Catch These Jazz And International Acts Playing Around D.C. In December

Yesterday, the D.C. Public Libray opened a new Emmett Till exhibition at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library – Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley: Let the World See. For a limited time, The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis is bringing this exhibit to D.C. to share Till’s legacy.

The Dance Institute of Washington on 14th Street Northwest was a flutter of activity Sunday morning. Parents lined the lobby on the ground floor, some corralling strollers in one hand and their child’s dance shoes in the other. Upstairs in Studio A, the 11 a.m. dance class was just getting underway. People passed by each other in the narrow hallway as outside Studio C, ballerinas stretched in silence ahead of their auditions.

COQUITO WARS: Vote the best coquito, a creamy coconut-based Puerto Rican cocktail, at this local competition. D.C. competitors will test out their recipes; they can also dance to music from DJ Rich for the rest of the night at La Cosecha. (Serenata; 6:30 p.m.; FREE) MARATHON PANEL: Training for a...

A crowd of about 50 gathered in front of the White House to protest Nichols’ murder. Dozens gathered downtown at two demonstrations on Friday evening to protest the police killing of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man who died earlier this month after being beaten by Memphis police officers during a traffic stop.

Are you Gen Z (or the youngest of millennials) and looking to up your culture game? There may be more affordable options around D.C. than you realize. In an effort to woo a new generation of theatergoers, many theaters around the region offer discounted tickets to younger people. This includes the Kennedy Center, which has offered adults under 30 discounted tickets to select performances for over a decade. (This is in addition to their student and military discount program.) And while these programs aren’t new, they may not be well known among their target audience.

Lunar New Year begins on Sunday, Jan. 22. As one of the most observed holidays throughout the Asian diaspora, the celebration manifests itself in different ways for different cultures. For Chinese people, Sunday marks the start of the Year of the Rabbit, and of the 15-day Lunar New Year festival. In Vietnamese culture, this year will be Year of the Cat for the holiday, known as Tết. The Korean Lunar New Year, called Seollal, lasts just three days, this year from Jan. 21-23.

Mayor Muriel Bowser on Saturday hosted a frank and nuanced summit on crime and public safety in D.C. with dozens of neighborhood officials, noting that while overall rates of violent crime have been declining, guns have become a growing driver of both real incidents and the perception that the city has become more dangerous.

The corporate parent of movie theater chain Regal says it will close the Gallery Place Stadium 14 theater in downtown D.C. next month as part of a broader wave of theater closures that are taking place as part of bankruptcy proceedings. Word of the closure of 39 Regal theaters across...

This weekend marked the beginning of the Lunar New Year, one of the most important holidays for Asian communities throughout the world and in the D.C. region. In Falls Church, members of the Vietnamese diaspora celebrated their version of the holiday, which is known as Tết. Hundreds of people gathered at the Eden Center, which has long been considered a central hub for the local Vietnamese community.

Solar panels are coming to more than 500 homes in Ward 8 — an investment the city’s energy officials say will reduce both greenhouse gas emissions and residents’ utility bills. DC Green Bank, a city initiative that finances clean energy projects, announced the investment on Thursday, which...

At Makan in Columbia Heights, chef/owner James Wozniuk’s contemporary reinterpretation of Malaysian food has won him a perennially packed dining room. Walk into a dinner service and you’ll see a buzzing dining room and piping hot plates of wok fried noodles and bowls of chicken curry rushing out of the kitchen.

Destiny Brown, left, prepares for a tattoo while her teacher, Daryl Moore-Stone, gives advice. Daryl Moore-Stone, the owner of Topp Dogg Tattoos, says becoming a tattoo artist saved his life. He grew up in D.C. in the ‘90s, which he describes as “some of the roughest times for a youth...

D.C. has been called lots of things, but “District of Crime?” That’s the moniker Fox News recently used for D.C. in a recent segment on a sweeping overhaul of the city’s criminal code passed by the D.C. Council late last year. At the heart of the...

One reason D.C. has so many green buildings is the presence of the federal government. The District has long been a leader in terms of green buildings — buildings that highly efficient and require little energy to stay warm in the winter and cool in the summer. In 2022, D.C. certified more green building square footage than any state — ten times more, in fact, than the closest competitor.

Sen. Tom Carper (D-Delaware) on Tuesday introduced a bill that would make D.C. the 51st state, following a similar measure introduced in the House of Representatives by D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton. “These citizens do not have a voting representative in either chamber of Congress. They pay more federal taxes...

Metro almost had a normal, full-service weekend. This Saturday and Sunday, all lines except the Red will be operating normally. On the Red Line, the Brookland Station will be closed, and trains will be operating in two segments — from Shady Grove to Rhode Island Ave and Fort Totten to Glenmont — as crews install radio cables.

Rose Ave Bakery is moving to Woodley Park “soon,” according to an Instagram post from the owners. Known for its authentic Asian American pastries, the Vermont Avenue NW location will serve its last pastries on Jan. 28. Chef and founder Rosie Nguyen has been preparing for this move...

More than 600 buses take 3,600 kids with special needs to and from schools in and around D.C. every weekday. Hundreds of buses that transport kids to schools around D.C. have experienced significant delays since the start of the month, leaving parents scrambling to get their kids to and from school everyday.

The anti-abortion March for Life returns to D.C. on Friday, the first such mass gathering of pro-life advocates since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last June. A crowd that could number in the tens of thousands is expected to rally on the National Mall starting at 11 a.m., before setting off at 1 p.m. for a march that will end in front of the Supreme Court. The march route is purposely different than in years past, according to organizers.

BUNDLEHOUSE: On Ancient Future, Jamaican songwriter Protoje draws inspiration from reggae artists of the past to create hip-hop inspired music for the future. That’s why multimedia artist Nyugen Smith has titled his latest work Bundlehouse: Ancient Future Memory. Like Protoje, Smith is looking at the African diaspora’s past to craft a representation of its future. (The Yards; through March 12; FREE)