The Week Ahead…& Some Photos from the Past Week

The Week Ahead…& Some Photos from the Past Week

By Larry Janezich

Posted August 11, 1024

Return to the Folger Library… is an occasional feather focusing on some of the most popular exhibits in the new Exhibition Hall.  The much-anticipated Great Hall’s Quill and Crumb café will not open until sometime in September.  The Folger will offer grab-and-go breakfast options, coffee, tea, soups and sandwiches, snacks to eat in the garden, and drinks and light dinner fare in the evenings. 

Artist Mya Golsling is the creator of Good Tickle Brain, a stickfigure webcomic.  She created a whimsical map in keeping with the Folger’s new emphasis that Shakespeare is for everyone:  A Fantastical World of William Shakespeare is a world populated by Shakespeare’s characters in plays grouped according to themes in common. 

A Fantastical World of William Shakespeare.

Key to the Map.

Justice for All?  Legal dramas and political prisoners:  Henry VI, Part 1, King John, Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, The Two Nobel Kinsmen, The Winter’s Tale.

Cupid’s Estate:  Love is a many splendored (and sometimes disasterous thing):  All’s Well That Ends Well, Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet, TheTaming of the Shrew; and, Family Therapy: A group for characters with Problematic Fathers:  Hamlet, Henry IV, Part 1, King Lear.

Strange Powers.  Wizards, witches and other magical sorts:  Julius Caesar, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest.

Isle of Tyrants; Murderous self-obsessesive, scheming anti-heroes:  Macbeth, Richard III, The Winter’s Tale. 

Ancient Heroes.  Shakespeare’s many classical pasts: Antony and Cleopatra, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Titus Andronicus, Troilus and Cressida, the Two Noble Kinsmen.

There was other news this past week.

ICYMI.  East City Bookshop suffered major water damage from a leak in the space above last month.  They reopened with limited hours this weekend and owner Laurie Gillman says:  “I’m happy to announce that we’ll be open for limited hours this week, (August 13^th  – 16^th  ) from noon to 5 pm.  … we’ll be closed Monday, August 12th, for a post-construction deep cleaning. 

We’ll get back to our regular hours on Saturday, August 17th at 10am. To celebrate re-opening, we’re having a sale!  Get 20% off all books in stock, for in-store purchases only–the discount won’t apply to special orders.”

The Palestinian House of Freedom opened up an office in the Penn Medical Building at 600 Pennsylvania Avenue SE, on July 25^th, next door to District Taco. 

ANC6C Commissioner Jay Adelstein and his dog Sylvie thank NPS Facilities crew for installing new water fountain in Stanton Park. Photo: Jay Adelstein.

The week ahead is quiet, with no meetings scheduled for ANC 6A, 6B, 6C, 6D or 7D.  Likewise, many community civic meeting and other events are in a midi-August hiatus before gearing up for the fall season starting next month.  . 

However, Tuesday, August 12, is the date the campaign to recall CM Charles Allen has to turn in signatures to get a recall measure on a special election recall ballot.