Bishop Mariann Budde discusses her book I Can Learn To Be Brave and how she hopes it’ll inspire others to stand up for human rights.

Check out the venues, museums, burgers, books, beers, gay game nights, and more that City Paper writers are loving right now.

For our 2026 edition, City Paper travel back in time to reconsider some of the best people, places, and spaces from a decade ago.

NSO and Star Wars, 20 years of DC Legendary Musicians, a musical fundraiser for rescue cats, and an exhibit on independence.

Home Rule Festival, dance, a Black women comedy troupe, Jack Rubies, Sonido Gallo Negro, and Artist and Models. Plus Juneteenth and Pride.

Donnell Robinson, Ella’s alter ego, looks back at the perfection, the clubs, and the drag children that made her a local icon.

In his sci-fi fantasia, playwright Christopher Chen forces us to ponder who, or what, we’d be if the outside world fell away.

May the 4th (be with you), Dorrance Dance Production, Happenstance Theater’s PLAYdate, Stephanie Chou, Love & Other Monsters, and Nick Cave.

FilmFest DC screens the Eva Cassidy doc, Oddisee at District Sound Festival, music for queer youth, Chandrani Ghosh, and Shakespeare.

Cherry blossom fest in Anacostia, stand-up from sex worker advocate Kaytlin Bailey, Field Medic, and Ruth Orkin: Women on the Move exhibit.

Pinky Swear Productions co-founder Karen Lange brings The H Twins from local playwright Hope Campbell Gundlah to the Spooky Action stage.

From Awa Sal Secka singing Black Broadway to Eddie Izzard’s Hamlet to Suzan-Lori Parks’ Sally & Tom, it’s a good time to go to the theater.

Japanese classics, DC Environmental Film Festival, Bleak Week, and AFI’s New African Film Festival are making it a season for cinephiles.

Tambo & Bones, Dave Harris’ treatise on race in America, comes to life under Ashleigh King’s insightful directing,

Victor Salinas and Gabriel de la Cruz’s La Pluma Theatre will open the doors for its first show at Dupont Underground this December.