Books
‘Hair Force One’: Intimate Yet Respectful
Arts & Society
Book Goes to the Dogs — and Vet’s Admirers
Arts & Society
Education: Some Hopeful News on D.C.’s ‘Reading Crisis’
Arts & Society
Chip Reid’s ‘Battle Scars’ Talk at City Tavern on Jan. 25
Books
Kitty Kelley Book Club: ‘After Elizabeth: Can the Monarchy Save Itself?’
Weekend Round Up October 18, 2018
October 18, 2018
•Sunday is performance-packed, with appearances by the Handel and Haydn Society, the Cathedral Choral Society under Leonard Slatkin, “Sholom Aleichem” and Eve Ensler and Anne Lamott.
Capitol Newspeg: Majority, Diversity, Civility
October 15, 2018
•What would happen if the majority changes in the House? Plus different ways to approach diversity on the Supreme Court and when and where incivility is apparently okay.
New Guidebook: Local Writer’s Take on D.C.
October 11, 2018
•Author Samantha Sault has an appealing, credible voice that takes readers of this new Moon guidebook beneath D.C.’s polished surface.
Sidwell Senior Raises Funds With Photo Book
October 10, 2018
•Sydnee Lubar, a senior at Sidwell Friends School, has already achieved an alliterative triple crown: author, artist and advocate. At age 12, Lubar was diagnosed with scoliosis, an abnormal curvature […]
‘Just a Journalist: On the Press, Life, and the Spaces Between’
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Reviewed by Kitty Kelley The Pulitzer-winning reporter recounts the pitfalls of proffering an opinion. If Linda Greenhouse is “just a journalist,” then Secretariat is just a horse. With a Phi […]
‘Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret’
September 26, 2018
•Reviewed by Kitty Kelley The book cover shouts “rollicking, irresistible, un-put-downable.” The blurbs trumpet “original, hilarious, memorable,” even “a level of genius.” Even if all that praise for “Ninety-Nine Glimpses […]
Woodward’s ‘Fear’: A Splash, Then Silence
September 25, 2018
•The combination of book and New York Times editorial was explosive, and, one would think, would provide enough fodder for speculative editorializing and deep-think, deep-state posturing to last the rest of Trump’s term, or at least for a week or two.
‘Studio 54 Forever’ at House of Sweden
September 20, 2018
•Hasse Persson spent more than 100 nights at Studio 54 as the only photographer allowed inside by co-owner Steve Rubell after press hours. An exhibition of his photographs is on view from Sept. 22 to Dec. 9.
Weekend Round Up September 20, 2018
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It’s a double festival weekend with Old Town Alexandria’s King Street Art Festival, postponed by Hurricane Florence, now going head-to-head with the Chesapeake Oyster & Wine Festival at National Harbor.
‘American Lady: The Life of Susan Mary Alsop’
September 12, 2018
•Reviewed by Kitty Kelley For the “American aristocrat” who hobnobbed with Washington’s power elite for four decades, maintaining her place in society mattered most. The jacket copy makes your mouth […]