When his family and neighbors are wiped out at the height of the Indian Wars in 1775, Michael Rowen—patriarch of the clan whose history is chronicled in The Kentucky Cycle—tracks […]
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Voting Against Downtown Housing
Less than a week before the special election for D.C. Council chair, the four major candidates stood atop Market Square, the monumental core panoramic behind them, and answered questions from […]
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Good Country People
Known to bluegrass fans as the fiddler for the Johnson Mountain Boys, Eddie Stubbs “moonlights” every Sunday from 2-5 p.m. hosting WAMU-FM (88.1) “The Eddie Stubbs Show.” A mix of […]
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New Vehicle
If it’s September, Edsel must be on Dutch East. The local post-hardcore quartet, previously represented by releases on DeSoto, Simple Machines, and Merkin, now has a (white vinyl) single on […]
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Tropical Rainforest
INDEFINITE “It took 400 million years to produce this tree; it takes four minutes with a chainsaw to destroy it,” intones a voice-over in the Smithsonian’s latest IMAX feature, Tropical […]
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Tracy Kidder
SEPTEMBER 22 Life takes care of itself; it’s the getting old and dying that has me worried. We all know the routine: Stick it out until the body goes, or […]
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First Annual Bluebird Blues Festival
SEPTEMBER 19 With the blisters of summer ’93 on the fade, autumn promises cool revelry. What better medium to revel in during the dregs of the hot season than the […]
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The 24th International Tournee of Animation
SEPTEMBER 17-30 The question one has to ask when the 24th International Tournee of Animation rolls into town is, of course, “Will there be Claymation?” Yes is the answer, yes […]