Out of the Past
Sisters Enjoli and Sesha Joi Moon are using their nonprofit, the JXN Project, to explore the lost grandeur of Richmond’s Jackson Ward neighborhood.
VCU Magazine
Fall 2022 / 5,288 words
Terry Austin and the ‘very important thing’
The just-retired band director reflects on how he’s changed and what he’s learned over nearly
half a century at the podium
VCU Magazine
Fall 2022 / 1,125 words
Being a Regular at a Neighborhood Bar Like the Hitching Post Can Be Good For the Spirit
Research suggests that passing time at a pub can be as good for your emotional well-being as it is for your social life.
Washington City Paper
Dec. 2, 2021 / 1,637 words
I Lived in a Bar For Six Months In Exchange For Watching the Place and Its Two Cats
When the pandemic cost me my job and apartment, the owners of The Public Option in Langdon Park took me in.
Washington City Paper
Aug. 30, 2021 / 1,662 words
A Late Morning with the Smithsonian Secretary
Lonnie Bunch spent a decade as a GW professor and then founded the National Museum of African American History and Culture. In March, he talked about the importance of history, how we tell stories — and who tells them.
GW Magazine
Spring 2020 / 3,910 words
My Faire Lady
When Virginia’s Renaissance festival folded in 1999, Cornelia Rutherford put up her $52,000 retirement to save it.
GW Magazine
Summer 2019 / 1,531 words
For more than a century, a U.S. border town and its Mexican counterpart have thrown a festival to mark George Washington’s birthday. Elaine Peña went home to understand why, and what it says about people and dividing lines.
GW Magazine
Summer 2019 / 3,186 words
Of War and Elephants
Worn down by covering conflict, alumna, photojournalist and documentarian Kate Brooks decided to turn her lens elsewhere. This is how she went from combat to conservation.
GW Magazine
Spring 2019 / 5,157 words
The Lord of Little Washington
Chef Patrick O’Connell shaped a rural town in his whimsical image, building a Michelin-starred restaurant and remaking Washington, Va., as a gastronome’s paradise. Forty years in, realm and creator are all but indistinguishable.
GW Magazine
Fall 2018 / 5,025 words
Life After a Dark Knight
Comic book artist Chris Burnham spent two years drawing Batman. It wasn’t as glamorous as he imagined, but it led somewhere big: making a comic with Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman.
GW Magazine
Fall 2018 / 3,384 words
Liz Acevedo Verses the Novel
After years on the spoken-word circuit, the poet is conquering the novel. Her debut, The Poet X, is a critically adored bestseller. (It later won a National Book Award). It also seems like the book she was meant to write.
GW Magazine
Summer 2018 / 5,108 words
Back to Sea
When a family illness prematurely ended GW engineering professor Murray Snyder’s career as a submarine commander, he turned to academia. He got his PhD at age 47, and for the past nine years, he’s studied ship air wakes for the U.S. Navy.
GW Magazine
Summer 2018 / 3,914 words
A Diamond Mind
Former MLB catcher John Flaherty, who for 13 seasons has called New York Yankees games for the YES Network, talks about the crossover to broadcasting and toeing the line to be the fans’ advocate in the booth.
GW Magazine
Summer 2018 / 1,429 words
The Length of a Flash
Lysa Puma was hit by a thunderbolt at the Tibetan Freedom Concert on June 13, 1998. Twenty years later, she has a normal life — but she still has “lightning days."
GW Magazine
Spring 2018 / 3,946 words
The Sphere of Influence
David Eisenhower spent his formative years in the orbit of two presidents: his grandfather and his father-in-law. In this Q&A, he tells us what he learned.
GW Magazine
Spring 2018 / 2,259 words
Athl-eats
University athletic departments more and more are hiring, either full-time or as contractors, registered dietitians to minister to their athletes. The trend started at Nebraska in 1994, and it’s on the verge of going industry-wide.
GW Magazine
Spring 2018 / 1,442 words
Precious Mettle
Elana Meyers Taylor has used a daredevil style to win four bobsled world championships and Olympic bronze and Olympic silver. In February in South Korea, she’s the favorite for Olympic gold.
GW Magazine
Fall 2017 / 4,981 words
Science. Art. Magic.
Two-time Oscar winner Bill Westenhofer is responsible for the visual effects in some of Hollywood’s biggest films of the past 20 years, including Elf, Life of Pi and this summer’s Wonder Woman.
GW Magazine
Summer 2017 / 4,636 words
NFLPA Spokesman: ‘Language Matters’
George Atallah talks about being a spokesman in a post-facts world.
GW Magazine
Summer 2017 / 845 words
The Mirassou Redemption
Twenty years ago, sixth-generation winemaker Steven Mirassou confronted his lineage. Today, he defines it.
GW Magazine
Spring 2017 / 955 words
The Indie Winemaker Who Made It to the White House
Susie Selby started her winery in 1994, and for five years, she worked at another winery just to keep hers going.
GW Magazine
Spring 2017 / 1,066 words
A Line by Line Perspective
Sometimes things don’t work out. Colombian-born Corcoran professor Juana Medina knows this as well as anyone. But the children’s book illustrator and author also knows that sometimes they do, and that’s enough to keep her cheery in the face of gloom.
GW Magazine
Spring 2017 / 2,450 words
Transcendent Blues
Scott Rosenbaum spent nearly a decade making his documentary, Sidemen: Long Road to Glory. Along the way he became a custodian of the legacy of three old bluesmen — and their friend.
GW Magazine
Spring 2017 / 2,717 words
One Afternoon in January
Fifty years ago, GW’s football program ended for a sixth and final time. But 10 years before it was dropped, GW football rose to its zenith, the greatest season in program history and a singular moment on the national stage.
GW Magazine
Fall 2016 / 3,106 words
The Other 90 Percent
Exhibit at the Luther W. Brady Art Gallery displays rarely seen works from GW’s permanent collection including an early Norman Rockwell oil painting.
GW Magazine
Spring 2016 / 871 words
Novelist Thomas Mallon imagines what lies between the facts in the lives of presidents and those around them.
GW Magazine
Spring 2016 / 4,327 words
Iconic photographer and eternal San Franciscan
Michael Zagaris
has shot rock gods and all-stars, stood up to The Man and almost died twice. He’s spent his life doing everything you always wanted to do, and now that he’s getting older… absolutely nothing’s changed.
GW Magazine
Summer 2016 / 4,837 words