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  • John Waters Christmas Show

    By on July 30, 2010

    Tickets go on sale today at noon, for Waters’s annual show at the Birchmere, which always sells out well in advance. And no wonder. Who...

  • Maya Indie Film Series at the E Street Cinema

    By on July 30, 2010

    The second annual edition of this touring festival hits D.C. starting today, Friday, July 30. Six Latino-themed films will screen over the next week: the...

  • Los Trienta at GALA

    By on July 30, 2010

    Quique Avilés’s celebration of the Salvadoran presence in D.C., Los Treinta: Three Decades of A Salvadoran Immigrant in the Nation’s Capital is a performance piece...

  • The Legwarmers at The State Theatre

    By on July 30, 2010

    Another month, another iteration of State Theatre’s two-night party, billed as D.C.’s “biggest ’80s Retro Dance Party,” where guilty-pleasure hits from now nearly three decades...

  • NSO’s The Planets

    By on July 30, 2010

    This spacey program revolves around Gustave Holst’s masterpiece The Planets with HD images from a suite of seven short films, with images from NASA, intended...

  • Funny Noises

    By on July 28, 2010

    If you're familiar with Washington's Church Street Theater, tucked away as it is on an unassuming, tree-lined residential street less than a block from neighborhood...

  • Puppet Masters

    By on July 28, 2010

    Brent Michael DiRoma is standing in the middle of the lobby of the Shakespeare Theatre Company's Lansburgh Theatre as a small crew of Metro Weekly...

  • Musical Illusion

    By on July 28, 2010

    ''I'm alive and I'm on fire,'' Sarah McLachlan sings on ''Loving You Is Easy,'' the first single from her new album. ''Shot like a starburst...

  • Aretha Franklin at Wolf Trap

    By on July 27, 2010

    The Queen of Soul Aretha Franklinreturns to Wolf Trap to perform from her rich repertoire and the first time since she performed at the inauguration...

  • David Kirkpatrick’s The Facebook Effect at Politics and Prose

    By on July 25, 2010

    In The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World, David Kirkpatrick, a senior tech writer at Fortune magazine, presents...

  • Screen on the Green: 12 Angry Men

    By on July 25, 2010

    The annual Screen on the Green series has returned to the National Mall for a four-week run. Next up is 12 Angry Men, the 1957...

  • Hitch at Stead Park

    By on July 25, 2010

    Lindsay Reishman Real Estate is hosting several monthly free moving viewings in Stead Park. Up next is Hitch, a 2005 rom-com starring Will Smith as...

  • Atlas’s Gay 101 Film Series: Where the Boys Are

    By on July 25, 2010

    This series celebrates (mostly) camp classics. Thursday, July 29, brings 1960’s Where The Boys Are, about sex and spring break in Ft. Lauderdale. All films...

  • Crowded House at Wolf Trap

    By on July 24, 2010

    The Crowded House that Neil Finn built is responsible for several indelible pop hits in the ’80s (“Don’t Dream It’s Over,” “Distant Sun,” “Weather With...

  • Chromeo at the 9:30 Club

    By on July 24, 2010

    Loftily touted as “the only successful Arab/Jew partnership since the dawn of human culture,” Chromeo, the Montreal-based duo of P-Thugg and Dave 1 is fresh...