Onstage, Georgetown: September
• August 29, 2024

By Mark Edelman September marks the beginning of Theatre Week — an even better reason to get out there and save on more than 30 productions scattered in and around […]

The National Gallery of Art, From a Different Angle
• August 22, 2024

The Champs-Élysées is in ruins. Though the Arc de Triomphe is intact in the distance, on each side of Paris’s grand avenue the walls of elegant apartment buildings are exposed […]

Building Museum Tackles Brutalism
• August 15, 2024

Brutalism, which flourished for about 25 years — from the early 1950s to the mid-1970s — is the architectural style that people love to hate. Labeling it Cold War architecture […]

Your Summer 2024 Reading List
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As summer slowly winds down, we have a last-minute summer reading list for your last long weekend at the beach, afternoon in the garden, or morning at your favorite coffee […]

In Georgetown, an Improbable Family Reunion  
• August 14, 2024

By Gerard Leval   A recent find in a Georgetown antique shop has resulted in the reunion of an 18th-century family from a small town in the Burgundy region of France, […]

Zen and American History Exhibitions
• August 8, 2024

Last April, a Japanese motorcycle joined the dozen in “America on the Move,” the 26,000-square-foot exhibition in the General Motors Hall of Transportation at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American […]

Primed for Otakon
• August 1, 2024

Are you an otaku, a person obsessed with Japanese comics, animation and video games? If so, you are no doubt preparing to storm the Walter E. Washington Convention Center this […]

‘Star Wars: A New Hope’ in Concert: A Galactic Performance at Wolf Trap
• July 25, 2024

By Forbes Dudley As a part of Wolf Trap’s movies in concert series, The National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) showcased the iconic soundtrack to Star Wars: A New Hope on Saturday […]

James Baldwin at 100
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Tonight, Thursday, July 25, at 7 p.m., the National Museum of African American History and Culture, 1400 Constitution Ave. NW, will present “Celebrating James Baldwin’s 100th Birthday: His Legacy and […]

Planet Word: Igniting Minds with the Versatility of Language
• July 11, 2024

Planet Word is fun! If you want a way to connect words to pictures in a child’s mind, Planet Word has it. Through demonstration, performance, listening, watching, practice and speech, a tour through one of Washington, […]