Festival Fashion from a Festival Lover
Every year around this time, fashion blogs, sites, and magazines offer their opinion on great music festival fashion. And every year around this time you’ll find me shaking my head and getting ragey....
View ArticleMy Weekend in Pictures
Well, I didn’t get the R&R I desired this weekend, but I still had a great time! Friday night my husband had an event, so I stayed home and watched Emerson. Honestly, I was happy for this – we...
View ArticleWhat to Wear to a Concert
To some, music is a religious experience. While many houses of worship these days encourage a “come as you are” dress code, I don’t recommend doing so either for church or a concert. While I doubt...
View ArticleHow My Morning Jacket Changed My Life
It was 2006, my husband’s good friend plays the guitar and his birthday was coming up. My husband decided to get him a concert DVD of a guitarist that is well-respected but one that he may not already...
View ArticleThe Passing of a DC Legend – Chuck Brown
{via} While hearing the passing of MCA last week was heartbreaking, and finding out that Donna Summer died today was awful, for me the most painful recent passing of a musician is Chuck Brown. For...
View ArticleThursday: The Kitchen Sink
Tee - Lands’ End Canvas (similar)Skirt - Talbots (similar)Necklace – eBay (similar)Shoes – Payless (similar)Lipstick – NARS Heat Wave Today I felt like throwing it all on. If it wasn’t so hot on, I...
View ArticleWhat to Wear and Pack for a Jam Band Concert
Last night I went to see Furthur in concert at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Maryland. For those who haven’t heard of this band, Furthur was founded in 2009 by former Grateful Dead members Bob Weir and...
View ArticleForecastle Festival 2012 – What I Wore
This is the first in a series about my experience at the Forecastle Music Festival. Additional posts will be about what I carried in my bag, and the festival itself. This weekend I attended the...
View ArticleWhat’s In My Bag: Forecastle Edition
This is the second in a series about my experience at the Forecastle Music Festival. I already wrote about what I wore, I will also be writing a festival recap. For my first Bonnaroo, I purchased the...
View ArticleForecastle 2012 Recap
While I have attended Bonnaroo several times, I had yet to attend a city-based music festival like Forecastle. Unlike Bonnaroo where you camp on the same grounds as the music festival, you have to stay...
View ArticleFuture Past Present: Holdin’ On To Band Posters
Our home is a constant work in progress. Even though the remodel/addition was almost four years ago, we are yet to be fully settled. I guess having a kid can do that. We have also had a few family...
View ArticleRecap: Virgin Mobile FreeFest
Each year I clear my calendar for when Virgin Mobile FreeFest tickets are available. It’s a mad scramble using my SmartPhone, multiple browsers, and Facebook but I usually score at least a pair. And...
View ArticleSister Date Night: Morrissey
This weekend, dear Emily from Capital Style asked on Twitter is anyone wanted to buy her tickets to see Morrissey at Strathmore on January 16th. Um, ME ME ME!!! Since Emily got the chance to instead...
View ArticleTuesday: Bundled Up
Jacket: ASOS | Dress: Felicity + Coco | Scarf: c/o Nordstrom Rack (similar) | Cuff: Gap (similar) | Shoes: Nine West Last night we were supposed to get a lot of snow, so much my husband cancelled his...
View ArticleGuilty Pleasure: NKOTB
When I was a kid, I liked the same music my friends liked. Madonna, Prince, Michael Jackson, and near the end of elementary school… New Kids on the Block. I can remember my sister and I getting...
View ArticleWhat My Brain Has Been Absorbing – Spring 2013
I’m not going to become a lifestyle blog, but I have read and seen and listened to some pretty fantastic and interesting things lately (and some not so awesome but popular things) and wanted to share....
View ArticleConcert Review: Jim James at the 9:30 Club
When I was in high school I obsessed over certain bands and singers. Sometimes it was because their lyrics spoke to me, their beats could make me dance all night… but usually it was because of image....
View ArticleHow to Do a Concert with a Bum Leg: Father John Misty at the 9:30 Club
Father John Misty and my bum leg. Last photo courtesy The Washington Post. See train arriving on Metro platform. Know going to have to switch at Gallery Place so decide to jog up two cars to be closer...
View ArticleWhat My Brain Has Been Absorbing – May/June 2013
I find when I am uber stressed and frantic about the tiniest thing in life, it’s often when I am not making time for extra-curricular activities. I don’t mean dodge ball or drinking, but books and...
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: Junkyard Band
I was born in DC. When I was a toddler my parents moved to Prince George’s County, right outside the city. I grew up in PG County, went to college in PG County (go Terps!), moved away for a bit after...
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