Arts
DC Jazz Festival Founder Charlie Fishman, 1942-2024
Watergate Rebirth: ‘Swinging Sixties’ Designed By Millennials
October 26, 2016
•After purchasing the shuttered Watergate Hotel in 2010 for $45 million in cash, Euro Capital Properties put in about $125 million more and reopened the hotel last spring.
Watergate Rebirth
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Senior vice president of design and development for New York-based Euro Capital Properties, Rakel Cohen designed the Watergate Hotel’s 7,000-square-foot Moretti Grand Ballroom herself, the stylish young woman tells an […]
Keith Lipert Gallery Moving to Canal Square
October 24, 2016
•Founded in 1994, after January the gallery will refocus in its new location on bespoke corporate gifts.
DC Artswatch 10-12
October 20, 2016
•An open reading of the words of Zelda Fichandler, founding artistic director of Arena Stage, will take place at the Mead Center for American Theater on Sunday, Oct. 23, with […]
Symphony Head Speaks at George Town Club About ‘Year of Transition’
October 17, 2016
•It’s Christoph Eschenbach’s final season as music director; stepping up is Italian conductor Gianandrea Noseda.
Boutique Saks Jandel to Fold By Year End
October 13, 2016
•Among the regular patrons of the 128-year-old store were Elizabeth Taylor, Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush and Condoleezza Rice.
Italian American Official: Replace Columbus Day
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John Viola has a suggestion based on what the holiday named for the controversial navigator has become.
Via Umbria Events Will Raise Earthquake Relief Funds
September 12, 2016
•Lives and historic buildings were lost in the Aug. 24 quake, but there was also damage to a fragile social structure.
Via Umbria Events Will Raise Earthquake Relief Funds
September 6, 2016
•Lives and historic buildings were lost in the Aug. 24 quake, but there was also damage to a fragile social structure.
From HoJo to Boathouse
September 2, 2016
•Once a hotel used to stake out the DNC, later a GW dorm, the Virginia Avenue building will become apartments.