Census findings earlier this year that the District's black population had slipped to barely 50 percent seemed to set off a competition among local news organizations (Washington City Paper included) to refer back to the 1975 Parliament album Chocolate City as often as possible. What, then, to make of the announcement that George Clinton and [...]

Natalie Hopkinson’s article in last Sunday’s Washington Post Outlook section, “Go-go music is the soul of Washington, but it’s slipping,” has generated some discussion thanks to its provocative title, its subject and contentions, and its prominent location in the paper. It's being passed around a fair bit: I saw it on former Rolling Stone contributor [...]

Thanks to the hard work of both hip-hop pioneers and young upstarts throughout D.C., Maryland, and Virginia, the DMV is now officially on the map. It’s also in the dictionary. The Urban Dictionary—but still.
Most regions with thriving hip-hop scenes have catchy nicknames, but before the whole DMV acronym caught on in the mid-aughts, the greater [...]