Jonathan L. Fischer
@jonfischer.bsky.social
Arts & Entertainment Editor at @washingtonpost.com. Proprietor, http://hedswillroll.tumblr.com.
Design professionals very politely diss the president's font choice www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
What’s going on with Trump’s gold ‘Oval Office’ sign?
We asked design experts to read the writing on the White House wall and tell us what they see
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November 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Design professionals very politely diss the president's font choice www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Our Jimmy Cliff obit. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae star with global following, dies at 81
His lead performance as a singer-turned-outlaw in the 1972 film “The Harder They Come” helped introduce reggae to the world.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Our Jimmy Cliff obit. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
In our Sunday section, a soliloquy or two.
November 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
In our Sunday section, a soliloquy or two.
A remarkable story about a Hiroshima survivor www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
After surviving Hiroshima, she has a message for Trump
As the president weighs resuming testing of nuclear weapons for the first time in decades, Koko Kondo wants to ensure history doesn’t repeat itself.
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November 23, 2025 at 7:22 PM
A remarkable story about a Hiroshima survivor www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
A great @chrisrichards.bsky.social piece wrestling with the promise, and the delivery, of Geese www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Column | Geese is the best new band you’re sick of hearing good things about
For the acclaimed young New York quartet, rock and hype feel tightly intertwined.
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November 23, 2025 at 1:35 PM
A great @chrisrichards.bsky.social piece wrestling with the promise, and the delivery, of Geese www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Reporting on the Replacements in 2025.
November 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Reporting on the Replacements in 2025.
The “Kryptos” story has ended (for now) with the sale of the code for nearly $1 million. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Long-sought solution to ‘Kryptos’ sculpture sells for almost $1 million
The sale is an unexpected success for artist Jim Sanborn, who feared it might not happen after researchers discovered the plain-text solution at an archive.
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November 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The “Kryptos” story has ended (for now) with the sale of the code for nearly $1 million. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Chloé Zhao, profiled (she took our reporter on a hike). www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
How Chloé Zhao made the year’s most powerful film
“Life and death. To be or not to be.” “Hamnet” director Chloé Zhao asks big questions in a movie that’s about much more than Shakespeare.
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November 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Chloé Zhao, profiled (she took our reporter on a hike). www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
The Phillips Collection auctioned off a number of works, including a Georgia O'Keeffe that sold tonight for $7.8 million www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Phillips Collection sells O’Keeffe and other masterpieces amid outcry from supporters
Sotheby’s auctioned Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Large Dark Red Leaves on White” for $7.8 million alongside other works. The Washington museum intends to use sale proceeds to commission work from contemporary ...
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November 21, 2025 at 4:01 AM
The Phillips Collection auctioned off a number of works, including a Georgia O'Keeffe that sold tonight for $7.8 million www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Reposted by Jonathan L. Fischer
Senate Dems are investigating the Kennedy Center over its spending practices and booking deals that involve Trump allies.
The probe cites lavish dining expenses, luxury hotel stays and contracts for events like FIFA’s World Cup draw — which we reported last week will pay $0 in rent.
wapo.st/4pmYw1U
The probe cites lavish dining expenses, luxury hotel stays and contracts for events like FIFA’s World Cup draw — which we reported last week will pay $0 in rent.
wapo.st/4pmYw1U
Senate Democrats are investigating Kennedy Center’s deals and spending
A Senate committee is examining the Kennedy Center’s contracts and expenses, accusing its Trump-allied leadership of “self-dealing, favoritism, and waste.”
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November 21, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Senate Dems are investigating the Kennedy Center over its spending practices and booking deals that involve Trump allies.
The probe cites lavish dining expenses, luxury hotel stays and contracts for events like FIFA’s World Cup draw — which we reported last week will pay $0 in rent.
wapo.st/4pmYw1U
The probe cites lavish dining expenses, luxury hotel stays and contracts for events like FIFA’s World Cup draw — which we reported last week will pay $0 in rent.
wapo.st/4pmYw1U
Dorothy Vogel -- of the wonderful doc "Herb and Dorothy," who built an incredible art collection with her husband and kept it EVERYWHERE in their tiny apartment, before donating it en masse to the National Gallery of Art -- has died. Our obit: www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
Dorothy Vogel, unlikely art collector and National Gallery donor, dies at 90
Dorothy Vogel was a librarian. Her husband was a postal worker. Together, they collected thousands of pieces of modern art, then donated it to the National Gallery.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Dorothy Vogel -- of the wonderful doc "Herb and Dorothy," who built an incredible art collection with her husband and kept it EVERYWHERE in their tiny apartment, before donating it en masse to the National Gallery of Art -- has died. Our obit: www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
Senate Dems are investigating the Kennedy Center. Here's what we know. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/1...
Senate Democrats are investigating Kennedy Center’s deals and spending
A Senate committee is examining the Kennedy Center’s contracts and expenses, accusing its Trump-allied leadership of “self-dealing, favoritism, and waste.”
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November 20, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Senate Dems are investigating the Kennedy Center. Here's what we know. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/1...
When art critics could kill www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Column | When an art critic insulted this painting, its artist was bankrupted
James McNeill Whistler’s “Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket” was ahead of its time. When the critic John Ruskin insulted it, a notorious libel case ensued.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
When art critics could kill www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
My colleague @timcarman.bsky.social has a beautiful essay on the music of Chris Whitley, who died 20 years ago www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Column | 20 years after Chris Whitley died, I can’t shake his earthy, gutting songs
After a brief flirtation with the mainstream, Houston’s Chris Whitley carved one of rock’s more fascinating paths. It’s time to rediscover him.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
My colleague @timcarman.bsky.social has a beautiful essay on the music of Chris Whitley, who died 20 years ago www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
And what a perfect New Order cover it is
Velocity Girl announce '¡Simpatico!' remastered / expanded edition, share New Order "Your Silent Face" cover www.brooklynvegan.com/velocity-gir...
Velocity Girl announce '¡Simpatico!' remastered / expanded edition, share New Order "Your Silent Face" cover
'¡Simpatico! (Remastered and Expanded)' is out February 13 via Sub Pop and the double-LP set includes eight non-LP tracks from the era.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:24 AM
And what a perfect New Order cover it is
From a year ago, now updated: Seven Elphabas www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Seven Elphabas from ‘Wicked’ talk going green and defying gravity
Idina Menzel and others open up about the pleasures and perils of playing Elphaba, the iconic “Wicked” character.
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November 19, 2025 at 9:38 PM
From a year ago, now updated: Seven Elphabas www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Upon request, I have reopened submissions to HEDS WILL ROLL, my very occasionally updated pun-headline Tumblr. hedswillroll.tumblr.com
Heds Will Roll
All editors write headlines they dare not use. Put them here instead. Submissions: jonathanlfischer...
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November 19, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Upon request, I have reopened submissions to HEDS WILL ROLL, my very occasionally updated pun-headline Tumblr. hedswillroll.tumblr.com
The Tom Hanks play is bad. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Review | The Tom Hanks play is bad
Tom Hanks stars in and co-wrote off-Broadway’s “This World of Tomorrow,” a sci-fi rom-com gone awry.
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November 19, 2025 at 4:30 AM
The Tom Hanks play is bad. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Guess what? The @washingtonpost.com has a new/revamped pop culture newsletter from the great @shaneisland.bsky.social: Seriously? Yes, seriously. Seriously! s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra...
Seriously?: Longevity secrets from an 80-year-old fashion designer
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November 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Guess what? The @washingtonpost.com has a new/revamped pop culture newsletter from the great @shaneisland.bsky.social: Seriously? Yes, seriously. Seriously! s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra...
In our Sunday section, several great Americans.
November 16, 2025 at 1:38 PM
In our Sunday section, several great Americans.
Preservationists sue to stop Trump from painting the Eisenhower Executive Office Building www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Preservationists sue Trump over plans to paint Eisenhower building
The complaint alleges Trump’s plan would ‘permanently alter one of the most architecturally significant and historic structures in the Nation’s Capital’
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November 15, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Preservationists sue to stop Trump from painting the Eisenhower Executive Office Building www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
This is a remarkable piece of writing about, yes, “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.” www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/1...
Column | ‘The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’ is essential viewing. Seriously.
The Hulu reality show about the Mormon wives of TikTok is a perfect distillation of America’s political and cultural moment.
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November 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
This is a remarkable piece of writing about, yes, “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.” www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/1...
Consider the people mover: www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/1...
Icons or relics? Dulles’s hulking people movers spark debate yet again.
A design history of Dulles Airport’s people movers, the space-age vehicles flyers love to hate.
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November 14, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Consider the people mover: www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/1...
News: Phillips Collection will sell several masterpieces -- including an O'Keeffe and a Seurat -- sparking backlash: www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Phillips Collection will sell several masterpieces, sparking backlash
The Phillips Collection will sell at auction artworks by Georgia O’Keeffe, Georges Seurat and Arthur Dove, drawing a debate over deaccessioning.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:46 PM
News: Phillips Collection will sell several masterpieces -- including an O'Keeffe and a Seurat -- sparking backlash: www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Reposted by Jonathan L. Fischer
Updates to my reopening story:
• National Archives open normal hours today
• Wolf Trap Holiday Sing-A-Long is happening Dec. 6.
• ZooLights tickets on sale to the public tomorrow.
All the details in this gift link: wapo.st/442X6Bh
• National Archives open normal hours today
• Wolf Trap Holiday Sing-A-Long is happening Dec. 6.
• ZooLights tickets on sale to the public tomorrow.
All the details in this gift link: wapo.st/442X6Bh
With the government shutdown over, the Smithsonian is reopening
Everything to know about when visitors can return to D.C. museums and attractions.
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November 14, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Updates to my reopening story:
• National Archives open normal hours today
• Wolf Trap Holiday Sing-A-Long is happening Dec. 6.
• ZooLights tickets on sale to the public tomorrow.
All the details in this gift link: wapo.st/442X6Bh
• National Archives open normal hours today
• Wolf Trap Holiday Sing-A-Long is happening Dec. 6.
• ZooLights tickets on sale to the public tomorrow.
All the details in this gift link: wapo.st/442X6Bh