All posts by Randy Shulman
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Jason Collins signs with Brooklyn Nets to become the first openly gay athlete in the NBA
“The decision to sign Jason was a basketball decision. We needed to increase our depth inside, and with his experience and size, we felt he...
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Pizzeria reserves “the right to refuse service to Arizona legislators”
“Funny how just being decent is starting to seem radical these days.” — A post on the Facebook page of Rocco’s Little Chicago Pizzeria in...
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The Grand Candy comes to Iota Cafe this Thursday
Arlington-based The Grand Candy performs at a party celebrating the release of its debut album, NSFW, recorded at D.C.’s famed Fugazi-popularized Inner Ear Studios. Led...
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Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s Say You Love Satan gets a concert reading
The new Rainbow Theatre Project offers its third of five “concert readings” of classic LGBT-plays and musicals, this time Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s dark comedy Say You...
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Justin Timberlake returns to Verizon on Monday
After taking a seven-year hiatus from music, the now-proven movie star and superb Saturday Night Live host came charging back in a big way in...
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Two K-98.3 DJs admit to hoax surrounding mother’s nasty refusal of a birthday party invite from two gay dads
“We were attempting to spur a healthy discourse on a highly passionate topic, but we made a mistake by misleading our listeners into thinking that...
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Looking into the Human Genome Project at the Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum
Thanks to the work of the decade-long, $3 billion Human Genome Project, human society has gained much greater insight into our bodies and our health....
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Kronos Quartet coming to the Smith Center
Former artists-in-residence at the University of Maryland, the eclectic classical contemporary group the Kronos Quartet join in concert the famed Malian vocalist Hawa Kasse Mady...
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Cryfest: The Cure vs. The Smiths Dance Party at the Black Cat
The Black Cat hosts Cryfest: The Cure vs. The Smiths, one of its popular DJ-driven battle-of-the-bands dance parties, and this one may actually be a...
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Beaches — from book to movie to musical at Signature
Yes, it’s true: Signature Theatre presents a world premiere musical adapted from the 1985 novel Beaches, best remembered as the 1988 weepy film starring Bette...
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Film notes; Tim’s Vermeer, Amelie and Oscar-nominated shorts
Teller, of the comedy duo Penn & Teller, directs the documentary Tim’s Vermeer, co-produced by the duo’s Penn Jillette, which follows a Texas-based inventor who...
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Get your “Thriller” on with Who’s Bad, a Michael Jackson tribute band
Founded in North Carolina exactly a decade ago, Who’s Bad: The Ultimate Michael Jackson Tribute Band didn’t explode in popularity until after the King of...
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Patti LuPone is coming to talk and sing!
Next week, the gay-popular Broadway veteran Patti LuPone appears onstage at two of D.C.’s best venues. First, Monday, Feb. 17, she’ll be at Sidney Harman...
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Chaise Lounge settles in comfortably at Wolf Trap
The D.C.-based jazz and swing band Chaise Lounge has been a staple at hip martini bars around the area, along with more storied venues such...
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Ann Hampton Callaway’s Valentine to the Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center's main Valentine's Day treat is a romp through love songs from the Great American Songbook and other clever, contemporary originals by lesbian...
