Music
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Idina Menzel's new album is a delightful escape into her songbook
Remember Idina Menzel's attempts at pop stardom? Just as well if you don't. She's released a total of three forgettable pop albums, though only her...
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Rhyme Time
''The only girl I'll ever love is Andrew in drag,'' Stephin Merritt sings on The Magnetic Fields' uproarious new single. The song sounds a bit...
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The Soprano
''When I first joined I was too shy to look up at the conductor,'' says Michele Kennedy of her early days in the San Francisco...
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Life as Cabaret
Early last year, Will Gartshore broke his wrist curling. ''A freak curling accident,'' he concedes. ''Very Canadian.'' Didn't know Gartshore was Canadian, eh? Since the...
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Divine Dance
LAST YEAR, JD SAMSON, of the feminist dance-punk trio Le Tigre, released Talk About Body with her queer dance collective MEN, which also sometimes includes...
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Musical Communion
Amy Ray takes listeners to church on her new solo album, Lung of Love. The church, that is, of rock music. ''Oh the rock is...
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Musical Theater Band
''She was certain that I was gay, because I was in New York to study musical theater and I was playing piano [at a gay...
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Review: Imperial Teen
''Pumped up pecs and sticky skin, floors unswept and walls are thin,'' the four members of Imperial Teen sing in unison on a jaunty new...
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Sunday Arias
''By nature, cabaret is an evening of song, of stories, of fun in an intimate space, where there's a direct connection with the audience,'' says...
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Review: Justin Utley
Justin Utley is still on a mission. The former Mormon missionary, later a pop star in the church's own Utah-based entertainment industry, may no longer...
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Reagon's Rites
Our community's progress with marriage equality has been impressive, but it's not enough for Toshi Reagon. ''What about the gay people that still don't want...
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Arts Hub
Over the past few years the once-derelict H Street Corridor near Union Station has become one of the city's buzziest. And it has the arts...
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Concert Review: Zola Jesus
''We're having technical issues,'' singer Nika Roza Danilova, who performs as Zola Jesus, told the packed crowd at U Street Music Hall toward the beginning...
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Estelle Shines Anew
''I've felt so much love and acceptance, it's overwhelming,'' Estelle says. '' gay people, it's a whole different level.'' In fact, the Grammy-winning British soul...
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Review: Aiden James
Aiden James is not just a pretty face, writing and singing pretty tunes. In fact, James could get by as your standard singer-songwriter, nothing more....
