Jonathan L. Fischer
@jonfischer.bsky.social
Arts & Entertainment Editor at @washingtonpost.com. Proprietor, http://hedswillroll.tumblr.com.
On CBS, it was still the Kennedy Center Honors www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/1...
On CBS, it was still the Kennedy Center Honors
The network kept the Kennedy Center’s original name in its broadcast, and CBS News instructed staff to do the same, an email shows.
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December 24, 2025 at 4:00 AM
On CBS, it was still the Kennedy Center Honors www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/1...
U.S. 250th anniversary coins won’t feature any Black Americans or notable women, after Trump admin ignored initial recommendations www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...
U.S. anniversary coins won’t feature any Black Americans or notable women
The Trump administration has scraped plans for coins honoring Frederick Douglass and Ruby Bridges opting for all Whites to celebrate the country’s 250th birthday.
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December 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
U.S. 250th anniversary coins won’t feature any Black Americans or notable women, after Trump admin ignored initial recommendations www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...
In our Sunday section: Some monuments actually worth editing.
December 21, 2025 at 3:12 PM
In our Sunday section: Some monuments actually worth editing.
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Inside the federal government as Trump and DOGE pushed it past its breaking point in 2025, as told by some of the more than 1,200 federal workers @hannahnatanson.bsky.social and @merylkornfield.bsky.social have spoken to this year
The year Trump broke the federal government
How DOGE and the White House carried out a once-unthinkable transformation of the nation’s sprawling bureaucracy.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Inside the federal government as Trump and DOGE pushed it past its breaking point in 2025, as told by some of the more than 1,200 federal workers @hannahnatanson.bsky.social and @merylkornfield.bsky.social have spoken to this year
White House threatens Smithsonian funding over content review www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
White House threatens Smithsonian funds in sweeping content review
It is not clear on what authority the administration could withhold Smithsonian funds, as President Trump tries to purge “woke” content from cultural institutions.
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December 21, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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The TrumpKennedyCenter.org website is taken. This comedian owns it. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/1...
The ‘TrumpKennedyCenter.org’ website is taken. This comedian owns it.
The creator of satirical domains bought the site this summer and is plotting its content, even if some things are “hard to parody.”
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December 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The TrumpKennedyCenter.org website is taken. This comedian owns it. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/1...
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In THE D.C. SCENE, yesterday’s music still sounds like tomorrow
Here are five amazing records that got remastered, resurfaced and/or reissued in 2025
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Here are five amazing records that got remastered, resurfaced and/or reissued in 2025
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5 recordings from D.C. artists that make yesterday sound like tomorrow
Remastered and resurfaced music from Bad Brains, Bratmobile, Danny Gatton, Glo-Worm and Music Inc. are among the year’s best reissues.
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December 17, 2025 at 9:06 PM
In THE D.C. SCENE, yesterday’s music still sounds like tomorrow
Here are five amazing records that got remastered, resurfaced and/or reissued in 2025
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Here are five amazing records that got remastered, resurfaced and/or reissued in 2025
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Donald Trump is on a renaming spree.
It’s now up to media, internet platforms, and other institutions to decide what to call the Kennedy Center.
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It’s now up to media, internet platforms, and other institutions to decide what to call the Kennedy Center.
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Trump’s renaming spree hits the Kennedy Center, but will it stick?
Media and cultural institutions face a dilemma: Whether to affix President Donald Trump’s name to Washington’s best-known performing arts center.
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December 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Donald Trump is on a renaming spree.
It’s now up to media, internet platforms, and other institutions to decide what to call the Kennedy Center.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
It’s now up to media, internet platforms, and other institutions to decide what to call the Kennedy Center.
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How could America's most, erm, troublesome monuments be edited? @philipkennicott.bsky.social does it in this fascinating project: www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Column | How to fix, remix or erase America’s most offensive monuments
At a time when toppled statues are being remounted, an art critic and an illustrator examine, edit and unpack three controversial memorials.
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December 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
How could America's most, erm, troublesome monuments be edited? @philipkennicott.bsky.social does it in this fascinating project: www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
The name changed on the building, but it largely did not change across the internet. Media orgs and other websites are sticking with "Kennedy Center" (exception: Yelp) www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Trump renames the Kennedy Center, but will everyone else follow?
Media and cultural institutions face a dilemma: Whether to affix President Donald Trump’s name to Washington’s best-known performing arts center.
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December 20, 2025 at 12:44 PM
The name changed on the building, but it largely did not change across the internet. Media orgs and other websites are sticking with "Kennedy Center" (exception: Yelp) www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
This was certainly a striking photo from the Kennedy Center today. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
December 20, 2025 at 1:11 AM
This was certainly a striking photo from the Kennedy Center today. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
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Any sober reading of recent reports would suggest that the disastrous slumps in attendance and ticket sales might be most effectively triaged through a wholesale retreat from political controversy. This is not that.
Column | Trump renaming calls the Kennedy Center’s legacy into question
The sudden rebranding will only deepen problems faced by the National Symphony Orchestra and Washington National Opera.
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December 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Any sober reading of recent reports would suggest that the disastrous slumps in attendance and ticket sales might be most effectively triaged through a wholesale retreat from political controversy. This is not that.
Sam Worthington seems to have a very correct view of stardom. Good profile: www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
The star of ‘Avatar’ is surprisingly anonymous. He isn’t blue about it.
Sam Worthington, returning to anchor “Fire and Ash,” is happy to be the mega-franchise’s unrecognizable hero.
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December 20, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Sam Worthington seems to have a very correct view of stardom. Good profile: www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
From our classical critic: The Trump renaming just increases the bad news for the orchestra and opera. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Column | Trump renaming calls the Kennedy Center’s legacy into question
The sudden rebranding will only deepen problems faced by the National Symphony Orchestra and Washington National Opera.
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December 19, 2025 at 11:24 PM
From our classical critic: The Trump renaming just increases the bad news for the orchestra and opera. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
NEWS: They're adding Trump's name to the Kennedy Center building right now. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Kennedy Center adds Trump’s name to building
The signage change follows a vote by the board of trustees to rename the performing arts complex the Trump Kennedy Center.
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December 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
NEWS: They're adding Trump's name to the Kennedy Center building right now. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
NEWS: The Kennedy Center board voted to rename the institution "the Trump-Kennedy Center." One expert says only Congress can do that. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Kennedy Center board votes to rename ‘Trump-Kennedy Center’
Kennedy Center trustees, installed earlier this year by President Trump, have voted to rename the center after him, said Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.
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December 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
NEWS: The Kennedy Center board voted to rename the institution "the Trump-Kennedy Center." One expert says only Congress can do that. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
How Nick Reiner struggled with addiction, and his parents
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How Nick Reiner struggled with addiction, and his parents
Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner were killed after years of trying to curb their son’s drug abuse.
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December 16, 2025 at 11:28 PM
How Nick Reiner struggled with addiction, and his parents
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The unbearable sadness of the movie Rob Reiner made with his son www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Column | The unbearable sadness of the movie Rob Reiner made with his son
Rob Reiner made “Being Charlie” in 2015 with his son Nick Reiner. The fictionalized account of a son’s battle with addiction is all the more heartbreaking now.
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December 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The unbearable sadness of the movie Rob Reiner made with his son www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
We did not have a Rob Reiner advancer. Here's our very fine obituary, about a remarkable life. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
Rob Reiner, dead at 78, was a crowd-pleasing director no matter the genre
After rising to prominence as an actor on “All in the Family,” he directed movie touchstones including “The Princess Bride” and “When Harry Met Sally…”
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December 15, 2025 at 11:15 PM
We did not have a Rob Reiner advancer. Here's our very fine obituary, about a remarkable life. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
The meaning of the pull-up. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/1...
Column | American masculinity has a new unit of measurement: The pull-up
RFK Jr. and Sean P. Duffy raised eyebrows with an impromptu pull-up contest at the airport. Why does the age-old exercise seem newly fraught with symbolic weight?
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December 14, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The meaning of the pull-up. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/1...
Renate Reinsve, profiled. Contains ghosts! www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
She refused to follow the rules. Now she might win an Oscar.
Renate Reinsve is drawing raves for her luminous performance in “Sentimental Value.” To think she nearly quit acting to become a carpenter.
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December 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Renate Reinsve, profiled. Contains ghosts! www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
In our Sunday section, all the best.
December 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
In our Sunday section, all the best.
A deep dive on the Trumps' plans for a presidential library in Miami, "fake news wing" and all www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump’s library plan: An ‘iconic building’ in Miami and a ‘fake news wing’
Trump might follow the example of Obama, who created a private foundation to build his Chicago center where museum exhibits are not subject to government review.
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December 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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What I learned from 8 hours of shirtless men competing to star in a Hallmark movie
“Finding Mr. Christmas,” Hallmark Channel’s reality show to cast the male romantic lead in a Christmas movie, is TV for women about men making TV for women.
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December 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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