Arts + Entertainment
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Scissor Sisters at DAR Constitution Hall
Scissor Sisters, the gay, glam-rock band, cheekily named after a lesbian sex act, shimmers all throughout its new all-dance album Night Work. Filled with passion...
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Telling Stories: Norman Rockwell at the American Art Museum
Telling Stories: Norman Rockwell from the Collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg is the first major exhibition to explore the connections between Norman Rockwell’s...
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Spotlighters seeking a Dramaturg
Spotlighters Theatre seeks a Dramaturg for the 2010/2011 Season. Responsible for creating materials for Press Releases for Mainstage Productions during the season, and show synopsis...
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Taste of Mount Vernon Triangle
Explore the new restaurants of Mount Vernon Triangle by dining around the neighborhood tasting appetizers, entrees, drinks, and desserts from seven different eateries! Participating restaurants...
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Tears for Fears at the 9:30 Club
Yes, Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith — aka Tears for Fears — are still together. In fact, six years ago the ’80s hitmakers (“Everybody Wants...
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The Savannah Disputation at Olney Theatre
In the contemporary comedy The Savannah Disputation, a Pentecostal missionary gets more than she bargains for when she drops in on two Catholic spinsters and...
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Patrik, Age 1.5 at The Landmark E Street Cinemas
A Metro Weekly Critic’s Pick when it screened at last year’s Reel Affirmations, this Swedish film focuses on a gay couple settling down in the...
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The Femme Show at DC Center
Johnny Blazes, Maggie Cee, Geppetta, M. Hanora, Rachel Kahn, Mylene St Pierre plus the local artist Natalie Illum explore gender, queerness and sexuality in this...
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Passing Strange at The Studio Theatre Secondstage
A piece of theater that moves more like a troubadour’s ballad than a rock musical, Studio Theatre’s production of Passing Strange defies easy classification every...
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Arturo Sandoval at Blues Alley
A protege of the legendary jazz master Dizzy Gillespie, Cuban-born Arturo Sandoval was granted political asylum in the U.S. 20 years ago. He’s revered as...
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The Great Typo Hunt at Borders
In The Great Typo Hunt, Benjamin Herson and Jeff Deck humorously document their drive around the the U.S. fixing typos in public signage using markers,...
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Mary Chapin Carpenter at Wolf Trap
“Hometown Girl” Mary Chapin Carpenter returns to Wolf Trap (where she’s performed 16 times) for the first time in five years, and for the first...
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Shakespeare Theatre’s Free for All
The Shakespeare Theatre Company presents this year’s 20th annual “Free for All” production with 22 performances of Twelfth Night, more than double last year’s number....
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Erin McKeown at the Kennedy Center
The folk-pop singer-songwriter Erin McKeownreleased her last album, 2009’s Hundreds of Lions, on Ani DiFranco’s Righteous Babe Records label, and opened for DiFranco earlier this...
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Qomedy's Queen
Fifteen years ago, Carol Leifer wrote an episode of Seinfeld in which the character Elaine Benes tries to get a gay man to ''change teams.''...
