“Directed by Will Wernick from a script by Jason Rosen, the mystery thriller Time of Death has a throwback vibe that drew me in from the start. Although set in December of 1987, it doesn’t hit you over the head with that fact. This isn’t the sort of ‘80s-set project that’s filled with bright colors or toe-tapping music tracks. Instead, it feels like something that was directly lifted out of the time it’s set in. I was a kid in ‘87, and this felt like the sort of movie I would have seen my father watching on primetime cable back then.””

“It’s summer in Washington, D.C., so no one smells all that great. But this night was different from your average gathering of sweaty bodies. I was about to enter a pheromone party, where strangers would be inhaling my scent via a T-shirt I’d been wearing. It’s a fun if strange experiment. Singles are meeting in lots of odd ways these days. Perhaps sampling each other’s DNA the way you might go wine-tasting makes more sense than swiping through photos on a dating app.

“It’s a lovely experience to not visually judge someone – to smell someone before you see them,” said Amy Morse, who organized the pheromone party with Pakke, a new D.C. arts organization she co-founded.”