Sterling Tucker: A Founding Father of Modern D.C.
• July 22, 2019

It often seems that life is unfair when public figures pass away at the end of a long life removed at a distance and their important achievements, and the impact […]

Jim Bouton: Yankee Pitcher, ‘Ball Four’ Author
• July 18, 2019

Baseball was America’s green-grass-in-the-outfield game, often made romantic, patriotic and whatnot, and the baseball upholders of the faith didn’t like locker room stories.          

Ross Perot, an American Original
• July 12, 2019

While “eccentric” is a live-wire word, it does little justice to Perot’s life, which had depth and considerable consequence in the stream of American history.                                        

A Toast to la Belle France
• July 10, 2019

It’s worth noting that only 10 days separate the Fourth of July (or, as we sometimes call it over here, “Independence Day”) from Bastille Day (or, as they call it […]

Luis Alvarez, 9/11 First Responder, Laid to Rest Day Before July 4th
• July 3, 2019

At the National Mall by the Lincoln Memorial, they’re going to try to make an impression on the Fourth of July. It’s a big thing, what with the talk, the […]

Debate Part 2; Trump in the Zone
•

Kamala Harris was a standout at the Democratic debate on June 27, followed on June 30 by the startling spectacle of President Trump and North Korea Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un stepping across the DMZ.

The Dems Debate: Round One
• June 27, 2019

The spectacle — and it was a spectacle — was illuminating, confusing and entirely a part of the times we live in, in which politics has invaded our daily lives.

1969: A Year of Triumph and Turbulence 
• June 19, 2019

From the first of time,  before the first of time, before the  first men tasted time, we thought of you.  You were a wonder to us, unattainable,  a longing past the […]

Smith: Now Is the Best Time to Be Making Theater
• June 17, 2019

Molly Smith, who spoke in Georgetown on June 13, has done a lot and seen a lot at Arena, taken risks and chances, staged plays that excited, puzzled, outraged and engaged audiences from the start.

‘Hello, Dolly!’ Kicks Off Summer of Kennedy Center Musicals
• June 12, 2019

As embodied — and that’s the right word — by Broadway legend Betty Buckley, Dolly (Gallagher) Levi has settled in at the Kennedy Center Opera House through July 7 in a new production of “Hello, Dolly!”