Rebecca J. Ritzel
@rjritzel
Professional asker of cultural questions. Bylines: NOTUS, Globe and Mail, New York Times, Dance Magazine, and many more. Cancer and stroke survivor somehow still here. rjritzel@gmail.com
Apparently nothing makes learning about the Lincoln assassination more fun than going to the Booth family homestead with your theatre critic aunt.
For a good time, take an 8-year-old to visit John Wilkes Booth's family homestead.
There's currently a TBD slot for the weekend of August 7, and I have to hope Bengie's will get ODYSSEY then, but somewhere there are IMAX people or studio types or whoever trying to screw a Baltimore drive-in like it's 1962.
So disappointing that @mirrorindy.org has yet to report anything on Julian Wachner, the storied conductor who signed a Indiana plea deal last week on charges of drug possession and child sex abuse materials.
For thousands of years before Facebook, mankind's only reliable transportation was an animal we could just... lose.
Got my official denial from MOHELA today. Everyone check on your friends with U.S. student loans: We are not OK.
Quite the metaphor that the Canadian embassy could not host World Cup watch parties because America, (The embassy is too close to the Capitol) so here I am at a bar in Southwest with about 100 very nice people.
If Adam Sandler seems like an odd choice remember this was the guy looking for a wedding officiant.
It's been a rough June thus far, but cheers to happy change-of-leadership at a DC arts org: Diane Coburn Bruning hands over the reins of Chamber Dance Project to Patric Palkens.
Your vote counts! Case in point: Just four votes separate the Democratic Harford County executive candidates, with absentee and provisional ballots still to be counted. #MarylandPrimary
Seats in the "mid-nave" are $132, and only half sold two days before the National Orchestra Institute concert! (Also let's be real some of those aisle pairs are comps.)
I get that Marin Alsop is conducting but how does it cost $100 (or more!) to sit in the National Cathedral balcony for a student orchestra concert?
I will go to my grave insisting that Joshua Henry was the better Aaron Burr. Congrats to a great actor, singer and acceptance speaker. #tonyawards
Fuuuuuck. Didn't want to subscribe to Paramount+ (for reasons) and now I am missing the #TonyAwards for a tornado warning.
Sarah Paulson's stylist: "Let's go with something that says they were crazy not to cast you in SCHMIGADOON."
Hmmm. Looks like Trump's special envoy for global partnerships is hanging out with the Albanian prime minister atm what a coincidence.
Court rules that Trump's name must come down off the Kennedy Center. (Per Rep. Joyce Beatty's attorney.)
NPS entrance fees funding the fountain repairs was the main topic of conversation at a DC New Year's Eve party I attended. How on earth is this a "scoop" in May?
To those who say there is nothing gay about the song "Testify to Love," I give you Ralph van Manen, the Dutch dude who originally wrote and recorded the CCM anthem, playing guitar in a muscle shirt at Eurovision.
Running through my Arts Journalism Initiative website intro again today at noon central. Feel free to hop on! umsystem.zoom.us/w/9251129854...
Come talk arts journalism today! Noon in New York, 8 a.m. breakfast in Alaska, etc. umsystem.zoom.us/w/9251129854...
Some fields die before women ever get a real shot, fields such as arts journalism and late night television.