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  • Habit of Art: Final Performances!

    This is your last weekend to see Alan Bennett’s play-within-a-play, which follows an imagined meeting between openly gay poet W. H. Auden and closeted composer...

  • Celebrating the best in Jewish writing

    The Hyman S. and Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival celebrates the year’s best in Jewish writing, from emerging and established authors the world over, and...

  • SpeakeasyDC’s Boo: True Scary Stories

    “Boo: A Night of True Stories about Things That Are Scary” features writers recounting true stories about frightful encounters, terrifying moments and spooky predicaments. Stephanie...

  • Reentry: Final performances!

    In Reentry, Emily Ackerman and KJ Sanchez offer an unflinching look at the lives of Marines returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Based on interviews with...

  • Little Dragon at the 9:30 Club

    Yet another noteworthy Swedish electronic-pop band, Little Dragon offers dreamy downtempo music, merging R&B, new wave and experimental pop. The Japanese-born Yukimi Nagano is the...

  • Chromeo at the Fillmore

    Chromeo is loftily touted as “the only successful Arab/Jew partnership since the dawn of human culture.” The Montreal-based duo of P-Thugg and Dave 1 performed...

  • Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse

    Even Lilly has some bad days, but when you have movie-star sunglasses and a purple plastic purse, how bad can it be? From the book...

  • Win tickets to Girlyman!

    Hurry, the contest ends on Monday, Oct. 31 at noon. Follow @mwcontests

  • Girlyman at the Barns of Wolf Trap

    The long-established queer acoustic-leaning folk-pop trio of Nate Borofsky, Doris Muramatsu and Ty Greenstein has become a quartet with the addition of JJ Jones. They’ve...

  • Cabaret Macabre

    Happenstance Theater’s Halloween inspired Cabaret Macabre features melodramatic music played live and performances by local actors including Mark Jaster, Sabrina Mandell, Esther Williamson and Gwen...

  • Coverboy: Drew

    Maybe the privilege ended when Drew left Phillips Exeter Academy and began working on his degree in philosophy and anthropology at American University. Sure, it's...

  • Classics Galore at Landmark’s E Street

    The E Street Cinema launches its first-ever “Capital Classics” series this Halloween weekend with the 1958 original The Fly, the horror flick about a scientist...

  • Review: Moby at the Fillmore

    Moby admitted to being a former raver at his concert at the Fillmore Silver Spring on Wednesday, Oct. 26. He said he was even one...

  • WIT’s Scary Funny Halloween Weekend

    The Washington Improv Theater presents a rotating lineup of “frightfully funny” skits for its “Scary Funny” Halloween weekend, all concluding with “Die! Die! Die!,” a...

  • Halloween on Screen at AFI

    This year’s annual scary cinema series at the American Film Institute’s Silver Theatre focuses on the centennial of horror icon Vincent Price with screenings of...

  • AIDS Walk is tomorrow!

    D.C. councilmember and former Whitman-Walker Clinic director Jim Graham, Whitman-Walker employee Joe Izzo and retired Army nurse Maudie Jones are the grand marshals for the...

  • Halloween Outspoken: Scary Stuff [video]

    In this edition of Outspoken, host Ebone Bell hits up the participants at the 25th Anniversary 17th Street High Heel Race in an attempt to...

  • Life in the Fast Lanes

    The Capital Halloween Invitational Tournament (CHIT) is celebrating its 30th Anniversary Oct. 28 through Oct. 30 at the AMF Annandale Lanes in Annandale. The annual...

  • Going Green

    We all know that the Moor of Venice is supposed to be a hothead, but is he supposed to be this flat-out hot, too? In...

  • Blasphemy in Idaho

    Whatever the purveyors of the nation's entertainment may believe, or not, there is something about the recent tide of religious fundamentalism that has them running...