Last Thursday, Muriel Bowser, the mayor of Washington, D.C., introduced the city’s first-ever Cultural Plan. Five years in the making, the document spells out at length the city’s disposition on artists and creators. The plan outlines more than two-dozen policy recommendations built with the input of multiple city agencies and some 1,500 residents, performers, administrators, and others.
But nowhere in the 224-page document will you find an immediate answer to the cultural crisis unfolding in D.C.: a neighborhood noise complaint involving go-go music, the city’s signature sound.
