Spotlight
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Bob Mould Strikes Letterman Gold
“Never too old to contain my rage,” Bob Mould sings on the title track to his blistering, bewitching new album Silver Age, out today. He’s...
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Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
Alexandria’s MetroStage opens its new season with a bang, recruiting one of the best singing actresses around, Natascia Diaz, to reprise the role she played...
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All About Eve
The American Film Institute’s Silver Theatre takes advantage of a “Marilyn Monroe Retrospective” film series to screen this 1950 Bette Davis classic, which has had...
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Maryland Renaissance Festival
As summer winds down, thoughts naturally turn to jousting, feasting, crafts, theater, music and merriment. Ah yes, the annual Maryland Renaissance Festival, now in its...
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Brad Paisley, tonight at Jiffy Lube Live
Country pretty boy Brad Paisley is such a charmer, he almost turned Chely Wright straight. The story goes that a decade before Wright came out,...
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The Queen of Versailles
With the epic dimensions of a Shakespearean tragedy, Lauren Greenfield’s documentary The Queen of Versailles follows David and Jackie Siegel’s rags-to-riches-to-rags story, which evolved during...
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Raw Talent at the Vitruvian Gallery
“Raw Talent (Over Two Dozen Things to Do with a Naked Man)” is the cheekily titled new exhibit at the Vitruvian Gallery, the gallery devoted...
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Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins
Academy Award and Tony Award nominee Kathleen Turner portrays the late, liberal Texas newspaper columnist Molly Ivins. Twin sisters and journalists Margaret Engel and Allison...
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Husbands the Series: Season 2 (all 3 episodes) with Brad Bell and Sean Hemeon
Season 2 of “Husbands the Series” is now available on YouTube. Starring Brad Bell and Sean Hemeon as Cheeks and Brady, this web comedy was...
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Stop Making Sense at the AFI Silver
As part of its summer-long “Totally ’80s Awesome” series, the American Film Institute’s Silver Theatre presents a screening of Jonathan Demme’s celebrated 1984 concert film...
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Dave Koz at Wolf Trap
One of contemporary jazz’s leading figures, gay saxophonist Dave Koz performs Wolf Trap in support of 2010’s Hello Tomorrow. The set includes Koz’s cover of...
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Movie Review: Todd Solondz’s Dark Horse
You can’t fault Todd Solondz for trying. You can’t even fault him for failing. But what you can fault him for is not having the...
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Ai WeiWei’s exhibits
China’s most famous international artist — the designer of Beijing’s Bird’s Nest stadium built for the 2008 Olympics — is the subject of two exhibits...
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Mary Chapin Carpenter at Wolf Trap
Having got her start in bars and coffeehouses in the D.C. area in the early ’80s, Mary Chapin Carpenter is a “Hometown Girl” par excellence....
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Goapele at The Birchmere
Two years ago, the Oakland-based straight neo-soul singer Goapele headlined the Capital Pride Women’s Pride Concert. Now, the noted human rights activist, whose name means...
