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


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 […]