I’m not new to musical theater—I was, after all, a singing fairy in my high school’s production of A Mid Summer Night’s Dream. In fact, acting runs in my family. It just so happens that a very distant cousin is an actress in Hollywood. So when I saw that St. Mark’s Players would be hosting [...]
Happy Thursday, dear readers — just two more days till the weekend. And with it being the first weekend of December, you know what that means: the start of the holiday party season! Well if you’d like to mix in some fun around the Hill between those tacky sweater parties, we’ve got a few ideas [...]
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Most galleries will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday. Please check with galleries directly via phone or email for showing availability via the additional details link. 39th Street Gallery Through December 31, 2011 Friday 7pm to 9pm; Sat: noon to 4pm The Brentwood Gallery presents Shape Shifters a group show featuring the work of Karl [...]
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Saturday October 29 Monster Mash (10am to 5pm) Artist cooperative Albus Cavus brings a whole new spin to Halloween on Capitol Hill this year. Join them for an afternoon of face painting, costume making, skateboarding and general fun. Also, help paint a mural under the Southeast-Southwest Freeway. FREE. For additional details, click here. Garfield Park [...]
Friday October 21 Studio H (6pm to 9pm) Studio H opens Amalgamations, new work by Steven Pearson. Pearson paints large scale work and has created a 9’ x 9’ installation piece for the gallery. Inspired by the deluge of quotidian information we are subjected to via social media, television, radio and email, Amalgamations translates this [...]
You cast votes online and during the H Street and Barracks Row Festivals, so now the results are in on the people and places you have nominated as your Hill favorites. Between October 1st and 28th, you’ll be able to go online to choose the winner in each category. The awards will be presented on [...]
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Through September 26th, the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop is offering discounted tickets to its fall arts bash, aka ArtSmash. The tickets, $50 in advance or $75 at the door, are available for just $40 until Monday. They can be purchased by calling CHAW at (202) 547-6839 or emailing Victor. The October 1st event raises money [...]
The days are indeed getting shorter, the neighborhood squirrels are mad with nut harvesting and there are leaves all over my yard. But damn, these temperatures just aren’t taking the hint. The weekend doesn’t look like it’s going to cool off too much, but as promised, the list of weekend events keeps growing as the [...]
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Growing up in New Jersey I spent the better part of my summers down the shore–though many a grammarian would prefer I say “at the beach.” Memorial Day meant more time on the boat and at the beach, while Labor Day represented the end of everything good and wonderful about summer. However, Labor Day also [...]
The Capitol Hill Arts Workshop will be presenting a choral concert on Sunday, February 12, 2012 in honor of its 40th Anniversary and they are looking for singers! The concert will feature Robert Convery’s Songs of Children, based on writings of children during the Holocaust, and Jeffery Watson’s Where Every Voice Is Heard, written for CHAW’s 30th Anniversary [...]
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