You may not get the day off work or be able to find a card on someecards, but that doesn’t mean you can’t celebrate Arts Advocacy Day. Each year, DC Advocates for the Arts participates in a national initiative to get the word out about the importance of the arts in our community. Today, advocates […]
In 2006, the Corcoran Gallery of Art bought the historic Randall School at 65 I Street, SW for $6.2 million with the intention of developing it as a new location for its College of Art + Design. But when development partners Lehman Brothers and Monument Realty went bankrupt and defaulted, respectively, the project halted. Now […]
Nicole Thorne’s work as a fashion stylist is fixed behind glass and framed by the picture window of women’s consignment boutique, Clothes Encounters of a Second Kind. It’s always as current as the times, and always as pretty as, well, a picture. Thorne has been designing the window displays and other mannequin and wall displays […]
Historic Friendship House is facing the new decade with as much uncertainty as it left the old one. Now that PETA, the second bidder after the Sweek family, has decided not to pursue its option of purchasing the property , the clock is now ticking for the third bidder in line for its decision. That […]