Intern Edition

Lindsay Totty takes the DC stage at Busboys and Poets bookstore and restaurant and performs two original poems as part of their Open Mic Night.

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A day before the Maryland primary, Ian Jannetta attended a Barack Obama rally back in February at the University of Maryland, in College Park. He brought back this report.

I’ve lost my keys. / Where are they?
-Marshall Flinkman, Alias Season 3

Last weekend, I lost my keys.
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The anonymous artists of DC are who keep one foot in front of the other for Ariel Kitch on her morning walk to work. Here, she records their illustrations in photographs.

My walk to work each morning on 9th Street: Door locked behind me, headphones on, eyes wide from caffeine, waiting for the stoplights to turn green, and stepping over the cigarette butts and shards of glass in the cracks of the concrete. Staring into the shop windows, boarded up storefronts, scrawled messages on brick walls, the perfume of girls passing me, the exhaust of the bus, painted over graffiti. I haven’t touched the newspaper yet or found out the headlines for the day. And everywhere I look are signs, warm and cold, waiting for me and yet never intended for me at all.

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Lindsay Totty returns from the Katsucon Convention, with observations on where to draw the line between journalist and participant.

Part Two: The Line That Blurs

At the Katsucon Convention, I happened upon a group of college-age convention patrons sitting on the floor of a merchandise room and decided to see what they knew about webcomics. They were open to participating in a group interview, which would make for good “round-table” discussion sort of tape, so I sat down with them and began to ask them questions.

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 Wilco lead singer Jeff Tweedy has become an iconic figure in American alternative rock and roll, inspiring a cult following of devoted fans.  But has rehab and a new more mainstream album mellowed him into mediocrity?  Ariel Kitch illustrates the recent concert in D.C., webcast by NPR, to find out.

More illustrations after the jump! 

You can find the link to stream the webcast of the concert here. 

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