Arts + Entertainment
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Tori Amos turns 50 – her albums ranked from worst to first
Happy Birthday to local DC-area product Tori Amos, who turns 50 today. A young piano prodigy, she started off by playing in bars around the...
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Janelle Monae to Electrify Lincoln Theatre in October
The amazingly talented, ambitious, stylish and total class act Janelle Monáe will stop in town for a show in October, a month after release of...
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Classic album revisited: Duran Duran’s “Notorious”
Duran Duran was one of the most successful bands to emerge from the early MTV era. They had all the ingredients for success and were...
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Howard Jones at Howard Theatre Tonight
Erasure’s Andy Bell was to appear tonight at the Howard Theatre alongside Howard Jones as part of the D.C. stop of the Regeneration Tour —...
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Lady Gaga premiers new video: “Applause”
Lady Gaga debuted her new video, “Applause,” this morning. It’s the first single from her upcoming album “ArtPop”. Let us know what you think in...
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Exploring the ‘Intense’ Work of Faith Ringgold
“It’s really intense,” says Kathryn Wat of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), referring to Die, a 1967 oil painting by Faith Ringgold...
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How The Phillips Collection Came to Be
“I’m embarrassed by some of the premature judgments of my youth,” Duncan Phillips wrote in 1927. That was roughly 14 years after the founder of...
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Hillwood: A Museum Like Few Others
Marjorie Merriweather Post’s Hillwood Estate in leafy upper Northwest D.C. has been open to the public as a museum since 1977, or four years after...
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Madonna turns 55! Five of her best underrated gems
Happy Birthday to Madonna, who turns 55 today! Hard to believe – it seems like only yesterday she was writhing around on the stage at...
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Diva Worship
Did you know Barbra Streisand built an underground shopping mall at her Malibu, Calif., home? The stores display the many clothes and collectibles she's acquired...
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Red Hot Tears
Eric Himan broke down in the studio while recording ''Gracefully,'' a song he wrote about his grandmother, who died last year. ''I'm never very emotional...
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Whitaker and Winfrey Make Magic
The Butler is modern American melodrama at its finest. A stirring fictionalization of the life of a White House butler, its inspiring tale masks a...
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Flashback: Top 10 singles this week 20 years ago, August 1993
20 years ago. 1993. Bill Clinton was in his first year of his presidency. “Beavis and Butt-Head”, “The X-Files,” “Saved by the Bell,” “Frasier,” “Boy...
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Lady Gaga releases new single “Applause” early
Lady Gaga’s back with the first single from her upcoming album “Artpop”, due to be released this fall. Originally expected to be released next...
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‘Tootsie’ Tonight on the National Mall
“Before there was ‘Lola’ there was ‘Tootsie!’” Billy Porter tweeted last week as a birthday toast to actor Dustin Hoffman. Porter won a Tony Award...
