Arts & Society
Ricky Skaggs at the Birchmere
Ricky Skaggs at the Birchmere
December 23, 2024
•At age 70, Ricky Skaggs is a spring chicken compared to Willie Nelson, who’s 91. Though Willie (pardon the first-name basis) has never played the Birchmere — he did a […]
A Winter Holiday Hotel: The St. Gregory
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This winter, making the gratifying transition from frosty outdoors to toasty indoors is guaranteed at the St. Gregory Hotel. The West End property’s top-to-bottom renovation in 2018 — by Philadelphia’s […]
Tiger, Tiger: 2 Shows at the Kennedy Center
December 12, 2024
•Last year, after Nikita could not conceive, she underwent artificial insemination. Alas, no luck. The National Zoo is still hoping for tiger cubs, but not from Nikita, who has pretty […]
Notes from The Underground—Dupont, That Is
December 11, 2024
•“We are both architects,” says Lucrecia Laudi, who co-founded Dupont Underground in 2005 with her husband, Julian Hunt. “But we come from different worlds.” Laudi grew up in the Argentine […]
PostClassical Ensemble’s Brazilian Sampler
December 2, 2024
•For this listener, the most transcendent moment in PostClassical Ensemble’s “Legends of Brazil” program, presented on Nov. 19 and 20 in the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater, arrived about five-sixths of […]
DC Jazz Festival Founder Charlie Fishman, 1942-2024
November 14, 2024
•The DC Jazz Festival announced the Nov. 12 death of Charles Fishman, the annual festival’s founder and longtime executive producer, at the age of 82. “Charlie’s leadership, passion and tireless […]
The Georgetowner’s 2024 Holiday Theater Guide
November 13, 2024
•LAST CHANCE THIS MONTH … It’s still Spooky Season at The Keegan Theatre, where “The Woman in Black” haunts Eel Marsh House on Nine Lives Causeway in Stephen Mallatratt’s adaptation […]
Getting to Know 2 AKA Hotels
November 6, 2024
•Though both offer high-style luxury, two new D.C.-area hotels under the AKA banner are as different — in the words of their management — as “Night” and “Day.” “Day” refers […]
Choreographer Diana Movius Is Nov. 21 Breakfast Speaker
October 28, 2024
•On Thursday, Nov. 21, The Georgetowner’s Cultural Leadership Breakfast Series will present a talk by Diana Movius, recently appointed choreographer-in-residence at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. Admission to the event, […]
Opera Lafayette’s Ryan Brown to Speak at Oct. 24 Breakfast
September 30, 2024
•Ryan Brown, founder and artistic director of Opera Lafayette — the highly regarded presenter of baroque and classical operas with a chamber orchestra of period instruments — will speak at […]