The Issue: The owner of the Takoma Theatre is planning a five-story apartment building for the historic spot. The theater has occupied the corner of Fourth and Butternut Streets NW since 1923; Milton McGinty bought the building in 1983. But the low-density neighborhood of Takoma has not been kind to a privately owned arts building [...]

From a press release:
Due to unforeseeable building construction, the Japan Information and Culture Center, Embassy of Japan regrets that we must temporarily close the Counter-Photography: Japan’s Artists Today exhibit until further notice. Members of the JICC mailing list will be notified when the exhibit reopens. We apologize for the inconvenience, and sincerely hope that we [...]

From Ward's email:
In the next few months I will be transition from my role as Executive Director of the Washington Project for the Arts and join the WPA Board of Trustees. The decision to leave as Executive Director is solely precipitated by my desire to spend more time with my immediate and extended family. In [...]

Well, not literally, but moviegoers and fans of prog can catch the godfather of strange-rock's most notorious film, Uncle Meat, next week at the Library of Congress.
Surprised to learn that an institution as fundamentally square as the LoC would screen something as inherently controversial as a Zappa flick? (Four of them, actually.) Norman Middleton says, [...]

Historically addresses ending in "SE" haven't received the arts coverage that they would otherwise be showered with if they were located near 14th St. NW, but that doesn't mean there's not a thriving arts scene on the other side of the river. FOTO Week DC ends Saturday, but we at City Paper would be remiss [...]