Before her not-so-secret show at the Howard Theatre on Saturday, Janelle Monáe led a Black Lives Matter rally at the Justice Department. [Post]
D.C. theaters stage more plays by women than New York City, L.A., and Philly. Only Chicago mounts more. [Washingtonian]
The Strathmore’s ukelele festival, by the numbers [Post]
In Fact’s new video feature of Kali Uchis, the soul-pop vocalist goes record shopping at Som Records and Joint Custody. [Bandwidth]
Photos of Basement, Adventures, LVL UP, and Palehound at the 9:30 Club [DCist]
A chat with Miranda Rose Hall, an area playwright whose play How We Died of Disease-Related Illness is now showing at the Callan Theatre [DC Theatre Scene]