The exhibit immerses you in the work of National Geographic explorers, but it pulls punches when it comes to climate change.
There ‘s a fascinating portrait of the conservative icon here—if you’re willing to rummage around for it.
A 19 foot Trojan horse replica wasn’t allowed to visit the Capitol before heading to a touring exhibit on Greek culture.
After 16 hours of nonstop photographing, Stephen Wilkes captured an illuminating shot of springtime in the District—including those never-ending cherry blossoms and all.
Nat Geo’s Spinosaurus is decked out in Nats gear.
National Geographic has set up livestream of a pair of bald eagles raising their recently hatched chicks in a tree on the grounds of the MPD Academy in Southeast D.C.
Danny Clinch‘s name is synonymous with rock photography. He has trained his camera on most of rock’s royalty — Dylan, Cash, Springsteen, Neil Young, Tom Waits, Willie Nelson, Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, Radiohead and many, many more — and come away with many of the artists’ most iconic images. His work has appeared all over the world in publications like Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, SPIN, The New Yorker and The New York Times, and Clinch is the official photographer for The Grammys and The Tibetan Freedom Concerts. And while his concert work is impressive, Clinch is best known for the incredible images he gets backstage and in the studio; Clinch has access that makes most other concert photographers (myself included) green with envy.
Not every family of lizards gets to be immortalized in the annals of commerce, but the family gekkonidae, what you and I know as geckos, is just lucky like that. Eighteen species of the lucky lizards are on display in Geckos: Tails to Toepads at the National Geographic Museum. As the exhibit title suggests, there’s something interesting to be found in every inch of these technicolor creatures. But they are certainly more than the sum of their parts, and not just because they eat nasty bugs that would otherwise devour us all alive.
If you thought you spied Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek around town this week, you weren’t mistaken. The formerly moustachioed game show personality was back again this year to host the annual National Geographic Bee, which finished up today by crowning Eric Yang, 13, a seventh-grader at Griffin Middle School in The Colony, TX, with the first place title. The winning question was: Timis County shares its name with a tributary of the Danube and…
Forest ecologist Nalini Nadkarni will be at Nat Geo on Friday evening. Image courtesy of National Geographic. DCist’s guide to lectures and discussions in the D.C. area This week, we have a number of Earth Day discussions, including two promising events at National Geographic, a family day at the Anacostia Community Museum, and even a Corcoran lecture on sustainability in interior design. Monday: » At 7 p.m., Politics and Prose hosts essayist Adina Hoffman…
