Last weekend was a bit nippy for a Memorial Day: only the heartiest of lunatic thrill-seeking kids went into the newly opened pools. But this weekend will be a return to the summer swelter we are used to here in the Nation’s Capital. How shall we spend our few free hours? Tonight at the Hill [...]
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There are two weeks left to catch the Folger Theatre’s newest transformed drama, the Conference of the Birds, and there is good reason to make space on your calendar for this production. For one, it’s nothing like what you’d expect from a 12th-century Persian fable. The performance, filled with dance, song, flowing action and a somewhat [...]
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Take a hefty shot of the Jeff Bridges film Crazy Heart, a smidge of Naoimi Wolf, and the Folger Shakespeare Theatre’s charming habit of showing something new in the Bard’s best known plays, and you’ll have the current production of The Taming of the Shrew, running through June 10th. The 10th is coming up soon, [...]
So aside from the opening of The Hunger Games and the long awaited return of Mad Men, how else are you going to amuse yourself this weekend? Tonight head over to The Fridge for To What Strange Place: 78s Listening Session with Ian Nagosaki, Music Researcher. The talk begins at 7pm. Nagosaki is a music researcher, musician, [...]
So here we are: the first weekend of February in the good ol’ U S of A. What is there to do? For starters, there is apparently some fab game going on– they throw this funny-shaped ball back and forth and the players wear tight spandex. I hear it’s pretty good. If you want to [...]
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