Arts + Entertainment
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Beyoncé stuns fans with superb new album released today
Beyoncé surprised fans early this morning by releasing an entirely new studio album available exclusively via iTunes with no advance warning or promotion. Titled Beyoncé...
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3 Area Movie Theaters Screening Holiday Classics
Tonight, the Angelika Film Center plays host to “Christmas in Black and White,” a presentation of short, silent holiday films accompanied by the Fairfax Symphony...
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What's Old Is New
Looking for a different spin on holiday music? ''It won't be your usual list of holiday songs and carols,'' Jennifer Bowman avers about the Folger...
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Overblown
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is about an egomaniacal monster, hell-bent on hoarding his treasures above all else. He surrounds himself with a mountain...
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Getting Crafty
''If you go to the mall, things are starting to look a little bit haggard,'' Deann Verdier says. ''People are shopping and picking over things.''...
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Sketchy Season
''D.C.'s so wound-up and uptight,'' Mark Chalfant says. ''Improv classes are really doing a world of good for the people who find us.'' And people...
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Review – Beyond: Two Souls
I can’t quite decide if Beyond: Two Souls is a masterpiece or a train wreck. One of the PS3’s swansongs, it and a handful of other exclusives...
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Del Ray Artisans’ 18th Annual Holiday Market
Derek Hall, Betsy Mead, Howard Stelzer, Joyce Wagner, Tessa Barsic, Kimberley Bush, Marcel Deolazo, Linda Goetz Mierke are just a handful of the Alexandria artists...
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Matt Conner Plays the Christmas Hits at Signature Theatre
One of two holiday music cabarets this season at Signature Theatre, A Matt Conner Christmas features local gay actor and musical composer Matt Conner (Crossing,...
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Classic album revisited: Culture Club’s “Colour By Numbers”
It couldn’t have been lost on Boy George, now 52, that as his latest solo album “This Is What I Do” hit stores this past...
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5 Actresses Who Could Play the Lead Role in NBC’s Remake of Rosemary’s Baby
I’m most certainly not going to say I was jumping up and down with anything remotely resembling joy when I read that NBC was moving...
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Remembering John Lennon 33 years after his death
John Lennon was shot down on a New York City sidewalk 33 years ago today, December 8, 1980, and the world lost one of the...
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Town Tonight Offers a ‘Crack’ at Global Travel
“Crack Trip” is the latest zany offering to come from the gay self-described low-budget theater group Crack DC, founded by Chris Farris, Karl Jones (aka...
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Final Weekend for Ford’s Theatre’s Matthew Shepard Exhibition
It’s final days for the Ford’s Theatre exhibition Not Alone: The Power of Response. Subtitled Letters of Support to the Parents of Matthew Shepard Following His Murder,...
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Right Now, If/Then Is Only A Conditional Success
The creators of the new musical If/Then have given D.C. theatergoers many reasons to be thankful, I wrote in a Thanksgiving week review for Metro Weekly. The...
