Arts + Entertainment
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Folk Zero
Like all of the best characters invented by Joel and Ethan Coen, Llewyn Davis is a loser. He's hugely talented, terribly haunted, and the persistent...
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The Best and Worst Singles of 2013
2013 was a great year for music, if you knew where to look for it. Sure, the pop charts were generally loaded with a lot...
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There’s No Christmas Like ‘A John Waters Christmas’
Legendary Baltimore filmmaker John Waters, who most recently stirred up news for criticizing Internet porn as “obscene,” returns to the Birchmere tonight, Dec. 18, for his annual...
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Fabulous Forums
''For us there can be no happiness,'' Hero says, direly, to the woman he loves, Philia, in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to...
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Betty Who and Bears at Rock and Roll Hotel Tonight
“I grew up in Sydney, and my mom’s best friends were all gay men,” Betty Who said in a Metro Weekly profile from a couple...
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Beyoncé stuns fans with superb new album released today
Beyoncé surprised fans early this morning by releasing an entirely new studio album available exclusively via iTunes with no advance warning or promotion. Titled Beyoncé...
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3 Area Movie Theaters Screening Holiday Classics
Tonight, the Angelika Film Center plays host to “Christmas in Black and White,” a presentation of short, silent holiday films accompanied by the Fairfax Symphony...
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What's Old Is New
Looking for a different spin on holiday music? ''It won't be your usual list of holiday songs and carols,'' Jennifer Bowman avers about the Folger...
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Overblown
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is about an egomaniacal monster, hell-bent on hoarding his treasures above all else. He surrounds himself with a mountain...
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Getting Crafty
''If you go to the mall, things are starting to look a little bit haggard,'' Deann Verdier says. ''People are shopping and picking over things.''...
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Sketchy Season
''D.C.'s so wound-up and uptight,'' Mark Chalfant says. ''Improv classes are really doing a world of good for the people who find us.'' And people...
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Review – Beyond: Two Souls
I can’t quite decide if Beyond: Two Souls is a masterpiece or a train wreck. One of the PS3’s swansongs, it and a handful of other exclusives...
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Del Ray Artisans’ 18th Annual Holiday Market
Derek Hall, Betsy Mead, Howard Stelzer, Joyce Wagner, Tessa Barsic, Kimberley Bush, Marcel Deolazo, Linda Goetz Mierke are just a handful of the Alexandria artists...
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Matt Conner Plays the Christmas Hits at Signature Theatre
One of two holiday music cabarets this season at Signature Theatre, A Matt Conner Christmas features local gay actor and musical composer Matt Conner (Crossing,...
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Classic album revisited: Culture Club’s “Colour By Numbers”
It couldn’t have been lost on Boy George, now 52, that as his latest solo album “This Is What I Do” hit stores this past...
