All posts by Metro Weekly Contributor
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The Tiers Have Eyes
It's always a good sign when audience members exclaim both ''Hideous!'' and ''Wonderful!'' as the lights come up at intermission. It means something has stirred...
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Sidewalk Stories
Trio restaurant is a venerable Dupont Circle institution, in some ways, perhaps, even more important to the neighborhood than the namesake fountain. From its corner...
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HRC vs. MAM
So many parties, so little time. It's a view easily taken by revelers this fall as two mainstays of the gay social calendar -- the...
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Back on the Saddle
At first I thought it was old-fashioned joking around: I agreed that next July, I would ride a bicycle across the state of Iowa --...
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Primary Pains
To paraphrase a line from the classic Star Trek episode, ''The Trouble with Tribbles,'' one little robocall is not dangerous! Unfortunately, of course, we were...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: Feeling like the long, dark tea-time of the soul? The early autumn blues got you counting angels dancing on the head of a...
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Film
Opening dates are tentative. Subject to change at a studio's whim. SEPTEMBER Gridiron Gang -- The Rock stars as a counselor at a juvenile detention...
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Stage and Theater
ACTORS' THEATRE OF WASHINGTON 202-319-7227 www.atwdc.org Never the Sinner -- John Logan's ''docu-drama'' about 1924's infamous Leopold and Loeb case, in which two young heirs...
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Pop, Folk and Jazz Music
THE BARNS AT WOLF TRAP 1645 Trap Road Vienna, Va. 703-255-1900 www.wolf-trap.org The Nields (10/7) · John Gorka (10/14) · The John Cowan Band (10/19)...
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Classical and Choral Music
BACH SINFONIA 301-362-6525 www.bachsinfonia.org Henry Purcell -- Dido and Aeneas (10/28, Woodside United Methodist Church, Silver Spring, Md.) · From Shakespeare to the Sephardim --...
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Dance
CLARICE SMITH PERFORMING ARTS CENTER University of Maryland College Park, Md. 301-405-ARTS www.claricesmithcenter.umd.edu Limón Dance Company -- The company honors the memory of legendary choreographer...
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Art Museums & Galleries
ARTHUR M. SACKLER GALLERY 1050 Independence Ave. SW 202-633-1000 www.asia.si.edu Perspectives: Simryn Gill -- The first major exhibit in the U.S. of contemporary Singapore-born artist...
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Readings & Lectures
HILLWOOD MUSEUM & GARDENS 4155 Linnean Ave. NW 202-686-8500 www.hillwoodmuseum.org Geometry in the Garden: The French Formal Style and Its Influence -- Using Hillwood's French...
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Winter's Tale
If Adam Rapp were to compose a suicide note, he may as well point to his script for Red Light Winter and call it a...
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Different Strokes
It's hard to believe that folk-pop mainstays the Indigo Girls have been recording together for twenty years, but then again, who can imagine a summer...
