Arts + Entertainment
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Tori Amos delivers her best album in over a decade with “Unrepentant Geraldines”
It struck me while listening to Unrepentant Geraldines, Tori Amos’ first non-orchestral studio album in five years, that children born when her solo debut Little...
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Star Attraction: Laura Benanti’s ties to GMCW extend beyond song and dance
Laura Benanti remembers having a slight existential crisis as a kid. “What is this world that I live in? What is this horrible place where...
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Prince: Ranking His Albums, Bottom to Top
Thirty years ago this month, in May 1984, Prince was readying the release of the first single from his upcoming album and film, Purple Rain....
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Classic album revisited: The Cure’s “Disintegration” turns 25
By the end of the ‘80s, The Cure was poised for success in America. Their 1987 double-album Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me sold well,...
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Movie Review: A So-So Spider-Man 2
What, exactly, was the point of rebooting the Spider-Man franchise with 2012’s The Amazing Spider-Man? Arriving in theaters just five years after the incredibly lackluster...
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Worth Every Penny
Rick Hammerly hisses at Erin Driscoll early in Act 2 of Signature Theatre’s The Threepenny Opera. Yes, the veteran local actor really and truly hisses...
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Vaunted Villain
As he started work on HBO’s True Blood,actor Denis O’Hare was instructed that vampires don’t touch each other. “I was like, ‘Oh my God, fuck...
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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...
