Arts + Entertainment
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Jazz Singer
Robin McKelle Remember ''Abracadabra''? The Steve Miller Band's '80s hit was good cheesy pop, but it was less magic trick than novelty act. If you...
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Soundwaves
YOKO ONO'S PEACE DANCE... In a world coming increasingly unmoored, pleas for peace may seem naïve, but they're also very necessary. Just as she did...
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Sticky Fingers
Contemplation of the Post-Industrial Family surely ranks as one of the most indispensable themes of the modern playwright. What writer worth their salt can resist...
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Offending the Masses
Hamlet 2 is blasphemy, pure and simple. And it's not just the musical number ''Rock Me Sexy Jesus'' that's going to have people apoplectic; Shakespeare...
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Teen Tunes
As if high school wasn't hard enough. Imagine a private, Catholic boarding school where two teenage boys fall in love in that familiar ''opposites attract''...
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Getting a Woody
Imagine a summer of love and romance in Barcelona. There would be late nights filled with good wine, soft music and a sexy artist who...
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New Classic
''I feel like there's a lot of ways in which being a composer now is almost more weird than being gay,'' says Nico...
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Faraway Lands
''I'm from a land called secret Estonia, nobody knows where it's at,'' Kerli Koiv raps repeatedly on ''Creepshow,'' a blistering track off her new debut...
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Laugh Attack
Humor is subjective. What strikes me as funny may not be funny to you. There are, however, plenty of crossover areas that make us all...
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Soundwaves
BURNING UP HER BIRTHDAY CAKE... How many times in one year can gay bars celebrate Madonna? In fairness, it's not every year the Sticky and...
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Yuks and a Uke
It's not a tall order, but with any luck Ben Lerman's three D.C. shows will have little in common with the low point of his...
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Hakuna Matata
The lion might sleep in ''the mighty jungle,'' but at American University's Greenberg Theater, on Monday, Aug. 11, the lion will be rocking to the...
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Shock Operas
Normally, there is nothing more irritating (to some at least) than a creative work that feels the need to announce itself upon arrival, to clarify...
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Brit Lit
In high school, there were two ways to get out of reading a literature assignment -- watch the movie or get the CliffsNotes. For students...
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Teen Spirit
Thirty-seven. That's how many times your heart might break during American Teen. It's high school-concentrate -- all the highs and lows and mistakes and inevitable...
