Will Lennon

6 days ago | washingtoncitypaper.com | Will Lennon

Thanks for being a member of City Paper! The media was saturated for decades with bad faith hyperbole about the dangers of cannabis. But now that more than 17 million people say they use cannabis of one kind or another on a daily basis (or near daily basis), it’s fair to say that the pendulum has swung in the other direction. Weed can’t hurt you, it grows in the dirt. It’s medicine. Anyone who tells you otherwise is pilled on conservative propaganda. Right? Not exactly.

1 month ago | washingtoncitypaper.com | Rebecca Ritzel |Mary Manning |Will Lennon |Brandon Wetherbee |Allison R. Shely

Thanks for being a member of City Paper! DMV choreographers are always moving. Blame the transient nature of D.C.’s job market, which too often pulls artists in and out with their spouses, or area universities that draw MFA students who depart when they graduate. Nejla Yatkin may have moved to Chicago more than a decade ago, but whenever she brings a project back to Dance Place in Brookland, this formerly local dance icon deserves a homecoming party.

1 month ago | washingtoncitypaper.com | Pat Padua |Steve Kiviat |Brandon Wetherbee |Matt S. Siblo |Alan Zilberman |Will Lennon | +1 more

Thanks for being a member of City Paper! Director Nagisa Oshima’s bold 1968 film operates on a devastating premise: What happens when a Korean man sentenced to death in a Japanese court somehow survives the execution? With a title like Death by Hanging and an opening sequence that lays out a case against capital punishment, one braces the emotions for what must inevitably be a laborious two-hour ordeal. Would you believe the movie is absolutely hilarious?

1 month ago | washingtoncitypaper.com | Stephanie Rudig |Christina Smart |Will Lennon |Matt S. Siblo |Louis Jacobson

“I never thought of happiness as something reachable. Happiness is not something you can hold onto.” So says artist Hung Liu in the wall text of Hung Liu: Happy and Gay, an exhibit that examines the painter’s series based on Maoist propaganda books for children that were prevalent throughout her childhood in China. The slipperiness of joy and of memory is evident in the paint drips that stain what are usually otherwise placid scenes.

Nov 26, 2024 | washingtoncitypaper.com | Joe Warminsky |Will Lennon |Serena Zets |Brandon Wetherbee |Matt S. Siblo |Stephanie Rudig

Thanks for being a member of City Paper! Any bot scraping the career details for Fousheé would come up with a zeitgeisty grab bag of high points: daughter of a Jamaican musician; contestant on The Voice; beneficiary of a viral TikTok clip (“Deep End Freestyle”); writing partner of Steve Lacy (e.g., “Bad Habit”); hook singer for Lil Wayne, and so on.