By Kitty Felde If January is our traditional month for resolutions, why not make February the month to shake it up a bit. Doing the same thing over and over again can be mind-numbing. Small changes can reawaken the joy we felt not so long ago. You can even shake […]
Southwest’s Own Museum Mile Offers Global Tour of Extraordinary Art in Our Backyard
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art is featuring seven sculptures by Washington, D.C.-based Ethiopian American artist Tsedaye Makonnen. Photo by Brad Simpson, 2024, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution By Sheila Wickowski While New York’s “Museum Mile” – the Upper East Side Fifth Avenue museums – is a showcase […]
Southwest DC Community Center Will Create A New, Vibrant Gathering Place
By The Southwest DC Community Center Board of Directors From the thrills of Arena Stage and The Wharf, to the serenity of Lansburgh Park and the Duck Pond, from the natural beauty of the coastline and water at Buzzard Point to the mesmerizing simplicity of the Titanic Memorial, the Southwest […]
Theater Alliance Opens Season in New Southwest Home
By Sheila Wickouski Professional theater company Theater Alliance recently opened its first Southwest-based season in a transformed performance space on the ground level of The Westerly on 340 Maple Drive SW. The company’s season-opening show is a run of Covenant, billed as “Southern Gothic meets the blues,” which comes to […]
Sounds of Southwest
By Fredo Vasquez A selection of concerts coming to Southwest’s music venues. Molchat Doma (Punk) – After selling out the 9:30 Club twice in 2023, this Belorussian bands returns to DC to promote their fourth album Belaya Pelosa. Compared to The Cure and Joy Division, Molchat Doma’s synth, drum machines, […]
Spy Museum Hosts Exhibit on Daring Female Spy
By Southwester Staff The International Spy Museum, located at 700 L’Enfant Plaza SW, launched a new exhibit to tell the story of Virginia Hall, who left Baltimore to join the French Army as an ambulance driver during World War II. Over the course of the war, she led reconnaissance, sabotage, […]
Arena Stage Hosts Free Preview of Local Performing Arts Summer Camps
By Southwester Staff This month, over a dozen DC-area performing arts summer camps will gather at Arena Stage for a free public fair, where future campers can meet camp representatives and sample offerings for the upcoming summer camp season. The fair provides families of elementary, middle, and high school students […]