Christine Jackson
Washingtonian
Washington, DC, United States
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The One Thing Tig Notaro Says to Never Do If You See Her in Public
You might run into beloved oddball comedian Tig Notaro at the Bentzen Ball Comedy Festival at various venues around DC this October. → Read More
This "Mean Girls"-Themed Party Before the "Mean Girls" Musical Looks Like It'll Be SO Fetch
Support National Theatre while partying like the Plastics at Mean Girls party. → Read More
Filmmakers Hope to Pause a Plan to Scrap a Smithsonian IMAX for a Food Court
The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History's Samuel C. Johnson Theater is slated to close September 30. → Read More
A New Music, Art, and Tech Festival is Coming to Columbia
OPUS is part of a plan to usher in a new era of focus on arts and culture in Columbia. → Read More
Arena Stage Is Having a Costume Sale
Guys and dolls alike can find theatrical new additions to their wardrobes at Arena Stage this weekend. From noon to 6 PM on Saturday, the theater's costume → Read More
How an Experiment in Gender-Blind Casting Made This Play's Characters So Much Stronger
For a performance at DC's Theatre Lab, the script for The Kids' Table called for 17 leads with genders to be assigned during casting. → Read More
How to Make the Most of TheatreWeek 2017
It's two weeks of discounted theater tickets, a la Restaurant Week. We got some advice on what you should hit. → Read More
Revisit a Washington of the Past With Wymer's DC
A new photo archive project maps the city using photos from the mid-20th century. → Read More
Andrea Pitzer Brings the History of Concentration Camps Into the Present With New Book
Author and journalist Andrea Pitzer was still working on her first book, The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov, when she decided to write her second. Her → Read More
Karen Zacarias Explores DC's Backyards in Arena Stage's "Native Gardens"
The heart of award-winning playwright Karen Zacarias' new play is a story that plays out in DC's own backyard. Literally. "Native Gardens" premieres at the → Read More
We Took New Animal-Identifying App iNaturalist to the Zoo and It Did Not Do Great
Apparently identifying a panda on sight is harder than it seems. → Read More
Fairfax Native Brandon Wardell Is Doing a Free Show at the Kennedy Center
Even if you don't know the name, you've probably come into contact with Brandon Wardell. He's the guy on the other side of your Twitter timeline who blesse → Read More
Z-Burger is Offering Free 'Nothing Burgers' Tuesday
Just say the secret password: nothing burger. → Read More
Hank's Cocktail Bar Marks Shark Week by Putting Shark on the Menu
Fans of Discovery’s Shark Week will have several options for local spots to take in fin-filled activities next week, but one spot may have missed the mark when it comes to what the unofficial holiday is all about. Hank’s Cocktail Bar in Petworth is offering a “Shark Week Seafood Boil” on July 23 that includes the standard mussels, clams, potatoes, corn, and… mako shark. Photo via Eventbrite… → Read More
When a Woman Shares Her Abortion Story, This Secret Group Fights the Internet Trolls
"Troll Patrol: Defending Choice" offers support online and in comment sections. → Read More
The Story Behind 14th Street's Massive "Work It, Gurl" Mural
The 14th Street corridor just got a whole lot brighter. Some may have already noticed the paint going up around the Whitman-Walker Clinic at Elizabeth Tayl → Read More
Live in Arlington? Soon You'll Be Able to Hold a Meeting in a Bowl.
A Spanish art collective has installed five-foot "meeting bowls" around Courthouse. → Read More
GLOW's Kimmy Gatewood Talks Comedy, Big Hair, and the Joys of Wrestling
Netflix’s original series GLOW is set in Los Angeles in 1985 and, as one might expect, it’s full of all the Spandex, '80s jams and big hair that would fit → Read More
National Building Museum's Summer Block Party Launches with 'Hive'
Visitors looking for the National Building Museum's newest installation won't have to ask where to find it. "Hive," the series of silver and magenta domes, → Read More
Meet the Guy Looking for a Roommate Who Wants to "Make Petworth Great Again"
Do you have a deep love of windows, hate Communists, and want to either grill a lot, get "swole," or both? → Read More