The Jazz Project
To Know Love ••••
Maria Schafer, vocalist
With her lush, sensuous, and enchanting voice, jazz vocalist Maria Schafer has given us a modern-day jazz album on...
Insatiable – October 2017
Food, Booze, and Books
Peering into the Petworth Citizen & Reading Room, we felt we had time-traveled back to the 1940s. Reminiscent of an Edward...
Theatre Round Up
Every September we Washingtonians are spoiled by theater, as dozens of local companies roll out award-winning plays with stellar directors at the helm. Yet...
Depeche Art – September 2017
Foundry Gallery
In Blurring the Boundary, Sarna Marcus has created a series she calls Touchpoints. Employing imagery from the botanical world, Touchpoints draws specific comparisons...
Movies: A Second Look
Again, this September’s column considers movies “That Got Away,” worthy films of the past year (2016) that were little publicized or seen when first...
Insatiable – September 2017
With fall and football in the air, culinary yearnings turn to wonderful, smoky barbecue. With that in mind, we headed to DCity Smokehouse, tucked...
The Jazz Project – September 2017
John Abercrombie 1944 – 2017 - An Appreciation
Guitarist John Abercrombie is one of the rare artists whose music immortalized their souls among the living....
The Soulful Side of Bluegrass
The Steeldrivers is a Nashville-based band with a traditional bluegrass lineup up of players who have performed with major country acts. They’re all virtuosos,...
Going Places with ‘Small Planes’
The Seventh Child
In August, Ryan and Jill Jensen, owners of Peregrine Espresso, celebrated the ninth birthday of what the company’s website calls their “first...
Insatiable – August 2017
Ari’s Art Deco
We’d been meaning to try out Ari’s Diner in Ivy City. The first time we visited, every seat was taken. But the...