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"There's just no such thing as impossible."...

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Dream Jobs: Robin Thomas, Whitman-Walker

Kaylee Dugan and Jeff MartinOctober 18, 2018

"The job I never really wanted ended up being the best thing that ever happened to me."...

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Dream Jobs: Artechouse

Kaylee Dugan and Jeff MartinOctober 9, 2018

"If that's not art, I don't know what art is."...

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Dream Jobs: Office of the Chief Medical Examiner

Jenn Tisdale, Nicholas Karlin and Kaylee DuganOctober 3, 2018

"If you visualize the chalk outline around a body, we’re only focused on what’s inside that chalk outline."...

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Dream Jobs: Julie Kent, The Washington Ballet

Kaylee Dugan and Nicholas KarlinSeptember 20, 2018

"I'm really looking forward to the day when The Washington Ballet is the great pride of the city."...

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Dream Jobs: Sunyatta Amen, Calabash Tea

Kaylee Dugan and Nicholas KarlinSeptember 18, 2018

"I always say to my students, mastery can not be microwaved."...

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Startups to Start Noticing: Sip City

Kaylee DuganAugust 23, 2018

Maybe you're sick of kombucha....

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Dream Jobs: Suzan Murray, Conservation Fiend

Kaylee Dugan and Clarissa VillondoAugust 15, 2018

From seeing Jane Goodall on TV at five-years-old to becoming colleagues with Jane Goodall...

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Startups To Start Noticing: Sasya Foods

Kaylee DuganJune 13, 2018

"I had to call home every day and ask, 'How do you do this? How do you do that?'"...

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Dream Jobs: Katalina Mayorga, El Camino Travel

Kaylee Dugan and Jeff MartinJune 13, 2018

"Take risks, but take smart risks."...

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DREAM JOB: Tamar Adler, Author of “An Everlasting Meal” and “Something Old, Something New”

Megan BurnsJune 7, 2018

How the author went from being an editor at Harper's Magazine to pursuing her passion for food full time....

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Dream Jobs: Pia Carusone, Republic Restoratives

Kaylee Dugan and Jeff MartinJune 5, 2018

"When the sun is rising and the traffic isn’t bad, I'm like 'Go! Go! Go!' across a four lane highway with a forklift full of glass."...

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Dream Jobs: Katharine Hope, National Zoo Vet

Kaylee Dugan and Clarissa VillondoMay 7, 2018

"I think most people who become zoo vets, they want to work with a lot of different animals. That's one of the things that's alluring to us."...

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Diving Into The Shark Tank

Kaylee Dugan and Jenn TisdaleApril 27, 2018

"I'm not sure who I'd pick but I definitely want to say no to Mr. Wonderful."...

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Dream Jobs: Congressional Cemetery

Kaylee Dugan and Nicholas KarlinApril 13, 2018

"We're an active cemetery to be enjoyed, not a place of complete solace"...

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Inside the Artist Studio: Maggie O’Neill

Kaylee Dugan and Jeff MartinMarch 27, 2018

"The more economically powerful we are as a community, that's actually when things change."...

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21nov6:30 pmTash Sultana - Flow State World Tourw/ Ocean Alley - presented by WRNR6:30 pm The Anthem

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TASH SULTANA is a dynamic young artist who has commanded world attention since homemade videos of Tash jamming went viral. A true virtuoso, Tash was soon selling out massive theatres globally and playing at the world’s biggest festivals – no mean feat for an artist who just a year before was recording songs on a go pro in a bedroom.

Since Tash’s grandfather gifted a guitar at the age of three, the self-taught artist quickly developed a unique style that has people lining up to see. The virtuosic playing of over 18 instruments, vocals that shine with a magical quality and the natural gift for melody that Tash possesses needs to be seen to be believed.

The one-person powerhouse started out playing open mic nights on a fake id and busking on the streets of Melbourne. Now Tash is selling out every headline show, from theatres to arenas across multiple countries and playing dozens of high profile festivals around the globe. Hit singles ‘Jungle’ and ‘Notion’ were quick to receive high rotation on triple j and picked up rotation on alternative stations across North America and Europe.

Recent accolades include over 175M streams of the Notion EP, topping the iTunes chart in multiple countries, ‘Jungle’ coming in at #3 in triple j’s Hottest 100, achieving gold sales for the Notion EP and platinum sales for single ‘Jungle’ which also featured in FIFA 18, winning the prestigious unearthed j award, 4x Aria award nominations, multiple APRA nominations and most recently playing a stand out set at Coachella 2018.

On August 31 Tash’s highly anticipated debut album, ‘Flow State’ will be released with the album’s lead single, ‘Salvation’ dropping on June 21.

Time

(Wednesday) 6:30 pm

Location

The Anthem

901 Wharf St SW Washington, DC, 20024

Cost

$45 – $65

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21nov7:00 pm9:00 pmFree Weekly Bar Bingo w/ Maddy's Bar7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Maddy's Bar

21nov7:00 pmAllen Stonew/ Nick Waterhouse7:00 pm 9:30 Club

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Soul/ R&B artist Allen Stone proves himself deeply devoted to making uncompromisingly soulful music that transcends all pop convention. His vocals and melodic style show the clear influence of classic soul and R&B of the 1960s and ’70s, while his lyrics reveal an idealism and passion that recall the folk-inspired singer/songwriters of the same era.

Born in Chewelah Washington, Stone started discovering those vocals as a kid, thanks largely to his parents’ influence. “My father was a minister so I spent about half my childhood in church, watching my mom and dad sing together and lead the congregation in song,” he recalls. By the time he was 11 he’d picked up a guitar and written his first song, and soon began self-recording demo tapes to pass along to classmates. Although Stone enrolled in Bible College after high school, he quickly dropped out to move to Seattle and kick start his music career. “I had an ’87 Buick and I’d drive up and down the west coast, playing any gig I could get just to try to put my music out there,” he says.

In 2010, Stone recorded an album called Last to Speak that he released digitally through his own Stickystones label. A second album, simply titled Allen Stone, followed in the fall of 2011, and quickly became an independent success story. Online sales took the album to the top of the online charts, and it placed on Billboard’s Heatseekers chart, all without a formal distribution deal. The artist-friendly ATO Records label signed Stone in 2012, and reissued his eponymous album in the summer of that year. He then signed to Capitol Records and worked extensively with fellow singer and songwriter Tingsek. The result, Radius, was released in May 2015.

Stone decided to return to ATO Records and released his latest album, Radius Deluxe. As the New York Times recently said Stone’s lyrics “promise honest sentiments, grooves built with physical instruments and a gospel-rooted determination to uplift … glimmers of Al Green, Bill Withers, Curtis Mayfield, George Clinton, Prince and a bit of Sting.”

Stone is currently working on his next album, which is set be released on ATO Records later this year.

Many moons ago Primo Pitino, the DJ of San Francisco’s legendary Oldies Night, passed me a copy of his friend Nick Waterhouse’s “Some Place.” Nick was a local vinyl DJ and the kid working at our Shangri-la, Rooky Ricardo’s Records. Though he didn’t have a band at the time, Waterhouse assembled some local musicians to cut a one-off 45 in the vein of the electrifying mid-century modern rhythm and blues he loved. I threw “Some Place” on the Technics during sound check a few cities down the line and was blown away from the howling falsetto all the way to the end! I gave it a whirl every night from Texas to Tennessee and all the way back home to New York. Not only were the dancers’ feet responding, but they were also asking about the track on a nightly basis. The Nashville Scene was so blown away that they printed a piece on Nick after a single listen. DJs and collectors everywhere wanted it so bad that the little record with the big sound started fetching upwards of $300 on Ebay.

The immediate and unprecedented underground dance party success of Nick’s DIY record resulted in a full band, gigs, and, after a number of obstacles, the widely acclaimed 2012 LP Time’s All Gone. Nick’s music, vision, and fully formed aesthetic caught on globally and he was instantly a fixture at nearly every major nightclub and festival on both sides of the Atlantic, Australia, Japan, and Russia – hitting stages everywhere from Primavera to Montreux Jazz Festival and charting on college, public, and commercial radio.

Only a year after self-releasing his first single, Nick Waterhouse was thrust into the chaos of leading a band, touring, and recording in the big leagues! Pummeling high speed down a bumpy hill of lineup changes, economic problems, and general chaos without any breaks, Nick made it through and the challenges made him more focused. 2014’s Holly captured a more experienced artist upping the ante in writing, performance, recording, and production, inspiring a new level of critical and commercial success.

In addition to a jam-packed five years on the road, in the studio, and in the practice space, Waterhouse also produced septuagenarian soul legend Ural Thomas, Los Angeles Latin stars the Boogaloo Assassins, and garage rockers the Allah-las. He’s currently collaborating with the likes of young Grammy-nominee Leon Bridges and Steven Colbert bandleader Jon Batiste. The Rolling Stones blast Nick’s version of “I Can Only Give You Everything” at stadiums before they go onstage. Vogue hired him to pose with Kendall Jenner. He hipped her to Little Willie John while Anna Wintour complimented his shoes. While a lesser artist would get lost in these distractions, Nick Waterhouse’s acclaim only seems to energize him and make him work harder and push his music to the next level.

Nick’s latest Never Twice is a culmination, intensification, and realization of everything he’s been developing throughout this prolific frenzy. Catchier and loaded with more hits than its predecessors, Nick’s new LP is at the same time harder hitting, more rhythmic, more harmonic, more diverse, and more adventurous than any of the excellent work that already separated him from the pack. A cool and elegant post-post-modern cocktail of 1950s r&b and club jazz, mixed with 1960s soul and boogaloo, and shaken with a minimal contemporary sensibility, Never Twice finds the artist taking his time, refining his vision, and speaking with new authority. In five short years Nick Waterhouse has come a long way and it looks like he may have just painted his masterpiece.
– Jonathan Toubin, New York City, 2016

Time

(Wednesday) 7:00 pm

Location

9:30 Club

815 V ST NW, Washington, DC 20001

Cost

$30

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