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Photograph of Strange by Bao Ngo If you spent any time perusing best-albums-of-2020 lists, you probably came across the name Bartees Strange. The Falls Church musician’s debut, Live Forever, showed up on a host of them, including influential ones from Pitchfork and NPR. And if you were surprised to see the newcomer’s music nestled among the likes of Fiona Apple and Taylor Swift, well, so was he. “I just thought this would be a good steppingstone for the next thing I do,” says Strange. “I didn’t expect it to jump like that. It’s life-affirming.” Strange—originally known as B...

Album / Aquatic Gardener, Godspeed (GÄD’SPĒD) DC musician Jamal Gray’s latest project is this rich instrumental collection of moody hip-hop beats. Photograph of Musgrove courtesy of UMBC Website / Black Power in DC George Derek Musgrove, a UMBC professor and coauthor of the essential DC book Chocolate City, is behind this en-grossing new resource (blackpowerindc.umbc.edu), which maps important sites of Black activism. It launches February 1. Photograph of Guy Picciotto of the band Rites of Spring courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Podcast / End on End Two appropriately unpolished hosts work ...

There are many ways to celebrate Black History Month around DC: Expand your mind with a talk on Afrofuturism, watch a powerful chorus concert, or cook Gullah Geechee-style crab fried rice while you learn about the southern culture. Here are a few ideas for how you should spend your time this month. On history: Dinner included: Learn about the food and culture of the Gullah Geechee community in this virtual talk presented by the Museum of Food and Drink and the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Chefs Amethyst Ganaway and Benjamin Dennis will make crab fried rice, and cooks at home can follow alo...

Share A Lunar New Year celebration performance. Photo courtesy of the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art. Like many events and traditions this year, celebrations for the Lunar New Year are moving online. Due to concerns of Covid-19, the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association will not be holding its annual Chinese Lunar New Year parade.  However, those looking to celebrate a holiday rooted in ushering in luck and good fortune for the coming year—something we’re all looking for right now—can still partake in virtual...

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