Washington City Paper The Year 2020 in Arts What happened in the arts scene in a year where museums, venues, theaters, and stages of all kinds were closed? Success! You re on the list. Whoops! There was an error and we couldn t process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again. Processing…
The week everything stopped feels like a long ago bad dream now.
On Thursday, March 12, 2020,
City Paper’s weekly cover story was slated to be a package previewing the offerings at the annual Environmental Film Festival, which would teach us about plastic in the oceans, stray dogs in India, the last male white rhino in Kenya, and the wind. The first confirmed case of COVID-19 was reported in D.C. on March 7, and the city felt uneasy we were obsessively washing our hands and making sure to not touch our faces but many of us kept commuting, maskless, hoping it would blow over. By Monday, March 9, the staff had filed the
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In Memoriam: 15 People, Places, and Things Washington Said Goodbye to in 2020
A trailblazing justice, a basketball coach, an elephant, a dive bar, an NFL name and what they meant to our city.
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In a grim year, it’s hard to keep track of the people and places we lost much less remember the quirky reasons we loved so many of them. Here’s a sampling of farewells worth remembering.
Ambika the Elephant
born c 1948
She’d lived at the National Zoo since 1961 a pachyderm pal for generations of elephant-loving Washingtonians. Ambika was fascinating to watch, whether swinging her trunk around the yard, giving herself a mud bath, or hanging with Mr. Rogers. She was estimated to be 72 quite old for an Asian elephant in captivity and finally had to be euthanized in March.-