Rob Brunner's profile photo

Rob Brunner

Washington, D.C.

Politics and Culture Editor at Washingtonian

Freelance writer and editor at Freelance

Moved to a better place: https://t.co/uxijP0qqfR Politics & culture editor @washingtonian. Before: features editor @fastcompany.

Articles

  • 1 month ago | washingtonian.com | Matt Ribel |Andrew Zaleski |Eric Wills |Rob Brunner

    This page describes the contents of an issue of Washingtonian magazine. Subscribers get exclusive early access through our print and digital editions. Most of our feature stories are later published online and linked below. Buy a Single IssueSubscribeOr Manage My SubscriptionFEATURESThe Body FarmAt George Mason University, forensic scientists are probing the mysteries of human decomposition–work that ultimately could help solve homicide cases. By Matt Ribel.

  • 1 month ago | msn.com | Rob Brunner

    Continue reading More for You

  • 1 month ago | washingtonian.com | Rob Brunner

    For more than 20 years, E Street Cinema was one of the city’s best movie theaters, showcasing independent and international films, as well as more mainstream fare. Landmark, which owns it, closed the place down for good over the weekend. It’s just the latest of many losses for DC’s filmgoing scene. We called New York magazine and Vulture film critic Bilge Ebiri, who grew up in Rockville and spent his teen years inside local theaters, to talk about a few he particularly misses.

  • 2 months ago | washingtonian.com | Rob Brunner

    A new exhibit at the National Building Museum has an intriguingly undercooked concept: It’s just a bunch of cool stuff. Culled from the museum’s collection of more than 500,000 artifacts, the permanent installation, called “Visible Vault,” offers a host of curiosities: architectural models, antique tools, building-related toys, vintage machinery—it’s like wandering through a funky salvage store where every single thing has some kind of story behind it.

  • Nov 20, 2024 | washingtonian.com | Rob Brunner

    Twenty-two years ago, my father sent a letter to me that I never had the courage to open. I put it away in a drawer, the envelope still sealed, thinking I might get around to it someday. I knew what was in there; I couldn’t bear to look. My family’s Holocaust story wasn’t something I’d ever much engaged with. I knew the basics, dimly, but it all felt far away and abstract—somebody else’s nightmare.

Contact details

Socials & Sites

Try JournoFinder For Free

Search and contact over 1M+ journalist profiles, browse 100M+ articles, and unlock powerful PR tools.

Start Your 7-Day Free Trial →

Coverage map

X (formerly Twitter)

Followers
2K
Tweets
1K
DMs Open
No
Rob Brunner
Rob Brunner @RobBrunnerDC
10 Nov 23

RT @washingtonian: Why people are buzzing (croaking?) about an album of frog sounds: https://t.co/wiU0U82QUI

Rob Brunner
Rob Brunner @RobBrunnerDC
1 Nov 23

Always fun to see something you wrote pop up in your feed with no attribution. Just for the record, the actual story is here: https://t.co/gqaEQ061kA

Good Steely Dan Takes
Good Steely Dan Takes @baddantakes

Halloween is also the anniversary of the legendary Leather Canary show, the night Chevy Chase played drums in a band with Donald and Walter https://t.co/RbDbcBHKNB

Rob Brunner
Rob Brunner @RobBrunnerDC
26 Oct 23

Pulling on the handle of DC's electric chair was one of the creepiest experiences of my life.

Trey Barrineau
Trey Barrineau @treybarrineau

A piece of local history I was not previously aware of. The last execution at the DC Jail was in 1957. From @washingtonian The Shocking History of DC’s Electric Chair https://t.co/namc3JrCDX