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Then there's the resuscitating of the rumbustious rednecks in a new Dukes of Hazzard. Lest you think a big-screen Dukes has no social import, Bill Gerber, the film's producer, explains the project's inspirational gestation. "After 9/11," he says, "I wanted to come up with a real red-blooded Americana movie. And I thought, A movie about the Dukes of Hazzard is exactly what I'm talking about." Director Jay Chandrasekhar insisted that the film have "three things at its core. The car has got to fly. The Dukes had to be tough and rebellious. Daisy...
They used to call it Black Broadway: the stretch of U Street in northwest Washington where the likes of Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong and John Coltrane performed nightly. Then, in the 1960s, the neighborhood fell victim to urban blight as riots burned down much of the commercial district and affluent blacks moved to the suburbs. But these days efforts by local families to revive the area are taking hold. The result is a lively mix of recharged African-American culture and hip new shops and restaurants--less than 10 minutes from the National Mall...
...Street corridor's heyday, the place to be on a Saturday night was the Lincoln Theatre. The Before Harlem There Was U Street walking tour gives you a peek inside (the theater's been restored and again hosts performances), as well as offering stops at two of Duke Ellington's childhood homes, the African American Civil War Memorial (the museum is down the block) and the Thurgood Marshall Center--a building that was the nation's first YMCA for blacks and Langston Hughes' home during the '20s. The tour costs $10 and meets the first and third Saturdays...
Before you leave U Street, take some time to wander. You might stumble across something unexpected, like a 32-ft. Duke Ellington mural, or eye-catching, like the glassware in Go Mama Go!, at 1809 14th Street. In fact, more than 100 businesses have opened during the past two years--a sure sign that U is back...
...Sebastian (Daniel D. Castro ’06) are shipwrecked in Illyria, each believing the other is dead. The story follows Viola as she dons the guise of a boy and joins the court of Orsino (Fernando Berdion-Del Valle ’08), the local Duke with whom she falls in love. Unfortunately, Orsino is madly in love with Olivia (Anastasia Artemyev ’08), to whom he sends his new page to woo on his behalf...