Spring Arts Preview – Visual Arts
• February 12, 2025

Setting Sail: The Story of Sea Cloud  Feb. 15 to June 15  Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens  Using documents, photographs, models, paintings and decorative art objects, “Setting Sail” tells the […]

Spring Arts Preview: Performing Arts
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JAZZ, POP, COUNTRY, ROCK AND HIP HOP  Performers of note coming to Blues Alley include the Vijay Iyer Trio (March 13 and 14), Stanley Jordan (April 10 to 13) and […]

ANC Report: Christmas Trees, Jelleff Delays, Theft From Autos, Classroom Phone Ban 
• February 10, 2025

“They’ve forgotten us!” the usually cool Commissioner Paul Maysak lamented loudly — half tongue-in-cheek — toward the end of the Feb. 3 meeting of ANC 2E, the Advisory Neighborhood Commission […]

D.C. to Host Grand Events for America’s 250th Birthday
• February 3, 2025

By Charlotte Meyer-Schoenherr Washington, D.C. is gearing up to take center stage in 2026 as the nation celebrates its 250th birthday, marking a historic milestone since the signing of the […]

Kennedy Center’s Rutter to Step Down
• January 27, 2025

Kennedy Center’s president since 2014, Deborah Rutter, will step down from her role at the end of the year amidst uncertainty in a new (returning?) administration. Rutter’s contract is up […]

Business Ins & Outs: Alara, Octobre Éditions, Arc’teryx, Ateliers Jacob
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In: Hakan Ilhan’s Alara on Feb. 5  The long-shuttered Paolo’s Ristorante space has metamorphosized into Alara, a Mediterranean-focused restaurant by Hakan Ilhan. Meaning “beautiful water fairy” in Turkish, Alara will […]

60th Inaugural: A Day That Was All Trump
• January 21, 2025

President Donald Trump was sworn in yesterday as the 47th President of the United States at the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol a minute and a half past noon. The […]

Editorial: Meta Pulls the Plug on Fact-Checking  
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Last week, Meta, the company that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, announced that it would end its eight-year fact-checking partnership with independent American journalists to identify misinformation on its platforms.    […]

Weekend Roundup: Jan. 16-20
• January 16, 2025

Stay safe this weekend as you take part in any (or all!) of these events. Note: Georgetown Lutheran steeple climb & tour postponed to Jan. 25, 26. Chefs Unite for a […]

The Odyssey of Pierre Salinger
• January 15, 2025

 “I don’t want any more Bush presidents,” Pierre Salinger wrote in The Georgetowner in 2000. “If Bush wins, I’m going to leave the country and spend the rest of my […]