So this past weekend we got to see Hamilton at the Kennedy Center! If you happen to have been living under a rock and have no idea what I’m talking about, it’s a 2h 45min musical about Alexander Hamilton and the other founding fathers culminating in the duel where Aaron Burr killed Hamilton. It’s got insanely catchy music, fusing hip hop, R&B, pop, soul, and rap, and color-casts non-white actors with deliberation. It’s a crazy piece of history, both in the telling and the making, and it’s also just good old fun. The Kennedy Center production we saw was amazing.…
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Continue ReadingAfter a boozy brunch for New Year’s Eve, what do you need? That’s right–a boozy brunch for New Year’s Day! Obviously. Since both Tyler and I had some friends visiting for our New Year’s Eve party, we wanted to take them to a full out brunch and try a new place! Penn Commons brunch was a brunch to rival Fuego’s! You can read the review for that, but Fuego’s has since closed and it won’t do you much good. Penn Commons might even surpass it in food. Let’s start off with location–Penn Commons is located in Chinatown, just a few…
