Arts Roundup: Fort Reno Deja Vu Edition
Another summer, another beef with the National Park Service: Fort Reno is broke again and needs your money to make concerts happen. [Arts Desk] Eating at five D.C. museum cafés [Post] An installation...
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This Year’s Fort Reno Shows, Sponsored by…
It's one of those predictable calamities—the debt ceiling, the annual spooging of the ginkgo trees, fourth and 10 for the Washington football team. June has come and nearly gone, but there's no Fort...
View ArticleArts Roundup: Corp Reno Edition
This year's Fort Reno shows, sponsored by—Catholic University! National Geographic! The Metropolitan Police Department! [Arts Desk] Watch a D.C.-bred jazz singer lay down a cool cover of "Call Me...
View ArticleArts Roundup: “Two Step” Edition
In its second D.C. season ballet company experiments with the old (a live onstage string quartet) and the new (dance improv). [Arts Desk] A local ex-con reviews Orange is the New Black season 3,...
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Here’s Who’s Playing Fort Reno This Year (UPDATE)
Update, 3:40 p.m.: Fort Reno is happening. "We have been gifted enough funds to close the gap for this summer’s session and to seed us a fund for the future," organizer Amanda MacKaye announced on Fort...
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There Was Big Gay News Today, So Listen to Some Queer D.C. Music
The Supreme Court did us a solid today with its marriage equality ruling, and Young & Hungry's Jessica Sidman has a list of restaurants and bars offering gay food and drink specials to help you...
View ArticleArts Roundup: Trolling WSJ Edition
A response to the Wall Street Journal's defense of traditional Shakespeare at the expense of a D.C. theater company [Arts Desk] Listen to a dramatic, sociopolitical roots-reggae track from Thievery...
View ArticleArts Roundup: Ventriloquist Edition
The Kennedy Center is adding three new buildings. Here's what it has planned. [Arts Desk] One of Rik Freeman's earliest murals is set to be destroyed by JBG construction. This weekend, he got an award...
View ArticleArts Roundup: Bacon Bros. Edition
For its last-ever production, the American Century Theater is restaging its first: Twelve Angry Men. [Arts Desk] Photos of Hemlines at Fort Reno [Arts Desk] Watch the new video for "Tru Bless House," a...
View ArticleArts Roundup: Run for Cover’s Return Edition
This Saturday, three years after it last took over the Black Cat's stage, beloved cover-band show Run for Cover returns. [Arts Desk] The Smithsonian's Kickstarter to restore and display Neil...
View ArticleArts Roundup: Silent Disco Edition
Dupont Circle will host its second silent disco dance party next month. [Borderstan] Listen to "Heartless," a jangly, driving tune from Color Palette's forthcoming EP. [Bandwidth] Thoughts on the...
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Should the Smithsonian Use Kickstarter to Fund Its Spacesuit Restoration?
On Monday, the Smithsonian announced a new fundraising initiative for the National Air and Space Museum. The institution, which receives funding from the federal government, seeks to raise $500,000...
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Themed Double-Headers for Fringe’s Last Weekend
This weekend, the Capital Fringe Festival will stage its final scheduled shows. (Some audience favorites, to be announced on July 26, will return next week for encore performances.) Haven’t used your...
View ArticleArts Roundup: Pink Eye Edition
The National Building Museum's giant ball pit is "really fun and a minor public health risk. I just don't want other people to get pink eye." [Arts Desk] Should the Smithsonian be using Kickstarter to...
View ArticleArts Roundup: KenCen Dishonors Edition
At the D.C. Public Library, visitors can record music, laser cut, and 3-D print for free. [Arts Desk] "Art in the Age of Code," an exhibition of visual art made with the help of technology, is kitschy...
View ArticleArts Roundup: Garfield Musical Edition
How Garfield became a brand-new, trippy-looking musical at Adventure Theatre at Glen Echo. [Arts Desk] It's your last chance to see some of Capital Fringe's most popular shows! A few have been extended...
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Shy Glizzy Arrested in Silver Spring
Local rapper Shy Glizzy was arrested in Silver Spring last night. An onlooker captured the arrest in a video on Instagram, which shows Glizzy bent over the hood of a cop car while two officers search...
View ArticleArts Roundup: Free Glizzy Edition
Rapper Shy Glizzy was arrested in Silver Spring on Monday night after a dispute with his girlfriend. Onlookers captured it on video. [Arts Desk] The Phillips Collection has its greatest-hits photo...
View ArticleArts Roundup: InFest Returns Edition
Organizers of this year's In It Together Fest, which starts today, set up an anti-sexual harassment training for all volunteers. [Arts Desk] A call for the National Museum of African Art to remove the...
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To Do Today: Vocal Colors, In It Together Fest, and Nicole Henry
How do you describe a work of visual art through song? This is the challenge facing two members of the Wolf Trap Opera Company, soprano Amy Owens (above) and baritone Morgan Pearse, when they perform...
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