Arts + Entertainment
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The Raspberry Brothers present Home Alone
The Raspberry Brothers, a trio of Brooklyn comedians, return to the Arlington Cinema & Drafthouse, this time to riff on the 1990 Christmas flick Home...
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Last Chance: Lauren Weedman’s Bust
A former correspondent on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, Lauren Weedman juggles between Bust‘s more than two dozen characters, snapping back and forth with a...
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Review: Ellen Greene with the Gay Men’s Chorus
Last Saturday night, Dec. 17, at the holiday concert of the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, Broadway and screen star Ellen Greene had what she...
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Tattoo Paradise
I might as well admit it -- I've never read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. When I sat down to watch director David Fincher's...
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Nostalgic Adventure
Of those heading to the movies this holiday season, plenty should find their way to The Adventures of Tintin. After all, the days off and...
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Dance Fever
Even if you've never been a motherless 11-year-old boy taking ballet class in secret, using the money your father gave you for boxing lessons despite...
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Bon Voyage
The revival of Anything Goes is -- pure and simple -- old-fashioned. And how could it not be? Dating from 1934, the Cole Porter escapist...
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Modern Classic
If Glee were to become a Broadway musical, the result would be something similar to Lysistrata Jones. Oh sure, Douglas Carter Beane's hip new musical,...
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Sapphic Glances
''The two women were very public as a same-sex couple,'' says art historian Wanda M. Corn of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. '' they...
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Holland Taylor stars as Ann Richards at the Kennedy Center
On seeing Holland Taylor’s portrayal of former Texas governor Ann Richards for the first time, Don Temples cried. “It was as if someone I love...
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Erin Jackson at the DC Improv
Hoping to follow in the footsteps of fellow D.C.-bred comics Wanda Sykes, Dave Chappelle and Martin Lawrence, Erin Jackson has garnered some national credibility with...
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Joy of Christmas Concert
J. Reilly Lewis leads the Washington National Cathedral Choral Society, along with the 18th Street Singers, organist Todd Fickley, carillonist Edward Nassor and the Washington...
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Last Train Home’s free concert at the Kennedy Center
Named Washington’s “Artist of the Year” in 2003, this roots-rock band — part rock, part blues, part bluegrass — has since relocated to Nashville, but...
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A John Waters Christmas at The Birchmere
In what’s now become an annual event, legendary Baltimore filmmaker John Waters returns to the Birchmere with a one-man show motivated by a genuine love...
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Duck Soup at Landmark’s E Street CInema
The E Street Cinema concludes its inaugural “Capital Classics” series with the Marx Brothers comedy Duck Soup, focused on Freedonia’s war on nearby Sylvania. It...
