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Share Brian Doucette with the hutch that he’s spent thousands of hours investigating. Photograph by Louise Stoker. Brian Doucette has purchased a lot of cool stuff over the years—antique Harley-Davidson motorcycles and Meiji-period Japanese panels and an 18th-century Jacopo Brandini violin he picked up for $200 and later sold for $9,000. But the item that has most captured his imagination—the one he has now spent 3,000 hours researching, trying to unlock its secrets—is a wooden hutch he bought from a random couple in 2016. “Anybody in antiques always says, ‘One day I’m going t...

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 ...

Photograph by Hannah Galliosborn As a high-level aide to Harry Reid back when he was Senate majority leader, Adam Jentleson got an up-close look at how the Senate works—or, more often, doesn’t work. Now he’s written a book, Kill Switch, that explains what the problem is and offers concrete steps to fix it. So this is a pretty depressing book. It’s about how the filibuster has basically broken the Senate. People tend to think the filibuster is a foundational feature of the Senate, and they tend to associate it with long-winded speeches in the Mr. Smith Goes to Washington model. Bot...

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Trump supporters crowd Harry's Bar on Nov. 13. Photograph by Evy Mages The Proud Boys will need a new DC gathering spot if they come to town on January 6, as Donald Trump has urged his supporters to do. The Hotel Harrington will be closed on January 4, 5, and 6. Harry’s, the bar on its first floor, will be closed on the 5th and 6th. The hotel did not say why it’s closing for those days, but the Proud Boys and other Trump supporters instigated a chaotic, violent scene downtown during the last pro-Trump protest in December. “While we cannot control what happens outside of the hotel,” th...