Pride, Work, and Necessity of Side Projects: Chris Maier’s Little Salon

What are you working on—on the side?

Little Salon is my latest side project. It grows out of a belief that the vitality of a community can be measured by that community’s homegrown creativity, the ways it engages and celebrates and spurs its collective imagination. And it grows out of a basic love of salons—the old, French kind, where people would get together, entertain each other, swap ideas, act a little crazy. Washington, DC, is ripe for this kind of thing. After decades of relegating so m...