Arts + Entertainment
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The City Choir of Washington
Robert Shafer conducts the choir in a concert tribute to 9/11 on its 10th anniversary year. Featured on the program are Haydn’s Mass In The...
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Maura O’Connell at The Birchmere
Irish singer Maura O’Connell got her start as vocalist for the traditional Celtic group De Dannan, but now as a solo artist, she offers contemporary,...
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Video Games Live at Strathmore
In Video Games Live, members of the National Philharmonic and National Philharmonic Chorale aim to combine the power and emotion of a symphony orchestra with...
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Wanda Jackson at the 9:30 Club
Recently inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Queen of Rockabilly — and former girlfriend to Elvis Presley — Wanda Jackson is...
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Family Ties
The Irish tenements of the early 1920s were a close-knit and crowded place. Seated cheek-by-jowl at the Washington Shakespeare Company's Juno and the Paycock, Sean...
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Winds of Change
When Valerie Coleman was forming what became the Imani Winds quintet, Mariam Adam says, ''she wanted the players to look like her.'' Specifically, Coleman, a...
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Cultural Crossroads
''There's so much stuff going on,'' says Scott Kenison. ''It's really like multicultural on steroids.'' Kenison, chief operating officer of the Atlas Performing Arts Center,...
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Oscar Night
What movie are you rooting for to win at this Sunday's Academy Awards? The Kids Are All Right? Black Swan? As long as you like...
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Sex and the Apocalypse
Gregg Araki's Kaboom is a gay, sexually charged version of Donnie Darko. It's destined to either become a cult classic or fade into obscurity. The...
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Kathy Griffin at the Kennedy Center
Kathy Griffin‘s hit a rough patch of late. She recently lost in her third bid for a Grammy for Best Comedy Album, this time to...
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Bill T. Jones pays tribute to Lincoln at the KenCen
The ever-provocative Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, led by the great Tony Award-winning choreographer Jones, offers a performance of “Fondly Do We Hope"¦Fervently Do...
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Crystal City’s 1K Wine Walk
In partnership with the Crystal City Business Improvement District, the Washington Wine Academy offers a “wine walk” through the interior walkways of Crystal City, with...
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Glee Live is coming to the Verizon Center
The cast of Glee will perform at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, June 9. Tickets for Glee: Live on Stage go on...
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Tony Kushner at the Smith Center
The University of Maryland Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center and its School of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies presents a conversation with gay Pulitzer/Emmy/Obie/Tony-winning playwright...
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Second Lives at the Textile Museum
“Second Lives: The Age-Old Art of Recycling Textiles” highlights the ways people in various cultures ingeniously have repurposed worn but precious fabrics to create beautiful...
