The Mild Bunch
The wee hours in Mount Pleasant bring out the good, the bad, and the hungry.
Show & Tell By Amanda Hess
What's Your Problem?
This Week: When Classes and Shooting Schedules Collide
What's Your Problem? By Amanda Hess
Hurls Gone Wild
Two GW students put on a puke-based performance.
Show & Tell By Amanda Hess
What's Your Problem?
Helping D.C.'s arts scene work through its many issues.
What's Your Problem? By Amanda Hess
Art Burn
Three performers live to tell about their battle with the health-care industry.
Show & Tell By Amanda Hess
Sticks and Stones
Silver Spring sculptor finds form in the Anacostia.
Show & Tell By Amanda Hess
Dub Scout
How an indie rocker became a hard-core reggae booster.
Arts By Aaron Leitko
Sweet Seventeen
Local haikuists/syllabic gladiators/who will be victor?
Show & Tell By Amanda Hess
Trip Hop
Do-gooders give truck stops a whole new meaning.
Show & Tell By Amanda Hess
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CP Museum & Gallery Picks
- "Spring Thaw"
To Saturday, May 24, at Project 4
Christine Gray’s paintings are comprised of the stuff of children’s summer art-camp sculptures: plastic Easter eggs, martini olive swords, yarn, pipe cleaners, and archery arrows. Call it “Still...
- "Spring Thaw"
To Saturday, May 24, at Project 4
Christine Gray’s paintings are comprised of the stuff of children’s summer art-camp sculptures: plastic Easter eggs, martini olive swords, yarn, pipe cleaners, and archery arrows. Call it “Still...
- Lu Zhang
To May 24 at Randall Scott Gallery
The bowls of rice that Lu Zhang claims as an inspiration are allegorical, she says; they allude to her obsessive attention to detail, down to a single grain. It’s hard not to take her...
- "Floating Faces"
To Friday, May 17, at Flashpoint
Lucy Hogg may have spoken painting’s eulogy years ago, but that didn’t stop her from digging up its grave. In “Floating Faces,” Flashpoint’s latest exhibit, she takes inspiration from Old Master...
- "Under the Skin"
To Saturday, June 7, at Long View Gallery
Scott Brooks’ gallows humor permeates all of his paintings in “Under the Skin,” which shows a world where Cub Scouts cannibalize one another around the campfire and an American...

CP Book Event Picks
- Kelly McMasters
Monday, May 19, at Politics & Prose
In Welcome to Shirley: A Memoir From an Atomic Town, author Kelly McMasters introduces her readers to the Long Island area in which she grew up—a magical land of economic depression, cancer...