Interviewing strangers over a meal since 2008 (as featured in the Washington Post)
The 31st Throwback Thursday is to May 2011, when I dined at DC’s Acqua al 2 with Pastor Patrick Walker of the New Macedonia Baptist Church in Southeast Washington. I wanted to learn about his church’s prominent campaign against the push for marriage equality in the city, but that led…
Kate Flannery, featured in the 116th dinner interview and perhaps known as Meredith from the U.S. version of The Office, will be one of the contestants on the next series of Dancing With The Stars. The full cast of 12 celebrities taking part also includes NFL Hall of Famer Ray Lewis,…
Louisa Hall, the ukulele-playing singer-songwriter featured as the 57th stranger on this site, will be performing in early August as part of the 10th anniversary of “The 9 Songwriter Series” — a group of musicians working together to play larger venues than they would be able to book alone. When…
Want a good laugh? Check out comedian Alex English on his visit to Washington, DC, this weekend. Alex was the 112th stranger featured on this site; we met in his hometown of New York last October for a lengthy breakfast chat about how he first got interested in standup comedy…
Oh goodness, the last update on this site was in February. I’m more active on a day-to-day basis on the Dining With Strangers Twitter account and Facebook page. But I realize it’s been a long time since I featured a dinner interview (the point of the site), and I have…
FuckUp Nights, the group that hosts discussions about the lessons learned from business failures, is holding its eighth event in Washington, DC, on November 18 at 7pm at WeWork in Dupont Circle. Click on this link for more details or to register for the event. As the hosts describe it,…