FRIDAY: >> While Argentinian actress and singer-songwriter Juana Molina put out her first album in 1996, most of us in the U.S. probably didn’t get hooked on her until 2004, when her sophomore effort, Segundo, was finally released. Despite such a long lag time between her debut and follow-up, since then she’s been recording like a woman on fire — this tour is support of a fourth outing, Son. She’ll be bringing her unique Latin/French/Electronica/Folk…
The Smithsonian’s 39th Annual Folklife Festival kicks off today on the Mall and is typically one of the best reasons to venture down to the Mall during the height of the summer tourist season. “Oman: Desert, Oasis, and Sea” seems to be the most buzzworthy of the featured programs this year. What do you know about Oman (besides that its capital is Muscat)? Way back in the day, this DCist chose Oman for a middle…
(By DCist contributor Kanishka Gangopadhyay) Planning is underway for the first of nine memorial tree groves to be planted around the city in commemoration of the victims of 9/11. The memorial groves project is D.C.’s participation in the U.S. Forest Services Living Memorials Project. D.C. officials are planning to plant commemorative trees in each of the city’s wards, with a central site on Kingman Island in the Anacostia River. The first grove will be at…
