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  • The Indigo Girls at Strathmore

    By on October 7, 2011

    Amy Ray and Emily Saliers — better known as The Indigo Girls — have been at it for well more than two decades now, but...

  • Liz Prescott at the DC Center

    By on October 7, 2011

    Liz Prescott is the featured performer at this month’s open mike night at the Center, D.C.’s LGBT community center. A semi-finalist in the first national...

  • Henry Rollins at NatGeo Live!

    By on October 7, 2011

    Henry Rollins is a D.C.-native punk rocker, a spoken word artist, a frequent TV show host, and, last but not least, a vigorous LGBT ally....

  • Artisphere celebrates its first anniversary

    By on October 7, 2011

    Arlington’s Artisphere turns a year old this weekend with a celebration featuring original art, music and off-beat arts activities. The arts complex commissioned local artist...

  • A Musical Mystery

    By on October 6, 2011

    Adam Gwon got the idea for his new musical The Boy Detective Fails from the most mysterious of places: Amazon.com. The online superstore's complicated algorithms...

  • Giving Birth

    By on October 6, 2011

    It's fitting that Duncan Macmillan's Lungs is about childbirth -- as the inaugural production of the Studio Lab series, the newborn is a promising start...

  • French Twist

    By on October 6, 2011

    Mon Dieu! If Les Misérables is 25 and I've been a fan since the beginning, then I must be -- well, I guess I'm no...

  • Love Story

    By on October 6, 2011

    There are plenty of films that want to be Weekend. They trickle into multiplexes around the country a few times a year, feeding into a...

  • Girl on Film

    By on October 6, 2011

    Summer may be over, and so is 1987. With Dirty Girl, you can revisit both. It's hot, dismal and dusty. It's the end of the...

  • The Melancholy Sadness

    By on October 6, 2011

    Women's professional tennis has been a hotbed for social change, from the hear-us-roar launch of the women's pro tour in the 1970s to the emergence...

  • Refreshing

    By on October 6, 2011

    Is Andy Bell over electronic music? ''Then I go insane, I'm bored of this modern town,'' Erasure's gay frontman sings on one track of the...

  • Win tickets to St. Vincent at the 9:30 Club

    By on October 5, 2011

    We’ve got tickets to give away for St. Vincent at the 9:30 Club. Enter below. Follow @metroweekly

  • Kimberly Dark’s Good Fortune

    By on October 4, 2011

    Writer and poet Kimberly Dark aims her new solo show Good Fortune to be “as spontaneous and individualized as a tarot card reading.” For the...

  • Toure, with Jonathan Capeheart

    By on October 3, 2011

    Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness?: What It Means to Be Black Now is a provocative new book from the mono-named journalist and author tackling what it...

  • The Costumes of the Suzanne Farrell Ballet

    By on October 3, 2011

    Ballet Costumes Exhibition offers a Kennedy Center salute to the 10th anniversary of its resident company the Suzanne Farrell Ballet. The exhibit offers a glimpse...