Read Our March // April 2022 Issue

“I am humbled and honored to wake up every day and say, ‘I get to live this life.’” Kelly Towles and his wife Virginia Arrisueño are sitting together at their massive wooden kitchen table, the anchor of their charming brownstone’s lower level. He speaks with conviction, one hand petting their Siberian Husky pup Sinchi and… Read more »

My adult life has two distinct phases: Before Zephyr (BZ) and After Zephyr (AZ). Our son arrived on a cloudy, crisp Friday at the start of 2013. One minute I was a husband, a son, a brother, a friend — just a guy, really. The next I was a dad, a role that immediately felt… Read more »

Spring is synonymous with renewal and in 2022, the sentiment could not be truer as an influx of events return from a two-year pandemic hibernation. For tattoo artists and enthusiasts in the DMV, the DC Tattoo Expo, slated for March 25 to 27, is a long-awaited return. “This will actually be my second time going,”… Read more »

Throughout my pre-college education, I learned about the Revolutionary War four separate times. How to organize my finances, balance a checkbook and invest? Zero. Although a fundamental part of becoming an independent stable adult, our education system fails to teach fiscal planning as part of the core curriculum. Once I graduated college and began to… Read more »

Buying a home in the DMV can leave you feeling battered and bruised — even when you emerge victorious. It was March 2021 when we began to seriously consider selling our Columbia Heights rowhouse — our home of 16 years — in search of a place that felt more chill and offered a bigger yard…. Read more »

Until five years ago, every plant I ever owned died. When I learned most house plants can live forever, I was determined to cultivate a green thumb. Now, after years of more than 40 plants and zero casualties, I want to share the most basic and helpful things I’ve learned about being a plant parent…. Read more »

On a break from work earlier this year, I sat in my apartment looking around at how nothing seemed to make sense in my design choices. I’d worked from home for years at that point — even before the pandemic started — and was increasingly annoyed at the space around me. It didn’t feel conducive… Read more »

Has dating evolved or is it the art of dating that’s evolved? It’s a fair but loaded inquiry.  On a practical level, the traditional places we find love — bars, house parties, the workplace, weddings, blind dates, even sheer chance — remain. But the age of technology has given rise to dating apps, while changing… Read more »

My late dog, Remy, had balls. I mean literally. And it was not uncommon for perfect strangers to stop us on the street, point to his groin and exclaim in horror (or at the very least complete confusion): “He isn’t neutered!” (Oh really? I didn’t notice…). When I engaged in these interactions people would always… Read more »

This month, we’re bowing to 11 badass local couples making moves (with righteous intent) and leaving their mark on the District. Among several questions, we ask how they’d remix the concept of power couple. What emerged is a collective belief that the energy you bring, the responsibility you share (to each other and your community),… Read more »

This month, we’re bowing to 11 badass local couples making moves (with righteous intent) and leaving their mark on the District. Among several questions, we ask how they’d remix the concept of power couple. What emerged is a collective belief that the energy you bring, the responsibility you share (to each other and your community),… Read more »

This month, we’re bowing to 11 badass local couples making moves (with righteous intent) and leaving their mark on the District. Among several questions, we ask how they’d remix the concept of power couple. What emerged is a collective belief that the energy you bring, the responsibility you share (to each other and your community),… Read more »

This month, we’re bowing to 11 badass local couples making moves (with righteous intent) and leaving their mark on the District. Among several questions, we ask how they’d remix the concept of power couple. What emerged is a collective belief that the energy you bring, the responsibility you share (to each other and your community),… Read more »

This month, we’re bowing to 11 badass local couples making moves (with righteous intent) and leaving their mark on the District. Among several questions, we ask how they’d remix the concept of power couple. What emerged is a collective belief that the energy you bring, the responsibility you share (to each other and your community),… Read more »