Dave Chappelle says the name will be Theater for Artistic Freedom and Expression because “that’s what I would want for myself, and that’s what I want for every student that goes to this school.”
The comedian gifted his alma mater, the Duke Ellington School of The Arts, with the Emmy he won last week.
After a three-year renovation that went $100 million over budget, nearly 600 students will flood into the school for the arts on Wednesday.
The school’s renovation costs were originally estimated at $71 million.
Counter-protesters retorted to hate with songs and signage.
The iconic Duke Ellington mural on U Street’s True Reformer Building recently disappeared, but fear not—it’s being restored and will be back.
The atmosphere on T Street NW was less a lunch hour and more a revivalist sermon for the ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating the renewal of the Howard Theatre more than three decades after it was shuttered.
We may not yet be a state, but we’ve finally got our own commemorative quarter. The U.S. Mint today rolled out the District’s own 25-cent piece as part of the popular 50 State Quarters Program. Bearing the image of jazz legend Duke Ellington, the quarter was years in the making, requiring an act of Congress and a pitched battle between city officials and the Mint over whether “Taxation without Representation” would appear on the…
We had the scoop last week, but today the U.S. Mint confirmed that Duke Ellington will indeed grace the District’s commemorative quarter set to hit the streets on January 26, 2009. The announcement also included the designs for the five U.S. territories that also received their own 25-cent pieces as part of the popular 50 State Quarters Program — Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa and the Commonwealth of the Northern…
The District’s commemorative quarter is set to hit the streets on January 26, and will bear the image of Duke Ellington, DCist has learned. Though Greg Hernandez, spokesperson for the U.S. Mint’s 50 State Quarters Program, was tight-lipped about the final design of the quarter (the official release date for the design of the D.C. quarter is Monday, December 15), three different people who answered the phone at the Mint’s main press office today confirmed…
