Places to Go Producer, Microsoft Washington Sidewalk
Washington, DC, May, 1997 - October, 1999
I joined Washington Sidewalk five months prior to launch, initially planning the site and creating a Places to Go (P2G) database with over 1,300 entries in 30 categories. Categories included Washington's "Capital Treasures" as well as garden-variety museums and monuments, parks, sports and entertainment venues, theaters, tours, amusement parks, and much, much more.
Following launch, until Microsoft sold Sidewalk to CitySearch, I assigned or wrote stories for four weekly features.
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Get In Day trips within Washington.
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Get Out Day trips near Washington (within a 90-minute drive of the White House)
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family.fun Adventures for adults and smaller children
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CapitaList/Keyword Imaginative amalgamations of stores, services, attractions
- A Day at the Tidal Basin Tour
- Polo at the Tidal Basin Free chukkers, BYO Pimm's Cup
- Tidal Basin Circle Cruise Roosevelt and Jefferson, cherry trees and pedal boat
- Scott Circle
- Outside Scott Circle Infuriating intersection with startling statuary
- Inside Scott Circle Jewish museum and world of snacks
- Baseballtown, D.C.
- Washington Baseball History The scent of the Senators
- Washington Baseball Today Sports bars and memorabilia
- Christmas Light Show
- The Bishop's House 10,000 points of light
- The Bishop's Neighborhood Hot chocolate and matzo ball soup
- Military Maneuvers
- Based in D.C. Where four branches of the military plus the Coast Guard report for daily duty
- Greenbelt, Maryland
- Old Greenbelt The New Deal lives in Depression-era planned suburb
- Greenbelt Today Small-town flavor and cooperative spirit
- Military Intelligence
- National Cryptologic Museum Spook house shares its secrets
- Fort Meade Armed camp welcomes you with open arms
- Alexandria's Farmers' Market
- America's Oldest Farmers' Market Wake up and smell the kale
- A Market Square Morning George Washington supped here.
Southwest Baltimore B&O Railroad Museum Trains contribute to the Baltimore mystique SoWeBo Mencken's old 'hood no place for the "booboisie"
- Columbia, Maryland
- According to Plan A 'rational model' for a city
- Commercial Columbia Much more than The Mall
Crystal City
- U.S. Patent & Trademark Office Museum The mother of all invention museums
- Crystal City Shops The underground economy
- Last Stop: Glenmont
- Glenmont Center Duckpins and pιtanque
- Brookside Gardens A Metro-accessible slice of heaven
Upper Marlboro Country
- Upper Marlboro History, horses, hockey, tobacco, and alleged perps
- Show Place Arena Sports showcase of Prince George's County
- Take Me Out to the Airport: Flights of fancy at Baltimore-Washington International
- The Wright Stuff: Hands-on (joystick) fun at College Park Aviation Museum
- KidShop: Where children get into the wood work
- Port Discovery: Baltimore Inner Harbor attraction moves at the speed of kids
- Accessible Playgrounds: Opportunity Park, Bowie, MD; Hadley's Park, Potomac, MD
- Now This! Kids! Where the whole audience gets into the act
- Build-A-Bear Workshop: Design-your-own Teddys at Tysons
- Chesapeake Children's Museum: Bay bounty plus the pizza rat
- Discovery Creek: Wade into feelers-on nature workshops
- ExploraWorld: It leaves everything to the imagination
- Frederick, Maryland: Historic city remains young-at-heart
- West End Dinner Theatre: Lunchtime matinees for kids
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CapitaList
- Non-touristy Tours Where locals check out local color
- Washington Movies DC is ready for its close-up
- NATO Sampler Where to get a taste of homeland
- Off-Mall Museums Ten great ones the tourists haven't found yet
- Stores for Guys Fun and games for dad's inner child
- Outdoor Pools The best water slides, wave pools, lap lanes under the sun
- Open for Xmas Refuges from the spirit of Christmas Present
- Marion Barry How can we miss you if you won't go away?
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Keyword
- Keyword: Seinfeld Set in N.Y., filmed in L.A., connected to D.C.
- Keyword: Titanic Going overboard for sunken ship
- Keyword: Peace All we are saying...is give peace a look
- Keyword: Beatty & MacLaine Local brother-sister act boffo in Tinseltown
- Keyword: Scandal Presidential indiscretion is a Washington tradition
- Keyword: Iraq Check out the bad boy of the Middle East
- Keyword: Time Clock watchers guide to Washington
- Keyword: Martin Luther King Washington honors a civil rights hero
- Keyword: Congress Where to see Capitolists at work, at play, at peace
- Keyword: Dylan Traces of Dylan are blowin' in the wind
- Keyword: Gershwin It's very clear, Gershwin is here to stay
- Keyword: Olympics How Washington carried the torch for Nagano
- Keyword: Boats Shipshape places that crank your craft
- Keyword: Wisconsin Land of the cheeseheads, home of the brats
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