All posts by Randy Shulman
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City Dance Conservatory at Wolf Trap
The Dreaming Tree is a modern-dance journey to the mystical — and musical — world of the Brazilian Amazon, complete with dolphins, monkeys and jaguars...
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Editor’s Pick: Bootycandy
“The work should be work,” admonishes gay playwright-director Robert O’Hara’s semi-autobiographical avatar in Bootycandy, a collection of 10 short plays receiving a snazzy, saucy world-premiere...
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Eric Roberson at The Birchmere
Just two months ago, the Philadelphia-area singer-songwriter Eric Roberson performed on a double-bill with Vivian Green at the Birchmere under the title “Soul Survivors.” Now...
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Outspoken, Ep. 33 – Dog Day Afternoon [video]
Ebone Bell stops by the Pride of Pets Dog Show at Dupont Circle on Saturday, June 18, to discuss all things canine. Make sure to...
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Music Sample: Radiation City’s The Color of Industry
We like the ’60s vibe of the emerging Portland-based group Radiation City. Their debut single, “The Color of Industry,” calls to mind a cross between...
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Editor’s Pick: Pictures of the Years at the Newseum
Pictures of the Year features the best news images from last year, courtesy of the Pictures of the Year International, the oldest photojournalism contest in...
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Editor’s Pick: Jared Ball at Busboys and Poets
Jared Ball’s I Mix What I Like!: A Mixtape Manifesto analyzes the increasing corporate control in the music industry and suggests that popular homemade hip-hop...
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The Cornel West Theory
A D.C.-based ensemble, the Cornel West Theory combines spoken word, instruments, electronics and vocals, and draws from genres ranging from D.C.’s own go-go to jazz...
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Editor’s Pick: Race to the End of the Earth at NatGeo
Race To The End of the Earth follows the race to reach the South Pole a hundred years ago between Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and...
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It is easy being Green
Green: the Color and the Cause is the second exhibit in The Textile Museum’s year-long exploration of the ties between textiles and environmentalism, following on...
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New Yorkers cheer and celebrate gay marriage: Senate approves 33-29 [video]
Despite the objections of Democrat Ruben Diaz, Sr. and most of the Republicans in the New York state Senate, a final vote of 33-29 essentially...
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Now Playing: Bad Teacher
Bad Teacher scares us. First, for the students who go to this school. Second, that we might die laughing. Cameron Diaz stars as a teacher...
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Editor’s Pick: David Cale at The Studio Theatre
David Cale’s one-man show The History of Kisses focuses on seaside shanties, or work songs that sailors sing to help distract them from their arduous...
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Night and Day
Tom Stoppard’s Night and Day, set in a fictional African nation on the cusp of internal rebellion, reveals, as one would expect with Stoppard, far...
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The Silver Docs Film Festival
The American Film Institute/Discovery Channel presents the Silver Docs Film Festival, now in its ninth year. The event closes this Sunday, June 26, but not...
