Jackie Sibblies Drury’s 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning Fairview came to the Wooly Mammoth Theater Company in Washington D.C. Having enjoyed the last play I watched there I was eager to attend. Fairview is a play centered on a “regular” middle-class black family preparing to celebrate Grandma’s birthday at home. The mother is frazzled wanting everything to […]
Enchant Christmas DC – A Night Out
It’s the winter holiday time! That means lots of lovely lights. This year’s biggest lights attraction in DC is Enchant Christmas which boasts “the world’s largest Christmas light maze and market”. Who can’t help be intrigued? So when a friend (TRB) asked if I wanted to go, I said of course! When the day came, […]
“She The People”: A Review
It’s not always that I have a laugh-out-loud Tuesday evening. But that’s exactly what the fearlessly hilarious women of The Second City’s “She The People: The Resistance Continues!” delivered this week at the Woolly Mammoth in Washington DC. “She The People” is an intelligent improv and sketch comedy featuring a diverse but all-female cast that […]
David Guetta Live in Concert in DC
David Guetta came to DC and I just had to go see him in concert! He played at Echostage. I saw Tiësto there in March 2017. Why is it each time I’ve gone to Echostage it’s freezing cold? Sigh. Unlike with Tiësto whose work I do respect but don’t necessarily love, I’m a true bonafide […]
Familiar by Danai Gurira
For my birthday this year, a friend got me tickets to see Familiar, a play by Danai Gurira, author of Eclipse on Broadway, Michonne on The Walking Dead, and more recently the Dora Milaje General Okoye in Black Panther. It was excellent. We are transported to Minnesota, to the living room of a Zimbabwean-American family […]
Comedian Zainab Johnson in DC
I was invited to Drafthouse Comedy theatre recently, last minute really, to watch comedian Zainab Johnson. Such a great performance. She was hilarious. I didn’t know who she was. Much of her comedy is shaped from her own life. A black woman, Muslim, who grew up in Harlem, as one of thirteen siblings. A black […]
Tiësto at Echostage
Braved the cold last month to go to Echostage to enjoy “the greatest DJ of All Time“, Tiësto, perform. He’s legendary. It was a crowd a bit younger than myself, I will admit, and given my chronic fatigue these days from a too busy workweek, it was a crowd with more energy than I could ever […]
Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirrors DC
The most popular exhibition in Washington DC this year, Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirrors, is free but that doesn’t guarantee you a visit. The Smithsonian’s Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is hosting the retrospective exhibition that showcases six of the Japanese artist’s famed Infinity Mirror Rooms and some of her other multimedia art. The exhibition opened 23rd […]
Women’s March on Washington 2017
So I just got home from the Women’s March on Washington D.C. Wow! Let me just start by saying that the atmosphere in D.C. today was energetic, boisterous, busy, and squished, as compared to yesterday (Trump’s inauguration). I’m so proud of women around the world, the thousands who gathered as far away as Antarctica, and […]
A Visit to the National Air and Space Museum, DC
The National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC has the largest collection of aviation and spacecraft in the world. It boasts being the most visited museum in the United States. It boasts the Wright brother’s plane, the Lindbergh Spirit of St. Louis, Amelia Earhart’s Lockheed Vega 5B, the Friendship 7 capsule and the Apollo […]
A lover of mangoes. A woman - smart, without pretense, lefthanded, Afropolitan - navigating this thing called life. An unapologetic believer in social justice and karma. Choosing to radiate positive energy and be true to myself. Here, my musings.