Arts + Entertainment
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All in the Family
There aren't many playwrights who can speak to us in an exceptionally accessible, relevant and funny voice while simultaneously, almost insidiously, delivering a dark, querulous...
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House party
What once started as a Victorian Christmas Home Tour in Logan Circle more than 30 years ago has evolved to become the Logan Circle House...
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Road Weary
The long and winding road leads... well, I don't know where. In The Road, based on Cormac McCarthy's recent short novel, it seemingly leads to...
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Musical Monstrosities
''Yeah, you make me wanna listen to music again,'' Adam Lambert sings at the top of his debut, For Your Entertainment. The album is as...
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Lights! Camera! Fraction!
Apparently, all the world is not just a stage, it's a soundstage. As You Like It Over at the Shakespeare Theatre Company's Sidney Harman Hall,...
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Victorian Plunge
When a play arrives emanating even the vaguest whiff of the avant garde, even a theatergoing stalwart, finger poised over the ''buy tickets'' button, may...
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Viral Campaign
Sometimes advertising becomes art. Case in point: Andy Warhol's iconic Campbell's Soup cans. Thinking broadly, Jeff McElhaney's advertising campaigns of the 1980s and '90s might...
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Moon Men
Better than the first one. Still sucks. That's the distilled version for those who are sick and tired of hearing about ''The Twilight Saga'' and...
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Tears Worth Shedding
When it comes to the word precious and movies, it's tough not to think of a kidnapped girl trapped in a hole trying to lure...
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Show Time
At a time when the heavy bass of shows like Passing Strange and In the Heights and Rock of Ages are setting Converse-shod feet to...
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Gift of Gab
''Tonight I'm recording – ahem – a holiday CD,'' Kathy Griffin says at the top of her new recorded set, Suckin' It For The Holidays....
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Punk Doll
Amanda Palmer is nothing if not unpredictable. Amanda Palmer ''I like mixing up music and lyrics in ways that are confusing to compel the listener,''...
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Brute Force
The folks at The Keegan Theater have brought Of Mice and Men, that bane of high school sophomores everywhere, to the stage of their new...
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Open Your Art
The 16th Annual Art for Life art auction and exhibit benefiting Whitman-Walker Clinic marks the fifth time local gay artist Bill Mould is participating in...
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Ol' Blue Eyes
''She's the one who really encouraged us to get married,'' says singer-pianist Michael Feinstein, referring to his ''close friend'' Judith ''Judge Judy'' Sheindlin. Judge Judy...
