As 2024 winds down, once again we’ve asked local booksellers their book recommendations with our readers. In a world increasingly marked by uncertainty and division, books offer solace and meaning like never before.
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The holiday season is a time of joy, unity, and celebration, and for many, it’s not complete without attending a performance by the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington (GMCW). This December, anticipation was high as the chorus prepared for its renowned Holiday Show.
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The Shakespeare Theatre’s production of Leopoldstadt, the latest work by renowned British playwright Tom Stoppard, is a tour de force of wit, intellectualism, and raw, personal emotion. Given that the playwright is 87 years old, Leopoldstadt may be this master’s final work. If so, he is at the height of his genius.
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Washington, D.C. – The D.C. Walls Festival hosted an outdoor NASA-themed art exhibition at Union Market this past month. This festival brought together 11 local, national, and international artists for an outdoor live installation and celebration for the eighth consecutive year. The new-level cosmic collaboration with NASA was expanded to District to Adams Morgan, Navy Yard, Shaw, and Union Market.
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DC is emerging as a hub for young artists and curators like Carter Wynne, a self-taught artist under the apprenticeship of independent curator and creative consultant, Fabiola R. Delgado. Wynne's groundbreaking exhibition, Intrinsic Tool, is the first to showcase her work at DC Arts Center. As part of the center's Curatorial Initiative, this exhibition celebrates the revolutionary potential of play.
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The House on Sun Street is a lyrical, nuanced novel that brings the Iranian Revolution of 1979 to life. Author Mojgan Ghazirad is a native of Iran who now lives in the D.C. area. She’s waded through her childhood memories to show us the human dimension of a country in turmoil.
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The Comeuppance–on stage now at Woolly Mammoth Theatre–is a dark comedy with a simple premise that slowly builds tension, layers, and unexpected nuances. It is anything but simple, and the production kept surprising from beginning to end.
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Before visiting Zsudayka Nzinga's Homecoming / Homegoing exhibition at Phillips@THEARC, I regarded fabrics merely as a collage component. The six artworks on display by Nzinga showcase the expressive power of textiles, where fabrics serve as frames, depict figures and vegetation, create landscape backdrops, and convey concepts of meaning like grief.
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The New York Circus Project‘s HAMLET, a contemporary circus adaptation of the Shakespearean classic performed at Union Market Dock 5 in Washington, DC, this past month, took the flexibility of what is generally accepted as Shakespeare’s most successful story to a literal place, with several tricks up their sleeve
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The Broccoli City Festival 2024 ignited D.C. with unity and celebration during the final weekend of July. This year's event marked a significant upgrade as it moved to the city's newest sports venue, Audi Field, home of D.C. United.
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At Washington, DC’s Union Station passenger railway waiting area, you'll come across a series of murals spanning the upper walls from Gate A through L. The murals, entitled The Potomac Shen River Series, were created by local artist Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann. They’re the second installation of Art @ Amtrak at Union Station, part of Amtrak's initiative to revitalize the station and enhance the travel experience for its visitors.
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The DC/DOX Documentary Film Festival returned to the district this June, once again providing a platform for emerging filmmakers innovating documentary storytelling. Held from June 13th to 16th, the festival showcased a diverse range of documentaries on big screens across the city. These films tackled critical topics like LGBTQ+ shelters and the controversial reinstatement of Arizona's abortion ban.
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Maryland-based author Liza Achilles has written an intimate, often hilarious, always relatable debut. Two Novembers: A Memoir of Love ‘n’ Sex in Sonnets was published this month by the hyperlocal press Beltway Editions, which is based in Rockville, Maryland.
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In a 1971 interview with Playboy magazine, celluloid cowboy John Wayne mused, “Tomorrow is the most important thing in life – comes into us at midnight very clean.” It’s not Wayne’s philosophical ponderings that weave him into The Kite Runner, a play based on author Khaled Hosseini’s 2003 novel of the same name.
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As the final installment of the “Women, Arts and Social Change” program hosted by the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) in its 2023-2024 season, the museum invited Schwanda Rountree and Myrtis Bedolla to speak at an event titled “Fresh Talk: Influence and Collecting.” The event discussed the progress and challenges faced by women and non-binary people in the art industry, specifically in curating and collecting.
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As the saying goes, nothing is certain except death and taxes–and yet, one could assert that metamorphosis is inevitable. Metamorphosis or change is always upon us, whether we like it or not. That’s especially true at the Folger Shakespeare Library this season.
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Just opened in May at the Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington, DC, La Vida Entre Latidos, in collaboration with IBERO University, features the lush, high-definition photography anthological series of Mexican artist Miguel Milló (b. 1959). Best translated as “Life Between Heartbeats,” the show highlights strange and fragile figures that are the protagonists of the portraits.
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As summer approaches, we turn our thoughts to beach reads and poolside companions. We’ve created our first summer reading list, sharing with you the best new books by D.C. area authors. When looking for the next great read, we value recommendations from real people, and especially from independent booksellers. These are thoughtful, dedicated readers who have a finger on the pulse of new stories and voices. This summer we reached out to bookstores in Northern Virginia and Maryland.
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Our lives are an amalgam of ordinary moments and significant events. Interior Lives, an exhibition featuring works by up-and-coming local artist Sydney Vernon at Philips@THEARC captures the subtleties and complexities of these experiences.
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