“this is not an interview? I didn’t come all the way around the beltway for this” — a disgruntled applicant It was almost noon, when I was crammed with more than 40 applicants into a conference room meant to hold only 24. I had arrived early for what was supposed to be a job interview, and […]
A year after emigrating with her husband to the U.S. from Germany, Soline Krug, a multi-disciplinary artist, is still trying to get her footing in the D.C. arts scene. She’s done OK on her own, for now, with an art show at the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, Va., and recently exhibited at Artomatic in D.C. […]
At the beginning of this month, I got an opportunity to travel to Kingston, Jamaica, to write about the island’s history and also cover the island’s 47th Independence Day celebration. Below is Part III of the travel series. The publication I traveled on behalf of did not post all the articles written in the travel […]
At the beginning of this month, I got an opportunity to travel to Kingston, Jamaica, to write about the island’s history and also cover the island’s 47th Independence Day celebration. Below is Part II of the travel series. The publication I traveled on behalf of did not post all the articles written in the travel […]
It’s a Friday night, when emcee Ardamus (Artemis Thompson) lets loose on a chrome-handle microphone upstairs in what used to be Capital City Records on Washington, D.C.’s historic U Street. A crowd of mostly White youth pack the humid record shop — some wiping their sweaty faces and thumbing through wooden shelves of vinyl records, […]
Alan W. King 