Spotlight
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Artisphere celebrates its first anniversary
Arlington’s Artisphere turns a year old this weekend with a celebration featuring original art, music and off-beat arts activities. The arts complex commissioned local artist...
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Win tickets to St. Vincent at the 9:30 Club
We’ve got tickets to give away for St. Vincent at the 9:30 Club. Enter below. Follow @metroweekly
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Kimberly Dark’s Good Fortune
Writer and poet Kimberly Dark aims her new solo show Good Fortune to be “as spontaneous and individualized as a tarot card reading.” For the...
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Toure, with Jonathan Capeheart
Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness?: What It Means to Be Black Now is a provocative new book from the mono-named journalist and author tackling what it...
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The Costumes of the Suzanne Farrell Ballet
Ballet Costumes Exhibition offers a Kennedy Center salute to the 10th anniversary of its resident company the Suzanne Farrell Ballet. The exhibit offers a glimpse...
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The photographic side of Henry Rollins
Henry Rollins is a D.C.-native punk rocker, a spoken word artist, a frequent TV show host, and, last but not least, a vigorous LGBT ally....
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Win a copy of Frankmusik’s “Do It in the AM”
We’re giving away a handful of Frankmusik’s new CD, Do It in the AM.” Enter below. More contests at metroweekly.com/win. Follow @metroweekly
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The Center’s Brother Tongue Poetry Workshop Series
The Center, D.C.’s LGBT community center, and Tongue in Your Ear present a multi-part series led by Regie Cabico of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam and...
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Mark Walter Braswell’s Two Guys…Become Interns
Mikey Cafarelli and Paul Scanlan play D.C. interns in Two Guys…Become Interns, a funny and touching new musical revue from Mark Walter Braswell that “reveal...
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The Indigo Girls at Strathmore
Amy Ray and Emily Saliers — aka The Indigo Girls — have been at it for well more than two decades now, but the popular...
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Win tickets to Owl City at the 9:30 Club
We’re giving away a pair of tickets to Owl City, appearing in November at the 9:30 Club. Enter all our current contests at metroweekly.com/win.
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DC Black Pride presents a screening of Leave It on the Floor
Leave It on the Floor is a musical film about a black gay boy who discovers the Los Angeles ball scene after being thrown out...
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Review: 50/50
Walking the line between comedy and tragedy is tricky. How can filmmakers draw out the appropriate emotions from their audiences? When do those triggers inspire...
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Degas exhibit opens at the Phillips Collection
The Phillips Collection’s new exhibition Degas’s Dancers at the Barre: Point and Counterpoint traces impressionist master Edgar Degas’s devotion to ballet as represented in his...
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A fortunate symphony
Almost anytime a particular scene calls for dramatic, downright scary music, Hollywood instinctively turns to the opening number, “O fortuna,” in Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana....
