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Steve Kiviat

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Freelancer re music & food for Washington City Paper; DMV DC concert list blog; guy recently retired from fed gov dayjob; dad, husband; fan of ilxor.com, Orioles, Terps, Wizards ; http://stevekiviat.blogspot.com/

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Steve Kiviat @dcsuburbanite.bsky.social · Jan 21

My 2022 tribute piece on late author/musician Greg Tate conveys how DC impacted his life — WPFW, d.c. space, go-go, Howard Univ, HilltopHU, Bad Brains, Haile Gerima, E Ethelbert Miller, poetry & spoken word, Coolidge High…

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Remembering Flyboy Greg Tate

How D.C. shaped the acclaimed author, musician, and cultural critic Greg Tate, who passed away last month at the age of 64.

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Steve Kiviat @dcsuburbanite.bsky.social · 19m

Oh, I bet this was worth seeing. Jazz horn player Sarah Hughes was with bassist Joe Lally and drummer Jerry Busher at the Kreeger.

Steve Kiviat @dcsuburbanite.bsky.social · 12h

Wed. Oct 8 in DMV DC-Black Choreographers Fest @ Creative Alliance ( through the 11th); Matheus Fonseca @ Bar Cana (Brazilian music guitarist); stevekiviat.blogspot.com/2025/10/dc-b...

DC / Baltimore / DMV Global Music and More October 2025 Concert Calendar Gig List

DC / Baltimore / DMV Global Music and More October 2025 Concert Calendar Gig List Compiled & curated list of area gigs by local and to...

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Steve Kiviat @dcsuburbanite.bsky.social · 13h

Wed. Oct 8 in DMV DC- What Band feat. Killa Cal free @ Shark Bar (go-go); Live Ethiopian music @ Napoli Lounge;
DJ Jamstar @ Tempoo Lounge (dancehall); Gigi Maclaughlin @ Mercy Me (Brazilian bossa nova); Latinx Movement Festival of dance (through Oct 11 ) @ Dance Place 🧵

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Steve Kiviat @dcsuburbanite.bsky.social · 13h

Wed Oct 8 in DMV DC-Fireboy DML @ Fillmore (Nigerian); Marietta & 2 more @ Black Cat (midwest emo) ; Daisy the Great, the Ophelias @ Songbyrd; Fran Vielma’s Pan American Jazz Orchestra @ Blues Alley; Sirius Company @ Sobe (go-go);New Impressionz @ Babylon (go-go); 🧵

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Steve Kiviat @dcsuburbanite.bsky.social · 13h

Wed. Oct 8 in DMV DC- Sensor Ghost, Luke Stewart, Aaron Leitko @ Rhizome as part of Black Eyes Speaking in Tongues Fest; Chris Brown, Jhene Aiko, Bryson Tiller @ Nats Park;
Cuco @ 930 Club (low-fi indie singer); Alberto Salgado trio 8pm @ Bossa (Brazilian guitarist )🧵

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Steve Kiviat @dcsuburbanite.bsky.social · 22h

*Updated the October 2025 DMV DC area music calendar with more events * - Look for the ones with asterisks*

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DC / Baltimore / DMV Global Music and More October 2025 Concert Calendar Gig List

DC / Baltimore / DMV Global Music and More October 2025 Concert Calendar Gig List Compiled & curated list of area gigs by local and to...

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Steve Kiviat @dcsuburbanite.bsky.social · 23h

Coney Barrett references that Bari Weiss publication the Free Press in the interview and how she likes that it reproduced a speech that Arthur Brooks gave at Utah Valley. She also gives a dumb defense of emergency docket decisions. Ugh.

Steve Kiviat @dcsuburbanite.bsky.social · 23h

When Amy Coney Barrett signed copies of her book recently at a Library of Congress sponsored event, the Library told me that she was doing no interviews in association with that. But of course she later found time to talk to a right wing guy at the National Review.

Steve Kiviat @dcsuburbanite.bsky.social · 1d

Oh this go-go meets hiphop event was tonight

Steve Kiviat @dcsuburbanite.bsky.social · 1d

Tues Oct 7 in DMV DC- “The flamenco guitar of Yerai Cortes” film 9:20 @ AFI Silver; Kiti Gardner & Drifting Valentines @ Hank Dietle’s; Still Familiar @ Fast Eddie's (go-go);
Ethiopian music @ Lion’s Den Falls Church; DJ Les 7:30-11:30 @ Floreria Atlantico Georgetown

DC / Baltimore / DMV Global Music and More October 2025 Concert Calendar Gig List

DC / Baltimore / DMV Global Music and More October 2025 Concert Calendar Gig List Compiled & curated list of area gigs by local and to...

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 1d

Lol I didn’t realize Johnson had already gone on record with this fucking disastrous bullshit. What in the world are they actually even thinking? It’s mind boggling.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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Steve Kiviat @dcsuburbanite.bsky.social · 1d

Tues. Oct 7 in DMV - Air play Moon Safari @ MGM National Harbor; Alex G, Nilufer Yanya @ Anthem; Buena Vista Orchestra @ Lincoln Theatre; Puluup at Hill Center ( Estonian lyre plus electronics) (sold out); Deltron 3030 w/ Kid Koala & Lealani @ 930 🧵

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bradluen @bradluen.bsky.social · 3d

Hilda Tloubatla and Pulp are indestructible, Maria Muldaur and Sabrina Carpenter have more comfort with dick jokes than [REDACTED], Djrum and Barker digest club music for those of us who don't get out much, plus jazz, B-pop, and more in this month's Semipop Life
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Semipop Life: Indestructible libido

Mahotella Queens, Maria Muldaur, Pulp, Sabrina Carpenter, and more!

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rudetuesday @rudetuesday.bsky.social · 2d

6 October is Fannie Lou Hamer's birthday.

"Former sharecropper Fannie Lou Hamer's Congressional testimony is so powerful that President Johnson calls an impromptu press conference to get her off the air. But his plan backfires."

Fannie Lou Hamer's Powerful Testimony | Freedom Summer

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d

Back in the land of reality, here's what one of the Black people whose home was smashed into during the apartment raid last week said about his Venezuelan neighbors: "They were cool people."

Mr. Jones, a U.S. citizen, was dragged out in handcuffs and held outside for hours.

Jones, who lives on the fourth floor, said most of his neighbors were Venezuelan and often took turns cleaning the hallway because the property owners did little to maintain it.

“They were cool people,” Jones said as he looked into his next door neighbor’s unit. “They didn’t speak a lick of English, but we used translator apps to talk to each other.”

Jones wondered what would happen to his neighbor’s young children.

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Steve Kiviat @dcsuburbanite.bsky.social · 1d

“ICE is gonna come bust down your door / Try to build a house no one builds no more/ But I got a telephone/ Kids are all scared and all alone,” Bryan sings on his unreleased track. “The middle finger’s rising, and it won’t stop showing/ Got some bad news/ The fading of the red, white and blue”

Zach Bryan Condemns ICE & ‘Cocky Motherf–ker’ Cops in New Song Teaser

Zach Bryan condemned ICE in a new teaser for an unreleased song about the "fading of the red, white and blue."

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Steve Kiviat @dcsuburbanite.bsky.social · 2d

See it Loud: The Globe Poster Story movie had a Baltimore screening at the Charles Theatre and will soon get screenings elsewhere once legal details are worked out said Bob Cicero tonight at the Go-go Museum.

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Steve Kiviat @dcsuburbanite.bsky.social · 2d

Globe Poster story discussion going on now till 8:30 at the Go-go Museum in Anacostia in DC

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

“.. has confided to co-workers that she sees no probable cause to believe James engaged in mortgage fraud, the two sources told MSNBC.”

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Steve Kiviat @dcsuburbanite.bsky.social · 2d

The long gone 7th & e nw DC space is part of a diy venues exhibit @ MLK library in Washington DC

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Steve Kiviat @dcsuburbanite.bsky.social · 2d

More October DMV DC area music events here - stevekiviat.blogspot.com/2025/10/dc-b...

DC / Baltimore / DMV Global Music and More October 2025 Concert Calendar Gig List

DC / Baltimore / DMV Global Music and More October 2025 Concert Calendar Gig List Compiled & curated list of area gigs by local and to...

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Steve Kiviat @dcsuburbanite.bsky.social · 2d

Mon. Oct 6 in DMV DC-David Cole & Main Street Blues 6-9 @ Westminster Church (blues/soul); Pile @ Pearl St Warehouse; Gabriel Alegria & his Afro-Peruvian Sextet @ Blues Alley;
Ethiopian music live @ Napoli Lounge; Ethiojazz @ Shalla; Neti-Neti, HSFB, & Francis, Garrett, Hughes, Scheible @ Rhizome

Steve Kiviat @dcsuburbanite.bsky.social · 2d

Mon. Oct 6 in DMV DC- Real Estate @ Lincoln Theatre (indie-rock); John Maus @ Ottobar (goth pop w/ vintage synths);
Love Notes and Blue Notes Featuring Aaron Myers and Yvette Spears @ 7pm @ Metro Stage Alexandria (r& b & jazz); Globe Poster Story- a chat w/ Bob Cicero 6:30-8:30 @ Go-go Museum 🧵

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Steve Kiviat @dcsuburbanite.bsky.social · 2d

A day after I saw this talk & the related Black arts exhibit , the National Gallery of Art that relies on some some federal money has had to temporarily shut down due to the federal government shutdown.

Steve Kiviat @dcsuburbanite.bsky.social · 2d

And now it seems Tom Nichols has blocked me on Bluesky for the above comments regarding the Atlantic magazine editorial approach & its editor in chief Goldberg’s job history.