All posts by Doug Rule
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Athletic Aesthetic
Ask Moses Pendleton about his dance company Momix’s next show in D.C. and he’ll give you a perfectly lucid description — and then crack wise....
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Hi Lo-Fang
Matthew Hemerlein will perform as Lo-Fang at Sixth & I Historic Synagogue next weekend, for a concert not two months since the pop musician’s debut...
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Trigger Meets Tatooine
Where have all the cowboys gone? Would you believe, Paula Cole, to Town? In fact, this Saturday, Town welcomes cowboys, drag queens and geeks —...
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Acting American
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is as American as apple pie — especially as portrayed in the new production at Ford’s Theatre. The...
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German Engineering
Sonia Rutstein recently met a man in Germany who inquired about her name. ”Oh, ‘Rutstein.’ This is a German name. Are you German?” she recalls...
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Boy Wonder
“That’s got more swing than a hooker with a broken heel and a brick in her handbag.” In addition to a steady flow of swinging...
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Stepping Out
“I can’t think of many dance concerts that I’ve seen where it’s been two black men dancing a story that was LGBT,” says Shawn Short,...
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Washington Wordsmith
“People think it’s karaoke, but it’s not karaoke,” Regie Cabico says about the weekly variety show he runs at Black Fox Lounge. “You really do...
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Hair Apparent
”I feel like it’s one of the greatest achievements of our career,” says Keegan Theatre’s Susan Rhea of the company’s current production of Hair. ”I...
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Cherry’s Blossom Is Back
”After such a brutal winter, D.C. deserves a special weekend,” says the Cherry Fund’s James Decker. Of course, the weekend he has in mind will...
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A Mighty Wind
There are people -- plenty of them -- who absolutely love the maudlin 1988 chick flick blockbuster Beaches, about the platonic love of two women....
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Ciao Bello
For his swansong to the DC Different Drummers -- and to D.C. -- Joe Bello has put together a concert focused on dance. ''No, I...
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New York Naughty
''Venues are very important. They really do make the identity of a party,'' says Mike Peyton, producer of New York's Black Party, set for Saturday,...
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Above & Beyond
You may know John Waters best as a wacky, beloved Baltimore filmmaker, but these days he's spending more time on the standup circuit -- which...
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Choral Connector
''Bach is my favorite composer, hands down,'' Chase Maggiano says, when asked what he listens to in his spare time. But in addition to baroque...
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