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Journalist: Arts, culture, health, etc. Bylines: Globe and Mail, New York Times, Dance Magazine, and many more. Cancer and stroke survivor somehow still here. [email protected] https://what-if-arts.ghost.io/
Rebecca J. Ritzel
Many points in WNO's lawsuit against the Kennedy Center -- including the endowment and recovering donor contact info --are fortold in the January "divorce" story I wrote for @washingtonian.com. washingtonian.com/2026/01/21/w...
Beyond the legality of this, it should be noted in every story about this ridiculous legal battle that the board of trustees of the national performing arts center inserted a bylaw into their foundational documents that functions as a petty self-destruct button for the entire organization.
Rebecca J. Ritzel
Sam Bergman
There’s room for a million wild and wacky and wonderful takes on Shakespeare, but when the this particular approach dominates the field, it gets… tiring. Audiences don’t need a one-to-one correlation with our own lives to connect to the story if everyone does their job well, I PROMISE.
One last push/reminder: I will be moderating the post-screening discussion tonight for The Last Critic, a terrific new documentary about Robert Christgau.
Tickets are still available, so if you're in the area, come by and check it out!
Continually amazed how much news coming out of the Trump administration relates to the arts and and humanities rather than taxes and budgets and basic functions of government.
"I was the only Black person with 41 people sitting there staring at me, and I thought of what nine-year-old Ruby Bridges must have felt like when she walked into that all-white school." -- Rep. Joyce Beatty on the KC board meeting.
