A hardy welcome to Free Ride, a new city blog launched by the Express (that's the free daily published by the Washington Post). I'm happy to tell you that I'll be contributing local arts and culture coverage. I'm pleased to join the prolific Mr. Grass and inestimable Metrocurean, who will be writing food and entertainment. I think it's gonna be 'core.
And right out of the gate, there's material that ought to interest readers here: Last night Grass saw starchitect Rem Koolhaas speak at the National Building Museum. You can check out Grass's writeup here. I'd loved to have seen Koolhaas speak, but seats were a little pricey, and I was in Virginia to see my friend Valerie's senior show. (Every once in a while, I break my Virginia travel prohibition. This trip took me to a university in the middle of a forest, where they apparently grow dark-horse basketball teams.) Frankly, I'd like to know whether OMA architects spend as much time in Beijing nowadays as I imagine they do. Anyway—Free Ride launches officially on Monday, but you can take a peak now.
Posted by Kriston at April 25, 2006 4:13 PM