Arts + Entertainment
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Moving Tribute
The day after Sean Dorsey’s very first dance at dance school, the school’s director “informed me that my work, quote, ‘made people very uncomfortable.'” This,...
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Guitar Queen
“What can I do with just 10 fingers that will wow people?” Years after Rolling Stone heralded her one of its “New Guitar Gods” and...
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Johnny Indovina explains inspiration behind new album “Trials of the Writer”
“He sees certain sadness in the wake of yesterdays, and he writes it all down.” So begins Trials of the Writer, the first solo album...
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Unconventional Queer Fest
After years of producing a queer prom, Eboné Bell decided to kick things up a notch and launch a full-day LGBT convention-type event. From workshops...
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Oh, Henry
Like 16th century versions of the biopic, Shakespeare’s Richard II, Henry IV (Parts 1 and 2), and Henry V, contemplate fascinating lives through an auteur’s...
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Zoo Story
On Saturday, May 3, in addition to the usual draws — from pandas to monkeys — the National Zoo will also be overrun with animals...
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Levi’s Cafe Commitment
If it weren’t for Brenda Lee, Levi Kreis would likely not be making his D.C. theater debut with Smokey Joe’s Café at Arena Stage. “I...
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Flashback: Top 10 singles this week 30 Years Ago
The Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week 30 years ago featured a classic mix of R&B, pop and new wave hits. From...
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The LGBTQ Academy of Recording Arts Announces Upcoming Documentary
The LGBTQ Academy of Recording Arts (LARA), which presents the yearly OUTMUSIC Awards, has announced the production of a new full-length documentary. For Which WE...
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Dan Haseltine, front-man of Christian band Jars of Clay, takes to Twitter to support gay marriage
Contemporary Christian music isn’t a format where one might think to look for vocal supporters of same-sex marriage, but as with anything else times are...
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Prince ends long feud with Warner Bros. and drops new single
Prince’s acrimonious two-decade long battle with Warner Bros. Records, the label for which he recorded all of his ‘80s classics and a couple ‘90s releases...
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Athletic Aesthetic
Ask Moses Pendleton about his dance company Momix’s next show in D.C. and he’ll give you a perfectly lucid description — and then crack wise....
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Hi Lo-Fang
Matthew Hemerlein will perform as Lo-Fang at Sixth & I Historic Synagogue next weekend, for a concert not two months since the pop musician’s debut...
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Super Powered
There’s a reason we’re so infatuated with superheroes: power. Flight, fire, invulnerability, invisibility — whatever the special ability, we’re envious of and enthralled by it....
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Unhappy Campers
An ideal evening at the theater for precocious high schoolers and the politically curious, Lawrence Wright’s Camp David is a primer on President Jimmy Carter’s...
