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  • 2005 Fall Arts Preview

    By on September 14, 2005

    As summer wanes, the days are getting shorter and the temperatures are getting cooler. And, as regularly as the turning of the leaves, D.C.'s arts...

  • Art Gallery Preview

    By on September 14, 2005

    Arthur M. Sackler Gallery 1050 Independence Ave., SW 202-633-1000 www.asia.si.edu Gold: The Asian Touch -- The influence of gold in Asian art, this exhibit contains...

  • Books Preview

    By on September 14, 2005

    September Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote (Knopf; $16) is the trade paper debut of this decades-encompassing collection of the famed gay...

  • Dance Preview

    By on September 14, 2005

    Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center University of Maryland College Park, Md. 301-405-ARTS www.claricesmithcenter.umd.edu Bebe Miller Dance Company -- The World Premiere of Landing/Place, utilizing motion...

  • Film Preview

    By on September 14, 2005

    Opening dates are tentative. Subject to change at a studio's whim. After all, look what happened to It's Pat.... SEPTEMBER JUST LIKE HEAVEN -- Reese...

  • Pop Music Preview

    By on September 14, 2005

    SEPTEMBER HIGHLIGHTS THE PUSSYCAT DOLLS, responsible for one of summer's biggest hits (''Don't Cha''), are out to prove they're no one-trick kitties. And while the...

  • Stage Preview

    By on September 14, 2005

    ACTORS' THEATRE OF WASHINGTON 202-319-7227 www.atwdc.org Boston Marriage -- David Mamet writes a comedy of manners from the turn of the century with lesbians Claire...

  • Classical Music Preview

    By on September 14, 2005

    Bach Sinfonia 301-362-6525 www.bachsinfonia.org Daniel Abraham Fall Concert -- Georg Frideric Handel's Alexander's Feast, featuring British soprano Amanda Balestrieri, tenor Scot Cameron, bass-baritone Phillip Collister...

  • Rodeo 101

    By on September 7, 2005

    Think of the National Mall as the wide-open plain, Remington's as the local honky-tonk, and summer tourists as cattle. To make the illusion complete, some...

  • Atlantic Stampede Dance Schedule

    By on September 7, 2005

    FRIDAY, SEPT. 9 Line-dance lesson 11:40 p.m. in the Columbia Ballroom Two-step lesson 12:50 a.m. in the Columbia Ballroom SATURDAY, SEPT. 10 Square-dance lesson 1:45...

  • DeBoldly Going

    By on August 31, 2005

    Susan Hester calls Kathleen DeBold ''Mautner's Miracle.'' ''She thinks about the Mautner Project in every waking hour,'' marvels Hester, the lesbian health organization's founding executive...

  • Community Building

    By on August 24, 2005

    Much of metropolitan Washington's community is from elsewhere. Michael Sessa, raised in a thoroughly Italian-American neighborhood in Boston's Revere suburb is no exception. Traces of...

  • Cutting through the Static

    By on August 17, 2005

    F. Scott Fitzgerald was famously wrong in his declaration, ''There are no second acts in American lives.'' Americans, particularly those in the public eye, have...

  • Mama's Mission

    By on August 10, 2005

    Noi Chudnoff inside Go Mama Go! If you drive by too quickly, the sign above the door might look more like ''Go Mango!'' warns Noi...

  • Dynamic Duo

    By on August 3, 2005

    It was the kiss that rocked the Tonys. And pissed off Fred Ebb. ''I thought they made spectacle of themselves, frankly,'' the late Broadway legend...