Whatever you call #KingWannabe said “the quiet part out loud.” Thanks, @macfarlanenews.bsky.social . The #KenCen needs to live and flourish as it is. @repbeatty.bsky.social you have our gratitude. open.substack.com/pub/macfarla...
The crowd shouted “Bravo! Bravo!” for pianist #StewartGoodyear, #Bolero, and more on tonight’s program w/#JunMarkl conducting at another sold-out #BSO show @strathmore409.bsky.social! @donaldjtrump-maga.bsky.social’s seizure of #KenCen has driven sad #NSO fans to joyful places across the #Beltway.
Watch your #Meta feeds: they’ve changed the #KenCen memories to TrumpKenCen long before the fx#king sign went on. Friend attended performance in 2019; #FBMemory changed where she’d been. Damn them. Obey why??? #TheArts #DC @brodner.bsky.social
#DC has a great theatre scene. If no one knows with #ArtsFunding decimated, #KenCen - who knows? - and WH getting flamingos on lawn [can you say not for certain?] and #WaPo ignoring #arts playbill.com/article/wash... and #sports … 2 adults + 1 cat seek adoption in a sane country w/ #FreePress.
Every time we drove over the Roosevelt Bridge, one of my parents would refer to the white marble of #KenCen, “a gift from the Italian people.”
Trump today, “we’ll use the steel. we’ll use some of the marble.”
Who has standing to sue? Do I?
🎁 free article wapo.st/4tfDOUp
Ooh if no one will perform or attend, #GoldTchotchkes over 2 years reno for #KenCen. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02... (photo is the good story)
Old photo of crowds at #KenCen announces great news: #Opera in #DC lives on! First 2 at #Lisner at #GW where they began. Not gifted & still the gist. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen... Note to #WaPo: use reality in #PhotoJournalism. That many people now? Ha!
Not gifted; this is almost enough. They are trying to negotiate an amicable end of their lease & find new home in a non-profit space. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0... #KenCen #OperaBuhBye
Attention to the historic and cultural significance of Trump's #KenCen makeover is providing lessons not only in how autocrats annex institutions, but also the breathtaking corruption of this administration.
Assume every Trump appointee acts with Grenell's self-interest. It's staggering.
#fascism
The #KenCen cancellations expose the limits of Trump's power.
Politicians may risk their reputations for power.
Artists' power is different. It comes from delivering honest work, not from promises, not from lies.
How can artists abide a name change that's illegal?
#fascism
#KenCen - a #DC sacred place, one of joyous and sophisticated entertainment - sullied by the name addition and overseer. substack.com/@themouthyre... #DC and the #DMV has more choices. Choose those.
I grew up here in the DMV, so I got to go to kids' concerts at #KenCen as school field trips. They were wonderful, and the school buses came from EVERYWHERE. Even Virginia. I think I'm gonna barf.
He cannot tell the truth - he swore none of the #WhiteHouse would be touched for the #BigUglyBallroom. I gasped at the photos - this in addition to the #trees demolished there and at the #KenCen. He works to demolish the #Constitution, #RuleOfLaw and a sacred building. wapo.st/4hqBNiU
Painful impact on #TheArts in #DC, specifically at the #KenCen where the figures in this match what friends, deciding to use the rest of their season tickets, experienced. Horrible for #performers. He shoulda kept his hands off this & #Smithsonian.
The #KenCen changes are awful; the “whitewashing” of the #Smithsonian far worse. #Latino history IS US history.
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa... #Museums #LatinoArt
They came for the #KenCen and now #TheSmithsonian for “rewriting history” & having “improper ideology”. Please #Canada take us in. www.nbcwashington.com/news/preside... #ArtsTakeover #SpringtimeForShitlerInDC
Programming at #KenCen is heavily Russian right now. I'm not making a joke.
My #poetry/ #writing prompt. Of what u think #trump will program at the #KennedyCenter: #WrongAnswers: Only, #Bitcoin Theater: #Benefit Show For #Musk: #Stab Yourself In The #Eye #Variety Hour: The #FutureWives #GongShow. Or ;...????? #kencen
The #DEI EO threatens #WorldPride to be held in #DC 17 May to 8 June 2025. If/how will it go forward, w/ events scheduled for the #KenCen & throughout the area. Would an EO cancel it 3 months out, hurting #hospitality community? wapo.st/4bgGlW1 (gifted article) @hrc.org #EventProfs #destinationDC
For a broligarchy demanding profitability in all things, a #KenCen takeover seems a particularly idiotic flex. Our city that voted 93% Kamala doesn’t want a Kid Rock residency. 🤷🏽♀️
Yep: never went to #KenCen but will fire trustees incl #DavidRubenstein & appoint self Chair. Prob change name to…& no more #DragShows, bc that’s the main thing they show! Gifted article. wapo.st/40NQjJC #DC #Arts
Cal Ripken Jr. - ol' Android Eyes himself - was in the crowd at #KenCen! #KCHonors #KenCen47 #kennedycenterhonors #happybaseball
Always enchanted by the #KennedyCenterHonors. The #WorldFamousApolloTheater getting its roses feels right to me, #butyoudoyou. #KenCen #47thKCHonors
#KenCen
President Biden introduces the recipients of the 2024 lifetime achievement award for artistic accomplishment: Francis Ford Coppola, the Grateful Dead, Arturo Sandoval, Bonnie Raitt and the Harlem theater, The Apollo.
📸Via @howardmortman.bsky.social
youtu.be/d-3bFLZXB5E?...
oh, and I definitely saw @petesouza in the West Wing right before the #KenCen Honors. Who else would carry such a fine camera in that place?
