IN Series’ For Women Serving Time at Dupont Underground, March 20 to 22 French modernist composer Gabriel Fauré described Requiem, his fin de siecle choral orchestral work, as “a lullaby of death.” By this he meant not the thundering divine judgment of the Dies Irae tradition, but something gentler and even consoling, as if death […]

I think it was the great philosopher Taylor Swift who said shake, shake, shake it off. And when spring officially arrives in D.C. this week, that’s exactly what I suggest you do with the winter blues. Spring brings the promises of newness, fresh growth, and—if you want to get real woo-woo—rebirth. (But seriously, when that […]