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Works by Arcimboldo at the National Gallery of Art
Arcimboldo, 1526-1593: Nature and Fantasy features 16 examples of the fantastic composite heads painted by Arcimboldo in their first appearance in the United States. Through...
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Folding Unfolding: Collider at Artisphere
Folding Unfolding: Collider is an interactive exhibition/installation, featuring 3D replications of basic seed crystals, such as borax, gypsum and quartz, from the collaborative team of...
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The Seldom Scene at The Birchmere
Formed nearly 40 years ago in Bethesda, the progressive bluegrass band Seldom Scene remains especially popular in its hometown region. They appear tonight in a...
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Cyndi Lauper at the 9:30 Club
The feisty and fun Cyndi Lauper? She’s got the blues? Well, yes, of sorts. On the all-covers Memphis Blues, her 11th studio set released earlier...
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AFI celebrates Hitchcock’s Psycho
For one week only, the American Film Institute’s Silver Theatre screens a new 35mm print of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho in honor of its 50th anniversary....
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Jennifer Holliday in concert with the NSO Pops
Marvin Hamlisch conducts the pops in a concert with Jennifer Holliday, the mammoth-voiced Tony Award winner performing hits from Dreamgirls — yes, including that song,...
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Candide at The Shakespeare Theatre
The Shakespeare Theatre Company’s first musical theater performance at Sidney Harman Hall comes with this magnificent comic operetta, boasting music by Leonard Bernstein (West Side...
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I Love the 80s at Jammin Java
Under the banner I Love the ’80s, local songwriters Todd Wright, Anthony Fiacco, Shane Hines and Luke Brindley play hits and share stories of the...
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Outspoken, Ep. 15: Thanksgiving Edition [video]
To honor the holiday, we present a special Thanksgiving edition of Outspoken. It was filmed on Wednesday, Nov. 24 at Food & Friends as the...
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Finding Home
In less than 24 hours, as I write this, my frenetic holiday season will begin. I don't mean that in a ''Woe is me, the...
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Uplifting Lineage
Some important news last week brightened an otherwise frustrating season for gay rights: The Department of Health and Human Services issued rules requiring hospitals that...
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Counting the Votes
Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced that the long-awaited Pentagon working group report on the implementation of a repeal of ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' will be...
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Transgender Needs
Ten years ago, a ''needs assessment survey'' was undertaken by local activists to collect data regarding the city's transgender community. That survey has been used...
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Family Care
It's unlikely you ever met the late Carl Vogel. If you've seen his playwright sister Paula Vogel's Obie-winning Baltimore Waltz, you may have at least...
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Bold Confession
The surest way for any theater critic to cover his ass is to say that a certain play or musical ''will mean different things to...
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The Elf Word
''I'm not the happy elf,'' says Michael Rupert. ''I'm the grouchy elf.'' He's talking about his role in Adventure Theatre's The Happy Elf. ''I play...
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Blues Alley
Cyndi Lauper calls for greater LGBT activism as her cure for the blues. ''Everybody should be active right now. Everybody should be helping in any...
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Indestructible Pop
“I got a little girl singing on repeat in my head, oh-oh,” Robyn sings, on the wicked tune “None of Dem.” For much of 2010,...
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Scottish Muse
''I've always been a very, very vivid dreamer,'' says singer-songwriter KT Tunstall. ''It's a great source of interest for me.'' Dreams inspired Tunstall's first...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: You have the power. You have the drive. You have the wherewithal. What are you waiting for? If you procrastinate a little longer,...
