G Fine Art to Close Its 14th Street LocationCiting the downturn in the art market, Annie Gawlak, director of G Fine Art, says that the gallery will close its venue at 1515 14th St NW next month. Their current exhibit, Good People, Bad Behavior, will be on view until August 14, while the gallery's September/October show will be moved to the former Numark Gallery. Gawlak says she will continue to work with her current artists but is reassessing how the gallery does business. "I am looking at ways to continue and solutions that will work for the future until we all get back on our feet," she said.
National Design Awards Events Broadcast Live at 10 a.m.If you weren't able to convince your boss to let you leave the office this morning to catch one of the five National Design Award lectures from 10 to 11 a.m. this morning at various museums, tune in to the webcast for a live broadcast of each lecture. The lectures focus on various aspects of design, including Materials and their Effects, The Future of Interaction Design, Interpreting the Present and the Past, The Future of Technology and Sustainability, and Transform Your Neighborhood. The webcasts will be archived on the Cooper Hewitt website.
Blissful Is the WordNot that you're reading this, because you're out enjoying this sublime weather I have the duty to record, but look, the weather's really nice outside! You don't need the Capital Weather Gang to tell you that the sun is out, the humidity is low, and the temperature is hovering right around a universally enjoyable 85 degrees. You might even need to don a jacket this evening! But you should listen up about the dread Bermuda High arriving on Monday. The CWG calls it "juicy" and says it's going to mean a week's worth of rain at bare minimum. For the next week we'll be paying for a rather dry July, so get outside and play today and tomorrow.
Columbia Heights Day Coming Up in AugustThe date for the third annual Columbia Heights Day has been set -- this year's iteration will be August 29 on the field at Harriet Tubman Elementary School at 11th and Kenyon Streets NW (across the street from Wonderland). Organizers tell us this year's fest will feature live music, dance groups, eating contests, local businesses, kids' activities, and more, including a petting zoo. Last year's Columbia Heights Day was pretty fun, with the petting zoo featuring a camel, and a cupcake eating contest featured some local politicians -- council candidate Patrick Mara held his own eating the cakes, while Jim Graham and Carol Schwartz performed various hosting/hanging around duties. And FYI, Columbia Heights Day still accepting applications for local businesses and restaurants, community groups, and craftspeople who'd like to participate: go to their website or email columbiaheightsday[at]gmail[dot]com
Kennedy Center's Ragtime is Broadway-Bound
The Kennedy Center's recent production of Ragtime will be making its way to Broadway, critic Peter Marks reports today. The show, which was not originally slated for Broadway, will reopen at the Neil Simon Theatre Nov. 15. We were moved by the epic production when it was in town, which will stay largely the same with some cast changes and set adaptations. Between this news, the success of 33 Variations and Next To Normal (both with early stops at Arena Stage) and Signature's snagging of the regional Tony award, it's shaping up to be a good year for D.C. theater on the national stage.
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