Arts + Entertainment
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k.d. lang brings her siss boom bang to Wolf Trap
Stalwart lesbian folk-popper k.d. lang, credited with helping to establish the alt-country genre, brings her big band Siss Boom Bang to a show at Wolf...
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Rich Morel’s Scissor Sisters Only the Horses remix
Scissor Sisters has released several remixes of their latest single, Only the Horses, one by our good friend Rich Morel. (The other remixes are courtesy...
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The Gay Men’s Chorus present Heart Throbs for Pride season
The Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington helps kick off Capital Pride with a fun and flirtatious homage to hit-making men in music, from teen idols...
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Queering Sound is tonight
J.S. Adams helped start Queering Sound a dozen years ago in part as a response to the consumerist bent of mainstream gay culture, as well...
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Concept Man
Beloved for more than half a century since its Broadway debut, The Music Man is certainly a musical comedy that's earned the label ''timeless.'' Yet...
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Glambert Goodies
Adam Lambert doesn't cover Destiny's Child on his new set Trespassing. But for some reason, something about the beat and the attitude of the album's...
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Dance to the Music
''I played Harold Hill in high school,'' laughs Parker Esse, when asked how familiar he is with The Music Man. Of course, his starring role...
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The A Word
''Our friends were just vanishing!'' says playwright Steven Dietz of the 1980s. ''It was hard to not write a play about AIDS.'' But unlike Larry...
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Some Enchanted Story
The precursor to today's fight for marriage equality was, of course, the fight for interracial marriage. And that didn't reach its biggest milestone, the Supreme...
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Superstars
A little bit country, a little bit rock and roll, WSC Avant Bard's spring rep of Euripides's The Bacchae and Sam Shepard's The Tooth of...
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Vice Squad
It's worth knowing that Bachelorette has made playwright Leslye Headland a very, very popular woman. This was the play, after all, that attracted Hollywood goofballs...
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Skype Video Chat: Phil Hartnoll of Orbital
On April 19, I was fortunate to interview Phil Hartnoll of the pioneering electronica band, Orbital. He was in his home in England, me in...
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The Dan Tepfer Trio at Atlas
A New York-based pianist and composer, Dan Tepfer is a formidable jazz musician on the international stage. He’ll perform at the Atlas with bassist Thomas...
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National Memorial Day Concert at the Capitol West Lawn
Daughtry, Natalie Cole, Trace Adkins and this year’s American Idol finalist Jessica Sanchez will perform along with the National Symphony Orchestra as part of the...
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Joey Arias returns to L’enfant
L’Enfant Cafe and Bar’s Speak Easy transforms the space into a Prohibition Era venue — complete with back door entrance, dim lighting and drawn shades...
