Featured
Business Ins & Outs: Google Store Opens; Happy 25th to Bacchus Wine Cellar!
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Seeing Double: Santa at Volta Park, Rose Park on Saturday
Arts
Tawny Chatmon’s Portraits Take Center Stage at the National Museum of Women in the Arts
Arts
Festive Fun Takes Center Stage at This Year’s Georgetown Jingle
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Profs & Pints DC: Assisted Suicide for Mental Illness
• May 22, 2024
Profs and Pints DC presents: “Assisted Suicide for Mental Illness,” on a growing practice that raises huge ethical questions, with Mark Komrad, M.D., a psychiatrist and medical ethicist on the […]
Profs & Pints DC: RBG Before She Was “Notorious”
• February 27, 2024
Profs and Pints DC presents: “RBG before she was ‘Notorious,” a look at the early Ruth Bader Ginsburg and how she got women into the U.S. Constitution, with Philippa Strum, […]
Witcover on Politics: Biden’s 2024 Playbook May Result in Victory
• July 12, 2023
President Joe Biden has hit the ground running. Instead of heading for cover as his presidency encounters uncommon political challenges from a growing field of potential Republican opponents to his […]
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
• June 29, 2023
An entertaining yet rigorous look at the life and work of Justice Ginsburg and the Supreme Court, on which she so famously served
Salon Nights: I Dissent Collar Making
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Multi-disciplinary artist Roxana Alger Geffen leads a creative evening of craftivism, conversation, and civic engagement.
Pro-Choice Protesters Stage Sit-In at White House (photos)
• July 10, 2022
Persistent rain did not deter more than a thousand abortion rights activists from marching to the White House on July 9 to stage a mass sit-in. “We call for this […]
Maz & Bricks
• May 17, 2022
Maz and Bricks is a passionate, angry, funny and touching play which tells the story of two young people who meet over the course of a day in Dublin. Maz […]
On the Scene: May 14 Rally for Abortion Rights in D.C. (photos)
• May 15, 2022
Thousands demonstrated around the country in support of abortion rights on Saturday, May 14, following a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion indicating that Roe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark law […]
Inside the Ketanji Brown Jackson Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings (photos)
• March 24, 2022
The Senate Judiciary Committee this week began historic U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who would be the first African-American woman on the U.S. Supreme Court. […]
Washington, D.C.: Memorable Images from 2021 (photos by Jeff Malet)
• December 31, 2021
2021 saw a partial resumption of activities in the District suggesting better times ahead. It was also a year marked by political turmoil. Click on the photo icons below for […]
