Music
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Classic Babs
''Hey baby, what's your hurry? Relax and don't you worry,'' Barbra Streisand sings on her new album. ''We're gonna fall in love.'' Honestly, when was...
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To Catch a Thievery
Eric Hilton leads a double life. In the past few years, Hilton has become a key, if quiet, figure in D.C. nightlife -- a partner...
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Greek Love
In one Greek myth, Hercules is overcome with emotion at permanently losing the young Hylas to nymphs. The question is: Was Hercules Hylas's father, or...
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Kelly's Dilemma
Kelly Rowland is a tease. Take a few headlines over the past year as evidence. ''Kelly Rowland Tries Disco for Third Album.'' ''Kelly Rowland's Album...
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Oklahomo
''I think being in the Midwest, people don't expect it to be quite like that, but in Tulsa there's just a lot of support,'' says...
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Sizzlin' Good Stuff
The theater world is on notice: In a few weeks, a past season's worth of understudies at Signature Theatre will take the stage in a...
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Koz Celebre
A random shirtless guy ran right through a video shoot for smooth jazz artist Dave Koz's new single, ''This Guy's In Love With You.'' ''He...
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Queer as Folk
Guitarist Anne McCue's first live performance was at a pool party in her native Sydney, Australia. ''We were so shy,'' she says of her first...
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Beyoncé Blunders
''My persuasion can build a nation,'' Beyoncé sings on ''Run The World (Girls),'' the first single from her new album, 4. She's speaking in broad...
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Jewish Angst
''For me, music has always been about the opposite of parents,'' says singer-songwriter Dan Fishback. ''I listened to music as a teenager to escape...
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Trail Blazer
''I thought that I hadn't really lived that much,'' says the 48-year-old legendary punk-rocker Bob Mould about being approached by a publisher in 2001 to...
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Pleasantries
Does America really need another version of ''(Somewhere) Over The Rainbow?'' And another ukulele-driven version at that? After all, it was just a few years...
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Sheik Appeal
''Musical theater -- it just wasn't my cup of tea,'' says Duncan Sheik. The Tony Award-winning composer of Spring Awakening performed in Oliver! and Annie...
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Lady Blah Blah
Which way was Lady Gaga born, exactly? Another album, chock-a-block full of songs that remind you of hits that came before, and another reason to...
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Overblown Buffa
It's a shame the Washington National Opera didn't end its season with the brooding intensity of the memorable Iphigénie en Tauride instead of the determined...
