Weekend Roundup, Dec. 12-15
• December 12, 2024

With Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa all about two weeks away, holiday events and performances have ramped up. There’s festive events at Tudor Place and Santa himself comes to Volta Park […]

Christmas Magic and ‘Believing’ at the Fairmont  
• December 11, 2024

Mayor Muriel Bowser kicked off the Christmas season and the 21st annual Christmas tree lighting festivities at the outdoor courtyard of the Fairmont Hotel of Georgetown on Dec. 3.  With […]

‘Leopoldstadt’: An Immersive, Haunting Family Portrait  
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“It’s like a second death, to lose your name in a family album.”   As soon as Grandma Emilia (Phyllis Kay) verbalizes this somber truth in Shakespeare Theatre Company’s production of […]

Legends Talk at the Phillips Collection   
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As long as I’ve lived in Washington, I’ve been in love with the Phillips Collection. For as historic, influential and mighty a museum as it is, it’s a funny little […]

Kitty Kelley Book Club: ‘Ninth Street Women’ 
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Curling up with a hefty book of almost 1,000 pages — dense with footnotes, endnotes, acknowledgments, an index and a bibliography — is like cuddling a St. Bernard: a challenging […]

Notes from The Underground—Dupont, That Is
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“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 […]

Artful Rx: Annemarie Ryan’s ‘Shining Through’ at MedStar GUH
• December 9, 2024

Artist Annemarie Ryan has donated 16 paintings of the series entitled “Shining Through” to the Verstandig Pavillon at Medstar Georgetown University Hospital. A Dec. 5 reception for the exhibit brought together […]

Light Up the Season at Four Seasons Honors Children’s National Hospital
• December 5, 2024

The Four Seasons hosted their “Light Up the Season” event inviting hotel guests and locals to check out their holiday displays, enjoy seasonal drinks at Bourbon Steak and enjoy a […]

Jew:CE The Jewish Comics Experience 
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By Sheila Wickouski Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman—these are some of the stars in the exhibit Jew:CE The Jewish Comics Experience at the Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum, which […]

William Gropper at the Phillips Collection
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Only two visual artists were blacklisted for their alleged Communist sympathies during the Red Scare of the 1950s: Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) and William Gropper (1897-1977). Subpoenaed by Republican Sen. Joseph […]