Arts + Entertainment
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Extremely Big Cats at NatGeo
Big Cats: Vanishing Icons is a photography exhibition showcasing the grandeur and plight of the world’s endangered big cat species — lions, tigers, cheetahs, leopards,...
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Watch the new video Dancing Shoes from DEV
The video for DEV’s “Dancing Shoes” just premiered online. The track comes from DEV’s debut album The Night the Sun Came Up, which will be...
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Glitterlust is coming to the Phase. Will the plushie be in tow?
The queer local dance-rock trio Glitterlust, which includes adorable gay bear Mikey Torres on vocals and keyboards, Liz Wooley on backing vocals and guitar and...
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This weekend at the DC Imrpov: Sheryl Underwood
After getting her start on the national circuit with shows on BET, including her own show Holla, Sheryl Underwood has gone on to feature on...
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American Century Theatre presents Little Murders
Ellen Dempsey directs the mordant comedy Little Murders, set in the peak of ’60s violence and insanity, written by political and social satirist/cartoonist Jules Feiffer....
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Belo comes to Artisphere
In partnership with the Alliance Francaise, Artisphere presents Belo, a 31-year-old Haitian singer-songwriter, whose socially conscious songs document the hardships in his homeland. Belo’s music...
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Now Playing: Pariah
Pariah is the finest coming-of-age movie to find its way into theaters in years. The story, or at least a portion of it, is inspired...
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Review: Time Stands Still
''Happy trails.'' ''Be careful!'' Two ways to say goodbye to someone – one playful and lighthearted, the other cautionary and concerned. Those are also the...
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Review: The Religion Thing
Theater J's The Religion Thing centers on two couples. But, as that bland title suggests, the show's primary focus is on faith. Is faith the...
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Artful Porn
When is porn art? When is an art gallery a back room? The answer to both questions is now – at least as conceived by...
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Review: Corman's World
If Jack Nicholson and Martin Scorsese trash a director's films, saying that ''nobody was trying to make them good,'' or that ''taste was out of...
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Alexandra Tomalonis’s Ballet 360
In “Ballet 360 — What Ballet Does Best II: Exotic Dreams,” dance critic Alexandra Tomalonis uses video of well-known ballets to explore the craft of...
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Barber & Barberillo at the InSeries
The In Series opens the year with an opera/zarzuela double bill: Samuel Barber’s 10-minute pocket-opera A Hand of Bridge, which features two couples playing cards...
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Folger’s MLK Tribute
The Folger Shakespeare Library celebrates Martin Luther King, Jr. Day with dramatic readings of speeches and poetry, all on the au courant theme of protest....
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Hurry! The Smithsonian’s Frank Kameny exhibit closes Monday
The Smithsonian National Museum of American History’s exhibit on the gay pioneer Frank Kameny, who died in October, includes protest signs donated by Kameny, and...
