Texas Novelist and Georgetown Bookseller Larry McMurtry, 84

April 1, 2021

The author of “Horseman, Pass By” (reworked by Hollywood as “Hud”), “The Last Picture Show,” “Terms of Endearment” and “Lonesome Dove” died on March 25.

Weekly Arts Round Up, April 1, 2021


In person, you can feast your eyes at the Kreeger Museum and Hemphill Fine Arts. Now available for streaming: Broadway star Daniel J. Watts’s one-man show.

Artist, Stylist Robert Novel Dies


O Salon, the popular salon that has been part of the Georgetown neighborhood for decades, has lost one of its greats. Robert Novel, who was a partner at the salon […]

Weekly Arts Round Up, March 25, 2021

March 25, 2021

Smithsonian Associates and the National Portrait Gallery will offer full-day programs online this Saturday to close out Women’s History Month.

Flicks4Change Festival Returns

March 22, 2021

Running from 8 to 10 p.m. on March 22, 23 and 24, the festival will supplement each set of screenings with interviews of filmmakers, nonprofit leaders and other changemakers.

Architect Frank Schlesinger, 1925-2021

March 18, 2021

Schlesinger, who led an award-winning architectural practice in Georgetown for more than 60 years, died on March 4 at the age of 95.

Weekly Arts Round Up, March 18, 2021


This Saturday, Olympic gold medalist Laurie Hernandez will be the special guest at the National Archives Museum’s virtual pajama party.

Georgetown Resident Is Co-Author of ‘Dior in Bloom’

March 14, 2021

Each chapter of the book explores a different aspect of Christian Dior’s life and work. Naomi Sachs’s essay focuses on nature as his inspiration and restoration.

The Phillips Collection: 100 Years as a Home for Art

March 13, 2021

The Phillips Collection’s centennial anniversary exhibition should be serious news. Not just “Arts & Culture” news, but a mainstream feature story. America’s first museum of modern art, which houses an […]

Weekly Arts Round Up, March 11, 2021

March 11, 2021

A wine class tonight, a mansion tour tomorrow, family activities on Saturday morning — all virtual. On St. Patrick’s Day in Gaithersburg, you can pick up a “spirit kit.”