Arts + Entertainment
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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...
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Modern Marriage
''It's a musical I never thought I'd end up directing, that's for sure,'' says Jack Marshall of I Do! I Do! ''I actually avoided seeing...
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Madonna’s self-titled debut, 30 years later
Thirty years ago this week an album was released that would end up changing the course of pop music forever. It would have been impossible...
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Icona Pop to Return to Area with Stop at Virgin FreeFest
This year’s Capital Pride headlining duo Icona Pop are on a tear, striking while the iron — aka that little ditty called “I Love It”...
