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[Q]: âThe Honors are the greatest weekend of the year  and it is also the bane of our existence  â Deborah Rutter  said with a laugh. For the president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts  the annual Kennedy Center Honors  airing on CBS on Dec. 26 and honoring dancer Carmen de Lavallade  rapper LL Cool J  television producer and writer Norman Lear and singers Gloria Estefan and Lionel Richie  is a welcome national spotlight on the memorial to the late president. But thatâs all anyone seems to know about the the white jewel box on the Potomac.
âWe really like to think about the other 364 days of the year  and all of the programming that happens on those days â  Rutter  told me in the latest episode of âCape Up.â âWhat I love about being here at the nationâs cultural center is that we have really a mandate to welcome all of the performing arts. It is not just a performing arts center for one assumed art form or another.â
I bet you didnât know that hip hop was one of those art forms at the Kennedy Center and that Q-Tip is its artistic director. âThis is a first â  Rutter  said. âAnd as far as I know  there is no other artistic director for hip-hop â¦ anywhere in probably the world. And weâre very proud to have Q-Tip here leading  guiding and inspiring us.â
While she didnât need much convincing   Rutter  allowed that there could be others who might â for fear of what it could mean for the other arts. âJust because we are bringing in more programming that includes hip-hop artists  it does not mean that weâre doing less dance or less international programming or less of the National Symphony Orchestra â she said. âIt just means that weâre doing more  that we have thrown open the doors of the Kennedy Center  and we are ensuring that all are welcome here.â
 Deborah Rutter   president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts  talks with The Postâs Jonathan Capehart on the âCape Upâ podcast on Nov. 28 in her office at the Kennedy Center. (Jonathan Capehart/The Washington Post)
There are nine performance spaces at the Kennedy Center that are in use all year. In addition to the orchestra and  the Washington National Opera  Rutter  noted the 46-year-old institution has âa magnificent  world-recognized ballet season. We have contemporary dance  we have jazz  we have a huge jazz series  chamber music  recitals  comedy  international programming.â
Listen to the podcast to hear  Rutter  talk further about the work of the Kennedy Center and how it fits into the cultural life of Washington.  She  goes into what it is like to be the local performing arts center for members of Congress  foreign diplomats and âquite a number of justices from the Supreme Court.â But  Rutter  insists none of those constituencies tries to exert influence over programming.
âHere at the center we have no limits on what we could present â  Rutter  told me. âThe problems I always describe is how to say no  when to say no  and how to not be really  truly overwhelmed by the extraordinary limitless richness of what happens here.â
[A]: Deborah Rutter


[Q]: SACRAMENTO  Calif. (Reuters) -  A California neuroscientist vying to unseat Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher  stepped up  his  criticism of the conservative on Tuesday  demanding  he  return a $1 000 contribution from indicted Trump adviser Paul Manafort.
FILE PHOTO:  Republican U.S. Representative Dana Rohrabacher  speaks at a news conference in Moscow  Russia on June 2  2013. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo
The Orange County seat held by  Rohrabacher  is key to Democratsâ hopes to increase their numbers in the U.S. House of Representatives in next yearâs elections. Neuroscientist Hans Keirstead  a stem cell researcher and entrepreneur from Laguna Beach  is one of seven Democrats aiming to beat him  according to the Federal Election Commission.
 Rohrabacher   a senior member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs  has frequently praised Russian President Vladimir Putin and was considered for a role in U.S. President Donald Trumpâs cabinet.
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) speaks during a House Foreign Affairs Europe  Eurasia and Emerging Threats Subcommittee hearing about the attack on demonstrators by members of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's security detail on Capitol Hill in Washington  DC  U.S. on May 25  2017. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein/File Photo
[A]: Dana Rohrabacher


[Q]: Steve Bannon just met Sen. Mitch McConnell in a showdown at the OK Corral  and it didn’t go well for Steve.
Adelson’s top political adviser  Andy Abboud  told Politico that Adelson and his wife “are supporting  Mitch McConnell  100 percent.”
Adelson is a strong conservative who backed Newt Gingrich and Donald Trump over the party’s establishment in their presidential bids. Despite the considerable press coverage given to Bannon’s call Thursday for  McConnell  to “tender  his  resignation ” Bannon apparently showed up at the gunfight with no partners.
Newsmax spoke to dozens of sources in and outside the Republican-controlled Senate  and all agreed that despite criticism  he  receives from Bannon  Trump supporters  and even the president himself   McConnell  remains popular with nearly all of  his  Senate colleagues.
That may have a lot to do with the previous president.  McConnell  almost single-handedly blocked most of President Obama’s initiatives during  his  last six years in office. And some argue that  McConnell  may be the most conservative majority leader in recent memory with a lifetime American Conservative Union rating of close to 90 percent.
Add to that  there is no evidence that any of the Kentuckian’s 51 fellow GOP senators has any desire to wage a challenge to  his  leadership or even in seconding Bannon's battle call.
 McConnell  is particularly well-liked among the 13 new Republican senators elected in 2014 and with several who survived Democratic assaults to win re-election in 2016. This group includes Roy Blunt of Missouri  Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania  Ron Johnson of Wisconsin  and Rep. Todd Young of Indiana  who began as an underdog to Democratic former Sen. Evan Bayh and emerged the winner to keep the open seat in Republican hands.
“In just about every close Senate race in the last two cycles  Mitch’s Senate Leadership Fund was plowing big money into Republican coffers ” one lobbyist and former GOP Senate staffer told Newsmax. “Just the fact he plowed $25 million into six tight races in 2016 and Republicans won in five [the exception was New Hampshire’s Sen. Kelly Ayotte] says it all about  Mitch . Bannon’s way off on this one.”
Another senator told Newsmax  “If  Mitch  hadn’t won the Senate for us in 2016  the Democrats would not only have blocked nearly every Trump appointee  they would be launching investigations into  his  business affairs. This would have been the president’s worst nightmare.”
 McConnell  and the president did meet at the White House on Oct. 16 and apparently worked out any differences.
At a joint appearance in the Rose Garden following their meeting  Trump hailed  McConnell  as “a friend of mine for a long time  long before my world of politics.”
[A]:
Mitch McConnell