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Music | Sound Bets
Location, Location
As with Bjork’s latest immersive multiplatform work, “Biophilia,” D.C. beatmakers Bluebrain are making music with Apple in mind. But where Bjork’s album is made up of ...
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Grab Bag
Capes and Cupcakes
Noir by Northwest: In five years in D.C., Shaw’s Redeem (1734 14th St. NW; 202-332-7447) has gained a rep for bringing edgy, Cali-meets-CBGB’s style to buttoned-up D.C. Th...
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DC Rider
Time for Action
A little bird tells me that a lot of people have something to say about transit. And a lot of it isn’t so good. Here’s a sampling from Wednesday morning’s tweets about M...
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Home
Brush of Genius
You could say that Brian Lusher’s bedroom has gone over to the dark side. When D.C. interior designer Andy Staszak saw Lusher’s dramatic white headboard and Lily Pulitzer ...
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Dear Manolo | Fashion
Ugg, It’s Cold Out
In mid-November, I’m attending a wedding in Montreal. I already have two pairs of shoes for the ceremony and the reception picked out. However, I need something both stylish...
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Stage | Styles
Face Time: Dana Tai Soon Burgess
In his spare, contemporary dance works, D.C.-based Korean-American choreographer Dana Tai Soon Burgess fuses Eastern and Western traditions, weaving together disparate element...
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Film | The Reelist
A Happy Acc(id)ent
Anyone who seriously studies any kind of art will occasionally be accused of seeing things that aren’t there — I usually hear it as the dismissive “It’s just a MOVIE....
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Film | Riffs
Just Dance
Let’s hear it for the boy! The “Footloose” remake hits screens Friday, so try to shake your groove thing without spilling the popcorn. Kevin Bacon’s original Ren will ...
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Etc. | Sites Unseen
A Labor of Brotherly Love
The George Washington Masonic Memorial is superior to the Washington Monument in many ways. One is that it’s open. “Here’s our earthquake damage,” deadpanned the guide...
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Film
Affirming Images
The landscape of gay culture looks very different today than it did 20 years ago, when Reel Affirmations held its first festival of gay and lesbian films at Georgetown’s now...
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Stage
Procreation Preoccupation
You’re in your late 20s, in a committed relationship, healthy, educated, thoughtful and employed — time to start having babies, right? Or to start agonizing about whether ...
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Film
Big Dance Shoes to Fill
Remember seeing “Footloose” in theaters, back in 1984? The stars of the new “Footloose” remake, opening Friday, don’t. They weren’t born yet. Newcomer Kenny Wormal...
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Books
Racism’s Long Reach
It’s one of the most iconic visual documents of the civil rights era: A young black student walks to school, her eyes hidden behind sunglasses and her books clutched to her ...
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Stage
Still Waiting for the Rapture
Some people escape the banality of everyday life with gaming; others by drinking too much gin. In Samuel Hunter’s dark comedy “A Bright New Boise,” the main character, W...
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Books
Obey the Spirit, Not the Letter
Here are three important things we don’t know about “The Iliad,” the Greek epic poem set during the Trojan War: how much of it is based on fact, whether it was all writt...