All posts by Doug Rule
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Virgin Mobile FreeFest: Cheat Sheet and Spotify Sampler
The forecast calls for a cloudy afternoon and evening — but there’ll be no raining on the pop music parade that is this Saturday’s Virgin...
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Elton John: ‘The Bitch’ Is Coming Back to Verizon
The gay piano man Elton John will perform “All The Hits” on his first stop at the Verizon Center in eight years, in support of...
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Film on Plight of Gay Jamaicans Debuts Locally Tonight
Before Uganda and Russia stirred international outrage for antigay policies, there was Jamaica, which is still an impossible place to live as an openly gay...
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Hot and Not
Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song Trilogy feels very much of its time – the turn of the 1980s – as it starts. Lead character Arnold Beckoff is very...
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Carrying the Torch
''Torch Song Trilogy had a very big emotional impact upon me when I saw it the first time around,'' Michael Kahn says. Of course, that...
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Moving Up
''Have you always been a dancer?'' Actor Alex Mills gets that question a lot, since his principal work in the D.C. theater scene has been...
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Last Chance for the Potter Parody
“We’re still pinching ourselves and waiting for somebody to realize that we are just two guys running around dressed up as wizards,” jokes Daniel Clarkson...
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Galleries and Museums in D.C.
Museums and galleries often see their role as one of spotlighting and analyzing pivotal events and developments. So it should come as no surprise that...
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Dance: Ballet, Modern and Cultural Performances in D.C.
Washington may not be a capital when it comes to the art of dance, but a growing number of nationally known dance companies do call...
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Classical Music: Symphonies, Operas and Choral in D.C.
The region's fall classical music season doesn't start in earnest until after the leaves begin to turn. And then in no time it's holiday season,...
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Above and Beyond: Comedy, Readings, Discussions, Spoken Word, Multimedia, Tastings, Tours in D.C.
Next weekend ushers in the National Book Festival on the National Mall, and later comes a locally focused day-long literary event at the Folger Library...
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Music: Pop, Rock, Folk and Jazz
From Beyoncé to Pharrell Williams to the Zac Brown Band, if it’s big you want, big you can get this season at area concert venues....
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Bell Labs
''All I know about Alexander Graham Bell is I think he invented the telephone.'' Which is exactly what Jim Lehrer said after he was asked...
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Art After Dark at OAS Tonight
If you’re looking for some culture over cocktails, you can’t beat tonight’s Art After Dark event at the Art Museum of the Americas (AMA), part of...
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Teachers' Lounge
It's that time of year again when kids are getting ready to go back to school -- and when many local public school teachers pay...
