All posts by Randy Shulman
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Chelsea Lately regular Jo Koy returns to The Improv this week
The Chelsea Lately weekly regular is not gay, despite what Chelsea Handler insists. But he sure is funny. Variety even named him one of “10...
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The Washington Chorus celebrates Verdi
Julian Wachner leads The Washington Chorus in its celebration of Giuseppe Verdi in honor of the 200th anniversary of his birth. Sopranos Corinne Winters and...
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Kathy Mattea comes to Sixth & I for an evening of intimate songs
Kathy Mattea, the Grammy-winning Nashville hit-maker from the ’80s and ’90s, has since gone in a more folk and roots-driven direction, including covering classic coal-mining...
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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...
