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Brendan Drake

Announcing DCDN's Inaugural Choreographer Commission Awardee!

November 4, 2025

DC Dance Network is thrilled to announce that the inaugural winner of the DC Dance Network Choreographer Commission is Brendan Drake!

Natianna Strachen as Maria, the Illyria High School Mascot, and Natalia Fernandez-Davila as Olivia in ‘Twelfth Night.’ Photo by Briana Diaz.

‘Twelfth Night’ turns up in a 1980s high school at George Washington University

November 3, 2025

A spunky and funny new adaptation in a modern setting views Shakespeare's romantic comedy with queerness in mind.

Corcoran Students Earn Top Honors in 80th College Photographer of the Year Awards

October 28, 2025

Corcoran photography students earned top honors in the 80th College Photographer of the Year (CPOY) competition, one of the most prestigious contests for emerging photojournalists.

Newly inaugurated President Richard M. Nixon at what is now the National Museum of American History, with Patricia Nixon, Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Tricia Nixon Cox and Edward F. Cox on Jan. 20, 1973. (Richard Hofmeister/Smithsonian Institution Archives)

Trump isn’t the first to interfere with the Smithsonian. Nixon did, too.

October 22, 2025

First the White House ordered up a costly political exhibition. Then reelection officials told the Smithsonian to wall off a “controversial” voting rights show, a curator later recalled.

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