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Arts + Entertainment

  • Busch Garden

    By on September 16, 2009

    For Charles Busch, Washington is akin to a first love. The long-ago memory has all the elements: joy, discovery and resonance -- even as some...

  • Zero to Hero

    By on September 9, 2009

    On Oct. 14, 1955, the actor and comedian Zero Mostel was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). He was asked if he was...

  • Camp Out

    By on September 9, 2009

    For pure niche, low-budget, high-impact entertainment, it would be hard to beat the Washington Shakespeare Company's Camille (A Tearjerker): A Travesty on La Dame aux...

  • Shorts Stuff

    By on September 9, 2009

    The DC Shorts Film Festival isn't getting longer, but it is stretching its legs. For a week starting Sept. 10, the 2009 festival will show...

  • Thrill Out

    By on September 2, 2009

    During Kings Dominion's annual Gay and Lesbian Night, Tom Yates is generally too busy tending to the park's entrance to enjoy the rides. ''They usually...

  • Mess No More

    By on September 2, 2009

    Let’s see, the last time we got a good dose of Whitney Houston was four years ago, when she appeared as a caricature on Bravo’s...

  • Ball Bearings

    By on September 2, 2009

    Schlemiel, schlimazel, Hasenpfeffer Incorporated. We’re going to do it....While many who troop to see Mike Judge’s Extract might be too young to remember the opening...

  • Classical Gas

    By on August 26, 2009

    Did you know Sandra Bernhard is a ''classically trained singer?'' We didn't either, but it says so right there in the press release for her...

  • Golden Girl

    By on August 19, 2009

    Has there ever been a creature more mythic than “The Blonde''? From Monroe to Evita to Harlow to that most ambitious of blondes who borrowed...

  • Numbed by Nazis

    By on August 19, 2009

    One hundred and forty minutes is an awful lot of foreplay for a 10-minute payoff. Yet that’s what Quentin Tarantino is requiring of audiences who...

  • Qomedy Tonight!

    By on August 19, 2009

    Poppy Champlin was frustrated. As a lesbian stand-up comic she was landing the right kinds of gigs -- Dinah Shore Classic, Rosie O'Donnell's cruises --...

  • Poppy Champlin Confidential

    By on August 19, 2009

    What’s on your nightstand?I got a book, water, my phone, my sucky-suck things for in the middle of the night because I have acid reflux....

  • Alienation

    By on August 12, 2009

    Some stories hinge on a dramatic juncture in human history. Some are guided by a need to delve into the intricacies of relationships and emotions....

  • Amped Indigo

    By on August 12, 2009

    Amy Ray says she’s more of the rocker in the Indigo Girls. “Yeah, definitely. I mean, Emily can play an electric guitar like crazy,...

  • Signature Moment

    By on August 5, 2009

    Earlier this year, Arlington’s Signature Theatre won the Tony Award as the country’s best regional theater. This Saturday, at its annual open house, the theater...