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  • RESCHEDULED: Chely Wright at Birchmere

    By on October 20, 2011

    Due to artist illness, tonight’s Chely Wright / Lucy Wainwright Roche show has been rescheduled for Thursday, Nov. 3. All Oct. 20 tickets will be...

  • Reel Affirmations 20: Day 8 – Vamp Night!

    By on October 20, 2011

    It’s Vamp Night at Reel Affirmations, with two vampire films showing back-to-back at the West End. The first is the lesbian-oriented German We Are the...

  • Velocity DC Dance Festival

    By on October 19, 2011

    A special partnership between Dance/MetroDC, Washington Performing Arts Society and the Shakespeare Theatre Company, the popular Velocity DC Dance Festival returns for a third year...

  • Reel Affirmations 20: Day 7 – Love in Action

    By on October 19, 2011

    Reel Affirmations hits mid-week with all three of today’s showings at the conveniently located West End. The first screening is at 5 p.m. with the...

  • Kazim Ali at The DC Center

    By on October 19, 2011

    A novelist and a translator and assistant professor at Oberlin College, Kazim Ali will focus a discussion at the DC Center on his poetry, reading...

  • Religious Enrichment

    By on October 19, 2011

    Jay Michaelson thought coming out would spell the end of his religious life. He was wrong. It became a new beginning. ''I really thought that...

  • The People Sing

    By on October 19, 2011

    ''Oh, I don't know if this is something my parents would want to come see me in,'' Eric Van Tielen remembers thinking when he auditioned...

  • Under the covers with Johnson and Goss

    By on October 18, 2011

    Popular local folk troubadour Tom Goss performs with Jeffrey Johnson, aka drag queen Super Agent Galactica. The duo’s show is billed as “Under the Covers...

  • Hanson at The State

    By on October 18, 2011

    Oklahoma’s Hanson brothers are still around, 14 years after their one and only true pop hit. Chances are, it’s a little ditty you still hear...

  • Reel Affirmations 20: Day 6 – Shorts galore!

    By on October 18, 2011

    All three of today’s showings are at the conveniently located West End, so why not end your workday by starting your RA viewing day at...

  • An Horse at Red Palace

    By on October 18, 2011

    Not only does the Australian duo An Horse sound like a punkier version of Tegan & Sara. Lesbian singer and guitarist Kate Cooper and drummer...

  • A Bright New Boise at Woolly

    By on October 18, 2011

    In the parking lot of a mega craft store in Idaho, someone is summoning the Rapture. John Vreeke directs Samuel D. Hunter’s A Bright New...

  • Reel Affirmations 20: Day 5 – Mary Lou!

    By on October 17, 2011

    Today’s offerings include the Critic Picked Mary Lou (from acclaimed Israeli filmmaker Eytan Fox), the documentary Our Lips Are Sealed, So Hard to Forget and...

  • Signature’s Music in the Movies

    By on October 17, 2011

    Natascia Diaz, Eleasha Gamble and Bobby Smith — three of Signature Theatre’s favorite performers, and among the very best in town — salute movie melodies,...

  • Reel Affirmations 20: Day 4

    By on October 16, 2011

    A slew of good films today, including the critic’s picked Tomboy, the documentary Vito, the always-popular shorts collection Best of the Fest (if all they...