence of dinosaurs or trees, and have survived many global mass extinction events, our current day’s unsustainable fishing practices threaten them like never before.

Shiffman, who has worked extensively with sharks, will summarize the latest research showing which sharks are in trouble, why they’re in trouble, and why the loss of sharks is bad for humans. He’ll also introduce you to the world of shark conservation policy, with a focus on the debate between limit-based and target-based policy solutions, which pits advocates of promoting sustainable shark fisheries against those who want to ban all fishing for sharks and all sales of shark products.

This talk will not only highlight Shiffman’s research on shark conservation policy but introduce you to key players in the world of ocean conservation. He’ll also bust myths about sharks and challenge popular ideas about shark conservation, such as the beliefs that banning the shark fin trade will be effective, that sustainable shark fisheries cannot and do not exist, and that ocean plastics are a major threat to sharks. (They are to whales and turtles, but not to sharks.) It will be a talk you can sink your teeth into. Young people under 18 welcome if accompanied by an adult. (Advance tickets: $12. Door: $15, save $2 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. Talk starts 30 minutes later. Please allow yourself plenty of time to place any orders and get settled into place.)

Time

(Wednesday) 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Location

Bier Baron Tavern

1523 22nd St NW Washington DC 20037

Cost

Advance tickets: $12. Door: $15, save $2 with a student ID.

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17jul6:00 pm9:00 pmDC Central Kitchen's Summer Happy Hour Hop6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

17jul6:30 pm9:30 pmSmashed History: An Evening of Tassels and Trivia6:30 pm - 9:30 pm Bier Baron Tavern