MONDAY: As part of a national book tour sponsored by Amnesty International, award-winning journalist and filmmaker Michael Otterman will be at the Penn Quarter Olsson’s to discuss his latest book, American Torture: From the Cold War to Abu Ghraib and Beyond. 7 p.m. Local author Edward P. Jones (All Aunt Hagar’s Children and Lost in the City) will be at Politics and Prose to introduce the latest stories in the popular annual collection, New Stories…
MONDAY Politics and Prose welcomes Ali Ansari, who will be discussing his book Confronting Iran. We’ve not read the book, but we’d hazard a guess that the strategies offered by the author get a good deal more nuanced than something along the lines of whining “We got to get them to stop doing this shit.” 5015 Connecticut Avenue, NW., at 7 p.m. TUESDAY It’s not said often enough, but historical accounts of great naval battles…
Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), our non-voting representative in the U.S. Congress, yesterday requested that the District be allowed to place two statues in the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall, at right, where each state is granted the right to place two statues of prominent citizens. The request came during a debate on New Mexico’s request to place a statue of Po’pay, a Native American leader who launched what has been called “the first American Revolution”…
Ambivalent Images took this photo of a statue and monument in Lafayette Square across from the White House, but didn’t know who it memorialized. Well it’s Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, Comte de Rochambeau, the French general sent to aid George Washington during the American Revolution. This statue was Checkpoint No. 3 in the 2003 Urban Challenge, which this DCist ran. Now on to the Morning Roundup … More on Anthrax Scare: While it looks…
Today DCist highlights an exhibit on the history of the American wedding at the Daughters of the American Revolution Building at 1776 D St. NW, located near the Ellipse. The exhibit, which has been open since April, is titled “Something Old, Something New: Inventing the American Wedding,” and features fifteen vintage wedding dresses. The exhibit traces the origins of much of the pomp surrounding the modern American wedding: the white dress, the veil, even the…
