Thursday, March 05, 2009

The Dog in the Manger, Library of Congress and Hyperfast Hanging Out



On Tuesday night I had the great pleasure to have been taken to see A Dog In The Manger at the Shakespeare Theater in Washington D.C. My friend and colleague Portia Sabin, label dude at Kill Rock Stars and I were in town along with The Donnas and tons of other artists to lobby on Capitol Hill in support of the Performance Right. Our trip was coordinated by the musicFIRST Coalition and was extremely interesting and seemed very successful. Portia's father David Sabin was appearing in the production of A Dog In The Manger and invited us all to the show. It was such a treat and the play was wonderful. The lead actress was Michelle Hurd (Det. Jeffries from Law and Order) and David played two roles. As I'm obsessed/partial to all things Spanish (written by Spanish playwright Lope de Vega) this proved no exception. Set in Naples in the 1500's it fit right in with my Elizabethan era interests and was comic and passionate and just great. Afterward we continued our Spanish theme we went next door for drinks and tapas at Jaleo. Who could ask for more?

Earlier in the day we had a break between meetings and walked over to the Library of Congress and I couldn't remember ever really taking the time to walk around. The curse of growing up in Washington is you don't take advantage of all it has to offer. Like the amazing architecture and architectural details that many of the buildings have. We stumbled upon an exhibit called "Exploring The Early Americas" which had Mayan artifacts, maps from the Spanish conquest and some of Columbus' original texts written in Castilian that appeared to be a mix of Spanish, Catalan and Latin. I was in hog heaven and could have stayed there all day. I will definitely go back the next time I'm home.

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