The Soulful Smoothness of Nat King Cole
• October 15, 2019

Nat King Cole would have been 100 years old March 17. He died from lung cancer on Feb. 15, 1965. He was born Nathaniel Adams Coles on March 17, 1919, […]

The Salve of Baseball
• October 10, 2019

For Washington baseball fans who treat the box score as a bible, who live in a city where political bloodletting is a condition not an event, we woke to baseball in a morning made joyful.

The Actress at the Center of ‘Doubt’
• October 8, 2019

A Georgetown resident, Sarah Marshall, who plays Sister Aloysius, teaches acting at Georgetown University and at Duke Ellington School of the Arts.

Carroll and Norman, Losses to the World at Large
• October 7, 2019

Diahann Carroll and Jessye Norman were both gifted African American women and star performers, different in style and genres perhaps, but wholly original in the effect and affect of their gifts. 

Chamber’s Orange Promotes What Makes D.C. Special
• September 30, 2019

CEO Vincent Orange radiates confidence, looking forward to fall events, notably the Chamber’s Choice Awards & Gala on Oct. 26.

Chamber CEO Vincent Orange: Promoting What Makes D.C. Special
• September 25, 2019

When Vincent Orange became president and CEO of the DC Chamber of Commerce back in August of 2016, it seemed like a good fit for him, a kind of climax […]

Mark Plotkin, a Passionate Voice, Has Died
• September 23, 2019

Plotkin wrote for all manner of news outlets, including, in recent years, The Georgetowner, where his last pieces appeared in 2017, and the Hill, where he covered the first hectic years of the Trump administration.   

Singing, Dancing Cats at the Kennedy Center
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“Cats” is a show so popular and so familiar that it readily attracts derision for its familiar tropes, characters, anthropomorphisms, circus-like aspects and doses of sentimentality. 

Cokie Roberts, 1943-2019
• September 19, 2019

She had an abundance of the Washington coin of the realm: respect. She also had style, an unwillingness to take guff, a wealth of direct knowledge of the practice of politics and a sparkling personality.

Arena Stage’s Season of Wilson
• September 13, 2019

Running from Sept. 13 to Oct. 26, “Jitney,” technically the first of the 10 plays in August Wilson’s monumental cycle, focuses on the lives and world of black cab drivers confronted with change and gentrification.