Andrew Noz has posted commentary on the Washington City Paper about the failure of DC's rap scene. An excerpt: "...2010 won’t go down as a landmark year for D.C. hip-hop. No year has. The city’s national profile is nearly nonexistent; its local scene still feels small and insular. And while there’s no shortage of very good rappers in the DMV, the area lacks a truly great one. We don’t have an artist whose p ...

East City Art is carrying a new occasional feature by Kent Gay. An excerpt from the post: "DC Sketcher’s is a new feature of East City Art written by contributor Kent Gay who teaches a new class at the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop called DC Sketchers. Over the course of the next few weeks, DC Sketchers will record the places, people and happenings of the DC area. DC Sketchers visited the National Gallery of A ...

A mother-daughter discussion guide for the new ballet movie, the Black Swan, from the Widening-the-I blog. ...

“Watching Edwin Aparicio’s performance last week and the dancers of GMU last night I’m thinking about the visceral nature of dance. It challenges our notion that life can be captured and transmitted through images and recordings, and insists on experiences that are direct, immediate, and fleeting.” ...

“When she talks about her work Gretchen can sometimes sound more like a scientist than an artist." ...

"Both activists were ejected and subsequently banned for life from any Smithsonian Institution facility." ...

Photo credit: Niko TaverniseDirector - Darren AronofskyWriters - Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz & John McLaughlinChoreographer - Benjamin MillepiedMost mainstream dance films are part of the romantic dramedy genre, but "Black Swan" is anything but typic... ...