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• Catch Renée Fleming Performing Her Grammy-Winning Album at The Strathmore (northernvirginiamag.com) — A world-famous soprano who now calls McLean home is bringing her Grammy-winning “Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene” program to The Strathmore on May 27. Renée Fleming explains how her McLean garden, pandemic walks, and interest in “neuroarts” shaped the nature-focused music-and-film experience she hopes will inspire local environmental action.
• British American Professor Duncan Wu Addresses April Poetry Month (greenwichsentinel.com) — A Georgetown University literature professor who lives in McLean opens his home to a former student while reflecting on how he teaches 20th-century American poetry. He describes adapting Oxford-style tutorials for Georgetown, his enduring debt to mentor Jonathan Wordsworth, and why National Poetry Month and American poetry matter so much to his students today.
• John Kiriakou's revolutionary path from Elliott to CIA whistleblower, social media sensation (gwhatchet.com) — McLean readers may note that CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou once worked at the agency’s headquarters in McLean before gaining national attention for exposing its post‑9/11 torture program. The story tracks his path from GW student to CIA officer, his role in capturing Abu Zubaydah, later imprisonment for leaking a covert agent’s name, and his renewed visibility on social media.
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