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 […]

Curtain Up for DC Theatre Week
• September 26, 2024

Just as Metropolitan Washington Restaurant Week is a gift to your taste buds, DC Theatre Week — starting tonight, Thursday, Sept. 26 — is a gift to your eyes, ears, […]

AFI Film Festival Says ‘Bienvenidos!’ and ‘Bem-vindo!’
• September 19, 2024

Opening tonight, Thursday, Sept. 19, the AFI Latin American Film Festival — held at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center in Silver Spring, Maryland — “celebrates Ibero-American cultural connections” […]

The Kreeger Museum Turns 30
• September 11, 2024

In 1994, four years after David Kreeger’s death and two years after his widow Carmen moved out (she died in 2003 at the age of 94), the Kreeger Museum opened […]

2024 Fall Arts Preview: Visual Arts
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Ralph Steadman: And Another Thing American University Museum Through Dec. 8  The American University Museum is the first U.S. venue for the touring exhibition, “Ralph Steadman: And Another Thing,” featuring […]

2024 Fall Arts Preview: Performing Arts
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CLASSICAL  This Saturday, two weeks before the National Symphony Orchestra’s gala — featuring pianist Yunchan Lim playing Rachmaninoff (Sept. 28) — the NSO presents “Echoes of America” in the Kennedy […]

September 2024 ArtsWatch
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DC Design Week to Kick Off Underground  This year’s DC Design Week, themed “Stories Within,” will kick off on Sept. 27 with a party at Dupont Underground. Events (in daily […]

JazzFest Underway; Meet the Artists at Arena Stage
• August 29, 2024

The DC Jazz Festival, DC JazzFest for short, has been a District-wide happening from the get-go. Musicians performed at 18 venues during the inaugural five-day festival (then called the Duke […]