Arts + Entertainment
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L’Enfant Cafe’s 8th Annual Bastille Day Bash
This Saturday, July 14, is Bastille Day, which isn’t an actual holiday in the United States — but it’s as good an excuse as any...
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Magic Realism: 'Beasts of the Southern Wild'
I've never been to Louisiana. Not New Orleans, not Baton Rouge, not Grand Isle, not any of it. I can't begin to grasp what it's...
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Coming to Terms
''And the world that I see is returning once more, to the world that I knew it be long before,'' Mary Chapin Carpenter sings on...
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DJ Kostas at the Eighteenth Street Lounge
Technically, the headliners at the Eighteenth Street Lounge this Saturday, July 14, are popular local straight DJs Thomas Blondet in the Main Room and Will...
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Track List from Jennifer Lopez’s upcoming Greatest Hit CD to be released July 24
Jennifer Lopez is releasing her first-ever Greatest Hits package on July 24th. “Dance Again — The Hits” will feature two new songs, “Dance Again,” featuring...
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Garbage, The Offspring tapped to play DC101 Kerfuffle at Jiffy Lube Live
The DC 101 Kerfuffle will amp up Jiffy Lube Live on Saturday, September 15. Scheduled to appear are Garbage, The Offspring, Sublime with Rome, as...
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Arena Stage’s Piano Bar
Cast members from the two shows currently playing the Arena Stage complex — The Music Man and The Normal Heart, will stick around after performances...
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Katy Perry: Now playing at a 3D cinema near you.
Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz are the filmmakers behind Katy Perry: Part of Me, a concert documentary about the girl who kissed a girl and...
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Last Train Home
Named Washington’s “Artist of the Year” in 2003, Last Train Home has since relocated to Nashville. But any return gig to the region for the...
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Coldplay and Robyn come to Verizon this weekend
Coldplay is always one of the hottest concerts of the season, but this time around the British superstars have managed to be even hotter by...
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Stuck
Myths are a special kind of story. They're always changing, adding new colors and flavors to time-tested formulas. No two versions need be the same,...
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The Keegan gets a Spring Awakening
Inspired by Frank Wedekind’s controversial 1891 play about teenage sexuality and society’s efforts to control it, Spring Awakening was the toast of Broadway in 2006,...
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Wolf Trap presents Don Giovanni
Mozart’s celebrated dramatic comedy Don Giovanni tells the story of a famous womanizer who is given one last chance to repent. Wolf Trap presents a...
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Pink streams her newest single, Blow Me (One More Kiss)
Pink has made her newest single, the playfully titled “Blow Me (One Last Kiss)” available for streaming. Listen to it here. Follow @metroweekly Get Soundwaves...
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Hurry! Bachelorette at The Studio Theatre closes Sunday!
It’s worth knowing that Bachelorette has made playwright Leslye Headland a very, very popular woman. This was the play, after all, that attracted Hollywood goofballs...
