Arts + Entertainment
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Oscar's Glamorous Night
''It's not your regular old Oscar party,'' Michael Fowler says of Glamour, Glitter & Gold. ''It's The DC Center's Oscar party – but on hyper-drive.''...
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Big Apple’s Late-Bloomer
''Sometimes people get this idea in their head,'' blogger and journalist Kenneth Walsh says. ''Oh, if I get a nose job, my life will be...
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Creative Capital
''It's a great place for people who are interested in starting to build a collection,'' Lisa Gold says of Select 2014. ''Or people who are...
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Whale Song
There is a special hell for serious music-lovers, and in one molten corner resides a certain kind of contemporary classical that puts more emphasis on...
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South African presenter thinks “it’s fine to be homophobic”
Arabile Gumede, business journalist for South African 24-hour news channel eNCA, has come under fire for tweeting that he thinks it’s acceptable to be homophobic....
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25 Great Albums from the new Millennium that you might not have heard (but you should!!)
There have been some outstanding albums released since the turn of the new millennium, and many have become at least reasonably successful. But, as in...
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Chelsea Lately regular Jo Koy returns to The Improv this week
The Chelsea Lately weekly regular is not gay, despite what Chelsea Handler insists. But he sure is funny. Variety even named him one of “10...
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The Washington Chorus celebrates Verdi
Julian Wachner leads The Washington Chorus in its celebration of Giuseppe Verdi in honor of the 200th anniversary of his birth. Sopranos Corinne Winters and...
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Kathy Mattea comes to Sixth & I for an evening of intimate songs
Kathy Mattea, the Grammy-winning Nashville hit-maker from the ’80s and ’90s, has since gone in a more folk and roots-driven direction, including covering classic coal-mining...
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Review: ‘Thief’ is a stolen opportunity
They say honesty is the best policy, so let me preface this by saying I’ve never played a Thief game. The original trilogy, which spanned...
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The Grand Candy comes to Iota Cafe this Thursday
Arlington-based The Grand Candy performs at a party celebrating the release of its debut album, NSFW, recorded at D.C.’s famed Fugazi-popularized Inner Ear Studios. Led...
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Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s Say You Love Satan gets a concert reading
The new Rainbow Theatre Project offers its third of five “concert readings” of classic LGBT-plays and musicals, this time Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s dark comedy Say You...
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Justin Timberlake returns to Verizon on Monday
After taking a seven-year hiatus from music, the now-proven movie star and superb Saturday Night Live host came charging back in a big way in...
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Porter House
''He lit up like a child on Christmas morning about the idea of getting to work with Cole Porter music,'' Steven Scott Mazzola says. He's...
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Magic Act
''I don't do realism well, but I do magic realism very well,'' theater director Jose Carrasquillo says, by way of touting his latest show, The...
