Must-Attend Spring 2024 Balls, Events and Galas
• April 18, 2024

We are in prime spring events, balls and gala season. See below for all the must-attend events this week through June! APRIL Friday, April 19 Junior League of Washington’s Art […]

Weekend Roundup, April 18 – 21
• April 17, 2024

Welcome to Georgetown House Tour weekend! Don’t miss the must-see event on Saturday, and if you’re up for more events, there is plenty to do. Mount Vernon is hosting an […]

The 2024 Leukemia Ball at the Washington Convention Center
• April 11, 2024

The VIP reception at Saturday’s Leukemia Ball at the Washington Convention Center. This year’s Ball raised over $2 million to combat blood-related cancers. Photos by: Naz Atabaki

Previewed at Mount Zion: ‘DC Emancipation & The Right to Vote’  
• April 10, 2024

A preview of an original work-in-development, the opera “DC Emancipation & The Right to Vote,” was staged in Georgetown at Mount Zion United Methodist Church on March 14. “DC Emancipation […]

‘Hair Force One’: Intimate Yet Respectful  
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Eivind Bjerke — a Norwegian immigrant who became the hairdresser of first ladies, royalty and Georgetown “who’s-whos” — tells his remarkable life story in “Hair Force One.” The new paperback […]

Filmmaker Gets Foot in the Door With ‘Step Back, Doors Closing’  
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This article has been updated. By Hailey Wharram “Step Back, Doors Closing,” the first project from Arden Pictures, the production company founded by Carter Ward in 2021, follows Julisa (Carmen […]

The Georgetowner’s Spring 2024 Theater Guide 
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 ONGOING …  At Arena Stage, Trip Cullman directs “Unknown Soldier,” the last musical by “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson” composer Michael Friedman, with lyrics by Friedman and Daniel Goldstein, who wrote […]

Kitty Kelley Book Club: You Can Rest in Peace in Georgetown, If You Can Afford It   
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If you live in Georgetown, you can sin and be saved in the same zip code. Bars and bistros border the 12 square blocks of this historic area, which also […]

Richie Moriarty of CBS’s ‘Ghosts’ Previews Appearance at Library of Congress
• April 7, 2024

On Tuesday, April 9, the Library of Congress is hosting a panel and episode screening featuring cast members from the CBS show “Ghosts.” From 5 to 6 p.m., the library […]

Tasty ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ at Ford’s
• April 4, 2024

The main human characters in the current Ford’s Theatre production of the musical “Little Shop of Horrors” — the real star being a flesh-and-blood-eating plant — are not the four-eyed […]