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Trombone Shorty at the 9:30 Club
Troy “Trombone Short” Andrews and his bandmates from the Crescent City merge rock, funk, jazz, hip-hop and soul, or what he calls “supafunkrock.” His latest...
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Strathmore’s Salute to Vienna
Inspired by Vienna’s world-famous Neujahrskonzert concert, Strathmore hosts an afternoon of famous Strauss waltzes, polkas and operatta excerpts on New Year’s Day. Guido Mancusi conducts...
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New Year’s Eve at the Kennedy Center
Usher in the New Year with a dazzling concert at The Kennedy Center. Now in its 16th year, the concert features members of the National...
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Monty Alexander at Blues Alley
The legendary pianist Monty Alexander fuses American jazz and his Jamaican roots in a four decades-long career including work with everyone from Frank Sinatra to...
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The Year in Scene 2010
Picture it: Washington. 2003. A buoyant, long-haired guy walks into a magazine's offices. He's looking to buy a photo of himself in the starting lineup...
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The Many Voices of the LGBT World: Celebrating Six Months of Poliglot
Six months ago today, as the hearings for the nomination of then-Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court got under way, my editors and...
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New Year, New Goals
I'm not the type of person who makes New Year's resolutions, not because of any particular antipathy towards the holiday or the intentions of those...
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Strange Bedfellows
In all the hubbub of closing out 2010, with lame ducks and snowstorms, one little story with all the makings of TMZ-esque high drama –...
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''A Long, Hard Slog''
Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), who turned 70 this year, had tears in his eyes on Dec. 21 as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) signed the...
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Routing in Richmond
Virginia Del. Bob Marshall (R-Loudon, Prince William) stirred up controversy last week with his response to the repeal of ''Don't Ask Don't'' when he announced...
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The Best Stage of 2010
From H Street to Columbia Heights to that new vast temple to the drama gods on the waterfront, D.C.'s theater scene is bright and varied...
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Funny Ladies
''You don't hear as many legitimate conversations about foreign policy in Chicago as you do ,'' says Brooke Breit of Chicago's Second City. You...
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The Year in Music
Twenty-ten will go down as the year of gay pop. Oh sure, at least a couple openly gay pop stars have gotten our attention most...
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Best & Worst Films of 2010
You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have the films of 2010. Hopefully you skipped the bad...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Roundup: Here at the heel-end of the year, you find yourself refocused, revitalized and refreshed. You're ready to pick up the pieces of your...
