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Author reading: Daniel Kahneman Nobel winner Daniel Kahneman's focus is not on what we think, but how and why. "When you are asked what you are thinking about," he writes in Thinking Fast and Slow, "you can normally answer. You believe you know what goes on in your mind, which often consists of one conscious thought leading in an orderly way to another. But that is not the only way the mind works, nod indeed is that the typical way." More often that not, argues Kahneman, the thoughts we can put a name to are the product of processes that we never think about. "The mental work that produces impressions, intuitions, and many decisions goes on in silence in our mind." Move over, Jack Handy, Kahneman's thoughts are even deeper than yours. Dec. 7 at Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Phone: 202-364-1919. Web: http://www.politics-prose.com/
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Event: Repeal Day celebration On December 5, 1933, Utah became the final state to ratify the Constitutional Amendment that made God's gift to man--Ben Franklin said beer "is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy"--legal once again in these United States. While this particular anniversary is not particularly special, the D.C. Craft Bartenders Guild is right in celebrating it as if it were. After all, freedom commands its own celebration every time a person of legal drinking age puts stein to lips. That said, the price for this particular ball is not free, and will run you between $100 and $150 for admission. Steep, yes, but that sum gets you unlimited cocktails by some of the country's best mixologists (bar tenders-cum-scientists, for the uninitiated), including D.C.'s own Gina Cherservani, of PS 7 Restaurant, Chantal Tseng, of the Tabard Inn, and Owen Thomson, of Think Food Group. Dec. 3 at Halcyon House, 3400 Prospect St. NW. Phone: 202-338-3295. Web: http://repealdayball.eventbrite.com/
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View from inside a tunnel recently found in the northern border city of Tijuana, Mexico, Wednesday Nov. 30, 2011. A day earlier, the tunnel was discovered by U.S. authorities in San Diego's Otay Mesa area, the latest in a spate of secret passages found to smuggle drugs from Mexico. This tunnel is a 600-yard passage linking warehouses in San Diego and Tijuana and is equipped with lighting and ventilation. (AP Photo/Alex Cossio)
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The Sydney model features a morning room, great room and a flexible space across the back of the main level. Upstairs are three bedrooms in addition to the master suite.
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The Sydney model at the Manor Homes at Madison Crescent has a formal living room or dining room in addition to an open kitchen, morning room and great room.
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The home at 4331 Cathedral Ave. NW in Wesley Heights is on the market for $1,995,000. The 87-year-old home has four bedrooms, four full baths and a powder room.
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Photo courtesy of Jessica Bonness Switching out an ivory lampshade for something more dramatic, such a s a black drum shade, can give any room an updated, modern touch.
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Brothers Eric Grapin, 11, and Sean, 9, (above, from left) climb down from the treehouse that measures 58-square-feet outside their Falls Church home. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)
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Mark Grapin, an Army National Guard chief warrant officer (top), makes a personal appeal before the board of zoning appeals to be allowed to keep the treehouse he built for his sons. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)
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Brinda Grapin and her sons Sean, 9, (left) and Eric, 11, leave the Fairfax County Board of Zoning Appeals meeting on Wednesday after being granted permission to keep a treehouse they built in their front yard in Falls Church. An initial hearing in September rebuffed the family's attempt to keep the structure, but they won a variance on appeal. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)
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Army Nation Guard Chief Warrant Officer Mark Grapin argues his case before the Fairfax County Board of Zoning Appeals for permission to keep a treehouse in his family's yard. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)
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Six well-armed women are among the many people who have taken up the Scottsdale Gun Club's offer for a ready-for-the-Christmas-card photograph with Santa Claus, complete with semiautomatic assault weapons.
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Brothers Eric Grapin, 11, and Sean, 9, from left, climb out of a treehouse in their front yard, where new trees were recently planted to help hide the structure from view in the street, in Falls Church, Va., on Nov. 30, 2011. The boys' father, Mark Grapin, an Army National Guard chief warrant officer, testified before the Fairfax County Board of Zoning and Appeals Wednesday and was granted an ordinance that gives the family five years until the treehouse must be removed. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/ The Washington Times)
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Brinda Grapin, right, and her sons Sean, 9, from left, and Eric, 11, leave the Fairfax County Board of Zoning and Appeals after being granted an ordinance that allows the family to keep a treehouse in their front yard, in Fairfax, Va., on Nov. 30, 2011. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)
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Sean Grapin, 9, from left, and his brother Eric, 11, wait with their mother Brinda as a neighbor, Adele Knott, congratulates the family on winning an appeal to the Fairfax County Board of Zoning and Appeals in support of an ordinance that allows the family to keep a treehouse in their front yard, in Fairfax, Va., on Nov. 30, 2011. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)
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Mark Grapin, an Army National Guard chief warrant officer, testifies before the Fairfax County Board of Zoning and Appeals in support of an ordinance that would allow him to keep a treehouse in his front yard, in Fairfax, Va., on Nov. 30, 2011. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)
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Mark Grapin, an Army National Guard chief warrant officer, testifies before the Fairfax County Board of Zoning and Appeals in support of an ordinance that would allow him to keep a treehouse in his front yard, in Fairfax, Va., on Nov. 30, 2011. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)
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Mark Grapin, an Army National Guard chief warrant officer, at left, sits with his family while waiting for his case to be called before the Fairfax County Board of Zoning and Appeals in support of an ordinance that would allow him to keep a treehouse in his front yard, in Fairfax, Va., on Nov. 30, 2011. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)
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Brothers Eric Grapin, 11, from left, and Sean, 9, walk to the garage past a treehouse in the front yard of his home in Falls Church, Va., on the way to a hearing concerning an ordinance to allow the treehouse to stay in place, on Nov. 30, 2011. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)
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A treehouse sits in the front yard of the Grapin family home in Falls Church, Va., on Nov. 30, 2011. Mark Grapin, walking in background, an Army National Guard chief warrant officer, testified before the Fairfax County Board of Zoning and Appeals Wednesday in support of an ordinance that would allow him to keep a treehouse in his front yard. An initial hearing in September rebuffed Grapin's attempt to keep his treehouse in place for his two sons, but an appeal was allowed and Wednesday's hearing granted an ordinance that gives the family five years until the treehouse must be removed. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)
