Lox & Vodka | Simcha

Caron Dale's klezmer and simcha ensemble Lox and Vodka recently entertained at a bar mitzvah reception I covered. Good music, freylekhe zeit. Good times.

Transformations: Photographs of the Pilot Substance Abuse Program at Lorton Reformatory | exhibition installation.

Transformations: Photographs of the Pilot Substance Abuse Program at Lorton Reformatory. a collection of photographs made from 1989-91is on display at the Workhouse Arts Center from September 12 to November 7, 2026. It features photographs by Lloyd Wolf, made along with then Washington City Paper editor/writer Jon Cohen. The exhibition was curated by Sarah Berry. coverage of the exhibition by WTOP reporter Kate Ryan can be seen here: 

Thanks to Sarah Berry, Lorton Museum director Katie Crook, Workhosue publicist Carla Welburn,  Jon Cohen, Dr. Jasper Ormond, and the men of PSAP who opened their lives and both learned and gave so much. 

LiUNA Multi-Regional Conference | Chicago

I recently covered the Laborer's International Union's (LiUNA)  Multi-Regional Conference in Chicago. This 540,000-plus member union met to discuss organizing, health and safety on the job, plans for growth to a million members, build their share of the workforce, and signed an agreement of solidarity and cooperation with the 140,000-plus members of the International Union of Painter and Allied Trades. The energy and skill of these workers was infectious.

Thanks to Ed Rehfeld of LiUNA for the assignment, and to the hardworking men and women of LiUNA for their empowering righteous efforts to upbuild their lives and the nations of Canada and the United States.