Washington DC

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is THE iconic movie about American politics because its story is one that Americans have always wanted to believe about their democracy: that no matter how venal and corrupt politics can be, a virtuous, innocent man like Jimmy Stewart’s Mr. Smith — a small-town nobody picked by cynical powerbrokers to […]

Go-Go music is Washington DC’s homegrown hip-hop that began thirty years ago. In the 90’s, some DC bands started mixing Christian messages into their Go-Go songs. Produced by Jaquie Gales Webb.

Every couple of years a group in Washington DC takes over a giant space,such asan abandoned warehouse, and fills itwithworks by more than 700 artists. The project is called Art-o-Matic. We discovered that a great number of the paintings at Art-o-Matic are pictures of people not wearing clothes. Produced by Richard Paul.

You can’t expect logic and factual truth from movies. And few of us would pay ten dollars to watch C-SPAN. But Richard Paul just can’t ignore the differences between real life Washington and the Capitol Hill created by Hollywood.

The National Museum of the American Indian opens in just a few days on the National Mall in Washington, DC. The building itself is strikingly different from the marble halls that surround it, and its grounds evoke Native landscapes right in the center of Washington — with 28,000 plants trucked in from all over the […]