You know, we're pretty bummed out about the District's lack of voting rights, but we'd never even think about comparing our situation to what's going on in Egypt, where people are dying, journalists are being arrested and demonstrations have drawn millions willing to drop everything for days in order to stand up for what they believe in, regardless of the danger. Of course, we don't have to make that comparison, because Ralph Nader has already made it for us. more ›

As demonstrations and violence in Egypt intensify, it has been reported that two journalists from the Washington Post have been arrested by Egyptian authorities. more ›

This afternoon, about 200 to 300 people gathered at the Egyptian Embassy in the Van Ness neighborhood of NW to call for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's resignation, as well as to show solidarity with those protesting in Egypt. Chanting in Arabic and English, the crowd called for freedom for Egypt. Surrounded by the media as is usual in protests, the crowd passionately called for Mubarak to step down. As word came down that there had been damage to the Egyptian National Museum in Cairo, the crowd stopped for a moment, in a sober silence. The protest later marched down Connecticut Avenue headed towards the White House, with a police escort. Meanwhile, protests continue in Egypt. more ›

Antony and Cleopatra is a sprawling, lumbering beast of a play — war, international intrigue, doomed love — but the best stuff in the Shakespeare Theatre’s current production is the smallest stuff: he-said/she-said, jealousy, drunkenness. When Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, learns from a rightly mortified messenger that Antony, the Roman General with whom she’s been engaged in a forbidden and yet very public love affair, has married (for the second time), she demands a description of the bride. “What majesty was in her gait?” more ›