Two Rare Operas: “La straniera” and “Alcina”
• November 8, 2017

In opera, as in most things, there is rare, and then there is rare. While the opera repertoire is large in all of its modes, genres and styles, not every […]

Silva’s ‘Black Widow’ and ‘House of Spies’
• November 6, 2017

Both books — all of Daniel Silva’s books (he has written 20) — are as up to the minute as the latest sound of a car bomb exploding somewhere in the world. 

The Old Normal of Halloween on Lanier Place
• November 2, 2017

Even in these Days of Trump, Halloween 2017 was normal, the old and buzzing and traditional normal, in which “trick or treat” still means a little girl with a lit pumpkin or bags for candy saying thank you, and nobody really tricks anybody.

Fats Domino, Who Survived Katrina, Dies at 89
• October 26, 2017

For people who grew up (or not) at the dawn of rock and roll, the news that Fats Domino — one of the genre’s creators and legends — had died was sad and not a little devastating. 

An English Olivia, Residing in Georgetown
• October 25, 2017

There is something that makes you want to sit up straight when you hear an English accent over the telephone. It’s a feeling that just doesn’t resonate over Twitter. You […]

In Trump’s Wake, Hurricane Harvey
• October 19, 2017

It looks like the beginning of an intense debate, from which there is no returning to a status quo where the outrageous activities of a Harvey Weinstein go unnoticed or are excused as locker-room normalcy.

Skipping the Game for an Embassy Evening
• October 16, 2017

The Oct. 12 event was organized by the Charities Aid Foundation of America and Diaspora Gives Bangladesh, as well as by the Embassy Series, an international concert series in D.C.

‘Wilderness’ Is Urgent, Fresh Theater
• October 12, 2017

Featuring music, movement and video projections (including the use of Skype), the show is a challenging and moving journey into the lives of contemporary troubled teens.

The Georgetowner at 63: The More Things Change . . .
• October 11, 2017

Everybody has noticed that Washington, D.C. — our city, both center of the world, worldly and neighborly, a city embedded in its own history more firmly than most — is […]

The Most Wounding Week
• October 10, 2017

It began late Sunday, Oct. 1, at a country music festival in Las Vegas and ended with the death of the Traveling Wilbury who sang, “I Won’t Back Down.”