This New Exhibition Asks You to Think About How Art Scenes Affect Artists’ Work
Michael Ancher’s Kunstdommere (Art Judges) is an important painting in Denmark’s “Modern Breakthrough,” when artists stepped away from romanticism. In the work, which is on loan from the Danish Museum...
View ArticleWhat Can We Learn About Our Lives From Washingtonian’s Top Tweets of 2019?
January People love to ring in January. But by its like 54th day or whatever, January is about as welcome as a fart in a spacesuit*. The federal government was shut down for most of the month, and...
View ArticleThe Year in Umbrage
To live well in the Washington, DC, area, you must be perpetually aggrieved, whether it’s about a lack of voting representation in Congress, the sudden addition of bike lanes on your street, or your...
View ArticleWashingtonian’s Most Popular Articles in 2019
1. What Happened After My 13-Year-Old Son Joined the Alt-Right An anonymous mother tells the story of how her son, “Sam,” became entranced by alt-right hucksters after a distressing incident at his...
View ArticleRedditors Celebrate the Apparent Death of a DC Traffic Camera
On Sunday, a Reddit user named u/-BananAnimal- posted a photo that, depending on your point of view, either represents wanton disregard for civilization or the opening volley of a liberation campaign:...
View ArticleFinally, a Decade Whose Name We Can Agree On
As the ’90s approached, New York Times language columnist William Safire polled his readers about how we should refer to a decade that was still a long way off: The 2000s. The “Zots,” one probably...
View ArticleHow the Washington Post Came to Publish a Story About Getting High and Seeing...
The President faces an impeachment trial, Australia is on fire, and a war with Iran looms–in other words, Monday was the perfect time for the Washington Post to publish an article about people who got...
View ArticleWhy Meghan and Harry Should Move to DC
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced Wednesday that they plan to “step back as ‘senior’ members of the Royal Family” and “balance our time between the United Kingdom and North America.” While...
View ArticleDC Is Finally Getting an Iowa Caucus of Its Own
If you’re a Democrat who’s registered to vote in Iowa, you won’t need to return home to take part in the state’s caucuses on February 3: You’ll just need to get yourself to the Marriott Wardman Park...
View ArticleWe Refuse to Sit by Idly as the New York Times Praises DC
The New York Times has once again urged its readers to visit Washington, DC, an act of aggression that Washingtonian cannot tolerate. The blurb, 241 words of well-informed and well-intentioned praise,...
View ArticleYou Can See the Rediscovered African American Last Supper Sculpture This Weekend
The Studio Acting Conservatory will hold an open house this Saturday to show off the renovations going on in its future home in Columbia Heights. Visitors will also be able to see the massive Last...
View ArticlePenguin Monogamy Is a LIE, and Other Things You Can Learn This Valentine’s Day
Steve Sarro and I were having a normal conversation about penguin sex and then suddenly he blew my mind. We were discussing the Smithsonian’s National Zoo curator’s plans for present an “adults only”...
View ArticleAndrew Yang Is the Last Gen-X Presidential Candidate Standing
Andrew Yang (born in 1975) is the only representative of Generation X running for President now that Cory Booker (1969) has left the race. It’s important to note that Michael Bennet almost makes it: He...
View ArticleHarvard Law Review Article Advocates Turning DC’s Neighborhoods into 127 States
The best way to reform US democracy, according to a “Note” published Friday by Harvard Law Review? “Congress should pass legislation reducing the size of Washington, D.C., to an area encompassing only...
View ArticleHow Slate Ranked the World’s Most Evil Tech Companies
To construct its “Evil List,” Slate asked hundreds of academics, tech journalists, advocates, and policymakers to, in the words of the ballot, “rank the 10 companies that you believe should trouble...
View ArticleProject Blue Book Returns Tonight
At the end of the History Channel drama series Project Blue Book’s first season, a quintet of flying lights around the Washington Monument leads to a possible coverup and the discovery of a very...
View ArticleTrump’s July 4 Spectacle Did Not Translate Into an Airbnb Bonanza
President Trump’s “Salute to America” this past July 4 definitely did not overwhelm DC properties rented on Airbnb, according to data the short-term-rental service released Tuesday. The five biggest...
View ArticleHow Two High-Powered DC Executives Found Time to Write Genre Novels
Constance Sayers and Tom Rosenstiel already have impressive jobs, but each has managed to do something many Washingtonians secretly dream about: write a genre novel. In February, Sayers—a top executive...
View ArticleMike Bloomberg Says He Looks Forward to Calling DC’s Mayor “Governor Bowser”
The United States Conference of Mayors’ Winter Meeting is taking place in DC this year, and presidential candidate and former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg spoke at the event Wednesday. After telling...
View ArticleNonexistent Plan for Affordable Housing Roils Wealthy Alexandria Neighborhood
A contractor for Alexandria’s public schools set off an online firestorm by accidentally including a rendering of an apartment building with affordable units in a presentation about modernization plans...
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