Arts + Entertainment
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Eric Roberson at The Birchmere
Just two months ago, the Philadelphia-area singer-songwriter Eric Roberson performed on a double-bill with Vivian Green at the Birchmere under the title “Soul Survivors.” Now...
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Music Sample: Radiation City’s The Color of Industry
We like the ’60s vibe of the emerging Portland-based group Radiation City. Their debut single, “The Color of Industry,” calls to mind a cross between...
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Beyoncé Blunders
''My persuasion can build a nation,'' Beyoncé sings on ''Run The World (Girls),'' the first single from her new album, 4. She's speaking in broad...
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Wicked Ways
Wicked is as Wicked does. Which is to say, Wicked does whatever it wants to, thank you very much. And if you don't like it,...
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Required Viewing
''The real difference between last year and this year,'' says Scott Kenison, founding chief operating officer of the Atlas Performing Arts Center, ''is that this...
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Editor’s Pick: Pictures of the Years at the Newseum
Pictures of the Year features the best news images from last year, courtesy of the Pictures of the Year International, the oldest photojournalism contest in...
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Editor’s Pick: Jared Ball at Busboys and Poets
Jared Ball’s I Mix What I Like!: A Mixtape Manifesto analyzes the increasing corporate control in the music industry and suggests that popular homemade hip-hop...
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The Cornel West Theory
A D.C.-based ensemble, the Cornel West Theory combines spoken word, instruments, electronics and vocals, and draws from genres ranging from D.C.’s own go-go to jazz...
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Editor’s Pick: Race to the End of the Earth at NatGeo
Race To The End of the Earth follows the race to reach the South Pole a hundred years ago between Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and...
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It is easy being Green
Green: the Color and the Cause is the second exhibit in The Textile Museum’s year-long exploration of the ties between textiles and environmentalism, following on...
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Now Playing: Bad Teacher
Bad Teacher scares us. First, for the students who go to this school. Second, that we might die laughing. Cameron Diaz stars as a teacher...
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Editor’s Pick: David Cale at The Studio Theatre
David Cale’s one-man show The History of Kisses focuses on seaside shanties, or work songs that sailors sing to help distract them from their arduous...
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Night and Day
Tom Stoppard’s Night and Day, set in a fictional African nation on the cusp of internal rebellion, reveals, as one would expect with Stoppard, far...
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The Silver Docs Film Festival
The American Film Institute/Discovery Channel presents the Silver Docs Film Festival, now in its ninth year. The event closes this Sunday, June 26, but not...
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A new documentary examines To Kill A Mockingbird
Mary McDonagh Murphy’s documentary Hey, Boo: Harper Lee & To Kill a Mockingbird explores the history, context and impact of the Deep South-centered novel To...
