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  • Raising the Dead

    By on May 24, 2006

    The Pale Blue Eye Your first reaction upon hearing that Louis Bayard, author of the very successful Mr. Timothy (where he raised the literary spirit...

  • Adult Drown

    By on May 17, 2006

    Well, they've gone and done it. They've stripped the ''adventure'' out of The Poseidon Adventure, leaving, fittingly enough, just Poseidon. That's not to say Wolfgang...

  • Soundwaves

    By on May 17, 2006

    Belmares ALEGRIA BY ANOTHER NAME... Roland Belmares has spun for party promoter and former DC resident Ric Sena before, at Sena's Alegria in New York,...

  • Italian Delight

    By on May 17, 2006

    Captivating: Borodina(Photo by Karin Cooper) Bubbly buoyancy brings the Washington National Opera season to a close in a nicely-conceived high-energy production of Rossini's L'Italiana in...

  • Out of Time

    By on May 17, 2006

    ''Forgive me, but I don't follow.'' So says Mary, one of Eric Overmyer's three time-traveling dames in On the Verge or the Geography of Yearning,...

  • Captive Audience

    By on May 10, 2006

    Stop me if you've heard this one before: An Irishman, an Englishman and an American are kidnapped and tossed together in a dark and dirty...

  • Mission Forgettable

    By on May 10, 2006

    Mission: Impossible III should end with a warning: ''This movie will self-destruct in 5 seconds.'' I'm not kidding. Five seconds after leaving the big kickoff...

  • Titus on the Potomac

    By on May 10, 2006

    Take a beautiful sunset as seen from the Kennedy Center balcony, add a warm wind off the Potomac, throw in a glass of bubbly, and...

  • Soundwaves

    By on May 3, 2006

    REPLAY RIHANNA... Last summer, Rihanna, a native of the Caribbean island of Barbados, had a hit with ''Pon de Replay.'' It's not hard to understand...

  • Sand Pebbles

    By on May 3, 2006

    In case you've never studied women's history and you're not entirely sure who George Sand was, don't count on getting a thorough lesson from MetroStage's...

  • Punky Brew

    By on May 3, 2006

    ''For all my life,'' Ariel Aparicio sings in a raspy voice, ''I wanted to be in a cool as fuck band.'' He's now fulfilled that...

  • Unmasked

    By on May 3, 2006

    In his 1997 biography of Truman Capote, the eccentric, gay author whose literary works are regarded as among the best America has to offer, George...

  • Propulsive Pop

    By on April 26, 2006

    With the Scissor Sisters taking its sweet time producing a second album, what are fans and followers of the half-gay and all-glammy disco-rock band to...

  • Parallel Lives

    By on April 26, 2006

    In a country clouded by indifference and terminally ill with apathy, it takes a political gadfly of a playwright like Tony Kushner (Angels in America,...

  • Command Performance

    By on April 26, 2006

    The Mexican folk singer Chavela Vargas was Frida Kahlo's extramarital lover for some five years. That fact helped Vargas gain wide recognition and it has...