Read our two-part interview with Mohegan playwright, director, and actor Madeline Sayet.
You can now check out the entire COVID Poetry & Art Project. Pandemic-themed poetry and art by local artists and writers.
The Trump Administration signed into law Executive Order 14252, covertly titled Making the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful back in March. The order permits collaboration between the Metro Police Department and local agencies, such as the Department of Transportation, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, and the Department of Homeland Security, among others, to facilitate the operations of the newly established Safe and Beautiful Task Force. For D.C. residents, this means an increased police presence on federal property throughout the city, including its many parks and on public transportation.
When someone mentions “opera,” what words come to mind? For many, old, white, pale, and stale would slip off the tongue. The Washington National Opera’s revival of George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, which ran last month, subverts this stereotypical conception. The WNO’s Porgy and Bess is a love story of a drug-addicted woman in an abusive relationship who seeks refuge and romance with a destitute man who is physically disabled, set against the backdrop of Catfish Row, a lower-income Black-majority community in 1950s South Carolina.
Among natural landmarks, the Potomac River doesn’t seem all that remarkable. It doesn’t possess the grandeur or the fame of the Grand Canyon, Mount Rushmore, or even the Mississippi River. But in her new book Potomac Fever: Reflections on the Nation’s River, Charlotte Taylor Fryar treats the river with the reverence and respect of a national treasure by tracing its history, expounding on its ecological diversity, and illustrating the way nature relates to racial division in the capital city and surrounding areas.
