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All posts by Randy Shulman

  • Do It! with Justin – Episode 3: Hoops [video]

    In the latest installment of our new, bi-weekly series, Metro Weekly's Justin Stewart tries his hand out at dribbling... a basketball, with the D.C. Sentinels....

  • Get ready for the Prom!

    The Capital Queer Prom, that is. B.O.I. Marketing (headed by Metro Weekly’s Outspoken host Ebone Bell) presents this fifth annual event, this year benefiting the...

  • Hanson’s exuberant new music video

    Hanson’s new video for the upbeat single “Give A Little” — to be released on iTunes on April 5 — is playful, punchy and, quite...

  • The Strokes headline Sweetlife Festival Sunday, May 1 at Merriweather

    Just announced — The Sweetlife Festival 2011 is coming to Merriweather on Sunday, May 1, and what an amazing line-up of acts: The Strokes, Girl...

  • Loretta Lynn Postponed

    The Loretta Lynn concert set for this Thursday, March 17 has been rescheduled. The new date is Oct. 15, 2011. Tickets will be honored. Refunds...

  • Whores and Hard Candy

    This weekend the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington presents a fully staged, all-male production of the Broadway musical The Best Little Whore House In Texas...

  • The Big Uneasy at AFI Silver

    Simpsons castmember — voice of Mr. Burns, Waylon Smithers, Ned Flanders and Principal Skinner, among others — and New Orleans resident Harry Shearer will appear...

  • Theatre J’s The Chosen

    Aaron Posner directs his adaptation of this beloved play based on the novel by Chaim Potok about two boys, two fathers and two very different...

  • Outtake: Edward Albee on why critics should read plays

    In creating a final cut of this week’s Edward Albee cover story, we had to lose a few passages for space. One of those was...

  • Play in a Day

    Teams representing six D.C.-area professional theater companies will write, direct, rehearse and perform six original plays in a 24-hour period in this seventh annual event...

  • Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life

    Originally broadcast on PBS, Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life focuses on the composer, arranger and pianist who was Washington-native Duke Ellington’s right hand man for decades,...

  • Team DC Fashion Show

    The popular annual Team DC Fashion Show and Model Search raises funds for the LGBT sports association’s College Scholarship Program benefiting LGBT student athletes. The...

  • You Should Meet My Son

    First-time feature film director Keith Hartman’s You Should Meet My Son is rife with cliche, most of which are pretty funny — because they’re true....

  • What’s up at Gallery Plan B

    Works by three painters comprise the Gallery Plan B‘s latest exhibition: Kathy Beynette, offering fun, whimsical narrative paintings, Patrick Campbell, with complex, color-saturated paintings, and...

  • Tom Goss CD Release Party!

    Though it won’t get official release until next month, Tom Goss will give his hometown crowd a sneak peek (and advance sales) of his third...