Weekend Round Up
Weekend Roundup: May 2 through 5
Arts & Society
White House Correspondents’ Parties Talk of the Town
Arts & Society
PostClassical Ensemble’s Sophisticated Ellington
Featured
Business Ins & Outs: French Market, Rose Park Market, Club Pilates, Rosewood
Real Estate
Olympian Home, Anyone?
Weekly Arts Round Up, September 10, 2020
September 10, 2020
•Upcoming topics for online learning: Japanese textiles, Russian opera (and tea drinking), naturalist Alexander von Humboldt and painter Miki Hayakawa.
Mostly Virtual Arts Round Up, August 13, 2020
August 13, 2020
•Starting a two-week run on Monday: Metropolitan Washington Restaurant “Week.” Also on Monday, works of art 12 and 24 feet tall go on view at the reopened Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden.
Cultural Distancing Marches On
May 28, 2020
•As D.C.-area arts organizations firm up their summer and fall plans, here is a handful (screenful?) of current recommendations for cultural distancing.
Author and Agitator Larry Kramer Dies
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After his removal from the board of Gay Men’s Health Crisis, Kramer went on to found the agitprop group ACT UP, AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power.
‘Celia and Fidel’ at Arena Stage
March 19, 2020
•These are clearly two people who had an epic love story, set on an epically rich historical and political stage, but we only get fragments of their true characters.
Spring Arts Preview: Performance
February 25, 2020
•Noteworthy theater, music and dance happenings in D.C. this spring, assembled by Georgetowner performing arts writer Gary Tischler and cultural editor Richard Selden.
At Arena: Ken Ludwig’s Parents-to-Be Correspond
December 5, 2019
•In “Dear Jack, Dear Louise,” the budding young couple communicates by letter onstage — she, writing from a Brooklyn boarding house; he, writing about his life in the Army, stationed first in Oregon.
A London Theater Tour With Arena Stage
December 4, 2019
•The tour offered six plays, two operas, three art galleries, a tour of Tate Modern, coffee with an art collector, lunch in the House of Lords, fish and chips at a gastropub and a trip to Shakespeare’s birthplace.
Weekend Round Up September 19, 2019
September 19, 2019
•Senate Beer is in season on Saturday at the Heurich House Museum’s Oktoberfest. And on Sunday, things will get outlandishly appetizing on K Street at this year’s Taste of Georgetown.
Weekend Round Up August 22, 2019
August 22, 2019
•Get yourselves to Duffy’s Pub tonight, “Mean Girls” Nation! And there will be more trivia (of a general nature) tomorrow night at Alexandria’s Lee-Fendall House.