Monthly Archives: May, 2010

The personalities of men, women and children have come together in the sky on a sunny Saturday in March as hundreds of sightseers and kite makers rejoice in their passion for kites during the 44th annual Smithsonian Kite Festival.

It turns out that the leader of the free world has a weakness, albeit a delicious one. Apparently, President Obama had to separate from the pastry chef in an attempt to break his bad eating habits.

Dorothy Irene Height, a central figure of the American civil rights movement who promoted feminism and racial equality in her battle against social inequality, died April 20, at Howard University Hospital after a prolonged illness. She was 98.

It takes something special to make the people of D.C. stop and stare. And, in this case, that something special is cupcakes. To be precise, it’s “Curbside Cupcakes.”

It was nighttime, and Cpl. Humphrey Rutherford had his gun pointed at a man that he thought might be intoxicated, or worse, a skinhead. Rutherford orders the man from his car and tells him to kneel on the ground with his hands in the air. Then it happened. The young man slowly reaches for his back pocket. It could be something harmless, or it could be a gun.