Arts + Entertainment
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Chilled Milk
Bio-pics are tricky things. Filmmakers who undertake them are required to balance narrative flow with documented real-life experiences. They often take liberties with the truth,...
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Life Songs
After a recent dress rehearsal with the Capitol Pride Symphonic Band, director Joe Bello was feeling emotional. ''They actually moved me to tears on the...
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Well Done
There is something appealing and unpretentious about the cave-like, yet artfully accented, interior of the Clark Street Playhouse in Crystal City. The many cheerful regulars...
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Young Americans
With no overly heavy lifting and plenty of '70s atmosphere, Peter Morgan's Frost/Nixon is not just for those old enough to have personally witnessed David...
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Destiny's Adults
It sounds like a joke, right? And not an especially good one. But Beyonce isn't kidding. She really has adopted a laughably bad alter ego...
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Crazy Rich
The difference between eccentricity and madness is, sometimes, how much money sits in your bank account. At least that's how it would seem to have...
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Bonding Behavior
That dashing, debonair, heartthrob who can make the impossible seem easy is back. And the best part is that he's playing James Bond again. Daniel...
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Baby Boom
Watching an audience take their seats is always something of a pre-show entertainment, but it was particularly fun at Woolly Mammoth's Boom with the unique...
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White House Rock
Do you have that friend? The guy who spends an inordinate amount of time deciding what cocktails or wine or, thanks to the whole gastropub...
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Game Show
Two adages come to mind after seeing Slumdog Millionaire: ''Don't judge a book by its cover,'' and, ''Not everything you need to know can be...
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Exposure to Art
Local artist Frank Muzzy is literally exposing himself for this year's Art for Life, the annual Whitman-Walker Clinic art auction benefit. A noted painter of...
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Lady Killer
Despite the fevered grace renowned soprano Renee Fleming brings to the conflicted femme fatale of Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia, this is one opera that requires more...
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Think Pink
''I guess I just lost my husband,'' sings Alecia Moore, better known as the pop star Pink, at the top of the first song on...
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Personal Best
In 2003, Will Gartshore crafted a cabaret at Signature Theatre entitled Finding Home, which examined his previously rootless existence between New York and Washington along...
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Rebel Yell
There was a time when the best parts of movies happened off-screen. The passionate kiss before the scene faded to black. The brilliant plan hatched...
