City Lights: Bianca Del Rio Brings BIANCA-21 to D.C.’s Drag Lovers
Would Bianca Del Rio even make the cast in the current RuPaul’s Drag Race ecosystem […]
City Lights: Blues Alley is Back, Baby!
Over the last year, rumors about the future of Blues Alley have circulated. Local media outlets reported on the jazz club’s possible relocation or shuttering […]
City Lights: Suzanne Vega Transports the Birchmere to Manhattan
Live from New York, it’s Suzanne Vega! As part of her return to live performances, the famed singer-songwriter is bringing a little taste of New York City to Washington, D.C. […]
City Lights: Camilo Jose Vergara on the Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of the Twin Towers
From the time the World Trade Center was first being constructed in the early 1970s, Camilo Jose Vergara became the twin towers’ unofficial house photographer […]
City Lights: Baby Fifty’s Raw, Unfiltered Truth
D.C.’s Baby Fifty released his Disregarded EP on Aug 13th, clearly demonstrating why the enigmatic 20-year-old is one of the most respected rappers in the DMV area […]
City Lights: DC Shorts International Film Festival Turns 18
If long summer blockbusters aren’t your thing, then a weeklong celebration of high-brow film may be just right […]
City Lights: The Party Don’t Stop When Kesha’s on Stage
After a year and a half of TikTok and staying home, it’s time to hit a place downtown where the freaks all come around—a hole-in-the-wall, a dirty free-for-all—to experience the original “Tik Tok” party queen herself […]
City Lights: Moomin Animations Loves Love and Chosen Family
You’ll recognize Moomintroll when you see him: He’s a white, doughy, hippo-looking creature with big, sweet eyes and a tufted tail […]
City Lights: Let’s Get BENT Out of Shape
289 months. That’s how long Audrey Fix Schaefer, IMP’s communications director, and event producer Steve Lemmerman feel the pandemic has gone on—keeping the 9:30 Club shuttered and dark […]
City Lights: Turn Wine Into Watercolors at Shop Made in DC
Get imaginative—and perhaps inebriated—with Wine and Watercolors! One of Shop Made in DC’s many craft classes […]
City Lights: Secret Society Brings Feel Good Music Back to City Winery
During a long summer work week, sometimes you just need a night of live music to transport you. On Sept. 1 and 2, Secret Society will happily oblige […]
City Lights: Andrea von Kampen Loves Playing D.C.
When Andrea von Kampen set out on her west coast tour in early 2020, she saw the signs of coronavirus play out on actual signs […]
City Lights: Reignite Your Wanderlust With Mamma Mia!
September is almost upon us, and everyone is clamoring for that last pre-Labor Day escape […]
City Lights: DC Brau’s Dock Days of Summer Has Good Vibrations
Fight the Sunday scaries of the summer’s twilight at DC Brau’s beer garden concert series […]
City Lights: Riding High, the National Cannabis Festival Rolls Up to Town
On Aug. 28, thousands of cannabis enthusiasts will descend on RFK Stadium for the National Cannabis Festival […]
City Lights: Ali Wong’s Got New Jokes, Same Raunch
In a video posted to Instagram, Ali Wong dances to OutKast’s “Hey Ya!” in a children’s playroom—stepping side to side while she fans herself with one hand, holding on to the edge of the couch as she twerks […]
City Lights: Piroshky Piroshky Brings a Taste of Russia to D.C.
Coffee and cinnamon, onion and cabbage, jalapeno and cheddar, beef and potato: These are just some of the many flavor combinations you can find in piroshki from Seattle’s Piroshky Piroshky […]
City Lights: New Orleans Comes Alive in Maurice Carlos Ruffin’s Short Stories
How do you capture a city in a couple hundred pages? Maurice Carlos Ruffin joins the ranks of great writers of place […]
City Lights: Femme Fatale DC Shakes Up Shopping
Before pop-up shops and local maker markets were all the rage, there was Femme Fatale DC […]
City Lights: Great Scott! Awesome Con Is Back (to the Future)
Up in the sky: It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Awesome Con! The D.C. pop culture festival returns to the Walter E. Washington Convention Center on Aug. 20 […]
City Lights: Feminist Postpunk Vivien Goldman Infuses New Music With Hope
In 1981, pioneering UK music journalist and occasional backup singer Vivien Goldman released her first record, Dirty Washing […]
City Lights: National Capital Virtual Puppetry Festival Returns for Year Two
Like so many art forms, the pandemic caused theater artists to invent new ways of working within a virtual environment, but puppeteers were uniquely suited for the challenge […]
City Lights: Daughters of Jane Delve into Austen’s Lasting Legacy
From Clueless to Bridgerton, there is no denying Jane Austen’s impact on pop culture […]
City Lights: Embrace Your Inner Dancing Queen at ABBA The Concert
You can dance! You can jive! Have the time of your life at Wolf Trap’s ABBA the Concert […]
City Lights: Books That Go Bump in the Night
Halloween might be a few months away, but fear not, horror fans […]
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