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Kristina Gray, Maegan Wood, and Les Talusan discuss how their collective activities made waves in the D.C. music scene.
Much like the punk scene thriving there, Mt. Pleasant is rather homegrown and offbeat.
“D.C. culture has influenced my whole life,” says musician Malik Stewart, better known as Malik DOPE Drummer.
Along Mt. Pleasant’s eponymous main street, music is a much celebrated facet of local culture.
Since 1995, go-go music has emanated from speakers outside a telecommunications store in the Shaw neighborhood of D.C.
The Fugazi frontman explains why punk is the “free space” of creative expression.
If the city is a group of homes, each with its own specific things, then the plaza is the things we share.
A mulassa, or mule, is perhaps the most playful of the Catalan imaginary beasts because mules are known for their stubbornness.
Each summer solstice in the village of Isil, community members carry torches down the mountainside, creating a serpentine ribbon of fire.
Belonging to a human tower building team is more than a hobby—it’s a way of life.
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