All posts by Doug Rule
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Music: Pop, Rock, Folk and Jazz: Spring Arts Preview 2015
Spring is in the air, which means it’s time to start venturing outdoors for the freshest music, whether you’d prefer Idina Menzel at Jiffy Lube...
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Classical Music: Spring Arts Preview 2015
This weekend, the D.C. Different Drummers’ Capital Pride Symphonic Band celebrates 35 years with a concert at the Atlas. Could there be a better way...
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Dance: Spring Arts Preview 2015
The Kennedy Center presents several august classical companies, foremost among them the Royal Ballet. Wolf Trap welcomes two dancers, with two choreographers, known from their...
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Above & Beyond: Spring Arts Preview 2015
Comedy, Readings, Lectures, Miscellany
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Shawn Short: Truth in Dance
Shawn Short is humbled by the impact of his annual dance event focused on the LGBT experience
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Dramatic Dining
Many restaurants offer specials designed to get you to the theater on time
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Full Bloom
The National Cherry Blossom Festival has grown in recent years
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Very Cherry
Area restaurants offer specials celebrating the cherry blossoms
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Brookyn Rider: Stretching Boundaries
It’s unusual enough that Glenn Kotche would write an instrumental composition for Brooklyn Rider. That he titled it “Ping Pong Fumble Thaw” is stranger still....
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Desiree Akhavan: Entirely Appropriate
Desiree Akhavan sees filmmaking as a way to connect to other queer outliers
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WAMA Jam: The 29th annual Wammies
The District hasn’t always been kind to aspiring musicians. It was once accepted practice to escape D.C. as soon as talent — and opportunity —...
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Torch and Twang: Mary Gauthier’s country
Mary Gauthier has found her place in country music
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American Spirit: Alcohol’s influence on American history
Derek Brown and The National Archives toast alcohol's key role in American history
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Game On: The welcoming leagues of United Social Sports
Robert Kinsler's United Social Sports focuses on building social communities through sports
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Purple Passion: Freddie’s Turns 15
Freddie Lutz celebrates 15 years of his kitschy purple paradise
