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28th Helen Hayes Awards Nominees Announced
The Oscars maybe in the books but there’s still one more big show in the DC Arts Scene. Tonight the nominations for the 28th annual Helen Hayes Awards were announced in the Helen Hayes Gallery at the National Theatre. Known as one of the country’s most prestigious cultural honors, the awards recognize the best of [...]
More »We Love Arts: Astro Boy and the God of Comics
“Who is Astro Boy? Where did he come from?” That phrase was repeated in an audio loop, flowing over cheerful marching music, while actors furiously drew cartoons of an impending horror. It might as well have been my own question, coming into Astro Boy and the God of Comics at The Studio 2ndStage without any [...]
More »We Love Music Field Trip: Bjork @ New York Hall of Science, 2/18/12
While We Love DC typically focuses on events in the Washington, DC metro area, we sometimes make exceptions for special events that are not coming to the area. Bjork‘s performance on Saturday night at the New York Hall of Science is one of those exceptions. The concert was part of her ten-show New York residency [...]
More »JaVale McGee With Brand New Lowlight In Loss To Kings
Wizards courtesy of erin m It was all going kinda well. After the Wizards’ loss to Miami back on the 10th, the team went on a long road trip and managed to win a couple of games against Detroit and Portland. Then they lost three straight to the LA Clippers, Utah Jazz, and Phoenix Suns. Back in the [...]
More »We Love Arts: Civilization (all you can eat)
Photo: Stan Barouh As the sun rises on the stage of Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company’s “Civilization (all you can eat)”, we are shown a farm full of animals. A group of pigs sleep soundly as dawn breaks. All appears well by the barn. Except this isn’t any ordinary farm- it’s a slaughterhouse. As the pigs [...]
More »We Love Arts: The Language Archive
(Photo: Melissa Blackall) What we have here with Julia Cho’s “The Language Archive” is a failure to communicate. George (Mitchell Hébert) is a master linguist yet doesn’t have the words to convey the thoughts that swirl around in his head and the emotions inside his heart. His wife Mary (Nanna Ingvarsson) has been driven to tears [...]
More »We Love Music: Zola Jesus @ U Street Music Hall, 2/16/12
Synth-chamber-electronic songstress Zola Jesus and her band performed to an enthusiastic crowd at U Street Music Hall Thursday night. They were supported by openers Talk Normal, a female experimental rock duo from Brooklyn who are accompanying them on much of their tour. They are in the midst of a US tour before heading over to Europe [...]
More »On Ted Leonsis, Wizards Bloggers, and Why I Haven’t Written About The Team Recently
Ted Leonsis courtesy of Keith Allison It’s weird when my friends and co-workers walk up to me eager to talk about basketball and the Washington Wizards, because two years ago I didn’t really pay much attention to the team. Now my interest in basketball has risen faster than Jeremy Lin’s jersey sales. In a city [...]
More »Hot Ticket: Zola Jesus @ U Street Music Hall, 2/16/2012
Goth/synthpop princess Zola Jesus will be performing her enchanting, dark tunes Thursday night at U Street Music Hall. She has toured with Fever Ray and The XX, and collaborated with M83, LA Vampires and Burial Hex, among others. Check out her video for “Vessel,” off of her 2011 album Conatus, out on Sacred Bones Records. Zola [...]
More »Q&A with Justin Trawick
Justin Trawick is a local singer-songwriter, band frontman, and musical entrepreneur. In addition to his exhaustive solo performance schedule he has created a series called The 9, that packages nine singer-songwriters into one show, joining their forces to create a theatrical and diverse night of entertainment. We Love DC’s Alexia Kauffman sat down with Justin [...]
More »We Love Arts: Blood Wedding
Somewhere it must be written in a Surrealist manifesto that Death steals every scene. In Constellation Theatre Company‘s production of Blood Wedding, he stalks them too. A shadowy figure swathed in a black tulle hat, his manifestation gradually gains power until at last, veil cast off, he’s revealed as the primal force behind love, lust [...]
More »Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner: Scaling the World
Tonight, Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner takes the stage at the National Geographic Museum. A prolific mountaineer, Ms. Kaltenbrunner is best known for being the first woman to summit all 14 8,000 meter peaks without supplemental oxygen or porters. She was nominated as one of NatGeo’s Adventurers of the Year for 2012. She’ll be talking tonight about her [...]
More »Theatre Spotlight: Really Really
Photo: Scott Suchman Over on their website, this is how Signature Theatre describes their upcoming World Premiere of Really Really by Paul Downs Colaizzo: “At an elite university, when the party of the year results in the regret of a lifetime, one person will stop at nothing to salvage a future that is suddenly slipping [...]
More »LeBron and Wade Go Lob City in Victory Over Wizards
LeBron didn’t put up superstar numbers last night, but showed Washington, DC why he’s one of the NBA’s best. Late in the second quarter Chris Bosh rebounded a missed shot from Nick Young and passed it to James. Racing down the court James passed it to Dwayne Wade who lobbed it up to James for [...]
More »Theatre Spotlight: Peter Pan: The Boy Who Hated Mothers
(Photo courtesy No Rules Theatre Company) The entertainment we are consuming has taken a turn towards the dark side. The likes of Adam West’s Batman and Christopher Reeve’s Superman are long gone, replaced with darker retellings of our classic stories and heroes. Christopher Nolan re-imagined Batman with his Dark Knight trilogy and even Disney, the biggest name behind [...]
More »We Love Music: The Darkness @ 930 Club, 2/8/2012
Tight pants, long hair, moustaches, falsetto and acrobatics abounded onstage Wednesday night at the 930 club. Freddie Mercury would have felt right at home. British glam-rock extravaganza The Darkness blended sex-appeal, silliness and virtuosity into a delicious pop explosion at their sold-out show. They were joined by outrageous openers Foxy Shazam. Cincinnati rockers Foxy Shazam took to the [...]
More »We Love Music: Thurston Moore, Kurt Vile @ Black Cat 2/6/2012
At Monday night’s Black Cat show Thurston Moore dished out jokes about Dischord house, stories about Black Flag, Jello Biafra, conspiracy theories about Jimmy Carter, credited Reagan for the birth of Hardcore, and had a gin & tonic chugging contest with his guitarist. Oh yeah, and played some amazing music too. Moore, frontman of the iconic [...]
More »We Love Music: The Grey Area
Happenstance is what brought The Grey Area together. It was March 2010 when Jason Steinhauer (vocals/guitar) stopped by Zoo Bar for an open blues jam. Drummer Timothy Jones (TJ) was playing with a few other guys on stage at the time, so Steinhauer sat at the bar and waited for his turn to join. It didn’t [...]
More »Listen Local First Launches Kickstarter Campaign to Bring DC Music to SXSW
You may have noticed the signs posted in the front windows of Tryst, Local 16, Solly’s, or maybe even Hello Cupcake. But in case you didn’t , here’s the low down. For the past four months, there’s been a monthly “DC Local Music Day” (FYI: It’s February 8 this month). What is DC Local Music Day? It is the day in which [...]
More »We Love Arts: The Gaming Table
Photo ©Carol Pratt/Folger Theatre It’s a woman’s world out there. Now a days more women than men are attending college and these more educated females are putting off families and earning more money than men. As a late-20′s lost boy, I’m ok with saying that. Folger Theatre’s production of The Gaming Table represents this new [...]
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