All posts by Randy Shulman
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Little Dragon at the 9:30 Club
Yet another noteworthy Swedish electronic-pop band, Little Dragon offers dreamy downtempo music, merging R&B, new wave and experimental pop. The Japanese-born Yukimi Nagano is the...
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Chromeo at the Fillmore
Chromeo is loftily touted as “the only successful Arab/Jew partnership since the dawn of human culture.” The Montreal-based duo of P-Thugg and Dave 1 performed...
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Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse
Even Lilly has some bad days, but when you have movie-star sunglasses and a purple plastic purse, how bad can it be? From the book...
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Win tickets to Girlyman!
Hurry, the contest ends on Monday, Oct. 31 at noon. Follow @mwcontests
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Girlyman at the Barns of Wolf Trap
The long-established queer acoustic-leaning folk-pop trio of Nate Borofsky, Doris Muramatsu and Ty Greenstein has become a quartet with the addition of JJ Jones. They’ve...
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Cabaret Macabre
Happenstance Theater’s Halloween inspired Cabaret Macabre features melodramatic music played live and performances by local actors including Mark Jaster, Sabrina Mandell, Esther Williamson and Gwen...
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Classics Galore at Landmark’s E Street
The E Street Cinema launches its first-ever “Capital Classics” series this Halloween weekend with the 1958 original The Fly, the horror flick about a scientist...
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WIT’s Scary Funny Halloween Weekend
The Washington Improv Theater presents a rotating lineup of “frightfully funny” skits for its “Scary Funny” Halloween weekend, all concluding with “Die! Die! Die!,” a...
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Halloween on Screen at AFI
This year’s annual scary cinema series at the American Film Institute’s Silver Theatre focuses on the centennial of horror icon Vincent Price with screenings of...
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AIDS Walk is tomorrow!
D.C. councilmember and former Whitman-Walker Clinic director Jim Graham, Whitman-Walker employee Joe Izzo and retired Army nurse Maudie Jones are the grand marshals for the...
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Halloween Outspoken: Scary Stuff [video]
In this edition of Outspoken, host Ebone Bell hits up the participants at the 25th Anniversary 17th Street High Heel Race in an attempt to...
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25th Anniversary 17th Street High Heel Race [video]
The 17th Street High Heel Race celebrated its 25th Anniversary running of the drags on Tuesday, Oct. 25. A Washington institution, the event has grown...
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Jack the Ripper: The Definitive Story
Fathom Events offers special one-night-only, Halloween-inspired screenings nationwide of this new docu-drama about the legendary British killer, whose famous mass-murder remains unsolved to this day....
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Get your snake on: Cinematic Titanic returns with Rattlers
Creator Joel Hodgson and the original cast of the award-winning cult television show MST3K return for more movie riffing in front a live audience. The...
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17th Street High Heel Race is tonight — Volunteers Still Needed
JR.’s Bar & Grill just celebrated its 25th anniversary last month, and tonight brings the 25th edition of an event that JR.’s employees started just...
