27TH ANNUAL BERKS JAZZ FEST OPENS MARCH 31st
The two week long, ten day long jazz emersion experience AKA the Berks Jazz Festival begins the last Friday in March on the 31st and extends to the second Sunday in April on the 9th. The opening night Celebration features Patti Austin, Jonathan Butler and Gerald Albright at the ornate Santander Center in downtown Reading, […]
MNEMONIC BY COMPLICITE
On the eve of St. Patrick’s Day, the international touring group from London, Complicite paints a bold and chaotic picture of the European immigrant experience with in-your-face full frontal, primordial images of climate change and Stone Age icemen. Mnemonic grapples with the fragmented yet creative aspects of memory as seen through the grieving mind of an estranged […]
CHOCOLATE COVERED ANTS
When you’re the only Black professional theater company in the DMV and have a timeless proven product, it’s about perfection not production values. Restoration Stage has refined an already polished play into a more complex, nuanced production that gets better with every iteration. I first saw ‘ANTS’ at the Bowie Playhouse in 2014 and I was struck by the […]
BARRY PLACE CRAINS HOVER OVER HOWARD PLACE
Turning south on Sherman off of Park Road, I noticed the Crain hovering over the horizon for the first time. As I got closer I realized that it was where the old parking lot for the Howard business school temp buildings used to be. I’m dating myself but before Howard built the ‘new’ Bschool at […]
15TH ANNUAL HURSTON WRIGHT LEGACY AWARDS
Earnest Gaines who penned Miss Jane Pittman was honored with the North Star Award as a beacon of brilliant accomplishment and Dominican Pulitzer Prize winning author Junot Diaz was described by Mistress of Ceremonies Michel Martin as “a disturber of the peace” humbly received the Ella Baker before a packed house at the Washington Plaza Hotel at the 15th Annual Hurston […]
SHAW WINS GREAT AMERICAN MAIN STREET AWARD!
Shaw Main Streets received the 2016 Great American Main Street Award® (GAMSA) at the 2016 Main Street Now Conference in Milwaukee, WI on May 23, 2016. The win will be celebrated at a gala fundraiser at the Howard Theatre in the neighborhood on June 1, 2016. According to a press release from the National Trust for Historic […]
DMV 202 ARTS
Honfleur Gallery, Good Hope Road exhibit participant from Syracuse 10-9-2105. Concept is to mimic GOOGLE and make the logo dynamic and changeable to showcase local talent. Secondarily, expand the ‘Creative Economy” concept rolled out by Mayor Gray a few years ago and expand it to Maryland & VA suburbs! Following month-long spotlights on innovation (innoMaytion) […]
WES CLARK’S NEW AMERICAN PASTIME REFLECTS HOW WE LOST DC
Wesley Clark grew up in Silver Spring and went on to earn a BFA at Syracuse University and an MFA at George Washington University where he now serves as an adjunct professor teaching visual arts. I first discovered Clark’s genius and unique insight into GO GO culture that he channeled into an original piece called ‘The […]
