Key		Imgs	Short Description
2010_04_01A_Census_Day		102	DC -- Census Day Rally The US Census presents: 2010 Census Day Rally Freedom Plaza 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20004 Hosted by - Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, (D-DC) Opening Musical Act - Boys and Girls Club Steel Drum Marching Band    Speakers:   - D.C. Councilmember Michael A. Brown...
2010_04_01B_FenceR		117	Reynolds Center -- Donor event for Remembering the Running Fence This event happened the night before the Remembering the Running Fence exhibit opened to the public. It included a chance to see the exhibition itself but also included a reception in the Kogod courtyard. ...
2010_04_02A_Hines		89	Natl Museum of Amer History -- Duke Ellington's Sophisticated Ladies (w/Maurice Hines) Join Sophisticated Ladies cast members Maurice Hines and John and Leo Manzari at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History for an in-depth look at the work of Duke Ellington's Sophisticated Ladies. A discussion and dance exhibition by the cast members and Smithsonian Curator...
2010_04_02B_Wash_Mon		5	DC -- Washington Monument A concession building's roof started smoking but things calmed down pretty quickly.
2010_04_02C_Cherry		33	DC -- Cherry Blossoms around the Tidal Basin (2010)
2010_04_02D_Tidal		2	DC -- Tidal Basin
2010_04_02E_Jeff_Mem		6	DC -- Thomas Jefferson Memorial
2010_04_02F_Forest		8	DC -- U.S. Forest Service visitor center
2010_04_02G_FenceF		145	Reynolds Center -- Christo and Wolfram Hissen ("Running Fence Revisited") The Running Fence Revisited: The premiere of a new film created for this exhibition, The Running Fence Revisited, will be followed by a conversation with director Wolfram Hissen and artist Christo. ...
2010_04_03A_Animar_Te		48	DC -- American University -- Katzen Art Center -- ANIMAR-TE: 20 Years of Computer Animation at U of Balearic Islands ANIMAR-TE: 20 Years of Computer Animation at the University of the Balearic Islands March 23 through May 1 Organized in collaboration with the Embassy of Spain, this exhibition recognizes the work of the Digital Animation Department at the University of the Balearic Islands (Spain), an international...
2010_04_03B_Katzen		44	DC -- American University -- Katzen Art Center
2010_04_03C_AU		67	DC -- American University
2010_04_03D_Ft_Reno		10	DC -- Ft Reno Park and Reservoir
2010_04_03E_Takoma_CC		12	MD -- Takoma Park -- Community Center (and mural)
2010_04_03F_Welmoed50		70	Personal -- Welmoed's 50th
2010_04_04A_Hampton		239	MD -- Hampton Natl Historic Site
2010_04_04B_ICC		41	MD -- Intercounty Connector construction project The project (which I've never been thrilled with) continues.
2010_04_05A_Brookside		81	MD -- Wheaton -- Brookside Gardens It was definitely mating time for the frogs...
2010_04_05B_Burnt_Mills		23	MD -- Burnt Mills Park
2010_04_06A_SIPG_Portrait		5	DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center for Amer Art & Portraiture -- Portraits I've photographed pretty much the entire portrait exhibit over time. To see the whole exhibit, you should use ...
2010_04_06B_Kalb		74	NPC -- Kalb Report: "The Making of a Modern Media Mogul" (w/Rupert Murdoch) “Rupert Murdoch: The Making of a Modern Media Mogul” - Tuesday, April 6 Chairman and CEO of News Corporation Joins Marvin Kalb to Discuss Headlines and Bottom Lines in April 6 Edition of “The Kalb Report,” 8 p.m., The National Press Club Mar 30, 2010 WASHINGTON - Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and CEO of...
2010_04_07A_SIRG		25	DC -- Renwick Gallery
2010_04_07B_Office		3	Office (STAT-USA) -- Terri
2010_04_07C_Chevy_Chase		1	DC -- Chevy Chase
2010_04_07D_Avalon		6	DC -- Avalon Theatre
2010_04_07E_Remnick		82	Politics & Prose -- David Remnick ("The Bridge") David Remnick - The Bridge @ The Avalon Theatre: Using interviews and letters, David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, tells the 44th president’s life story and traces his remarkable political journey that led to the White House. His new book was previously presented in a distilled format as a...
2010_04_08A_FONZ_Event		84	DC -- FONZ 2010 Event -- Welcome reception for Zoo's new director, Dennis Kelly Friends of the National Zoo cordially invites you to escape the urban jungle at an exclusive reception in honor of Dennis Kelly, Director, Smithsonian's National Zoo.
2010_04_08B_SINZ_Amazonia		14	DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Amazonia The big frog was quite interesting. He/she had a layer of skin which he was shedding. The frog shook off the layer, pushed it over its head, and ate it.
2010_04_09A_SIIGSis		61	DC -- International Gallery ("Woman and Spirit: Catholic Sisters in America") Women and Spirit: Catholic Sisters in America January 15, 2010 - April 25, 2010 (new closing date) Rare artifacts and photographs from more than 400 communities are on view to explore the role of Catholic sisters in American life. From the time they first arrived in America nearly 300 years ago,... (Partially reviewed)
2010_04_09B_SIAH		2	DC -- Natl Museum of American History, Behring Center The pagoda's gone!
2010_04_10A_BlessF		121	Naval Heritage Center -- 19th Annual Blessing of the Fleets celebration -- Outdoor ceremony 19th Annual Blessing of the Fleets: What is the Blessing of the Fleets? Passed down through generations of sailors, fishermen, merchant mariners and navies around the world, the centuries-old "Blessing of the Fleets" ceremony is intended to safeguard fishing crews and ships from the danger of the...
2010_04_10B_BlessN		79	Naval Heritage Center -- 19th Annual Blessing of the Fleets celebration -- Indoor events incl ribbon cutting 19th Annual Blessing of the Fleets: What is the Blessing of the Fleets? Passed down through generations of sailors, fishermen, merchant mariners and navies around the world, the centuries-old "Blessing of the Fleets" ceremony is intended to safeguard fishing crews and ships from the danger of the...
2010_04_10C_Uzuhi		38	National Cherry Blossom Festival -- Japanese Street Festival -- Uzuhi While there were numerous performers at the Japanese Street Festival, it was a very crowded event and I had a limited amount of time so there was only one act that I watched. That was the group Uzuhi. The program describes them as: Uzuhi is a very high energy Japanese punk rock group. Its four...
2010_04_10D_JStreet		31	National Cherry Blossom Festival -- Japanese Street Festival The Japan-America Society of Washington DC Proudly Presents the 50th Annual Sakura Matsuri -- Japanese Street Festival: From sushi to origami, from sake to kimono— Japanese arts and crafts and products of all kinds— Anime, manga, and J-POP music— Traditional dances and the dramatic taiko drums— If...
2010_04_10E_McPherson		90	Reynolds Center & Washington College -- James M. McPherson on Alexander Gardner’s Antietam, Md., Confederate Dead by a Fence on the Hagerstown Road Author James M. McPherson on Alexander Gardner’s Antietam, Md., Confederate Dead by a Fence on the Hagerstown Road The American Pictures series offers a highly original approach to art and portraiture, pairing great works of art with leading figures of contemporary American culture. Each American...
2010_04_10F_Yuri_Party		52	MD -- Greenbelt -- Goddard Space Flight Center -- Yuri's Night -- Party NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and the Space Generation Advisory Council have joined forces for an explosive event like you’ve never experienced—a World Space Party. On Saturday, April 10, 2010 from 8 p.m.–1 a.m., Goddard’s Visitor Center in Greenbelt, Md. will transform into a club with a...
2010_04_10G_Yuri_Science		57	MD -- Greenbelt -- Goddard Space Flight Center -- Yuri's Night -- Science NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and the Space Generation Advisory Council have joined forces for an explosive event like you’ve never experienced—a World Space Party. On Saturday, April 10, 2010 from 8 p.m.–1 a.m., Goddard’s Visitor Center in Greenbelt, Md. will transform into a club with a...
2010_04_10H_Bellflur		26	MD -- Greenbelt -- Goddard Space Flight Center -- Yuri's Night -- Bellflur This year's Yuri's Night event featured a performance by the group Bellflur. ...
2010_04_11A_Metro_SS		15	Metro Station -- Silver Spring More construction photos, this time from the MARC train platform.
2010_04_11B_Columbia_Heights		40	DC -- Columbia Heights area
2010_04_11C_Howard		18	DC -- Howard University area
2010_04_11D_JJournalists		65	Newseum -- Junior Journalists Family Day w/Rob Rogers Junior Journalists Family Day at the Newseum In addition to some caricature people, the family day included this presentation: Be a Cartoonist with Rob Rogers: Learn to draw like a cartoonist in this hands-on activity for the whole family. Seating is on a space-available basis. But wait! There's...
2010_04_11E_Rogers		46	Newseum -- Inside Media w/Rob Rogers Inside Media: The Best of Editorial Cartoonist Rob Rogers The editorial cartoons of Rob Rogers have been gracing the pages of newspapers since 1984 when he was hired by the Pittsburgh Press. A syndicated cartoonist with United Features Syndicate, Rogers has covered a diverse range of topics, including...
2010_04_11F_RogersSS		75	Newseum -- Inside Media w/Rob Rogers -- Slide Show Inside Media: The Best of Editorial Cartoonist Rob Rogers. These are the cartoons that Rob showed during his presentation. But wait! There's more! Rob Rogers appeared in two Newseum events this day and pictures are divided onto three pages here: ...
2010_04_12A_Gallery_Place		8	DC -- Gallery Place areas Blockades and Falun Gong protestors near the Nuclear Peace Summit. I didn't try to get very close to the security sections for the summit -- I figured they probably looked askance at people doing that.
2010_04_12B_Dollar		137	AFI -- Muhammad Yunus and Gayle Ferraro ("To Catch A Dollar") Speakers in sequence: -- Sky Sitney (AFI) -- Gayle Ferraro and Muhammad Yunus "To Catch a Dollar: Muhammad Yunus Banks on America": In Person: Nobel Peace Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus and director Gayle Ferraro! Professor Muhammad Yunus never wanted to be a banker and he certainly never...
2010_04_13_Joneses		49	AFI -- Derrick Borte ("The Joneses") Speakers in sequence: -- Tiffany Graham-Golden -- Derrick Borte -- Tiffany interviewing Derrick This was an advance preview for the new film "The Joneses" with the writer and director Derrick Borte. Demi Moore and David Duchovny star as a seemingly perfect couple who, along with their...
2010_04_14A_SIAIR		71	DC -- Natl Air and Space Museum (Partially reviewed)
2010_04_14B_NGASG		6	DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- Sculpture Garden Preparing for the fountains to come back on.
2010_04_14C_Martel		67	Sixth & I and Politics & Prose -- Yann Martel ("Beatrice and Virgil") Yann Martel - Beatrice and Virgil: Martel won the 2002 Man Booker Prize for The Life of Pi, his story of a boy and a tiger adrift at sea. His new novel, featuring a donkey, a howler monkey, and an enigmatic taxidermist, is an equally whimsical and philosophical consideration of truth and deception,...
2010_04_14D_Sixth_Wall		5	Sixth & I -- Wall of Fame
2010_04_15_TParty		72	DC -- Tea Party rally @ Freedom Plaza Speakers included: (???) Ken Hoagland, Chairman Online Tax Revolt/FairTax National victory Campaign (??? singer ???) Grover Norquist, Americans for Tax Reform Michele Bachmann of Minnesota (???) Congressman John Linder, from Georgia In 1754, George Washington led an unprovoked sneak attack...
2010_04_16A_Yoe		100	Politics & Prose -- Craig Yoe and Warren Bernard ("Great Anti-War Cartoons") Yoe, a historian of cartoons, has assembled a vast array of anti-war comics that span the globe and date back to the 1600s. These comics run the gamut of emotions, from Bill Mauldin’s humor to Francisque Poulbot’s sorrow. Yoe’s presentation will include source material from Warren Bernard’s private...
2010_04_16B_YoeSS		37	Politics & Prose -- Craig Yoe and Warren Bernard ("Great Anti-War Cartoons") Slide Show Yoe, a historian of cartoons, has assembled a vast array of anti-war comics that span the globe and date back to the 1600s. These comics run the gamut of emotions, from Bill Mauldin’s humor to Francisque Poulbot’s sorrow. Yoe’s presentation will include source material from Warren Bernard’s private...
2010_04_17A_FONZ_Event		80	DC -- FONZ 2010 -- Cockadoodle Zoo Cockadoodle Zoo An exclusive event for FONZ members Once a year, the National Zoo is open only to FONZ members. Formerly ZooNight, Cockadoodle Zoo is our way of saying thank you for being such good friends of the National Zoo. FONZ members are invited to come sneak a peek at how Zoo animals and staff...
2010_04_17B_SINZ_Main		4	DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Parts not covered elsewhere
2010_04_17C_SINZ_Const		10	DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Construction Projects
2010_04_17D_SINZ_Art		2	DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Artwork
2010_04_17E_SINZ_Panda		4	DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Giant pandas (2010)
2010_04_17F_SINZ_Mammal		5	DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Small Mammal House
2010_04_17G_Earth_FD		77	Reynolds Center -- Family Day -- Earth Day Family Day: Earth Day Celebration: Celebrate Earth Day in conjunction with the opening of the Running Fence exhibition with live performances and interactive storytelling. Have fun making eco-friendly woven placemats, fabric collages, decorating tote bags, and even helping to make a community...
2010_04_17H_Earth_BillyB		71	Reynolds Center -- Family Day -- Earth Day -- Billy B performances Family Day: Earth Day Celebration: Celebrate Earth Day in conjunction with the opening of the Running Fence exhibition with live performances and interactive storytelling. Have fun making eco-friendly woven placemats, fabric collages, decorating tote bags, and even helping to make a community...
2010_04_17I_Feiffer		121	Reynolds Center & Washington College -- Jules Feiffer on Bob Landry’s Fred Astaire in “Puttin’ on the Ritz”: Cartoonist Jules Feiffer on Bob Landry’s Fred Astaire in “Puttin’ on the Ritz”: The American Pictures series offers a highly original approach to art and portraiture, pairing great works of art with leading figures of contemporary American culture. Each American Pictures event features an eminent...
2010_04_18A_Logan		41	DC -- Logan Circle areas
2010_04_18B_WHouse_Garden		41	DC -- White House Garden Tour
2010_04_18C_WHouse_People		17	Personal -- Josh, Joanne, Ryan, and James at White House garden event
2010_04_18D_Fords		5	DC -- Ford's Theatre Natl Historic Site
2010_04_18E_Parade		29	Ford's Theatre -- Reading of "Parade" Ford's Theatre Society, Paul R. Tetreault, Director, presents a reading of Parade, in association with Theater J, Ari Roth, Artistic Director. Book by Alfred Uhry, Music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, Co-conceived and originally directed by Harold Prince, directed by Jeff Calhoun, music direction...
2010_04_18F_Gallery_Place		13	DC -- Gallery Place areas
2010_04_19A_SSL		5	MD -- Silver Spring -- Library Still waiting for some buildings to be torn down for the new library.
2010_04_19B_USDA		14	DC -- US Dept of Agriculture building
2010_04_19C_Lincoln_Studies		85	DC -- Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission -- State of Lincoln Studies w/Matthew Pinsker The Future of Lincoln: Welcome and Video Presentation -- Harold Holzer, ALBC Co-Chairman Introduction -- Darrel Bigham, ALBC Commissioner Remarks -- Matt Pinsker Q&A -- Moderated by Jim Horton, ALBC Commissioner Closing Remarks -- Harold Holzer The State of Lincoln Studies: WASHINGTON – The...
2010_04_19D_Lincoln_Final		57	DC -- Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission Final Meeting WASHINGTON – The national Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission (ALBC) will convene its final meeting on Monday, April 19, 2010, at the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington. President Abraham Lincoln established the Department of Agriculture in 1862, calling it the “people’s...
2010_04_19E_Earth_Week		35	DC -- Mall -- Earth Week
2010_04_19F_VPlaza		10	MD -- Silver Spring -- Veterans Plaza
2010_04_20A_Earth_Week		23	DC -- Mall -- Earth Week Earth Day with Kenji Williams The DLN teamed with director and violinist Kenji Williams to present an out of this world experience known as Bella Gaia (Beautiful Earth). This one-of-a-kind multimedia journey of Earth, as observed from space, combined his music with NASA imagery. Bella Gaia was...
2010_04_20B_Roberts		82	Sixth & I -- Immigration: Life Stories and Legal Changes w/Steve Roberts and Diane Rehm Immigration: Life Stories and Legal Changes with Diane Rehm and Steve Roberts: Steve Roberts has been interested in the immigrant experience his whole life. His grandparents were Eastern European Jews who settled in Bayonne, N.J. (although one grandfather took a detour as a Zionist pioneer in Israel...
2010_04_20C_Sixth_Wall		1	Sixth & I -- Wall of Fame
2010_04_21_Dialogue		85	Wilson Center & Internews Interactive -- U.S.-Russian Citizen Diplomacy Past and Present (w/Phil Donahue) Dialogue, Defense and Media Messaging: U.S.-Russian Citizen Diplomacy Past and Present Cosponsored by Internews Interactive Phil Donahue, journalist and television host, New York Vladimir Pozner, journalist and television host, Moscow David Hoffman, contributing editor, The Washington...
2010_04_22A_DOC_Earth		69	Dept of Commerce -- Earth Day ceremony and fair The Department of Commerce hosted an Earth Day Fair in the Herbert C. Hoover Building main lobby. Preceding that was a ceremony for the Environmental Stewardship Awards in the auditorium. The awards ceremony recognized achievements in environmental protection and energy conservation by NOAA, National...
2010_04_22B_KSmith		72	Sixth & I -- An Evening with Kevin Smith AN EVENING WITH KEVIN SMITH: A unique & intimate Q&A with one of the nation's most accomplished screenwriters and directors. Smith has gathered a cult following with films like Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, and his most recent, Zack and Miri. He will be answering...
2010_04_23A_OAS_Terrace		17	DC -- OAS General Secretariat Building -- Terrace Level Gallery Love Me, Quiéreme, Buy Me, by Carolina Mayorga: On view March 12-April 30, 2010 Washington, DC: The Art Museum of the Americas announces the opening of Love Me, Quiéreme, Buy Me, an installation of photographic images and video art that comment on women’s behavior in relation to popular culture and...
2010_04_23B_AI_Stage		121	MD -- Silver Spring -- Amnesty International Arts Festival -- Opening session @ Ellsworth Plaza The sequence of speakers/performers on stage for the kick-off was as follows: (1) Mem Music (musical performance), (2) Tom Block (Art Festival creator and producer), (3) Folabi Olagbaju (Director of the Amnesty International Mid-Atlantic Regional Office), (4) Isiah “Ike” Leggett (Montgomery...
2010_04_23C_AI_Folks		159	MD -- Silver Spring -- Amnesty International Arts Festival -- Folks Pictures of people and families during the opening night kick-off. These are pictures of everyone except the stage performers but it includes most of the stage performers preparing to go on or afterward.
2010_04_23D_AI_Art		10	MD -- Silver Spring -- Amnesty International Arts Festival -- Artwork
2010_04_24A_VPlaza		10	MD -- Silver Spring -- Veterans Plaza
2010_04_24B_AI_Sculpture		22	MD -- Silver Spring -- Amnesty International Arts Festival -- Sculpture Garden
2010_04_24C_AI_Folks		39	MD -- Silver Spring -- Amnesty International Arts Festival -- Folks
2010_04_24D_AI_VAWC		92	MD -- Silver Spring -- Amnesty International Arts Festival -- Violence Against Women Conference @ City Place Theater One of our central events will be this gathering of all the participants concerned with violence against women issues. This conference will address using art to advocate and educate on this central problem. Our eight artist/advocates who are working on this issue will introduce their work, followed by...
2010_04_24E_AI_Stage		28	MD -- Silver Spring -- Amnesty International Arts Festival -- Stage acts @ Ellsworth Plaza Melonheads This DC-area sextet specializes in “Good Time Music” with a repertoire that includes everything from dance favorites and ballads from the last four decades to the latest and coolest of the current groups.  When The Melonheads are in the house, you can’t help but boogie along with them, and...
2010_04_24F_America		65	AFI -- Stathis Giallelis and Foster Hirsch ("America, America") Speakers in sequence: -- Todd Hitchcock (AFI) -- Foster Hirsch -- Foster interviewing Stathis Giallelis AMERICA, AMERICA In Person: Actor Stathis Giallelis on April 24! "My name is Elia Kazan. I am a Greek by blood, a Turk by birth and an American because my uncle made a journey." Elia...
2010_04_24G_AI_Lear		19	MD -- Silver Spring -- Amnesty International Arts Festival -- Ben Lear @ Langano's Ben Lear For the past year, Ben has been hard at work composing a folk-opera about a man, all that he's lost and an island of plastic in the Pacific Ocean. At the Festival, you will hear Ben play these songs in their most original and intimate forms, with just voice and guitar.
2010_04_24H_AI_Story		47	MD -- Silver Spring -- Amnesty International Arts Festival -- Thomason & Diabate -- Storytelling @ B&O Station Storytelling with Lakota Sioux Dovie Thomason and Malian Griot Cheikh Diabate, professional storytellers who will share their craft. (90 minutes) (B&O Railroad Station)
2010_04_24I_AI_Art		48	MD -- Silver Spring -- Amnesty International Arts Festival -- Artwork
2010_04_25A_AI_JSM		68	MD -- Silver Spring -- Amnesty International Arts Festival -- JumpStart Media @ City Place Theater JumpStart Media With Dr. Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences theory as an educational basis, JumpStart Media Project teaches life skills to at-risk youth through media arts education.  The assignment for each JMP group is to make a film on video that reflects their lives.  This is the first of...
2010_04_25B_AI_Folks		6	MD -- Silver Spring -- Amnesty International Arts Festival -- Folks
2010_04_25C_SS		18	MD -- Silver Spring
2010_04_25D_AI_Art		45	MD -- Silver Spring -- Amnesty International Arts Festival -- Artwork
2010_04_25E_Pyramid		6	MD -- Silver Spring -- Pyramid Atlantic Art Center Several organizations have contributed to the production of this mural> The Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, the Silver Spring Regional Center, the Meditation Museum, the Gandhi Brigade, and Albus Cavus. With Peace as a central theme, artists Gretchen Schermerham and Sabeth Jackson worked to develop...
2010_04_25F_AI_Tariq		26	MD -- Silver Spring -- Amnesty International Arts Festival -- Tariq Ensemble @ Langano's Tariq Ensemble Fuses music of the Near East and the Mediterranean world with jazz.  The group’s material is a mix of original compositions, folk songs, and tunes from the jazz repertoire.  The musicians of Tariq Ensemble are: GRAMMY Award-winning pianist Harry Appelman; Todd Marcus, bass clarinet and...
2010_04_25G_AI_Drums		57	MD -- Silver Spring -- Amnesty International Arts Festival -- Anansegromma of Ghana (drum circle) Anansegromma of Ghana This outdoor drum circle will bring audience and musicians together. Bring your own drum! After the hour-long program, citizen drummers will continue to create new rhythms and explore this ancient manner of communion and spirituality. (60 minutes + ad hoc, audience led after show)...
2010_04_25H_SS_Art		19	MD -- Silver Spring -- Public art
2010_04_25I_MC_PAC		5	MD -- Silver Spring -- Montgomery College -- Performing Arts Center
2010_04_25J_AI_FilmP		31	MD -- Silver Spring -- Amnesty International Arts Festival -- Filmmakers panel @ Montgomery College PAC Jerry Blumenthal (Kartemquin Films, Chicago), Jeffrey Spitz (Groundswell Films, Chicago), Jehan Harney (Egypt), Jeffrey Kramer (Price of Paradise film) and others will discuss using film for activist purpose. Adele Schmidt, of Festival Official Partner Docs-in-Progress, will moderate the panel.
2010_04_25K_MC_CAF		3	MD -- Silver Spring -- Montgomery College -- Cafritz Art Center
2010_04_27A_Arizona		11	DC -- City council press conference on No More Arizonas @ J.A. Wilson Building “No More Arizonas" say DC Rights Activists: Condemning Arizona’s passage last week of the “Secure Communities” program as “racist and perverse,” dozens of labor, community and immigrant rights activists spoke out forcefully yesterday about the dangers of collaboration between local police and...
2010_04_27B_DCW_Press		84	DC -- Natl Archives major exhibit -- Discovering the Civil War press conference Discovering the Civil War: A Traveling Exhibit from the National Archives Created in Partnership with the Foundation for the National Archives In 2010 the National Archives will peel back 150 years of accumulated analysis, synthesis, and punditry to reveal a Civil War that is little-known and even...
2010_04_27C_DCW		101	DC -- Natl Archives major exhibit -- Discovering the Civil War (Partially reviewed)
2010_04_27D_DCW_Tour		25	DC -- Natl Archives major exhibit -- Discovering the Civil War tour Discovering the Civil War: A Traveling Exhibit from the National Archives Created in Partnership with the Foundation for the National Archives In 2010 the National Archives will peel back 150 years of accumulated analysis, synthesis, and punditry to reveal a Civil War that is little-known and even...
2010_04_27E_MCC		111	Newseum -- Mary Chapin Carpenter gets "Spirit of Americana" award -- all except MCC herself (Judy Collins, Eric Brace, Rodney Crowell) People speaking/performing on this page: Gene Policinski (executive director of the First Amendment Center) Jed Hilly (Executive Director, Americana Music Association) Eric Brace (performer) Kevin Cordt (trumpeter accompanying Eric) Rodney Crowell (performer) Judy Collins...
2010_04_27F_MCCP		73	Newseum -- Mary Chapin Carpenter gets "Spirit of Americana" award -- Mary Chapin Carpenter Three sections from the presentation: (1) Mary Chapin Carpenter is interviewed by Ken Paulson (President and chief operating officer of the Newseum and First Amendment Center) (2) Mary Chapin Carpenter gets her award from Ken Paulson and Judy Collins (3) Mary Chapin Carpenter performs with John...
2010_04_28A_NATower		63	Natl Archives -- Raymond Schmidt ("A Tower In Nebraska") A Tower in Nebraska: How FDR Found Inspiration for the Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland During his political career, Franklin Delano Roosevelt had a hand in determining the appearance and location of many public projects including the Pentagon and National Archives Building. Nowhere was his...
2010_04_29A_LCTY		32	Lotusphere Comes To You event
2010_04_29C_Maysles		52	Reynolds Center -- Albert Maysles ("Christo in Paris") Christo in Paris with Albert Maysles Christo in Paris tells the story of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s first grand-scale project: wrapping the oldest bridge in Paris (58 minutes, 1986). Valley Curtain examines the dramatic hanging of an immense orange curtain between two Colorado mountains (28 minutes,...
2010_04_30A_Archives		22	DC -- Natl Archives Including the Federal City Brass Band celebrating the opening of the Discovering the Civil War exhibit.
2010_04_30B_Remini		39	Natl Archives -- Robert Remini ("At the Edge of the Precipice") At The Edge of the Precipice: Henry Clay and the Compromise that Saved the Union: Robert V. Remini, historian of the House of Representatives, discusses his newest book, At the Edge of the Precipice, a fascinating recounting of the Compromise of 1850, a titanic act of political will that only a...
2010_04_30C_Chaplains		98	Newseum -- Washington Premiere: "Chaplains Under Fire" Washington Premiere: "Chaplains Under Fire" The Religious Freedom Education Project will host the Washington, D.C., premiere of "Chaplains Under Fire," an independent documentary that examines the lives and work of military chaplains and the church-state tensions at the heart of the chaplaincy. In...
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