My Washington: Mystics, Tysons Corner shopping high on list for communications exec

Faves and raves by

Dana Vickers Shelley

Dana Vickers Shelley is president of DVStrategies, a communications consulting company for CEOs and directors at foundations, nonprofits and government agencies.

PERSONAL STATS

AGE: 54

NUMBER OF YEARS IN D.C. AREA: 32

NEIGHBORHOOD: Baltimore County

– Hayley Peterson

1. FAVORITE LOCAL SPORTS EVENT

Mystics basketball

2. BEST MODE OF TRANSPORTATION

Car

3. BEST COFFEE SHOP

Teavolve Cafe and Lounge

4. BEST PLACE FOR LIVE MUSIC

Rams Head Live!

5. BEST PLACE FOR OUT-OF-TOWN VISITORS

Martin Luther King Memorial followed by lunch at Eatonville Restaurant.

6. FAVORITE MUSEUM

American Indian History Museum

7. MOST ROMANTIC SPOT

Tidal Basin at dusk

8. FAVORITE WAY TO SPEND A LAZY SUNDAY

Reading a week’s worth of news while watching “Mad Men” on demand.

9. BEN’S CHILI BOWL, OLD EBBITT GRILL OR CAFE MILANO?

Ben’s!!!

10. BEST OUT-OF-TOWN RETREAT

Tysons Corner Mall

11. BEST INSIDE-THE-BELTWAY RETREAT

Corcoran Gallery

12. FAVORITE MONUMENT

Vietnam Veterans Memorial; Iwo Jima Memorial

13. PROUDEST PART OF LIVING IN THE D.C. REGION

Sticking up for federal workers!

14. EMBARRASSING PART OF LIVING IN D.C. REGION

Explaining politics.

15. BEST BREAKFAST SPOT

La Madeleine in Georgetown (yummy croissants!)

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