Decorated with translucent plastic foliage, this was the most beautiful garage door I had ever seen. That was the second shock. The first was, of course, pulling up to the address of a brand new art gallery I’d made an appointment to visit, and arriving at a one-car garage. Why a garage? I asked Margaret Bakke, the proprietor of this bijou gallery: the Friends Artspace.

On February 1, 2022, 41-year-old Paul Thompson was found dead from cardiac arrest on the floor of the Arlington County Jail, according to Arlington Now. A homeless and mentally ill man, Thompson had been arrested on a misdemeanor trespassing charge and was being held until his next court hearing, which was scheduled to take place on February 8.

This year, the official celebration of Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday was met with near universal applause. In this wonderful sea of commendation, it is easy to ignore the holiday’s tumultuous origins. MLK day honors a man who, especially during his lifetime, was extremely controversial. However, it somehow still surprised me to learn just how difficult it was to get his actual federal holiday signed into law.

142 days. As of February 2, 2022, it has been 142 days since September 13. Scrawling them down in tallies like a prisoner fiending for release, that would be 28 sets of five, and an extra two slashes for good measure. That makes almost five months since September 13, the announced release date of Playboi Carti’s highly anticipated fourth studio album, “Narcissist” First, let’s take a step back; who is Playboi Carti?