Arts + Entertainment
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Movie Review: Captain America – The Winter Soldier is a stunner
Have you noticed how very boilerplate superhero movies have become? Everything is interchangeable — from the hero and his or her specific degree of angst,...
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Flashback: Top 15 singles this week in 1986
The Billboard Hot 100 for this week 28 years ago, in the edition published on April 5, 1986, was a particularly good one. Nine of...
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50 Best Alternative Albums of the ’90s
April 5th marked the 20th anniversary of former Nirvana vocalist Kurt Cobain’s death, and coincidentally last week Nirvana was inducted into the Rock and Roll...
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Acting American
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is as American as apple pie — especially as portrayed in the new production at Ford’s Theatre. The...
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Cyndi Lauper’s “She’s So Unusual” 30 Years Later
If anybody had told me when I was 12 years old and listening to Cyndi Lauper’s She’s So Unusual incessantly on my bedroom turntable that...
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German Engineering
Sonia Rutstein recently met a man in Germany who inquired about her name. ”Oh, ‘Rutstein.’ This is a German name. Are you German?” she recalls...
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Stepping Out
“I can’t think of many dance concerts that I’ve seen where it’s been two black men dancing a story that was LGBT,” says Shawn Short,...
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Why Kate Bush’s Return to the Stage is Music History
On Friday, March 21, 2014, British musical icon Kate Bush made a casual announcement on her website that caused shockwaves of disbelief and feverish anticipation...
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Washington Wordsmith
“People think it’s karaoke, but it’s not karaoke,” Regie Cabico says about the weekly variety show he runs at Black Fox Lounge. “You really do...
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Clash of the Titans
I’m going to cut through a little of the hype surrounding Titanfall, the first-person, multiplayer shooter from Respawn Entertainment. It debuted to rapturous acclaim at E3,...
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Love Is the Drug
Although people often call Donizetti’s rom-com The Elixir of Love a good opera for the uninitiated, director Stephen Lawless’s production requires a caveat: Remember that...
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40 Years of Elton John’s “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”
Sir Elton John is often recognized by fans and critics more for his long string of classic singles than for his albums. It is true...
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Kate Bush to perform live for first time in 35 years
The legendary British musical icon, Kate Bush, is never predictable, but nobody could have imagined the news that hit this morning and sent shock waves...
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Flashback: Top 25 Modern Rock hits this week 20 Years Ago
As the ‘80s faded into the ‘90s, many so-called ‘Children of MTV’ and fans of punk, post-punk and new wave bands turned away from the...
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A Mighty Wind
There are people -- plenty of them -- who absolutely love the maudlin 1988 chick flick blockbuster Beaches, about the platonic love of two women....
