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. Annual events include the fall member sale at Politics and Prose, the Art League’s Ice Cream Bowl fundraiser, “Will on …

Weekend Round Up September 19, 2019
• September 19, 2019

Two film festivals start unspooling this weekend: DC Shorts, from Sept. 19 to 28, and the March on Washington Film Festival, from Sept. 22 to 29. Senate Beer is in season on Saturday at the Heurich House Museum’s Oktoberfest. And …

Weekend Round Up January 17, 2019
• January 17, 2019

The #womenswave is coming this Saturday. Will you be marching? Music legends coming to town include James “Blood” Ulmer, Renée Fleming and, on Martin Luther King Jr. Monday, Audra McDonald and Brian Stokes Mitchell. Other celebrations of Dr. King will …

Weekend Round Up February 15, 2018
• February 15, 2018

Tonight, Thursday, Feb. 15, is Lunar New Year Eve — chuxi in Chinese — with events leading up to Sunday’s Chinatown parade. This weekend is the big celebration of Frederick Douglass’s 200th birthday at Cedar Hill, his former home …

Weekend Round Up December 7, 2017
• December 7, 2017

Running through Jan. 8, “Glow,” the fourth edition of Georgetown’s exhibition of light art, opens this Friday, Dec. 8. Presented by the Georgetown Business Improvement District, “Glow” will feature nine installations by local and international artists, with works lit from …