Arts + Entertainment
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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...
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5 Actresses Who Could Play the Lead Role in NBC’s Remake of Rosemary’s Baby
I’m most certainly not going to say I was jumping up and down with anything remotely resembling joy when I read that NBC was moving...
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Remembering John Lennon 33 years after his death
John Lennon was shot down on a New York City sidewalk 33 years ago today, December 8, 1980, and the world lost one of the...
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Town Tonight Offers a ‘Crack’ at Global Travel
“Crack Trip” is the latest zany offering to come from the gay self-described low-budget theater group Crack DC, founded by Chris Farris, Karl Jones (aka...
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Final Weekend for Ford’s Theatre’s Matthew Shepard Exhibition
It’s final days for the Ford’s Theatre exhibition Not Alone: The Power of Response. Subtitled Letters of Support to the Parents of Matthew Shepard Following His Murder,...
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Right Now, If/Then Is Only A Conditional Success
The creators of the new musical If/Then have given D.C. theatergoers many reasons to be thankful, I wrote in a Thanksgiving week review for Metro Weekly. The...
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The 30 Best Albums of 2013
As the year rapidly winds to a close, it’s time to look back at the best music that 2013 had to offer. This was not...
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Family Misfortunes
There's a menace poisoning the modern Hollywood drama. It's wearing an unfamiliar face, but the symptoms are easily identified. The lazy use of narrative cliché....
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Hearing a Who
No doubt you first heard Betty Who a few months ago, courtesy of Spencer Stout's elaborately choreographed marriage proposal to his boyfriend, Dustin. You know,...
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Hear Them Roar
''And that's the time I bought the gun.'' Rita Lyons drops that hysterical bombshell in the midst of recounting a sordid family story in Nicky...
