July 28th, 2010 Issue

This week we feature a recipe for tomato bread salad, provided by Pam Moore of the Friends of Rose Park.

This year, the Georgetown Village project, which would form a kind of local volunteer cooperative to keep an eye on its aging citizens, has been little more than a gleam in the eyes of its founders. That's about to change.

Where the District's 2006 election seemed almost dreamily sleepy and below the radar in the summer months, 2010's race has a daily, electric and strange feel to it, covered almost 24-7 by a blogosphere that never lets up.

The D.C. School Without Walls theatre program has blossomed through a young teacher whose mission is to create productions that are not just for the public, but are inspired from within the public.

Norman Rockwell can't get a break. Every time there’s a big exhibition of his works — as there is now at the Smithsonian American Art Museum — you can bet that someone, somewhere in the art world is going to scream bloody murder. What's behind the animosity?

The National Gallery doesn't have a strong showing from the American Modernist period. The Shein collection, featuring some of the era's finest works, will help fill in the gap.