All posts by Doug Rule
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Emeli Sande at Baltimore’s Meyerhoff Hall Tomorrow Night
Tomorrow, Saturday, Oct. 19, I.M.P. Productions presents another area show for Emeli Sandé, the incredible Scottish soul singer/songwriter who dazzled as one of this year’s...
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Getting to the Bottom of ‘Gay Art’
Tomorrow, Saturday, Oct. 19, the director of New York’s Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay & Lesbian Art comes to town to answer the question that most...
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REVIEW: Janelle Monae’s Truly ‘Electric’ Show
“Tonight you will dance or die,” an announcer said at the top of Janelle Monae’s truly electric show this past Monday night, Oct. 14, giving...
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UPDATED: Electronic Eccentricity
''I wanted to be a musician ever since I was four,'' Nika Danilova says. And by age 13, Danilov, an American of Ukrainian descent, had...
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Patty Boom Boom Throws Support to ‘Battis’ Tonight
Tonight ushers in the third edition of a party at U Street nightclub Patty Boom Boom meant to celebrate tropical music genres while also advocating...
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Artisphere Turns 3 with 1,000 Andy Warhols
Tonight is the night to don a black turtleneck and silver wig and head over to Arlington’s Artisphere for its “Night of 1,000 Andys Dance...
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Nothing Passé about National Coming Out Day
In last week’s Metro Weekly cover story, Dan Savage, the Savage Love sex columnist and It Gets Better Project co-founder, discussed coming out. This founding...
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Returning to Laramie
Two weeks ago, the cover of Metro Weekly featured Scott Suchman's dramatic and incredibly evocative photo of actors portraying participants at a candlelight vigil for...
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VelocityDC Shines Light on Local Dance Scene
No one refers to Washington as a capital, or even a hotbed, of dance. But a growing number of nationally known dance companies do call...
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Homecoming Dance
{Return #1 (Photo by Matthew Murphy)} ''My older sister was so clumsy,'' Jenelle Figgins says. ''I guess my mother assumed that she'd be able to...
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Bear Crazed
Michael Ian Hodges, you might say, was going berserk. ''They don't have to bring in these higher-priced DJs and party promoters,'' Hodges says, referring to...
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Pipe Dreams
Go figure. The young celebrity musician behind the biggest and loudest musical instrument is himself relatively brash and audacious. Moreover, Cameron Carpenter, the international concert...
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Boo! Spooky Movie Time at AFI Silver
Now that the weather is starting to turn cold and dreary, and each night is coming a little earlier, you might be itching for that...
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Baltimore’s Visionary Art Museum Takes on Technology
Maybe the weirdest, wildest museum you’ll ever visit, Baltimore’s American Visionary Art Museum opens its 19th original thematic yearlong exhibition this weekend. Human, Soul &...
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Cher Plans to ‘Kill’ It at Verizon Center Next Year
The incomparable Cher has announced her “I’m Not Dead Yet Tour” — oops, I mean the “Dressed to Kill Tour.” Which comes after her “Farewell Tour”...
