Inside the Beltway is quite exciting this time of year for all the best reasons…and this just scratches the surface. Sunday, September 5, 6 PM Graywolf Press and CAS/51 celebrates the publication of SKIN, INC. – Identity Repair Poems by Thomas Sayers Ellis (see the eclectique interview with Ellis) CAS/51 510 Randolph Street, Washington, DC [...]
via my friend Marsha…. Frida twittered us and says she’s baking her birthday cake and getting her papers in order. Hopefully the Border Patrol will let her enter Arizona without a hassle in time for her 103rd birthday celebration at Raices Taller 222 Art Gallery & Workshop. Born on July 6, 1907, Frida has requested [...]
JOSE ANDRES: NO MAS RIDGID RIDGEWELLS Star chef and restaurateur Jose Andres was in town this week with his next big thing – the giant paella pan. I believe the Jolly Green Giant size cooker made two public appearances in town this month — at the White House Farmers Market which is open for business [...]
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c
If there’s anyone who personifies the “eclectique citizen,” it’s Ruben Blades. Yesterday, my friend Dawn and I arrived 3 hours before he was to give a public interview covering his life as an artist, citizen, and just plain old human being at the Carmichael Auditorium in the National Museum of American History and Culture. The [...]
First this… “As African-American players, we have a theory that baseball can go get an imitator and pass them off as us. It’s like they had to get some kind of dark faces, so they go to the Dominican or Venezuela because you can get them cheaper. It’s like, ‘Why should I get this kid [...]
2,836,576 metric tons of food entered the United States through the Port of Los Angeles last year. The largest import: fruit. The best-represented exporting country, Chile. Source: Saveur March 2010 When I read this I couldn’t help but wonder what impact will the earthquake have on Chile’s infrastructure, not to mention the country’s people – [...]
Two exhibits I’m definitely going to catch this month at the Smithsonian Institution museums: IndiVISIBLE: AFRICAN-NATIVE AMERICAN LIVES IN THE AMERICAS Opens November 10. I got the heads up about this one a few weeks ago from Phoebe Farris who has an essay in the exhibition catalog. Click on the title or here to see [...]
This year, the Nobel Foundation awarded five prizes to women in science, literature, and economics, bringing the Foundation’s total to 41 women Nobel Laureates since its founding in 1901. Scientist Marie Curie was the first woman Nobel Laureate in 1903. Perhaps Larry Summers should accompany President Barack Obama to the award ceremonies in Stockholm. Elinor [...]
SYMPOSIUM: Cuba in the World: Literature, Politics, Performance Over the weekend, I had the pleasure of meeting Ariel Fernandez at the Future of Music Policy Summit. Ariel’s working on a new documentary “Hip-Hop in Cuba: a Revolution Within the Revolution.” He sent me an email to let me know that he’s in DC this week [...]
