Jenn Larsen

As one of the founding editors of We Love DC, Jenn's passions are theater and cocktails. After two decades in the city, she's loved every quirky, mundane, elegant, rude minute of her DC life. A proud advocate for DC's talented drinks scene, she's judged the Corcoran Gallery of Art's ARTINI contest, the DC Rickey Month contest, the Jefferson Hotel's Quill Cocktail competition, and is a founding member of LUPEC DC. A graduate of Catholic University's drama program, she toured the country as a member of National Players, and has been both an actor and a costume designer before jumping the aisle to theater criticism. Writing for We Love DC restored her happiness after a life-threatening illness, and she's grateful to you, dear readers. Send your suggestions to jenn (at) welovedc (dot) com and follow her on Twitter.

  

Jenn Larsen's Top Five Articles

1. Why I (Still) Love DC: Jenn

   The story simply never ends for @drinksdrama and maybe that's #WhyIStillLoveDC

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2. Retrospective: Why We (Still) Love DC

   Yes, we've definitely missed you. We still love you. Join us over the next several days as we revisit #WhyIStillLoveDC

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3. My DC in 2013: Jenn

   Our series of reflections on 2013 closes out with @drinksdrama finding a year of rewarding riches. Happy New Year, all.

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4. We Love Arts: Rosemary Feit Covey’s Red Handed

   Artist Rosemary Feit Covey's creates an emotional vortex with RED HANDED. @drinksdrama can't look away. @MFAcurators

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5. We Love Arts: Mary T. & Lizzy K.

   The night Lincoln died, with a fashion angle? Yes. @drinksdrama thinks MARY T. & LIZZY K. @arenastage is a poetic dream.

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Posts by Jenn Larsen:

• Why I (Still) Love DC: Jenn
• Retrospective: Why We (Still) Love DC
• Share Your DC with LiveArt in a Day
• My DC in 2013: Jenn
• We Love Arts: Man in a Case
• We Love Arts: Van Gogh Repetitions at The Phillips Collection
• We Love Arts: Red Speedo
• Fringe 2013: Week Three in Review
• Fringe 2013: Week Two in Review (Part 3)
• Fringe 2013: Week Two in Review (Part 2)
• Fringe 2013: Week Two in Review
• Friday Happy Hour: Pineapple Cardamom Gin Rickey
• Fringe 2013: Week One in Review (Part Three)
• Fringe 2013: Week One in Review (Part Two)
• Fringe 2013: Week One in Review
• We Love Weekends: July 4th and beyond!
• We Love Arts: Rosemary Feit Covey’s Red Handed
• Drinks Preview: Mockingbird Hill
• Friday Happy Hour: Almost Home
• We Love Arts: Mary T. & Lizzy K.
• We Love Arts: 4000 Miles
• We Love Arts: Good People
• We Love Arts: Kafka on the Shore
• We Love Arts: Henry V
• We Love Arts: A Trip to the Moon
• We Love Arts: The Conference of the Birds
• Speakeasy Costume Ball
• We Love Arts: The Government Inspector
• Theater Spotlight: STC’s Costume Shop Sale
• Theater Preview: Black Watch
• Friday Happy Hour: Mezcal, mi corazon
• Rally Today for Pussy Riot
• Fringe 2012: Week One
• Drinks, Interrupted
• We Love Arts: Mr. Burns, a post-electric play
• Friday Happy Hour: The Garden
• We Love Arts: Dogugaeshi
• We Love Arts: Long Day’s Journey into Night
• We Love Arts: The Taming of the Shrew
• ARTINI Week Four Feature Nights
• We Love Arts: Petrushka
• ARTINI: Week Two Feature Nights
• Drinks Preview: ARTINI 2012
• We Love Arts: Astro Boy and the God of Comics
• LUPEC Launches with DC BRAS!
• Drinks Special: ArtBar’s Moonshine
• We Love Arts: Blood Wedding
• We Love Arts: Red
• We Love Arts: The Two Gentlemen of Verona
• We Love Arts: Time Stands Still
• Best Of: Drinks 2011
• Best Of: Theater 2011
• We Love Arts: Krapp’s Last Tape
• We Love Arts: Equivocation
• We Love Arts: Othello
• We Love Arts: Arms and the Man
• We Love Arts: The Book Club Play
• Join Us at the Renaissance Festival!
• We Love Arts: Lungs
• We Love Arts: Trouble in Mind
• Drinks Special: Cocktails at Jack Rose
• We Love Arts: Macbeth
• We Love Arts: The Habit of Art
• Drinks Special: Bibiana’s Aged Cocktails
• We Love Arts: The Ramayana (2011)
• Mondavi Salutes Local Hero
• Book Signing for the Sleep Deprived
• Tryst $365 Giveaway from Scoutmob
• Fringe 2011: hookups
• Fringe Beats the Heat
• Happy Birthday, Hemingway!
• We Love Arts: POP!
• Fringe 2011: A Piece of Pi
• Fringe 2011: Cecily and Gwendolyn’s Fantastical Capital Balloon Ride
• Fringe 2011: Crave
• Fringe 2011: Sanyasi
• Fringe 2011: The Malachite Palace
• Fringe 2011: Tactile Dinner Car
• Congratulations, Duffy’s!
• 2011 Capital Fringe Festival
• Lost Society Opening on U Street
• We Love Arts: The Merchant of Venice
• Theater Spotlight: White Hot Set
• We Love Arts: Don Quixote
• We Love Arts: Venus in Fur
• We Love Arts: Swampoodle
• Art Explodes at 14th & Florida
• We Love Arts: The Green Bird
• We Love Arts: Cyrano
• We Love Arts: Ruined
• We Love Drinks: Andy Duffy
• Drinks Special: Spring Cocktails at Saint-Ex
• Spring Cocktails at AGAINN
• We Love Arts: The New Electric Ballroom
• We Love Arts: The Walworth Farce
• Do DC Millennials Care About Art?
• Drinks Special: ARTINI 2011
• We Love Arts: Photograph 51
• ARTINI Congratulations!
• We Love Drinks: Return to the Columbia Room
• We Love Arts: King Lear
• Liquid Lessons: Hotel Cocktails
• Backstage with the Washington National Opera
• We Love (Irish) Arts: Penelope
• Irish Book Day
• New Ireland Festival Kicks Off
• We Love Arts: The Chosen
• We Love Arts: At Home at the Zoo
• We Love Arts: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
• Get Ready for ARTINI!
• Drinks Special: Sake at Kushi
• We Love Arts: Oedipus el Rey
• We Love Arts: On the Razzle
• Georgetown Love Potions
• We Love Arts: The Comedy of Errors
• First Look: Mandu
• Drinks Preview: Church & State
• We Love Arts: Tynan
• Hot Drinks Cure All Blues
• We Love Arts: The Arabian Nights
• We Love Arts: Return to Haifa
• Tabard Warms You Up
• Friday Happy Hour: Bloody Mary
• We Love Drinks: Chinatown Coffee Company
• We Love Arts: Marcus; Or the Secret of Sweet
• We Love Arts: Let Me Down Easy
• Yola: Yogurt Parfait Bar Opens
• Friday Happy Hour: Fool’s Warmth
• Bar Pilar Gets an Upstairs
• We Love Arts: Dana Ellyn’s “The Art of Dating”
• Art + Athletes = Everybody Wins
• Best Of: Drinks 2010
• Best Of: Theater 2010
• We Love Arts: The Kinsey Sicks
• We Love Drinks: Repeal Day Ball
• American Ice Co. Opening
• A New Menu for Zola
• We Love Arts: Mojo
• We Love Arts: The Nutcracker
• Liquid Lessons
• We Love Arts: The Laramie Project Ten Years Later
• We Love Arts: The Master and Margarita
• Thankful (for Drinks)
• Theater Spotlight: Rick Foucheux
• We Love Arts: The War of the Worlds
• Wine Away Your Afternoon
• Drinks Smackdown! Norton vs. Colbert
• We Love Drinks: David Fritzler
• We Love Arts: The Little Prince
• We Love Arts: Women Beware Women
• “Tiki. Tacos. Terror.”
• We Love Arts: Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven
• Dance Preview: Bellydance Superstars
• We Love Arts: King Arthur
• We Love Arts: Improbable Frequency
• Flower Cocktail Hour
• We Love Arts: Laurel Hausler
• AGAINN’s Cocktail Class
• Imbibe Loves DC Too
• The Last of the Summer Wine
• We Love Arts: In the Next Room or the vibrator play
• Theater J Ticket Discount
• Drinks Preview: Fruit Bat
• BRABO’s Secret Terrace
• Theater Spotlight: Eleanor Holdridge
• Friday Happy Hour: Raki
• Wrapping Up the Rickey
• We Love Arts: Small Works on Paper
• We Love Arts: Noises Off
• Fringe 2010: The Rave Scenes
• We Love Arts: One Man Lord of the Rings
• Fringe 2010: Chlamydia dell’Arte
• Congratulations to The Passenger!
• Fringe 2010: Do Not Kill Me, Killer Robots
• We Love Arts: 2010 Fringe Week One
• Fringe 2010: Darfur The Greatest Show on Earth!
• Fringe 2010: Medea
• Fringe 2010: Handbook for Hosts
• Fringe 2010: Secret Obscenities
• We Love Drinks: Rickey Month
• The Devil Wore Hose
• Friday Happy Hour: Moonshine Iced Tea
• We Love Arts: Dana Ellyn, BANNED
• We Love Arts: Johnny Meister + The Stitch
• We Love Arts: Courage
• Get Ready to Fringe
• We Love Drinks: Dive Bars
• We Love Arts: Othello
• We Love Drinks: Columbia Room
• Theater of Controversy
• We Love Arts: Sophisticated Ladies
• Front Row Fashion
• Friday Happy Hour: Cool Hand Cuke
• Drink to Win RAMMY tickets!
• Drinks Special: French Wine Tasting
• We Love Arts: The Ramayana
• Duffy’s is Four Years Old!
• We Love Arts: Mikveh
• Drinks Smackdown! Beer vs. Wine 2
• We Love Arts: Hamlet
• Free Opera Tickets!
• Enjoy French Wine with Us!
• We Love Drinks: Owen Thomson
• We Love Arts: Bowen McCauley Dance
• We Love Drinks: Dickson Wine Bar
• J&G Patio Opens Today
• We Love Arts: Kafka’s Metamorphosis
• We Love Drinks: Joe Riley
• We Love Arts: In Darfur
• Fitness District: Bellydance
• Drinks Preview: ARTINI
• DC Omnivore 100: #23, Foie Gras
• We Love Drinks: The St. Regis Bar
• She Loves DC: Meredith Peruzzi
• Drinks Smackdown! Beer vs. Wine
• We Love Arts: Some Girl(s)
• Vote for Shakespeare!
• We Love Arts: Henry V
• We Love Arts: Richard II
• We Love Drinks: Chantal Tseng
• Details Loves Tabard Too
• Fitness District: Ready?
• Jefferson’s Winter Storm Special
• We Love Arts: Evolve Urban Arts Project
• DC Omnivore 100: #39, Gumbo
• Friday Happy Hour: The Kraken
• Drinks Preview: Tryst
• We Love Drinks: Ivan Iricanin
• We Love Arts: Antony & Cleopatra
• Try Barley Wine at AGAINN
• We Love Arts: Three Sisters
• Friday Happy Hour: Bruno Porro Dolcetto
• We Love Drinks: Elli Benchimol
• Cocktail Class at The Columbia Room
• Cuba Libre Coming to DC
• We Love Arts: Object as Subject
• Phillips After Five, Tonight
• 2009, A Glass Half Full
• DC Omnivore 100: #49, Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
• Friday Happy Hour
• We Love Drinks: Carlton McCoy
• Bistrot Lepic’s Tuesday Happy Hour
• We Love Drinks: Jason Robey
• Free Irish Film Fest Tickets!
• We Love Arts: Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind
• Capital Irish Film Festival
• We Love Arts: Dana Ellyn, Divinely Irreverent
• Dance for Refugees
• We Love Drinks: Josh Volz
• We Love Arts: Intersections
• Urbana’s Repeal Day Soiree
• Morton’s Final Smoke Out
• We Love Arts: As You Like It
• Red Hot Red Ribbon
• Drinks Preview: The Passenger
• We Love Arts: Disco Pigs
• The Passenger Embarks
• Bowen McCauley Dance
• Drinks Special: Holiday Rum Punch
• We Love Arts: Full Circle
• We Love Drinks: Fall Cocktails
• We Love Arts: Much Ado About Nothing
• DC Omnivore 100: #37, Cream Tea
• We Love Drinks: W Wine Bar
• Wine for a Cause
• CityDance: Latitude
• We Love Arts: Dracula
• Crepe Love
• We Love Arts: A Flea in Her Ear
• Modern Gents at Morrison House
• “Fists of Fury” Dance Night!
• We Love Drinks: Gin at New Heights
• We Love Arts: Man Ray
• We Love Arts: Measure for Measure
• Thrifty District: New Clothes from Old
• VelocityDC Dance Festival
• We Love Drinks: Room 11
• DC Omnivore 100: #98, Polenta
• He Loves DC: Ben Eisendrath
• Getaways: Berkeley Springs
• We Love Drinks: Cork
• We Love Arts: Eclipsed
• First Look: The Jefferson
• We Love Drinks: Mid City Caffe
• We Love Drinks: Fox & Hounds
• We Love Arts: Mohamed El Hosseny
• May the Best Rickey Win
• We Love Drinks: Herbs, Flowers & Spice
• Fringe Arts: The Oresteia
• We Love Drinks: DC9
• Fringe Arts: Riding the Bull
• Faded Fourth
• We Love Drinks: Champagne
• First Look: W Hotel Washington
• DC Omnivore 100: #92, Soft Shell Crab
• We Love Arts: The Seagull on 16th Street
• We Love Drinks: Cantina Marina
• Getaways: Chincoteague & Assateague
• We Love Arts: Fever/Dream
• We Love Food: Policy
• We Love Arts: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Thrifty District: Recession Bean Soup
• We Love Drinks: Wisdom
• We Love Arts: “Legacy of Light”
• We Love Arts: Saffron Dance
• We Love Drinks: Ben’s Next Door
• Tuesday Night Escape
• DC Omnivore 100: #4, Steak Tartare
• We Love Drinks: Coffee Culture
• Whisky Me Away
• Countdown to Yuri’s Night
• Thrifty District: Shoe Repair
• Tourism: Ford’s Theatre
• We Love Drinks: SEI
• We Love Drinks: Equinox, Redux
• We Love Arts: Comic Art Indigene
• We Love Arts: Bellydance Superstars
• We Love Drinks: Tea at The Mayflower Hotel
• We Love Food: Posto
• We Love Arts: Pride Before Fall
• Getaways: Artists Inn Residence
• We Love Drinks: Vinoteca
• DC Omnivore 100: #11, Calamari
• We Love Drinks: Jimmy Valentine’s
• We Love Drinks: Round Robin
• DC Omnivore 100: #62, Sweetbreads
• We Love Drinks: Commonwealth
• The Return of the Sun
• We Love Drinks: The Gibson
• Thrifty District: Cheap, but Chic
• We Love Drinks (& Arts! & Music!): “X in DC”
• We Love Arts: Pompeii at NGA
• We Love Food: Vermilion
• We Love Drinks: Tabard Inn
• DC Omnivore 100: #28, Oysters
• We Love Art: Mark Eisendrath
• We Love Drinks: ACKC
• We Love Food: 1905
• We Love Drinks: Commissary
• We Love Drinks: O’Shucks
• We Love Arts: Romeo & Juliet, Redux
• We Love Drinks: The Saloon
• We Love Arts: Romeo & Juliet
• We Love Food: Sticky Rice
• We Love Drinks: Bar Pilar
• We Love Drinks: Teaism
• We Love Food: Co Co. Sala
• Why I Love DC: Jenn
• Hysteria & Hypochondria
• Staycation (All I Ever Wanted)
• No Hazmats
• Resonating for One Year
• Market Day
• "This is NOT a cappuccino"
• Lunatic
• Brains for Dinner, Anyone?
• Get on the Bus
• Divine Decadence
• Three Masters
• Happy Thanksgiving, Washington!
• Proof (that I have no willpower)
• A Light on 14th Street
• The Good Samaritan
• More Chances to “Ride the Whirlwind”
• Reservation Robin Hood Strikes Again
• “Riding the Whirlwind”
• Spark Out
• Caffeinated Cornucopia
• Grill Your Heart Out
• City Mouse Tastes Country Life
• Trashbox
• Light Over Belfast
• A Good Yarn
• Lunch Break at Beck
• Pershing Park Revisited
• Smacks Forehead in Disbelief
• Simply Home
• A Neighborhood Fire
• Dove Love
• Blurring the Boundaries
• Brunch at Viridian
• Atlas Redux
• “thou hast thy Will”
• My DC Holiday Pit Stop
• Washington, DC’s 5th Gift to the World-Music (Duke Ellington)
• Thanksgiving End
• Nature’s Bounty
• Night Crossing
• Freak Out
• What Washington is Wearing: Vol. 1
• Buck Up, Lil’ Camper
• Let the Coffee Wars Continue…
• Spices for a Rainy Night
• Carnival, Cattle, and Crashing Cars!
• Eau de Nicotine
• Art + Development = More
• My DC Delivery Drawer
• Two Takes on Bethesda (Part One: Pro)
• Of Cheese and Crocodile’s Tears
• Fringe Away
• Dare to Fringe
• Crawling Down H Street
• Viva Nutella!
• Downtown Development Buzz
• Weeping Plaster
• Carnival!!
• “I’m free!” (almost)
• Moules du Jour
• Hater
• Farewell faithful SmarTrip…
• Orange and Black Blues
• Yellow Line to Expand
• Space for All?
• Another Forgotten Memorial
• Bitter Friday Night
• Metro Center Swamped
• Sakura, farewell
• Today is First Friday
• Salon Observations
• (No) Smoking Scene
• Just another Saturday night…
• Nation is Closing
• The Circus is Still in Town
• Forsythia
• Slainte
• All Politics is Procrastination (ah, Local)
• The Battle for Source
• Denim Heaven
• “dada will get you if you don’t watch out”
• “buh-bye” birthday month…
• Perfume Attack
• Just Can’t Get Enough
• Dinner at Dino by way of San Marco
• Sheets! Toothbrush Holders! Fake Ferns!
• Indebleu Dream
• Green Thumbs Unite
• Source’s Fate
• Gulch
• Pub Pilgrimage
• The Fabric of Our Lives
• Behind the Red Door
• Choo-choo-choose this
• Waterworks
• Chinese New Year Preview
• Veggie Economy
• The Intruder
• Broken Window
• Sugar Rush
• Hartke’s Pride
• Jules, a Washingtonian Cat
• Sneak peek at the Silver
• Sad sack lunch
• A neighborhood by any other name…
• Firm Up Your Resolve
• 2006, the Year of… ?
• Escargot
• Auld Lang… Whatever
• Escape from the Sunshine State
• Holiday Transport
• Protein Fix
• Let the Coffee Wars Begin
• Party with the Office?
• “Have a Super Saturnalia!”
• Room for Dessert?
• Time for Tea
• Just follow the dancing highlighter
• Bounced to Bourbon
• Brushing with Celebrity
• Nutcrackers
• Bubbles & Boom Times
• Productivity v. Health
• Snow, sea, and pumpkin pie…
• Busboy or Poet?
• Sweet Potato Saviour
• Unsung Heroes
• Overwhelmed by Oysters
• Jeans, Verboten!
• “Le Beaujolais est arriv
• Hypnotic Hirshhorn
• The Eleventh Day
• Smithsonian Afternoon
• Papa would be Proud
• Viridian?
• Theater of Politics
• Guilt and Eggs
• Penn Quarter Musings
• Last Minute Theater
• Nightmare on S Street
• Party Hard but Safe
• Royal Influx
• Washington Possessed
• Sleepy Sunday at Tallula
• Chill Clarendon
• Bela Lugosi’s Dead
• The Ghost of Lafayette Square
• Escape to Cape May – Part Two
• Escape to Cape May – Part One
• Ghoulish Real Estate
• Powerball Madness
• The Cheese Stands Alone
• The Past is Present
• Get Your Boo On
• Saturday, After Hours
• Columbus Day Blues
• Film, Italian Style
• Moroccan Madness
• Fire in the Sky
• Maternal Style Mavens
• Classless Society
• Lost in Translation
• Autumn Cravings
• The Revel Grove
• Escape
• Living Art
• Serotonin Rush
• Chop chop chop!
• Report Suspicious Activity
• “Try not to move while the machine is on…”
• You want Mocha with that?
• Ouch! Itch! Achoo!
• School Days
• A Close Encounter
• Avoiding The Hill…
• City’s Changes
• lost DC grandeur
• The Good Ol’ Days?
• A Sliver of Tivoli
• La Dolce Vita
• “love at first sight”
• Deliverance
• MidCity Dog Days
• Logan’s Latin-Asian Fusion
• White Hot Sushi
• Fire?
• Tropical Jealousy
• Down(town) in the Dumps
• Noodles in No Man’s Land
• Strollerville
• Hangover Redux
• Metrobus Society Page
• Bastille Day Antics
• Lagniappe in DC
• Fantasy Shopping Gone Awry
• Film Buff Heaven
• Happy Fourth, from U Street
• The Tourists Descend
• Sci-fi Geek Out
• Exposed!
• Hangover Helper
• Perfect June Afternoon…
• Weekends Past
• Oysters on Q
• Stratford on the Potomac