Tag: Michelle LaFrance
Rambling, Surviving, Painting: Underlife Times Three, DC 2020
The events that shook DC in 2020 are the backdrop for each of this month’s stories. Each offers unique insider’s perspectives ‒ razor wire...
A Celebration of Art Books: The Capital Art Book Fair
“Art Books” are categorically difficult to define. They might be books that are themselves “works of art,” or collections of and deliberations on artistic...
The Literary Hill: Three Reads for Local History Buffs
Indigenous DC: Native People’s and the Nation’s Capital,
by Elizabeth Rule
Forthcoming 2023. Dr. Elizabeth Rule begins her extensively researched and fascinating mapping of the indigenous...
To Tell the Truth: Literary Hill
In “To Tell the Truth: My Life as a Foreign Correspondent,” Lewis M. Simmons chronicles his storied journalistic career.
From the grit of backroom politicking...
New Hill Center Course Teaches Strategies to Write for Change
They say the pen is mightier than the sword. Learn to wield yours in the most effective way with a new course offered at...
DC Mushroom Lovers on the Hunt
Never mind the cherry blossoms, DC is a city of mushrooms. Neighborhood trees, root boxes, gardens, planters and parks often shelter common and sometimes...
In Search of Dandelions
It’s the first day of the stay-at-home order, but I’m in a field in Northern Virginia, fifteen miles from my home, bowing to finger...
A DMV Samhain
Deep in Prince William Forest, in a rustic hall, with an enormous fire crackling on the stone hearth...sixty pagans cluster at tables and benches...
Brandi Carlile: What a Glorious Sight
To sing un-miked in front of 6,000, the audacity.
Brandi Carlile and her longtime collaborators, Tim and Phil Hanseroth, stepped out from behind their mikes...
