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  • Transparency at the Zenith Gallery

    By on August 3, 2010

    Transparency features glass sculptures by Jackie L. Braitman, an architectural designer by trade. To Sept. 30. Zenith Gallery, 1111 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. Call 202-783-2963 or...

  • Up Where We Belong at the National Museum of the American Indian

    By on August 3, 2010

    Up Where We Belong: Native Musicians in Popular Culture explores the many native artists who have had successful and influential careers in pop music over...

  • Screen on the Green: Bonnie and Clyde

    By on August 2, 2010

    The annual Screen on the Green on the National Mall concludes its summer run with Bonnie and Clyde, the 1967 classic starring Warren Beauty and...

  • Serenading Louis at the American Century Theater

    By on July 31, 2010

    Lanford Wilson’s intimate examination of marriage in suburbia, 1970’s Serenading Louie is building a reputation as a neglected masterpiece. Steven Scott Mazzola directs. To Aug....

  • Gods of Angkor at the Sackler

    By on July 31, 2010

    “Gods of Angkor: Bronzes from the National Museum of Cambodia” presents the fascinating story of bronze sculpture and casting in Cambodia through 36 works. Through...

  • The Art of Gaman at the Renwick

    By on July 31, 2010

    The Renwick Gallery presents “The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps, 1942-1946.” The exhibit features more than 120 art...

  • Tegan & Sara on the Honda Civic Tour

    By on July 30, 2010

    Though lesbian Canadian pop-rockers Tegan & Sara are on some dates of the Lilith Fair, they won’t be on the stop at Merriweather Post Pavilion...

  • John Waters Christmas Show

    By on July 30, 2010

    Tickets go on sale today at noon, for Waters’s annual show at the Birchmere, which always sells out well in advance. And no wonder. Who...

  • Maya Indie Film Series at the E Street Cinema

    By on July 30, 2010

    The second annual edition of this touring festival hits D.C. starting today, Friday, July 30. Six Latino-themed films will screen over the next week: the...

  • Los Trienta at GALA

    By on July 30, 2010

    Quique Avilés’s celebration of the Salvadoran presence in D.C., Los Treinta: Three Decades of A Salvadoran Immigrant in the Nation’s Capital is a performance piece...

  • The Legwarmers at The State Theatre

    By on July 30, 2010

    Another month, another iteration of State Theatre’s two-night party, billed as D.C.’s “biggest ’80s Retro Dance Party,” where guilty-pleasure hits from now nearly three decades...

  • NSO’s The Planets

    By on July 30, 2010

    This spacey program revolves around Gustave Holst’s masterpiece The Planets with HD images from a suite of seven short films, with images from NASA, intended...

  • Funny Noises

    By on July 28, 2010

    If you're familiar with Washington's Church Street Theater, tucked away as it is on an unassuming, tree-lined residential street less than a block from neighborhood...

  • Puppet Masters

    By on July 28, 2010

    Brent Michael DiRoma is standing in the middle of the lobby of the Shakespeare Theatre Company's Lansburgh Theatre as a small crew of Metro Weekly...

  • Musical Illusion

    By on July 28, 2010

    ''I'm alive and I'm on fire,'' Sarah McLachlan sings on ''Loving You Is Easy,'' the first single from her new album. ''Shot like a starburst...