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3240 P St., NW This full-service Georgetown salon has transformed its private courtyard. Owner LoAnn Lai says there are four stations, offering both hair and nail services. Clients do have to go inside the salon to have their hair washed. Photo courtesy of Salon Nader’s Facebook 10213 Old Georgetown Rd., Bethesda Salon Nader has a small outdoor set-up on the front sidewalk of its North Bethesda salon. Clients can get their hair colored, cut, and blow-dried all outside. Those who want their hair washed first can either come inside the salon or arrive with wet hair. At-home services The mobil...

Share Last year, artist Andy Yoder was set to open an exhibit of his sneaker art just as the pandemic hit, and like so much else, it never happened. Now the show has finally opened, and the one-year delay has allowed him to create even more of his distinctive shoe art. Overboard, opened on April 22 in a 40-foot shipping container that serves as CulturalDC’s Mobile Art Gallery. Now located at Sandlot Southeast in Navy Yard next to Nationals Park, it’s filled with 220 replicas of Nike sneakers that were constructed out of recycled boxes, bags, and posters that he found in trash bins and ya...

Photograph via National Geographic. Willie Nelson, Angélique Kidjo, Yo-Yo Ma, and Ziggy Marley are among the performers for National Geographic’s Earth Day Eve 2021 concert, which will stream live on National Geographic’s YouTube channel at 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 21. DC-born and -raised Rostam Batmanglij, who joined Haim at Call Your Mother just before Covid shut down the region, is also due to appear. The full lineup: Kidjo, Aurora, José González, Maggie Rogers, My Morning Jacket, Rostam, Valerie June, Nelson, Ma, and Marley. Jessica Nabongo will host and introduce the...

You Can Now Rent Picnic Boats at The Wharf Want to take your happy hour on the water? These electric boats can seat up to eight people. Here’s a new activity to add to your DC spring bucket list: aqua-picnics. You can now rent picnic boats at The Wharf, and they’re pretty much as they sound: small, 100-percent electric crafts with a table and seating for friends, perfect for taking happy hour out on the water. Photograph by Braxton Carey. Photograph by Braxton Carey. Starting at $150 an hour, the group Float DC will let you rent one of its 18-foot boats for up to three hours, which comes...

Photograph by Scott Suchman Jason Moran, the Kennedy Center’s artistic director for jazz, is kicking off a virtual book club that will highlight works that touch on performing arts, music, history, and culture. In three meetings this year, Moran is inviting the public and various panelists to discuss Toni Morrison’s Jazz, James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, and Jacqueline Woodson’s Red at the Bone. On May 4, Moran will lead the conversation about Jazz with Grammy-winning jazz singer Dianne Reeves and poet/writer (and DC native) Elizabeth Alexander. (Reg...