Spotlight
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Sheryl Lee Ralph reading and signing at Busboys and Poets
Redefining Diva: Life Lessons from the Original Dream Girl offers highly personal reflections from Sheryl Lee Ralph, the Broadway star of the original Dreamgirls, including...
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Jay Brannan, tonight at U Street Music Hall
Jay Brannan isn’t the most charming of gay folk-pop singers, and he can be testy live. But he’s definitely got the looks and more importantly...
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Mike Daisey brings a revamped Steve Jobs to Woolly Mammoth
Earlier this year a storm erupted in the theater and media worlds when it was exposed that Mike Daisey had either exaggerated or flat-out fabricated...
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Mama’s Black Sheep come to Jammin’ Java on July 19
Ashland Miller and Laura Cerulli, who together make up the local folk-pop band Mama’s Black Sheep, both felt like the black sheep of their respective...
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Free Reading: The Life of Galileo
The Shakespeare Theatre Company and the National Academy of Sciences offers a free staged reading of Bertold Brecht’s play about the visionary scientist, who pursued...
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid kicks off Screen on the Green
The annual outdoor film series on the National Mall, sponsored by HBO and Comcast, returns, though at a location slightly to the west, tomorrow, Monday,...
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Dragons have overrun the Textile Museum
“Dragons, Nagas and Creatures of the Deep” is a playful, colorful exhibition presenting a global selection of textiles depicting dragons and related fantastical creatures of...
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Alyse Nelson at Politics and Prose
Vital Voices: The Power of Women Leading Change around the World is a book about then-First Lady Hillary Clinton’s government initiative that morphed into a...
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RA Xtra presents Beauty
Reel Affirmations resumes its monthly film screening series with the 2011 Beauty, winner of the Queer Palm Award at the Cannes Film Festival and South...
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L’Enfant Cafe’s 8th Annual Bastille Day Bash
This Saturday, July 14, is Bastille Day, which isn’t an actual holiday in the United States — but it’s as good an excuse as any...
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DJ Kostas at the Eighteenth Street Lounge
Technically, the headliners at the Eighteenth Street Lounge this Saturday, July 14, are popular local straight DJs Thomas Blondet in the Main Room and Will...
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Garbage, The Offspring tapped to play DC101 Kerfuffle at Jiffy Lube Live
The DC 101 Kerfuffle will amp up Jiffy Lube Live on Saturday, September 15. Scheduled to appear are Garbage, The Offspring, Sublime with Rome, as...
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Arena Stage’s Piano Bar
Cast members from the two shows currently playing the Arena Stage complex — The Music Man and The Normal Heart, will stick around after performances...
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Katy Perry: Now playing at a 3D cinema near you.
Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz are the filmmakers behind Katy Perry: Part of Me, a concert documentary about the girl who kissed a girl and...
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Last Train Home
Named Washington’s “Artist of the Year” in 2003, Last Train Home has since relocated to Nashville. But any return gig to the region for the...
