Luis Silva seems to be cycling through the cultural artifacts of contemporary childhood. The last time he showed at G Fine Art was in 2006 with a show called "Little Monsters," which featured a variety of “soft sculpture”—stuffed animals that straddled... »
In May 2001, Lookout! Records released The Tyranny of Distance, the sophomore album by Ted Leo & The Pharmacists. Until then, the project had been a solo project by Leo, a D.C. scene veteran and former frontman of mod-punk act Chisel. Leo had just ente... »
Electronic music is mainstream in America now. The ascendancy of dubstep, the neo-rave culture surrounding acts such Deadmau5, and the warm embrace of high BPMs by hip-hop has given teens in suburban shopping malls vital access to big beats. But that d... »
What lessons to draw from last night's Helen Hayes Awards at the Warner Theatre? There were only two ties—compare that to five in 2011. And no company dominated outright—although Synetic, with its four wins, and Signature, with its five, are the evenin... »
Signature Theatre's Hairspray took home fives prizes at last night's 28th Helen Hayes Awards—including one of the biggest, the honor for outstanding resident musical.The other top award—for outstanding resident play—went to Arena Stage's production of ... »
Food politics, in recent years, has mainly been a preoccupation of the left. We liberals thrill to Morgan Spurlock’s cinematic pantsing of McDonald’s and Eric Schlosser’s searing indictment of big agriculture’s labor practices. It’s Democratic politica... »
No judgements here. Lumen8 Anacostia—the first of four "Temporium" initiatives that D.C.'s Office of Planning is funding through a $250,000 ArtPlace grant—opens this weekend with a 12-hour fete, and I'm eager to see how it plays out. Art parties, like ... »
In which one of our art critics highlights a favorite work on view in a local gallery. Luis Silva's newest works at G Fine Art are inspired by a fable he authored while simultaneously working on the paintings, all annoyingly "untitled." At its root, th... »
Since the soundtrack to most yoga classes consists of sitar jams and songs in the vein of Dido, the Bluebrain-accompanied yoga gathering on the National Mall Saturday already had a competitive advantage over any other midmorning practice in D.C. due to... »
As is just about theatrical custom in this town, The Washington Post got the first pass at StudioTheatre's 2012-2013 season announcement, which begins Sept. 5 with an adaptation of Ralph Ellison's classic novel of race, racism, politics, and group and ... »
The National Symphony Orchestra announces a June tour of Las Americas. [Post] Bob Woodward: The Internet is not "a magic lantern" that lights up scandals. [Post] The irksome Washington Post Social reader, which tells all your Facebook friends you've be... »
San Francisco's Andre Nickatina almost sounds like an MC from '90s Los Angeles. He's a fan of the high-living misogynist gangster narrative, loaded with bombastic tales of cash flaunted, cocaine dealt, and women slapped. But fans of the longtime Fillmo... »
Renate Aller’s previous show at Adamson Gallery—a decade's worth of sea-and-sky photographs taken from the same point on southern Long Island—was rousing success, offering hyper-real portrayals within ever-changing atmospheric conditions. But Aller's n... »
Jane Fonda has been cast to play Nancy Reagan in The Butler, the forthcoming movie based on Wil Haygood's touching 2008 story about longtime White House butler Eugene Allen. [Hollywood Reporter] Discovery is readying a documentary about White House chi... »
Washingtonians should sure feel grateful for Yukio Ozaki, the Tokyo mayor who gave us 3,000 cherry trees back in 1912. If he hadn’t, would the leaders of our city have come up with such a reliable scam to lure millions of people here every spring to sp... »
