H Street NE, which transformed quickly from a dilapidated commercial strip to a hypergentrified attractant of quirky businesses, is not immune to controversy. But there's probably one H Street story most people could agree is a success: the tale of Al, the orange tabby who lived at Palace of Wonders—then later Red Palace—during the neighborhood's [...]
The House approves the Frederick Douglass statue for the U.S. Capitol [Post]
Shakespeare Theatre announces more free programming [Post]
Isn't Owl City so cute for putting Abraham Lincoln on the guest list to his show last night? Because it's D.C.! Ha ha ha ha! [DCist]
Michael O'Sullivan says: Go to these gallery shows this fall! [Post]
ICYMI: Fairfax is getting [...]
On a trip to Walter Reed Medical Center in 2004, iconic talk show host Phil Donahue met Tomas Young (shown), a soldier from Kansas City who’d been shot in the chest after only four days’ service in Iraq. Moved by Young’s story, Donahue and filmmaker Ellen Spiro embarked on documenting the veteran’s transition to a [...]
Federal judge rules that Shakespeare Theatre Company's lawsuit against its landlord will stay in District Superior Court. [Legal Times]
Is the secret to a "good" Washington TV show a strong female lead? [Post]
An onstage wedding at Capital Fringe [Post]
A petition for BET to give Chuck Brown a lifetime achievement award [Change.org]
Stop torturing your interns, NPR Music! [...]
On the cover of this week's Washington City Paper is Mark Andersen's very personal look into the fraught inner politics—and at the troubled, mercurial frontman—of D.C. hardcore pioneers Bad Brains as they attempt to remain a living, breathing musical force. Chris Klimek dissents on the widely praised The Normal Heart at Arena Stage—arguing that this [...]
The Shakespeare Theatre Company is coming off one hell of a week. Last Sunday, it collected a Tony Award. Out of that glow came the news Friday that it had asked for an injunction against the landlord of its 7th Street NW venue, Lansburgh Theatre, Inc., which wants to raise the company's rent to $480,000 [...]
Kathleen Turner coming to Arena Stage [Post]
Shakespeare Theatre director Michael Kahn talks failure and how he came to love the ol' Bard [Washingtonian]
Local DJ Jerome Baker III remixes Dam-Funk [Soundcloud]
Scion A/V releases its own Moombahton comp [Nouveau Riche]
Steve Jobs patents to be displayed at the S. Dillon Ripley Center [Post]
WaPo's staff is reportedly suffering from [...]
The Shakespeare Theatre Company will receive this year's Tony Award for Regional Theatre—the annual prize that the ceremony, which honors Broadway theater productions, hands to a company located outside the Great White Way. Shakespeare Theatre is the third D.C.-area troupe to receive the prize; Arena Stage won it in 1976 and Signature Theatre won it [...]
Leading this week's Washington City Paper is sage advice from Ally Schweitzer and Michael J. West on how to not screw up the Howard Theatre, the newly restored historic venue that reopens this month. Also in the feature well, I have an essay in which I untangle the contradictions of supporting arts scenes simply because [...]
What could Prohibition have to do with anti-Semitism? It’s easy to forget, now that the nationwide booze ban is popularly remembered mainly as a failed experiment that enabled lively speakeasies and empowered fearsome gangsters. But at the time, the issue was a classic cultural wedge, combining two unpleasant aspects of politics that remain with us [...]
