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Apr 20, 2009

More Green Apple Festival Wrapup

Photo by wumpiewoo A lot of places do weird really well. But when D.C. does weird, it usually just ends up being pretty uncomfortable and confused. That was the case with Sunday’s Green Apple Festival on the National Mall. Rather than an informative, inspiring, musical call to action, it felt more than anything like a high school assembly. Some of the biggest problems were mistaken assumptions about what brought people to this event in…

Apr 19, 2009

Green Apple Festival: What We’ve Learned Six Hours In

Just in case you were too scared by the prospect of rain — our sources (and our ability to read a radar screen) tell us that it began to drizzle on the Mall about half an hour ago — here’s what you’ve missed at today’s Green Apple Festival so far: >> The Flaming Lips decided to open their set at an Earth Day celebration by raining down plastic and paper on the people. Take…

 
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