Weekend Round Up February 8, 2018
• February 8, 2018

Some options this weekend: tasting chocolate, cooking Indian food, learning about bridal etiquette and attending classical, jazz and choral concerts.

Tragic Love, Choreographed by Cranko
• February 7, 2018

To spark some much-needed love and reconciliation in the nation’s capital — where Republicans and Democrats are acting like Montagues and Capulets — the Washington Ballet is presenting “Romeo & […]

Cafe Milano ‘Snub’ a High-Profile ‘Misunderstanding’
• January 29, 2018

By Sunday afternoon, all was well with Andrés, Trump and Nuschese, owner of Cafe Milano, the glitterati Italian restaurant celebrating 25 years in Georgetown.

Halcyon Hosts Arts Lab Open House
• January 25, 2018

The former Fillmore School now houses studios for Halcyon’s artist fellows; a dance studio named for Septime Webre and the “one-room” Mysa School.

Encounters with ‘Hamlet’
• January 24, 2018

Once encountered — preferably onstage, acting a part, however small, but also as a high school English assignment — William Shakespeare and his most familiar creation, “Hamlet,” about that melancholy […]

A Half-Dozen Gone But Remembered
• January 22, 2018

Our writer salutes musicians Edwin Hawkins and Dolores O’Riordan, sportscaster Keith Jackson, little- and big-screen stars Doreen Tracey and Dorothy Malone and Sen. John Tunney.

This Week: New York’s Winter Antiques Show
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The loan exhibition from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is a treasure chest, but so are the booths of the 70 exhibitors, all of which showcase objects of museum quality.

The Never-Ending Fire and Fury
• January 18, 2018

In a way, the disappearance of “Fire and Fury” from the headlines, or at least its cooling down, makes the main point of Michael Wolff’s book itself. 

A Welcome Testimony in ‘Riot Days’
• January 17, 2018

When a group of women performed its startling “punk prayer” in Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Savior on Feb. 21, 2012, it made international headlines. While the story was newsworthy, […]

Dr. King’s Words, and Trump’s
• January 16, 2018

In the end, the celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday became a day when the president was questioned about his stand on race.