DontMuteDC - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com The website that Washington lives by. Thu, 17 Jun 2021 19:23:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.washingtonian.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cropped-washingtonian-favicon-gigantic-138x138.png DontMuteDC - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com 32 32 How Netflix’s ‘Residue’ Became a Must-Watch Film About Racism and Gentrification in DC https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/09/28/residue-merawi-gerima-interview/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=residue-merawi-gerima-interview Mon, 28 Sep 2020 20:38:30 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1285569 In the new film Residue, a young man moves back to Eckington, the DC neighborhood where he grew up, only to find it completely transformed. Written and directed by Merawi Gerima, it’s a profoundly emotional and artistic exploration of gentrification, racism, and erasure that’s based on his real experiences in DC. After Residue’s success on […]

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Lift Your Spirits (and Your Legs) With This Short Documentary About DC’s Homegrown Dance Style https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/05/05/watch-video-go-go-dance-beat-ya-feet/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=watch-video-go-go-dance-beat-ya-feet Tue, 05 May 2020 19:59:50 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1108230 Looking for a quick mood boost? A new video highlights go-go culture with a focus on on the DC dance style called Beat Ya Feet. “If Cities Could Dance” is a web series from San Francisco-based NPR member station KQED that illustrates various dance styles from around the country. Naturally, the DC episode focuses on […]

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Mayor Bowser Will Sign the Bill Making Go-Go DC’s Official Music on Wednesday https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/02/18/mayor-bowser-will-sign-the-bill-making-go-go-dcs-official-music-on-wednesday/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mayor-bowser-will-sign-the-bill-making-go-go-dcs-official-music-on-wednesday Tue, 18 Feb 2020 19:30:53 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1020440 It’s nearly official: On February 19, Mayor Muriel Bowser will sign the go-go bill, and she’s throwing a party to celebrate. The DC Council approved the measure unanimously for a second time on February 4 and sent it to Bowser’s office for review. Bowser will now sign the legislation, which designates go-go as the official […]

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The History of Go-Go: A 6-Step Guide to the Essentials https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/10/30/history-go-go-6-step-guide-the-essentials/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=history-go-go-6-step-guide-the-essentials Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:05:35 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=899476 For decades, go-go music has been the District’s most powerful homegrown cultural creation. But lately, its unique pulse has served as a flashpoint as much as a soundtrack. After a neighbor in a luxury building complained about go-go recordings playing outside a Shaw cell-phone store, the #DontMuteDC movement was born—an effort to save not only […]

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Why DC Should Embrace Its Role as a Center of Protest https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/10/28/why-dc-should-embrace-role-center-protest/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-dc-should-embrace-role-center-protest Mon, 28 Oct 2019 14:19:07 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=898650 On the morning of September 23, four activists chained themselves to a pink-and-yellow sailboat that had been placed in front of traffic at the intersection of 16th and K, Northwest. The stunt was part of a broader effort that day—branded Shut Down DC—to disrupt downtown Washington and demand action to deal with the climate crisis. […]

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These May Be the Best Political Posters Ever to Hit DC Streets https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/10/15/these-may-be-the-best-political-posters-ever-to-hit-dc-streets/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=these-may-be-the-best-political-posters-ever-to-hit-dc-streets Tue, 15 Oct 2019 21:45:06 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=882695 Early Tuesday morning, DC commuters began seeing vibrantly-colored posters around DC, like this one my colleague Mimi Montgomery saw in Adams Morgan: Sure, there are tons of posters on every corner in DC, but few are as eye catching as these, which feature jabs at Mayor Bowser (“What kind of dumbo doesn’t like mumbo”) and […]

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WATCH: The BET Awards Opened With a Tribute to Go-Go https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/06/24/the-bet-awards-opened-with-a-tribute-to-go-go/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-bet-awards-opened-with-a-tribute-to-go-go Mon, 24 Jun 2019 13:30:05 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=752789 The BET Awards’ Nipsey Hussle tribute and Billy Ray Cyrus cameo Sunday night are gathering lots of headlines this morning, but the opening was perhaps the biggest highlight for local viewers. During a parody of Beyoncé‘s Homecoming, host Regina Hall said she wanted to “teach people, especially the younger generation, about Washington, DC. The Washington, DC, I grew […]

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How Can We Preserve Go-Go’s History? https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/06/13/how-can-we-preserve-go-go-history/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-can-we-preserve-go-go-history Thu, 13 Jun 2019 11:00:27 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=743689 This spring, noise complaints forced a Shaw retailer to turn off the go-go recordings that had played in front of his store for more than two decades. The outcry was fast and intense, and in the wake of protests and a #DontMuteDC hashtag started by a Howard student, the music was eventually allowed to return. […]

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GoldLink Releases New Album “Diaspora” With Art Projections on U Street https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/06/12/goldlink-releases-new-album-diaspora-with-art-projections-on-u-street/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=goldlink-releases-new-album-diaspora-with-art-projections-on-u-street Wed, 12 Jun 2019 13:15:58 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=742359 On Tuesday night, GoldLink was in New York filming a performance for The Tonight Show in promotion of his sophomore studio album Diaspora, but that didn’t stop the rapper from making a statement back home in DC. A few hours before the midnight release, DC visual artist Robin Bell projected GoldLink’s album art onto the Garnet-Patterson building on U Street. Shot by Hailey […]

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Why Last Night’s #MOECHELLA Protest Was a Big Deal for DC https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/05/08/why-last-nights-moechella-protest-was-a-big-deal-for-dc/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-last-nights-moechella-protest-was-a-big-deal-for-dc Wed, 08 May 2019 18:30:39 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=710509 Over the past month, the hashtag #DontMuteDC—in response to the reported silencing of go-go music at the MetroPCS in Shaw—has become something of a movement. There have been rallies, concerts, and petitions in DC, and think pieces from Slate and the New Yorker aimed at a broader audience. The proximate cause of the agita was an April 8 […]

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