Time clarifies all things, sort of: Seems that the inaugural crowds will be only half the original estimates of 4 million visitors, but even City Administrator Dan Tangherlini won’t predict how many will come to the city. Just know that Washington is going to be crowded.
Check the Washington Post’s Inauguration Central for event tickets, balls and traffic postings. The site is regularly updated.
Don’t even think of bringing a car into the city; taxis will be scarce and traffic jams interminable. Expect long, cold waits on Metro, with escalators turned off for safety. Is watching it on TV starting to look good?
Discount those early no-rooms-available reports that spurred Craigslist ads offering lodgings in private homes. More offers than takers.
Still available: Acclaimed New York Philharmonic conductor Lorin Maazel’s Virginia estate can lodge 50 guests luxuriously. He’s offering it to groups for $50,000 per night, including transportation and a private concert. Proceeds to benefit young musical artists through his nonprofit organization, The Châteauville Foundation.
For a guide to power players in the new administration, order Washington Life’s 2009 Inauguration Special. Limit five per buyer. This collector’s edition of the magazine, with an Obama cover by renowned artist Shepard Fairey, includes the 2009 Social List.
After the hectic hubbub of January 20, Helene Tartakowski of the Russian Chamber Art Society suggests that January 22 you relax and let music waft over you at the Austrian Embassy. With a soprano, a mezzo-soprano, a baritone and a bass, the much-lauded Society offers the Washington premiere of “Russian Fairy Tale Operas,” seldom-heard arias and duets by Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky. A narrator will keep us clued in on the musicians, the singers and the action.
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Donna Shor writes the "Around Town" column for Washington Life. She has written for the Washington Times and the Alexandria Times.
Her career as a journalist began during a twenty-year stay in Europe, when she wrote feature stories for the Paris-based International Herald Tribune. View the full profile.
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Donna Shor writes the "Around Town" column for Washington Life. She has written for the Washington Times and the Alexandria Times.
Her career as a journalist began during a twenty-year stay in Europe, when she wrote feature stories for the Paris-based International Herald Tribune. View the full profile.