All posts by Doug Rule
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Night Beat
A few years ago, Shea Van Horn performed at night on the National Mall as part of the Hirshhorn Museum's After Hours programming. Next Thursday,...
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Celebrating Freedom
''There's so much going on in the seven days leading up to the 28th,'' says Terri Harris Reed of The George Washington University, referring to...
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En Vogue
You won't hear Lady Gaga's ''Applause'' at Baltimore's Club Hippo this Saturday, Aug. 24. You won't hear Katy Perry's new single ''Roar,'' either. You might...
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Janelle Monae to Electrify Lincoln Theatre in October
The amazingly talented, ambitious, stylish and total class act Janelle Monáe will stop in town for a show in October, a month after release of...
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Howard Jones at Howard Theatre Tonight
Erasure’s Andy Bell was to appear tonight at the Howard Theatre alongside Howard Jones as part of the D.C. stop of the Regeneration Tour —...
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Exploring the ‘Intense’ Work of Faith Ringgold
“It’s really intense,” says Kathryn Wat of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), referring to Die, a 1967 oil painting by Faith Ringgold...
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How The Phillips Collection Came to Be
“I’m embarrassed by some of the premature judgments of my youth,” Duncan Phillips wrote in 1927. That was roughly 14 years after the founder of...
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Hillwood: A Museum Like Few Others
Marjorie Merriweather Post’s Hillwood Estate in leafy upper Northwest D.C. has been open to the public as a museum since 1977, or four years after...
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Diva Worship
Did you know Barbra Streisand built an underground shopping mall at her Malibu, Calif., home? The stores display the many clothes and collectibles she's acquired...
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Red Hot Tears
Eric Himan broke down in the studio while recording ''Gracefully,'' a song he wrote about his grandmother, who died last year. ''I'm never very emotional...
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Aspirational Agitation
At the start of the 1970s, Faith Ringgold was commissioned to paint a mural for the female detention center at Rikers Island. One prisoner asked...
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Evolving Appreciation
''I think we all realize that what we might have liked in our 20s versus age 40 may be very different,'' says the Phillips Collection's...
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‘Tootsie’ Tonight on the National Mall
“Before there was ‘Lola’ there was ‘Tootsie!’” Billy Porter tweeted last week as a birthday toast to actor Dustin Hoffman. Porter won a Tony Award...
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3 LGBT-Focused Musicals to See Now
Next month, gay D.C. theatergoers will be offered at least two must-see shows brimming with LGBT content: Ford’s Theatre’s The Laramie Project and Studio Theatre’s Torch...
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New York’s Splash Bar to Close This Sunday
In case you haven’t heard, New York’s Splash Bar nightclub has announced plans to close this Sunday, Aug. 11, after 22 years in business. The...
