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  • Books Preview

    By on September 10, 2003

    As always, the bookstores promise to overflow this fall with books galore, offering a respite from the terrifying reign of the beach books. Well, perhaps...

  • Art Preview

    By on September 10, 2003

    Arthur M. Sackler Gallery 1050 Independence Ave SW 202-357-2700 www.asia.si.edu Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventure -- The first major exhibition to survey the artistic traditions of...

  • Dance Preview

    By on September 10, 2003

    CLARICE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER University of Maryland College Park 301-405-ARTS www.claricesmithcenter.umd.edu FOOTWORKS PERCUSSIVE DANCE ENSEMBLE and STEP AFRIKA! -- Two locally-based groups present Soulmates, exploring...

  • Film Preview

    By on September 10, 2003

    SEPTEMBER HIGHLIGHTS CABIN FEVER -- A flesh-eating virus devours a group of campers in this eagerly awaited horror flick from director Eli Roth. Talk about...

  • Classical Music Preview

    By on September 10, 2003

    The Barns of Wolf Trap Vienna, Va. 703-218-6500 www.wolftrap.org Jim Brickman -- The popular romantic singer returns for an intimate engagement (10/22 & 10/23)… Karla...

  • Pop and Dance Music Preview

    By on September 10, 2003

    September Highlights 9/16: Aretha Franklin releases her first album in five years today, So Damn Happy (Arista). The title sounds a bit forced, and her...

  • Stage Preview

    By on September 10, 2003

    ACTORS' THEATRE OF WASHINGTON 1835 14th Street NW www.atwdc.org LILIES -- Jeffrey Johnson directs this compelling gay romantic drama set in a boy's school in...

  • Professing Love

    By on September 10, 2003

    Once every few months, or so it seemed, I would find myself in my college adviser's office, telling him how, really, it would make so...

  • RAVE On

    By on September 10, 2003

    Photographs by Todd Franson ''Power to the People Who Party!'' was the battle cry on Saturday at Upper Senate Park as approximately 2,000 people gathered...

  • Environs

    By on September 10, 2003

    Shake what your momma gave ya! 1 BR, 2 BA condo loft in Adams Morgan with open spaces perfect for unwinding, relaxing, and filling with...

  • Mixed Memories

    By on September 10, 2003

    Had she not perished forty years ago in a plane crash, legendary country singer Patsy Cline would have been 71 this week. At the time...

  • Brothers, Sisters and Worms

    By on September 10, 2003

    It's safe to assume that Suzan-Lori Parks is obsessed with Abraham Lincoln. Not only did she examine his assassination in various colors in 1993's The...

  • Soundwaves

    By on September 10, 2003

    POP POWER PRODUCERS… When a pop star needs a hit, she turns to a hit-making pop producer. A pop producer does basically the same work...

  • Sugar and Spicy

    By on September 10, 2003

    ''I hear this wah-wah-wah in my head, '' giggles Tracy. ''It's your brain cells popping, '' her friend Evie, giggles back, before taking another hit...

  • TV Preview

    By on September 10, 2003

    NBC The Ellen DeGeneres Show -- She's baaaaccck! This time in her very own talk show. Ellen DeGeneres is returning to the little screen (after...

  • Horsing Around

    By on September 3, 2003

    When a one-ton bucking bull is tossing you around a rodeo arena like a rag doll, who's the clown you want watching your back? Ronald...

  • Country Siren

    By on September 3, 2003

    What is it about Canada that produces such amazing country artists? Maybe it's the wide open spaces. Or maybe it's just the cleaner, crisper air....

  • ASGRA's 2003 Atlantic Stampede

    By on September 3, 2003

    Friday, September 5 Hyatt Regency Stampede Jamboree Admission: $15 9pm-2am Entertainment includes DJ John Stypa, DJ Dawn Clokey, DJ Stan Slutter, the stand-up comedy of...

  • Call to Arts

    By on September 3, 2003

    With 27 in the downtown area alone, it's amazing that most people never notice them. Standing there empty and impotent like silent sentinels whose days...

  • Ordinary Pekar

    By on September 3, 2003

    American Splendor is a stunning achievement, a work of such magnificent ingenuity and so abundantly rich with heart and soul, that it is impossible not...