All posts by Doug Rule
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Popular Music: Fall Arts Preview 2025
Pop, rock, folk, blues, and jazz converge as national tours and local favorites turn the region into a nightly choose-your-own concert.
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Classical & Choral Music: Fall Arts Preview 2025
From Poe-tinged tone poems to Handel and carols, a season of range and ritual with bold new works and film-with-orchestra spectacles.
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Above & Beyond: Fall Arts Preview 2025
Washington’s fall arts season bursts with comedy, readings, exhibits, lectures, and more.
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David Archuleta on Earthly Delights, Mormonism, and Gay Identity
With dazzling new music and a bold tour, the pop idol celebrates joy, queerness, and freedom after leaving the Mormon church
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Meet District Fringe, D.C.’s New Indie Theater Festival
Three local companies unite to debut District Fringe, a bold new summer festival spotlighting original voices.
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Brooke Eden Brings Queer Country to WorldPride DC
The country singer reflects on love, identity, and her journey to performing at one of the world’s biggest LGBTQ celebrations.
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DC Black Pride Unites Culture, Protest, and Celebration
This year’s DC Black Pride, held over Memorial Day Weekend, promises to be bigger, bolder, and better than ever.
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LGBTQ Choral Festival Brings the Gift of Song to WorldPride
The Gay Men's Chorus of Washington DC aims to inspire hope through its upcoming WorldPride International Choral Festival.
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Bisexual Pop Singer Jill Sobule Left a Lasting Queer Legacy
The force behind of 1995's seminal, joyous pop hit "I Kissed A Girl" died at the age of 66 last week in a house fire.
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Mark Campbell Gives Steve Jobs the Opera Treatment
Librettist Mark Campbell has penned nearly 40 operas, including one about Silicon Valley's most mythologized figure.
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John Grant Happily Talks About Everything and Everyone
Acclaimed for a distinctive style of brooding, droll pop, singer John Grant talks about Elton John, Allen Schindler, MAGA, and so much more.
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Cherry 2025 Wields the Dance Power of the Elements
With parties themed toward air, fire, earth, and water, next weekend's Cherry is certain to be an elemental affair.
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Classical & Choral Music: Spring Arts Preview 2025
The Spring-into-Summer offerings this year in the classical realm are as rich, diverse, and extensive as ever.
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Above & Beyond: Spring Arts Preview 2025
Exhibits, Parties, Comedy, Readings, Tastings, Drag Queens, Etc.
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Popular Music: Spring Arts Preview 2025
The best of pop, rock, folk, blues and jazz music coming to the D.C. region this Spring and Summer.
