Weekday Roundup

February 8, 2010

Let’s be honest: the businesses of DC are simply holding their collective breathes to see if there’s going to be another snow-mergency in the next few days. Parties and events are diminishing as the snow piles up and turns into black ice.

Flamenco, ballet, and a boat cruise.

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Free Tickets to Flamenco! in Foggy Bottom

February 4, 2010

***This Contest Is Now Closed***

Next week kicks off a month of fabulous flamenco shows at Lisner Auditorium as part of  the 10th Annual Flamenco Festival. Each performer showcases direct-from-Spain performer(s), and we’ve partnered with Lisner to give you, dear readers, a chance to win tickets to the kick off show, Gala Flamenca, on Tuesday, February 9th, at 8 pm.

Gala Flamenca features Pastora Galván, Manuel Liñán, Belén López, and Rocío Molina, each bold and modern dancers who have achieved world fame and praise. Learn more on the Lisner event site.

There are two ways you can win a pair of tickets:

  1. Simply comment on this post saying you’d like to win!  Just make sure you enter your correct email address where prompted so we can contact you if you win. Don’t be comment shy!
  2. Tweet or ReTweet this exact message: “Hey @FoBoBlo – I want to win free flamenco tickets. RT or see http://bit.ly/bbIeLr so you can win too!”

Competition ends Monday, February 8 at Noon. We’ll announce winners on the blog that afternoon.  Hurry up and enter! (And yes, you can enter both ways, but you can only win once!)

The winners will be selected randomly.  Every person who enters gets assigned a number and then we’ll use a random number generator to pick one.  One winner will be selected from comment entrants, a different winner will be selected from Twitter entrants.  We’ll contact the winners via the email address provided, or through direct message on Twitter.  Each winner will receive two tickets.

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Seeing Lady Obama?

November 11, 2009

Well the entire area around Lisner is packed with people waiting to see MO speak.  The whole area seems a bit chaotic (and it’s still a while before she speaks) and the entrance to my office is blocked off by the masses.

Let us know if you’re going to see her!  And for all of you who didn’t get tickets, well, FoBoBlo has a nice second-best….. this video is probably better than anything she’ll ho-hum about anyway.

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Weekday Roundup

November 9, 2009

Welcome to another artsy week in DC, with some gorgeous weather forecasts for today & tomorrow. Enjoy your indigenous North American tribesperson summer while it lasts.
I hope you love the arts. DC loves the arts...inside.

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You Won David Sedaris Tickets!

October 2, 2009

Well, to be clear, you won David Sedaris tickets if you’re Kristen S. who left the comment:

During my freshman year of college my parent’s went through a rough divorce, and it was up to me and my brother to referee their marathon fights and fits during the whole tumultuous period.

It was that winter, right around the holidays, when everything got bad. The whole Christmas season seemed to exacerbate the situation. I was away at school when things started to get worse, and my brother felt like he had nowhere to go to escape it all.

One December weekend he called me in a fit of hysteria, telling me he could not take it anymore, so I invited him up to stay with me at college. That was about the same time I picked up a copy of David Sedaris’s Holiday’s on Ice at a former English teacher’s recommendation. That weekend we sat in and read story after hilarious story in my dorm room, sometimes him reading aloud to me while I studied for finals.

For awhile it seemed like nothing could ever be funny to me or my brother, but Holiday’s on Ice seemed to break the tensions that tightened inside my Brother and I. My brother went home that weekend calm and collected, and with my copy of the book. His happiness seemed to cool our parent’s off a bit, and that Christmas turned out to be not so bad.

Although her story is pretty ridiculously compelling and would be a good reason to win on it’s own merit — we DID select the winner randomly by assigning a number to each valid comment and then selecting a random number. Then we confirmed she’s a Facebook Fan, which of course was necessary to win.

Kristin, you should have received an email from us by now, too, and you’ve got until Monday to claim your tickets.  Congratulations!

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