Arts + Entertainment
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Men Behaving Badly
In its final two productions before the winter break, the Washington National Opera gives us a fascinating compare and contrast in its scheduling of Mozart's...
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Plot Tease
There are certain books I only buy when rushing to catch a plane. They're usually mystery/suspense thrillers featuring a persecuted main character, a sympathetic authority...
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Soundwaves
TIN ROOF RUSTED -- AND READY... In 2004, Kate Pierson told Metro Weekly that ''now the stars have aligned'' for her band, The B-52's. The...
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Art with Heart
More than 70 artists are featured in the Whitman-Walker Clinic's 14th Annual Art for Life auction, which benefits the clinic's Latino services. ''It's an eclectic...
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Sex Drive
''Don Giovanni is sort of a personification of the sex drive,'' says John Pascoe, director and designer of the new production of Mozart's classic, Don...
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Shakespeare With Love
There is no better feeling than sitting in a theater, particularly one of significant reputation and stature, and watching a performance so fresh and vital...
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Heroic Exploits
Maybe it was the tights, but something about superheroes fascinated me when I was a little boy. I certainly wasn't alone in this interest. My...
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Roman Candle
It's funny the way the mind works. We hear a story of political intrigue, of petty grudges fueled by unhindered access to great power, and...
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Cat and Mouse
Cat and mouse games can be fun -- when you know who's the cat and who's the mouse. When you don't, it's like watching two...
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Mass Impact
Despite the title of her new album, Annie Lennox isn't exactly marching off to war. But one listen to Songs of Mass Destruction ()and it's...
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Soundwaves
POST-PORN POP... Glenn Soukesian has been singing professionally for over 20 years. But you know him mostly for work he apparently only engaged in for...
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Gay Ghost?
Between the Miss Adams Morgan pageant and the annual High Heel Races, it's often suggested that Halloween must be a kind of gay holiday, considering...
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Unfinished Business
While ''Seasons of Love'' was the unquestioned centerpiece of the late American composer Jonathan Larson's musical Rent, it was the more intimate ''One Song Glory''...
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Bite Night
''I don't care what they are,'' barks an anxious Sheriff Eben Oleson (Josh Hartnett). ''I just care what they do about them!'' And well he...
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Female Trouble
What's so remarkable about The Taming of the Shrew is that, despite all the changes to the status of women in the last century, Shakespeare's...
