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The Score Is “Un-Fugue-Able” In Ways Good and Bad (opens the original)
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A conqueror summons the most famous citizen of his most recently acquired territory—an old musician in failing health—to put the newly subjugated artist to the test. It sounds like a parable, but comes from history. Frederick the Great of Prussia invited Johann Sebastian Bach, whose hometown of Leipzig had fallen to the king’s army months before, to his palace in Potsdam in the early summer of 1747. While there, the king challenged the composer to a musical test: extemporaneously compose one of
Still Burning: A Quarter Century On, Six Locals Share Their Stories of Sept. 11 (opens the original)
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A halcyon Tuesday morning in the D.C. area descended into horror on September 11, 2001. Nineteen hijackers, members of Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda, stormed the cockpits of four commercial jetliners, killed the pilots, and seized the controls. It was a suicide mission with the intention of ramming the four planes into buildings that symbolized American hegemonic might. The flights were all transcontinental, chosen for heavy jet fuel loads that would maximize fire damage. Three planes reached their
Breonna Sharde’, Patrick Radden Keefe, and Baithak: City Lights for Aug. 27–Sept. 2 (opens the original)
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The so-called Freedom 250 Grand Prix disrupted much for Washingtonians: lost parking spaces, closed roads, and at least one rescheduled event. The U.S. Botanic Garden was cut off from the rest of the Mall by the racecourse and wisely postponed its August Summer Evening Hours concert by one week, rescheduling for this week. As profiled in City Lights earlier this season, once a month through the summer, the Botanic Garden keeps its attractions and exhibits open until 8 p.m. Among those attraction
A Whole Lotta Go-Go and Robopocalypse: City Lights for July 23–29 (opens the original)
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Feeling overwhelmed by the onslaught of autonomous delivery robots, self-driving cars, kitchen appliances that inexplicably need a cloud account, and the sometimes chainsaw-wielding tech billionaires who unleashed them upon our world? Come laugh about it when Oregon-based puppet theater company Puppeteers for Fears rolls into town on Friday. When a teenager’s attempt to bond with her tech-bro billionaire dad brings a malevolent AI to life, only she can save the world—with a synth-pop soundtrack
Night Hawk at the Botanic Garden and Downtown Boys at DC9: City Lights for July 16–22 (opens the original)
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The U.S. Botanic Garden is making the most of these long summer days, answering extended evening golden hours with extended evening hours of its own. Throughout the summer, the nation’s oldest continuously operating public garden is staying open until 8 p.m. one Thursday a month, giving visitors an extra three hours to explore the extensive permanent plant collection and special exhibits, like a semiquincentennial showcase of state flowers. Even the gift shop will be open, with its greenery-forw
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