Spotlight
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NSO Pops: Jon Secada and Tito Puente Jr.
Marvin Hamlisch conducts the NSO Pops in a concert paying tribute to Latin rhythms, courtesy of percussionist Tito Puente Jr., son of the legend, and...
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Win tickets to The Twilight Singers at the 9:30 Club
From the 9:30 Club website: “Whenever you’re here, you’re alive” are the first words sung on Dynamite Steps, the fifth album from Greg Dulli’s Twilight...
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Cave of Forgotten Dreams
A Slate film critic said that Werner Herzog’s latest film, Cave of Forgotten Dream, a three-dimensional documentary about 30,000-year-old paintings in the Chauvet cave in...
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Three literate lesbians — Lisa Gitlin, Fay Jacobs and Amy Dawson
Three lesbian authors will entertain as they read from their recent works. D.C.’s Lisa Gitlin reads from her comic memoir I Came Out For This?,...
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Nick Benton’s Gay Science
The author of the provocative “Gay Science” historical analysis series, Nick Benton will speak on his views about gay identity and purpose at Georgetown’s Dumbarton...
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Open Studio today and tomorrow at 52 O Street
The Ward 5 artist home and gallery 52 O Street, formerly a People’s Drug warehouse and Decca Records office, offers its annual Open Studios event...
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Galactica’s Rapture Rehearsal
Local drag phenom Galactica (a.k.a. the “pink-haired diva” a.k.a. Jeffrey Johnson) will preview her upcoming show with her band Capt. Satellite (a.k.a. musical director Christopher...
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Follies at the Kennedy Center
One of Stephen Sondheim’s greatest works — with a book by James Goldman — the Kennedy Center stages a major revival of the Tony-winning Follies...
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Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt and Saboteur at AFI Silver
The American Film Institute’s Silver Theatre presents the second in a three-part series this year exploring the works of the great filmmaker. Part II focuses...
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Crazy Choral Love
The Gay Men’s Chorus’s select ensemble Potomac Fever teams up with two other ensembles from men’s choruses in Virginia and North Carolina to present “Crazy...
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Editor’s Pick: Carl Tanner performs at Aurora Opera Theatre Benefit
Carl Tanner got his start as a singer with a Glee-like moment: The Washington-Lee High School footballer and wrestler joined the school chorus after someone...
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Velvet Goldmine at AFI
As part of a month-long retrospective of Todd Haynes’s work, the American Film Institute’s Silver Theatre presents one of the earlier films from the somewhat...
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Joan as Police Woman
Joan “As Police Woman” Wasser has been a member of Antony and the Johnsons, has a connection with the Scissor Sisters and has been championed...
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Cyrano noses his way into the Folger
In Edmund Rostand’s Cyrano, our hero secretly adores Roxanne but fears she could never share the sentiment because of his extraordinarily huge nose. So he...
