Arts + Entertainment
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Joey Arias Returns to L’Enfant’s Speak Eeasy
Following on its insanely popular brunch house party La Boum every Saturday and the annual Bastille Day French Maid Relay Race, L’Enfant Cafe and Bar...
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Capitol Hill’s 55th Annual House and Garden Tour
The Capitol Hill Restoration Society is hosting its 55th annual tour, this year highlighting homes constructed in the last quarter of the 19th century in...
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Bad Faith
Every night right now at Broadway's St. James Theatre, officials are taking donations, passing around collection plates as if the audience were a congregation at...
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Reflective Rufus
Rufus Wainwright is 38 going on 60. His new album Out Of The Game starts with an older man's jokey lament about his wilder days...
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Feasting at DCAC
The D.C. Arts Center presents its biennial fundraiser this Thursday, May 10, in which visionary and culinary artists are paired to concoct edible art, from...
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Judith Ivey and Carolyn Hax at Monday’s Theater J Benefit
Tony-Award-winning actress Judith Ivey (Steaming, Hurlyburly) plays Ann Landers in Theater J’s one-night-only benefit performance of The Lady With All the Answers, a solo show...
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David Foster and friends at the Kennedy Center Gala
Barry Manilow, Jewel, Peter Cincoitt and Chris Botti will all serenade the 16-time Grammy Award-winning composer and producer David Foster at the Kennedy Center’s 2012...
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Getting intimate with Hands
Hands recently released its new EP — Massive Context — and to promote, they hiked up into the Santa Monica mountains and performed “an intimate”...
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Faction of Fools scrambles Hamlet
Faction of Fools Theatre Company, the 2012 Helen Hayes Award winner for Outstanding Emerging Theatre Company, focuses on the Italian commedia dell’Arte theater style of...
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Lyric Video: Leah LaBelle’s Sexify. (Wordy but colorful!)
The official video for Leah LaBelle’s soul-saturated “Sexify” is reportedly coming soon. In the meantime, Epic has released this “lyric video,” which is kind of...
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Funny, Sissy Spacek doesn’t look Jewish…
Luckily, you don’t have to be Jewish to appear at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue. In her new book, My Extraordinary Ordinary Life, Spacek...
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Matt Howe brings a bit of Cabaret to The Black Fox
“I’m Hip!” is a solo cabaret show by gay D.C. performer Matt Howe featuring tunes by Stephen Sondheim, Richard Rodgers, Dave Frishberg, Jeff Blumenkrantz and...
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The Patriotic Path continues at Ford’s
Springing to full-blooded life onstage at Ford’s under the assured direction of Peter Flynn, the Founding Fathers of 1776 can be a horny, harried lot,...
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Biblical Proportions
With a busy narrative, a biblically minded libretto, and a director who assumes a cogent, educated audience, the Washington National Opera's Nabucco isn't for those...
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The National Philharmonic goes all-Debussy
Pianist Brian Ganz and clarinetist Richard Stoltzman perform with the National Philharmonic in an All Debussy program, part of a festival celebrating the 150th anniversary...
