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Last Chance for June Galas
June 4, 2018
•There is still time to reserve your tickets — and don your best — for fundraising fêtes at Hillwood Museum, the Embassy of France, the National Arboretum and other venues around town.
Remembering WWI on Memorial Day
May 24, 2018
•Dubbed the Great War or — hopefully but naively — the “War to End All Wars,” World War I changed America, as it had everything and everybody else.
D.C. Rises Early for the Royal Wedding
May 21, 2018
•Excitement built at 7 a.m. at the Ritz-Carlton in the West End as all attention turned to the three large TV monitors live-streaming the wedding from Windsor Castle.
Christ Church Marks 200 Years
May 14, 2018
•Hundreds of parishioners gathered at the Georgetown landmark for a special service commemorating the laying of the church cornerstone on May 12, 1818.
Haspel’s Confirmation Hearing Is Contentious (photos)
May 10, 2018
•Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-North Carolina) said he expected the committee to vote on Gina Haspel’s nomination for CIA director sometime next week.
Outdoor Art Exhibit Takes Over Rose Park
May 8, 2018
•Kiril Jeliazkov has planted 81 pieces of his huge outdoor artwork project — “The Orange Step” — into the grounds of Rose Park and parts of Massachusetts Avenue.
Bernstein’s ‘Candide’ Is a Glorious Mess
May 7, 2018
•The genre-defying show — at turns defined as an American opera, an operetta and a musical — is now, as part of the Bernstein centennial, in the Kennedy Center Opera House through May 26.
African Art Museum Is Focus of June 7 Breakfast
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Augustus (Gus) Casely-Hayford, the new director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, will speak at the George Town Club as part of Georgetown Media Group’s Cultural Leadership Breakfast Series, sponsored by Bonhams.
Choral Arts Artistic Director Speaks in Georgetown
May 3, 2018
•At Georgetown Media Group’s May 3 Cultural Leadership Breakfast at the George Town Club, Tucker spoke about his first five years as Choral Arts artistic director and, movingly, about what motivated his change of career plans in his early 20s.
An Entertaining ‘Barber’ from WNO
May 1, 2018
•Washington National Opera’s “Barber of Seville,” at the Kennedy Center through May 19, is beautifully performed by a cast packed with terrific singers, most notably Russian tenor Andrey Zhilikhovsky, as the Barber, aka Figaro,