Arts + Entertainment
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Musical Comedy
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar and, sometimes, a play is just a play (or just a musical). This is not meant to sound...
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Temporary Reprieve
Temp (noun): a temporary employee, typically an office worker who finds employment through an agency. Odyssey (noun): a long and eventful or adventurous journey. From...
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Uberdull
Sometimes in show business, it's good to have a gimmick to generate interest in your product. The gimmick deployed by Steven Soderbergh for The Good...
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Hollaback Gwen
''I heard that you were talking shit and you didn't think that I would hear it.'' Gwen Stefani came out swinging, swaggering and stomping on...
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Bling Bang
''In America, it's bling bling. Out here it's bling bang,'' says diamond smuggler Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio) to American journalist Maddy Bowen (Jennifer Connelly), of...
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Seasonal Sounds
Though Mother Nature has yet to conjure a winter wonderland in the capital, D.C.'s Different Drummers (DCDD) have the soundtrack at the ready with ''Winter...
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Soundwaves
DJ PODCAST PIONEERS... Let's say you were dancing recently, and you went crazy over a song you never heard before. Unfortunately, you don't remember the...
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Beautiful Balloon
Gregory Douglass seems to have a real fear of falling -- especially falling in and out of love. On his new album, Up & Away,...
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Good and Gay
She Loves Me is a gay old time: It's light, funny and has a happy ending. In other words, it's perfect for the holidays. It's...
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Boys on Film
What The History Boys is about, exactly, is open to some interpretation. A theater enthusiast might simply offer that, during its Broadway run this year,...
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Scatter Pop
It is the best of albums, it is the worst of albums. With apologies to Charles Dickens, never before has there been a more polarizing...
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Destiny's Child
An adoring, profanity-laced love note to the fans who helped push Jack Black up the stairway to fame, Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny...
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New Traditions
As a self-described Scrooge, I always applied that label to myself without actually knowing the full story of Charles Dickens's classic A Christmas Carol: A...
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Stage Fright
There are any number of ways to have an enjoyable evening when attending Legends! at The National Theatre. You can walk down memory lane, reading...
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Soundwaves
Mika FREDDIE MERCURY'S SPAWN: MIKA... George Michael. Robbie Williams. Elton John. Scissor Sisters. Up-and-coming pop sensation Mika channels those four contemporary artists, among many others....
