supporting Summerhouse is an act of patriotism tbh
If you care about DC culture (and we’re not talking about the quilted-jacket-pressed-Dockers-ya-I-work-for-Deloitte kind of culture) and supporting “weirdo-freaky” indie mags, you have until TOMORROW to help Summerhouse — DC’s newest underground zine — reach their goal on Kickstarter!
We loved hearing a little of the backstory behind editor-in-chief Michelle Delgado’s inspiration for starting Summerhouse in this interview with 730DC:
Back in 2016 and 2017, a CityLab editor named Mark Byrnes let me write some offbeat stories. I went to Richmond and toured strangers’ basements, talking about house shows. At one point, my source stopped the interview because an impromptu concert was going on across the street. We walked over and stood in a gravel parking lot and listened. It was Lucy Dacus.
Later, I sweated my face off covering Zinefest at St. Stephens, and went back in the winter to write more about the punk scene for another magazine. I couldn’t get enough of covering this side of DC I’d never been aware of, even though I grew up nearby. I started volunteering at DIY shows and getting involved, and I started to wonder, what if I could find a way to write more about this — without having to pitch and convince an editor?
The visuals are dead gorgeous, the storytelling will be amazing (hello have you MET Michelle’s newsletter, the brilliantly quirky The Scavenger??), you get to support indie journalism AND take a stand against letting the city of Washington, D.C. get written off as a Brooks Brothers outlet. It’s a no brainer, people. Do your patriotic duty!