On Saturday, May 3, in addition to the usual draws — from pandas to monkeys — the National Zoo will also be overrun with animals...
If it weren’t for Brenda Lee, Levi Kreis would likely not be making his D.C. theater debut with Smokey Joe’s Café at Arena Stage. “I...
The Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week 30 years ago featured a classic mix of R&B, pop and new wave hits. From...
The LGBTQ Academy of Recording Arts (LARA), which presents the yearly OUTMUSIC Awards, has announced the production of a new full-length documentary. For Which WE...
Contemporary Christian music isn’t a format where one might think to look for vocal supporters of same-sex marriage, but as with anything else times are...
Prince’s acrimonious two-decade long battle with Warner Bros. Records, the label for which he recorded all of his ‘80s classics and a couple ‘90s releases...
Ask Moses Pendleton about his dance company Momix’s next show in D.C. and he’ll give you a perfectly lucid description — and then crack wise....
Matthew Hemerlein will perform as Lo-Fang at Sixth & I Historic Synagogue next weekend, for a concert not two months since the pop musician’s debut...
There’s a reason we’re so infatuated with superheroes: power. Flight, fire, invulnerability, invisibility — whatever the special ability, we’re envious of and enthralled by it....
An ideal evening at the theater for precocious high schoolers and the politically curious, Lawrence Wright’s Camp David is a primer on President Jimmy Carter’s...
Have you noticed how very boilerplate superhero movies have become? Everything is interchangeable — from the hero and his or her specific degree of angst,...
The Billboard Hot 100 for this week 28 years ago, in the edition published on April 5, 1986, was a particularly good one. Nine of...
April 5th marked the 20th anniversary of former Nirvana vocalist Kurt Cobain’s death, and coincidentally last week Nirvana was inducted into the Rock and Roll...
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is as American as apple pie — especially as portrayed in the new production at Ford’s Theatre. The...
If anybody had told me when I was 12 years old and listening to Cyndi Lauper’s She’s So Unusual incessantly on my bedroom turntable that...