All posts by Doug Rule
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Leslie Odom, Jr. Headlines The GMU Hylton Arts Center’s Annual Gala
Aaron Burr — and, for that matter, Sam Cooke, too — will be on hand to perform a toast to the Hylton Performing Arts Center...
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Editor’s Pick: Three Notable Washington, D.C. Benefits For Ukraine
Next week you can attend two special stage shows benefiting charities on the ground in today’s war-torn Ukraine. (More on those below.) But every day...
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Editor’s Pick: The Washington Ballet’s Glorious ‘Giselle’ Returns
If karma’s a bitch, as the saying goes, then she’s personified to the extreme in Giselle. The classical ballet features a coven of vampire-like maiden...
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Editor’s Pick: Tenille Townes Comes To D.C.’s Union Stage
Last summer, the Nashville-based Canadian country star Tenille Townes performed as part of CMT’s annual LGBTQ-fundraising Concert for Love and Acceptance. Then in November, she...
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Spotlight: Coming To The Clarice In College Park, Maryland
The Malpaso Dance Company and Sofía Rei are two of many highlights coming to Maryland's esteemed performing arts center.
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Editor’s Pick: Yes Homo! Comedy Celebrates LGBTQ Comics
Yes HOmO! Comedy is a local collective focused on presenting LGBTQ performers, providing them a safe space to "tell their best jokes."
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Editor’s Pick: Melissa Etheridge At Capital One Hall
It was all whispers and rumors until 1993. That’s when Melissa Etheridge finally answered the question that had been posed by so many fans and...
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Editor’s Pick: Earth Day at FUTURES
It was America’s first National Museum upon opening in 1881 and has subsequently been referred to as the “Mother of Museums” for its role in...
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Visit Julia Child’s Georgetown Home This Saturday
Julia Child's home is one of eight properties on view as part of this year's "Georgetown Old & New" house tour.
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Editor’s Pick: Hannah Gadsby – ‘Body Of Work’ At The KenCen
Art criticism is generally about as far from stand-up comedy as it gets, and any comic with the notion that the two endeavors could be...
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Editor’s Pick: Air Play By Acrobuffos
The circus-oriented artists and physical comedians who perform together as the duo Acrobuffos have clowned around in performances all over the world. As a couple,...
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Editor’s Pick: The GenOUT Youth Chorus Present Youth Invasion
Five years after its first full-fledged concert and more than two years after its last, the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington’s youth ensemble returns to...
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Editor’s (High) Pick: The National Cannabis Festival
Billed as “the East Coast’s largest ticketed cannabis gathering,” the National Cannabis Festival will be bookended by two related events: a National Cannabis Policy Summit...
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Janelle Monáe To The LGBTQ Community: “Protect Each Other”
“I’m having the best time of my life,” Janelle Monáe says. “I’m in the most carefree, ‘I don’t have shit to prove’-phase that I’ve ever...
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‘That Golden Girls Show!’ Pays Hilarious Tribute Using Puppets
A particular hit with gays, "That Golden Girls Show!" parodies everybody's favorite sitcom using puppets
