Sweetgreen’s Jonathan and Nate met up with ReadysetDC to discuss their latest expansion: to the Logan Circle neighborhood. “It’s perfect here, right?” Jonathan tells us. “We started three years ago out of Georgetown, having fun trying to create a cool, local brand.” Now, Jonathan thinks that Sweetgreen Logan will be his best store yet. “It’s a natural community for our ideal customer. The area is young and vibrant and people really appreciate healthy living and the arts. In fact, I’ll probably move here.” (more…)
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Persona Grata Opens at Gallery Plan B
Have you heard? Gallery Plan B on 14th Street has joined Twitter, and they want you to join them. As the neighborhood gallery turns five on April 2, we recommend you check out its latest exhibition, Persona Grata.
All artists will be present at the group show this Saturday, March 12: Timothy Johnson, Shelley Laffal, Keith [...]
Joan Belmar’s “Migrations” at the Chilean Embassy. Last Week to Enjoy!
Joan Belmar is a wonderful local artist that you should know about. He is represented by Nevin Kelly Gallery and funded by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. This week is your last chance to enjoy his mini-retrospective at the Chilean Embassy, featuring works from 1995 to present. Dubbed “Migrations,” the exhibition is [...]
ReadysetDC Previews: “ONCE” Laurel Lukaszewski @ Project 4 (Opening Tonight)
Returning from an artist-in-residency program in Tulsa, OK, Laurel Lukaszewski went right to work at Project 4 Gallery. Her solo show opens tonight at 6:30 PM. We met up with Laurel as she prepares for the opening.
The most striking piece in the show is Sakura (2009), conceived and prepared with the Project 4’s space in [...]
Recap: Salon Contra w/ Jenn Figg and Jeffry Cudlin
Photos by Vincent Gallegos
When she’s not working on huge shows, such as this weekend’s Fixation event, Philippa P.B. Hughes likes to bring her Pink Line fans together in a more personal way (for instance, her own place!). There is brilliance to this aspect of connecting, and the results are almost always surprising. Called Salon Contra, [...]
A Lot of Photos from techARTS: A Spooky Union
(Ed. Note: All words and photos by our newest contributor Vincent Gallegos! See more of him on his blog and Flickr Photostream.)
We hope you had a great time over Halloween. For web geeks and art lovers, techARTS was the place to be, Peter Corbett’s latest mashup for DC creatives. Over 600 designers, artists and techies [...]


