Arts + Entertainment
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Flashback: Top 10 singles this week 20 years ago, August 1993
20 years ago. 1993. Bill Clinton was in his first year of his presidency. “Beavis and Butt-Head”, “The X-Files,” “Saved by the Bell,” “Frasier,” “Boy...
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Lady Gaga releases new single “Applause” early
Lady Gaga’s back with the first single from her upcoming album “Artpop”, due to be released this fall. Originally expected to be released next...
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‘Tootsie’ Tonight on the National Mall
“Before there was ‘Lola’ there was ‘Tootsie!’” Billy Porter tweeted last week as a birthday toast to actor Dustin Hoffman. Porter won a Tony Award...
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Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines”: classic single, uneven album
Robin Thicke has been releasing pop/R&B material with varying degrees of success for about 10 years now. His first album, 2003’s “A Beautiful World,” made...
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3 LGBT-Focused Musicals to See Now
Next month, gay D.C. theatergoers will be offered at least two must-see shows brimming with LGBT content: Ford’s Theatre’s The Laramie Project and Studio Theatre’s Torch...
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Whitney Houston’s 50th birthday – celebrating her best moments
August 9, 1963, Whitney Houston was born in Newark, NJ. She would have turned 50 today. Surely she would have celebrated in style. Instead of...
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Prince’s “Lovesexy” album revisited: 25 years later
Prince should have been riding high towards the end of 1987. He had ended his association with backing band The Revolution the previous year, immersed...
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Emeli Sande To Return to Area This Fall
IMP Productions, the entity that owns the 9:30 Club, presents another area show for Emeli Sandé, the incredible Scottish soul singer/songwriter who dazzled as one...
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Orbiting Aristocrats
If I never see another human body explode, it'll be too soon -- and it's all Neill Blomkamp's fault. The South African filmmaker made his...
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Laverne Cox Rocks
They say a lady never reveals her age. It's a rule Laverne Cox lives by. ''I don't discuss my age,'' she says playfully, ''except to...
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Mick Jagger turns 70: 12 essential tracks
Mick Jagger has just turned 70. We are now at the point where legendary rock bands and artists are touring and recording at an age...
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‘Janis Joplin,’ From Arena Stage to Broadway
All together now: Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on, and take it! Take another little piece of One Night with Janis Joplin, now...
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Madonna from worst to first: ranking her 12 albums
We recently noted the 30th anniversary of Madonna’s self-titled debut and, with over a year having passed since her most recent studio album “MDNA,” the...
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Ultra’s Altar
Electronic/dance music, or EDM, is a singles-driven genre, so you don't expect EDM artists to produce albums as regularly as you do those in other...
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Blood Feud
Flying back to the U.S. with her Danish wife in July, Mary Coble was welcomed – albeit politely – with some institutional homophobia. So many...
