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Meet the Docents: Behind the Scenes with Local Museum Guides and Educators (WAMU) - When you enter any museum, often the first person you encounter is a museum guide, or a “docent.” In this short series, I shadowed several docents to capture what it’s like to be in their shoes, at their museums, on their side of the many interactions they have with visitors on any given day. Listen Here

Long-lost French painting now at National Gallery in Washington for restoration (Here & Now) - A still-life painting by French artist Anne Vallayer-Coster was missing for nearly 200 years. It showed up last year and was bought by the National Gallery for nearly $3 million. Listen Here

This local photographer transformed his former D.C. office into an exhibit (WAMU) - Colin Winterbottom once pored over spreadsheets in a drab office in D.C.’s West End. Decades later, he turned the windowless room into an exhibit of his best photography. Listen Here

Beatlemania in DC: Remembering The Beatles' first US concert (WAMU) - Long before it was the site of REI’s flagship D.C. location, a La Colombe coffee shop, and Red Bear Brewing, the corner of M and 3rd Streets NE was the historic spot where The Beatles held their first official concert in the United States. Listen Here

D.C.’s hottest new go-go band is a group of … firefighters? (WAMU) - For the D.C. Fire and EMS band (known locally as Heat Stroke), playing funky go-go covers goes hand-in-hand with serving the public. Listen Here

Fans weigh in on the new Washington NFL team name (NPR) - After years of wrangling, Washington’s NFL team has a new name: The Washington Commanders. For this NPR News piece, I gathered some reactions from local fans. Listen Here

Howard Tees Up A Division 1 Golf Program (WAMU) - I was interviewed on the Kojo Nnamdi Show about my Washingtonian feature on the history of D.C.'s first African American golf course.” Listen Here