Arts + Entertainment
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Off the Gay Grid
As far as humorist Mike Albo knows, his older brother Dave Albo hasn't taken anti-gay stances as an elected official representing Fairfax County in the...
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Lianne La Havas at The Birchmere
The Birchmere has done it again, snagging a breakthrough act — before the act has actually broken through. Following in the footsteps of British folk...
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Olivia Newton-John comes to Strathmore
From the films Grease and Xanadu to the mega-pop hit “Physical” to LOGO’s Sordid Lives, Australian performer Olivia Newton-John has managed to achieve a sense...
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A Clockwork Orange at Scena
Robert MacNamara has wanted to stage A Clockwork Orange essentially from the moment he co-founded his stalwart theater company Scena — the same year Burgess...
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Bond That Binds
Midway through Sam Mendes's Skyfall, James Bond is stuck in a familiar situation. He's tied to chair, smirking as a peculiar-looking man lectures him on...
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Operatic Obsession
''I've recently fallen in love with opera,'' says Alan Paul, conceding, ''I've been on an obsessive, opera-going mission over the last year.'' And he's not...
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Lovely Lianne
''Actually, I expected nothing and I was pleasantly surprised,'' says Lianne La Havas, when asked about her success as a singer-songwriter. Only 23 years old,...
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Log Cabin Fever
Lincoln is why Hollywood should exist. Steven Spielberg's wonderful film about our 16th president isn't a war epic or a maudlin biography. The film only...
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Flock of Foul
''There is nothing in the world as amazing as something that is neither completely clear, nor completely unclear,'' goes one of the morals imparted in...
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Theater Booster
''By several different measures, Washington is the nation's largest theater community outside of New York,'' says Buzz Mauro. ''It's a great theater town, but it...
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Buy a Food & Friends pie, sustain a life.
Thanksgiving is drawing near and that means it’s pie time! Food & Friends is offering four pie flavors as part of its Slice of Life...
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Round House grows a beard — James Beard, that is.
Nick Olcott portrays James Beard, who brought fine cooking and a jolly personality to the small screen in 1946 — long before Julia Child, Emeril...
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Four Legs Good
In this age in which every successful fantasy or adventure novel has been – or will be – fully ''realized'' via computer generation, there is...
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Dirty Truth
Right now there's a freestanding toilet in a remote section of the third-floor stage at Studio Theatre. There's also a lot of dirt on the...
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Lover's Return
''The ladies love me,'' Alice Smith says after being asked about gay fans. And why is that? ''It's because I'm sexy,'' the singer-songwriter says with...
