Arts & Dining

Still one of this listener’s all-time favorite recordings, we honor August birthday hero Lester Young by remembering again his album “Lester Young in Washington,...

We honor Carl Grubbs, a performer last year at the Anacostia Comunity Museum, as one of our July birthday jazz heroes, along with Johnny...

In a church with yellow walls and stained-glass windows, a red carpet and maybe two dozen audience members scattered on benches, an orchestra plays...

DC Jazz Fest Is Here! The DC Jazz Fest is back with a bang. This year's festival, which started on June 7 and lasts until...

Kristine Key to Perform at Anacostia Arts Center The Second Sundays Jazz series presents “The Kristine Key Quartet Musical Experience” in a free show from...

“This year, JAM celebrates the relationship between jazz and justice by looking beyond the music to the dynamic ways jazz has played a...

Exhibition at Congressional Cemetery Examines Dogs as Gatekeepers Renowned South African artist James Delaney created and donated a series of six lithographs, sold in editions...

Author Junot Díaz, acclaimed for his adult fiction, just released his first picture book, and Capitol View Neighborhood Library, 5001 Central Ave. NE, in...

On Saturday, March 3, 2018, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities unveiled an eight-foot statue of Marion Barry, Jr. The bronze sculpture,...

Attention all muggles: Potted Potter, the New York and West End smash hit, returns to Washington DC this April. East of the River readers...