By Kitty Felde Perhaps I’m still thinking about Valentine’s Day, wondering about how we fall in love with another person. What is it about them that makes them irresistible? A much tougher question is: how do we get a kid to fall in love with reading? It’s hard enough to […]
Southwest Chamber Players Present 25th Anniversary Shows
By David Ehrlich The Southwest Chamber Players announce their triumphant return to the concert stage of Saint Augustine’s Episcopal Church with a pair of concerts Friday, April 1 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, April 3 at 2:30 p.m. Following a two-year hiatus caused by the coronavirus pandemic, this happy occasion […]
Join the Great Ward 6 Spring Clean!
By Southwester Staff As spring returns to Ward 6, DC Councilmember Charles Allen invites the community to come together on Saturday, April 2 and set aside a few hours to help clean up our neighborhood, reconnect with each other, and show our streets, parks, and alleys a little love. Councilmember […]
Meet the Team Behind the Southwest DC Community Center: Will Rich
By the SWDCCC Community Engagement and Communications Committee The Southwest DC Community Center (SWDCCC) that is planned to open in our neighborhood in the next few years will serve as a vibrant, central hub for the Southwest and Capitol Riverfront communities that provides an inclusive space for a wide range […]
Arena Stage Launches New Production of Catch Me If You Can
By Sheila Wickouski With a new production of Catch Me If You Can, Arena Stage adds to the list of acclaimed Broadway productions, Oklahoma!, The Pajama Game, Anything Goes and Disney’s Newsies, that have been brought to its iconic in-the-round Fichandler Stage. The story of a charming con man, Frank […]
Glass and Light Inspire in New Exhibit at National Museum of the American Indian
By Sheila Wickouski Of the thousands of stories of Raven the trickster told by the indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest, international glassmaker Peston Singletary has chosen to tell one version from his Tlingit clan in the exhibition Preston Singletary: Raven and the Box of Daylight now on view at […]
National Museum of African Art Offers Intimate Portrait of Nollywood Stars
By Southwester Staff The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art has laid out a red carpet for guests to enter its latest exhibit: Iké Udé: Nollywood Portraits. Udé’s world spans from homeland of Nigeria to his current base New York. In 2014, he returned to Nigeria to create portraits of […]