Arts + Entertainment
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Hot to Trot
To be a teenager is to feel overwhelmed. It's lonely. All sorts of oily, crunchy, hairy things happen to your body. You can't stop thinking...
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Ring Them Bells
Ever see a gender-bending twist on ''Cell Block Tango'' from Chicago? ''I think that is so typical of what the show is,'' says Eric Schaeffer...
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Apocalypse Now
The best way to approach Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play, is to forget how funny The Simpsons is. For although playwright Anne Washburn bases her...
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Memphis saunters into the Kennedy Center
The four-time Tony-winning musical Memphis, with a book by Joe DiPietro (I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change) and a score by David Bryan (a...
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Animal Collective – Tickets on Sale Friday for October’s Merriweather Show!
Four best friends from Baltimore County teamed up to make wild, eccentric, challenging rock music — or as they call it, “sonic free form electronic...
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Kristen Chenoweth at DAR Constitution Hall tonight!
If one really hustles, one could catch at least the start of Deborah Cox’s headlining performance at Capital Pride Sunday, June 10, and also a...
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Games we can’t wait for: South Park – The Stick of Truth
We caught this trailer for the new South Park RPG the other day and, well, we just can’t wait. That bears repeating, very loudly: WE...
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Foster the People tonight at Merriweather
If you wanna run from the Capital Pride Festival, you better do it as fast as Mark Foster’s gun if you want to catch his...
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Diablo III post-review: Demons still needin’ killin’
Even though I wrapped up my Diablo III review a few days ago, I’m still feeling the pull of demon slaughtering recreation. I’ve launched...
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Gods and Monsters
''There's this really ambiguous sexual attraction,'' says Christopher Henley, referring to the relationship between the god and ruler in The Bacchae. At one point, the...
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Stringed Along
''Germany in general, and specifically Berlin, is a very, very open and diverse place now – a very creative place,'' says classical musician Avi Avital,...
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Pro-meh-theus
Prometheus is an Alien prequel that officially isn't. Director Ridley Scott has adamantly (and repeatedly) denied this movie's ties to his 1979 genre-shaping classic, but...
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Having a Hellish Time, Wish You Were Here
It's not that bad going to hell. In fact, it's a hell of a lot of fun, especially when you get to kill demons. Lots...
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New Video: Olly Murs – My Heart Skips a Beat
Despite the fact that I initially spelled his name Oily Murrs — and was promptly and appropriately bitchslapped over it by a mate in the...
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Metro Stage’s transcendent Lonely Planet
The specter of AIDS haunts Steven Dietz’s Lonely Planet — and yet the disease is never mentioned by name. But it is AIDS causing the...
