Arts and Culture

The District is closing out February with a varied slate of arts and humanities events, plus a Wizards game on Historically Black Colleges and Universities Night during the last weekend of Black History Month. There is also a housewarming…

An expansive new exhibit at American University’s Katzen Arts Center offers a survey of contemporary sculpture and photographs through works donated by lobbyist and internationally influential art collector Tony Podesta — including many…

Capital Projections is The DC Line’s selective and subjective guide to some of the most interesting arthouse and repertory screenings in the coming week. PIG (IMDb) In this scathing satire, someone is beheading the great…

You probably know that Duke Ellington was a Washington native. But would the iconic jazzman be the best cover subject for a book about local jazz? The new book Washington, DC, Jazz, by Regennia N. Williams and the Rev. Sandra…

This weekend in DC provides opportunities to honor President Abraham Lincoln, as well as many other prominent U.S. figures such as descendants of trailblazers from the Civil War, a self-made photographer and Frederick Douglass on his…

Capital Projections is The DC Line’s selective and subjective guide to some of the most interesting arthouse and repertory screenings in the coming week. EVERYBODY KNOWS (Focus Features) The latest from Iranian writer-director…

The Highway QC’s, a gospel group formed in Chicago in 1945 that once featured soulful vocalist Sam Cooke, is still going strong. The late Cooke is long gone, but the 90-year-old Spencer Taylor Jr., who joined the ensemble in 1956 and moved…

DC has been the home of so many significant events over the years that anniversaries are bound to spring up frequently. This week, we dive into some notable occurrences that took place in and around the District in years past. The…

When the architects of a nationwide anti-gun violence campaign deliver some 720,000 postcards to Capitol Hill on Tuesday morning urging universal background checks for gun buyers, it will mark the culmination of a monthslong effort that…

Amid a roomful of local political and education luminaries, Mayor Muriel Bowser and former Mayor Sharon Pratt recently kicked off the Institute of Politics Policy and History (IPPH), a new scholarly endeavor to be housed at the University…

This weekend in the District, observance of Black History Month continues with a poetry open mic, an afternoon concert and a talk by an esteemed World War II pilot. Other activities on tap include used-book sales, a new art exhibit at…

Capital Projections is The DC Line’s selective and subjective guide to some of the most interesting arthouse and repertory screenings in the coming week. ARCTIC The recent warm spell may have made us forget about winter, but this…

DC has been the home of so many significant events over the years that anniversaries are bound to spring up frequently. This week, we dive into some notable occurrences that took place in and around the District in years past. Boss…

The first weekend of February is full of ways to celebrate Black History Month, as well as Groundhog Day and Super Bowl Sunday. There is also a polar plunge for folks who can’t get enough of the cold, and a clothing exchange for those…

Capital Projections is The DC Line’s selective and subjective guide to some of the most interesting arthouse and repertory screenings in the coming week. HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING (Cinetic Media) Offering up such…

Bradley Stevens’ new solo show at the Zenith Gallery — Museum Studies II: Honoring the Female Perspective — takes viewers on a painted tour of galleries in such familiar DC spaces as the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian American…

Almost all of the events on this list are happening on the same day — Saturday — with the exception of a public art event on Friday (though the monster trucks will race again on Sunday and you can sample the Asian-inspired ice cream…

Capital Projections is The DC Line’s selective and subjective guide to some of the most interesting arthouse and repertory screenings in the coming week. SLY (IMDb) Qodrat (Hamed Behdad) is a buffoon who’d love to break into…

America’s capital city hosts so many significant events that it only makes sense that there are notable historical anniversaries every week of the year of local and national renown. Here are some notable occurrences in and around the…

There are lots of opportunities to honor history and to be a part of history in the making this weekend, Jan. 18 to 21. The third annual Women’s March is Saturday, Jan. 19, and Martin Luther King Jr. Day is observed on Monday, Jan. 21,…