Arts + Entertainment
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Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life
Originally broadcast on PBS, Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life focuses on the composer, arranger and pianist who was Washington-native Duke Ellington’s right hand man for decades,...
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Team DC Fashion Show
The popular annual Team DC Fashion Show and Model Search raises funds for the LGBT sports association’s College Scholarship Program benefiting LGBT student athletes. The...
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You Should Meet My Son
First-time feature film director Keith Hartman’s You Should Meet My Son is rife with cliche, most of which are pretty funny — because they’re true....
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What’s up at Gallery Plan B
Works by three painters comprise the Gallery Plan B‘s latest exhibition: Kathy Beynette, offering fun, whimsical narrative paintings, Patrick Campbell, with complex, color-saturated paintings, and...
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Tom Goss CD Release Party!
Though it won’t get official release until next month, Tom Goss will give his hometown crowd a sneak peek (and advance sales) of his third...
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Howling good comedy: The Second City stops at Wolf Trap
Chicago’s infamous comedy improv troupe, known for introducing a slew of celebrity talent, from Mike Myers and Amy Poehler to John Belushi and Tina Fey...
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Sade to play Verizon Center on June 22
LiveNation just announced that Sade is coming to the Verizon Center, Wednesday, June 22. She’ll be appearing with special guest John Legend. Writing about her...
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Adult Swim
''I will never wear a dress,'' says Eboné Bell. The 29-year-old, who describes herself as ''more masculine or butch'' than your typical woman, gave up...
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Party Games
There are, at times, movie adaptations of a play so potent, they threaten every live performance that follows. Take, for example, Richard Brooks's Cat on...
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Minor Adjustments
With just a few small adjustments, The Adjustment Bureau could have been great. As it stands, it's just good. To say that it's based on...
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Close-Out Concert
Jeffrey Johnson recalls Noi Chudnoff shopping at thrift stores for bras and panties -- for him to wear. ''It's so funny,'' he laughs. ''What other...
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Pamala Stanley with the Hampton Roads Men’s Chorus
The gay Hampton Roads Men’s Chorus kicks off its first annual “One-Night Only” concert series with “A Night of Broadway and Dance,” featuring Norfolk-native, Rehoboth...
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Diana Ross at the Leukemia Ball
The National Capital Area Chapter of Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s annual Leukemia Ball is already considered the largest non-political, black-tie gala in D.C. And with...
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Kennedy Center’s jaw-dropping theater season: La Cage, Memphis, Les Miz, Uncle Vanya, Addams Family and more…
The Kennedy Center announced its new season today — and the theater season alone is gasp-worthy. Of course, the question is what to gasp over...
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Olney’s Technicolor Dreamcoat
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat, a musical retelling of the Biblical story, offers an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink score, with parodies of...
