All posts by Randy Shulman
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Hanson at The State
Oklahoma’s Hanson brothers are still around, 14 years after their one and only true pop hit. Chances are, it’s a little ditty you still hear...
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Reel Affirmations 20: Day 6 – Shorts galore!
All three of today’s showings are at the conveniently located West End, so why not end your workday by starting your RA viewing day at...
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An Horse at Red Palace
Not only does the Australian duo An Horse sound like a punkier version of Tegan & Sara. Lesbian singer and guitarist Kate Cooper and drummer...
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A Bright New Boise at Woolly
In the parking lot of a mega craft store in Idaho, someone is summoning the Rapture. John Vreeke directs Samuel D. Hunter’s A Bright New...
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Reel Affirmations 20: Day 5 – Mary Lou!
Today’s offerings include the Critic Picked Mary Lou (from acclaimed Israeli filmmaker Eytan Fox), the documentary Our Lips Are Sealed, So Hard to Forget and...
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Signature’s Music in the Movies
Natascia Diaz, Eleasha Gamble and Bobby Smith — three of Signature Theatre’s favorite performers, and among the very best in town — salute movie melodies,...
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Tomboy
Reel Affirmations 2011 Review by Randy Shulman Rating: (4 out of 5) Sunday, 10/16/2011, 5:30 PM Feature presentation, $12 at Navy Memorial Heritage Center French wit
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Reel Affirmations 20: Day 4
A slew of good films today, including the critic’s picked Tomboy, the documentary Vito, the always-popular shorts collection Best of the Fest (if all they...
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Deer Tick at the 9:30 Club
This Rhode Island quintet blends folk, blues and country — you know, all styles of music you’d hear outdoors, where the deer and the antelope...
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Duran Duran at D.A.R.
Duran Duran, Brit-pop’s Fashionable Fab Four (lead guitarist Andy Taylor left the original Fab Five once and for all a few years ago) have come...
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The Heir Apparent at the Shakespeare
Adaptation is a funny thing. What worked so shamelessly and wonderfully for adaptor David Ives in the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s production of The Liar two...
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Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same
Reel Affirmations 2011 Review by Randy Shulman Rating: (3 out of 5) Saturday, 10/15/2011, 5:00 PM Feature presentation, $12 at Globe Theatre SOMEWHERE NEAR SATURN'S furthest...
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Reel Affirmations 20: Update, Day 3
Metro Weekly’s cadre of critics awarded a whopping six Critic’s Picks on this busy day of film showings for the Reel Affirmations gay and lesbian...
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Cyndi Lauper & Dr. John at the 9:30 Club
True Colors LGBT champion Cyndi Lauper returns to the 9:30 Club for another roots-oriented concert after last year’s blues fest. This time, the focus is...
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Love Potion #1 at The InSeries
Director Nick Olcott offers an English adaptation of Donizetti’s comic opera L’Elisir d’Amore for an InSeries’ mini-opera production. Olcott sets his version in a D.C....
