Here’s what you should check out this week:
The devil you know: Explore the sinister minds of Macbeth, Iago, and other Shakespearean bad boys in
All the Devils Are Here: How Shakespeare Invented the Villain, a one-man digital show. Actor Patrick Page who’s used to playing the malefactor onstage will take on various villainous roles to illustrate the Bard’s best antagonists in this Shakespeare Theatre Company production. Available to stream starting Thursday 2/4; $25, buy tickets here.
Sip and chat: Have tea with musicians in a monthly series from the National Museum of Women in the Arts. This week, hear a brief performance from local singer Courtney Dowe, followed by an interview in which she’ll discuss how she combines songwriting and human rights activism. Friday 2/5 at noon; Free, watch it online here.
2 chefs explain how Black culture has influenced American cuisine TODAY 2/5/2021 Maya Eaglin
So much of what makes up American cuisine can be understood through our country s complicated history. Chefs Jerome Grant and Ashleigh Shanti know this history keenly as culinary experts on the influence of Black cooks on American food. Brown hands, minority hands were always behind the scenes of American hospitality and really helped grow what American hospitality is, said Grant, the owner of Jackie in Washington, D.C., and the previous executive chef at the National Museum of the American Indian and the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Whether we were slaves, indentured servants, feeding the cowboys or looking for new beginnings.
Critical Thinking Difficult Issues: Unsafe Deposit Glenn Adamson
National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC.
What would burn, they burned. They crushed the rest underfoot. And when they were done, they blew up the whole thing with dynamite.
The year was 1935. The setting, just a few miles outside of Spiro, Oklahoma. Centuries earlier, indigenous Americans had invested this site with great spiritual significance. On top of a sacred mound built by their own ancestors, they constructed a hollow chamber and placed within it a cache of valuable objects: textiles, engraved shells, copper axes and plates, wooden sculptures, large-scale effigy pipes. This “King Tut’s Tomb in the Arkansas Valley” (as one 1930s newspaper put it) was one of the most important archaeological repositories in America, indeed, the world. Yet it was all but completely destroyed in a moment of casual vandalism.
The fun doesn’t stop this fall in Washington, DC. The calendar stays packed with events and festivals that showcase food, music, culture and so much more.
POLITICO
How Biden Can Fix Trump’s 1776 Disaster
Americans could use a commission that studies our founding as long as it’s thorough, historian-led and nonpartisan.
President Joe Biden speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House on Jan. 22, 2021. | Evan Vucci/AP Photo
By CRAIG BRUCE SMITH
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Before even taking office, Joe Biden pledged to disband Donald Trump’s 1776 Commission designed to promote “patriotic education” and counter the New York Times’ controversial “1619 Project,” which put slavery at the center of the American historical narrative. And by 12:01 p.m. on Inauguration Day, the commission’s extravagantly mocked “1776 Report,” a 45-page, unsourced so-called “definitive chronicle of the American Founding” (released only 48 hours earlier on Martin Luther King Jr. Day), vanished from the White House website.