Trollin’ Adventures

Some things you merely enjoy and there are other things you feel very fortunate having experienced.  Entering its final weeks within Wrightwood 659’s captivating galleries, About Face: Stonewall, Revolt and New Queer Art, falls firmly in the second category. The show, which revitalizes our appreciation of the psychological power of art and challenges us to …

About Face: Stonewall, Revolt and New Queer Art in a Class of its Own Read More »

Pssssst.  What do you like most about summer in the city?  Beautiful surroundings. Top flight music.  A cold beer or a nice refreshing glass of wine on a beautiful summer night.  Good food.  A vibrant crowd.  Sinking into a polished vibe.  It’s all there every summer Tuesday night in the Museum of Contemporary Art’s backyard.  …

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Few things leave themselves open to expansion and clarification quite as much as history.  Those mandatory studies of the past we took in school amount to tiny and often highly skewed slivers of what happened when. Compared to the enormity of events that comprise the whole of human history, they are but droplets on a …

Block Museum Unveils Riches of African History Read More »

Children have no notion of history.  Even that of their own family.  It takes their own curiosity or the initiative of an adult to help shed light on who they are and how they fit into the world.  For most of the Black children whose parents and grandparents left the South between 1901 and 1970, …

Two Wings a Loving Triumph Read More »

Back in the day when air transportation didn’t exist and long distance communication was still in the form of the written word, travel wasn’t really travel unless things went wrong.  Not infrequently, catastrophically wrong.  Today, most travel is for pleasure and we plan meticulously to insure nothing goes awry when we head to the airport …

Fascinating Real Life Tale: Point of No Return Read More »

A & A Ballet, a three-year-old dance school currently housed in the Fine Arts Building on Michigan Ave., is one of those places with the gift of turning raw talent into prodigious proficiency.    Actually a combination of experience and skill, that gift comes in the form of the school’s co-founders, Anna Reznik and Alexei Kremnev. …

Sleeping Beauty – A Study in Youthful Excellence Read More »

Spring is for lovers…and cherry blossoms.  Despite love’s penchant for sometimes proving elusive, over a million people can be counted on to flock to Washington, DC to immerse themselves in pale pink when over 3000 cherry trees unfurl to full bloom.  A gift from the wife of the Japanese ambassador to the United States 107 …

D.C. ~ in Bloom Read More »