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June 18, 2013

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  • Former 'The Voice' contestant hits Arena Stage

    By Alicia M. Cohn | 06/09/13 06:25 PM

    "One Night with Janis Joplin," a concert-as-theatre tribute to the iconic singer, is headed back to the District, where it sold out Arena Stage in its first run last fall. A few newbies joined the cast just in time to experience a D.C. summer, such as Kim Yarbrough, best known nationally as a...

  • D.C. stereotypes provide fodder for new urban sketch comedy

    By Alicia M. Cohn | 06/06/13 05:20 PM

    Holly "Holly Hood" Veney and Tiffany "Muhla Green" Harris, sisters and Montgomery County natives, hope to be the next Wayans Brothers with their new D.C.-based sketch comedy "The Show," premiering Saturday on WDCW Channel 50. The sisters created, produced and star in the urban sketch comedy,...

  • Jennifer Lopez headed to the District

    By Alicia M. Cohn | 06/06/13 04:55 PM

    Jennifer Lopez is headed to the District next week to discuss her new cable venture. Lopez will speak on the final day of the Cable Show, an annual convention for digital media, entertainment and broadband industry professionals hosted by the National Cable & Telecommunications Association...

  • Jim Gaffigan stands up for parenthood at D.C. comedy stop

    By Alicia M. Cohn | 06/05/13 05:25 PM

    As a student at Georgetown University, Jim Gaffigan once claimed to be a reporter for Washingtonian Magazine to get into a reggae concert for free. It worked, and he even met the band, the comedian confessed Tuesday night to a crowded main auditorium at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue. He...

  • Barry Manilow, TV singers headline Capitol Fourth concert

    By Alicia M. Cohn | 06/05/13 04:35 PM

    Let freedom belt it out: Barry Manilow, "American Idol"-winning country singer Scotty McCreery, "Glee" star Darren Criss, "Smash" and Broadway star Megan Hilty and young classical singer Jackie Evancho will sing for the District on Independence Day at this year's Capitol Fourth concert. John...

  • Maggie Gyllenhaal joins D.C.'s healthy food movement

    By Alicia M. Cohn | 06/04/13 04:45 PM

    Get ready for more Maggie Gyllenhaal in the District. Not only will she be in town later this month to promote her new D.C.-set disaster movie, "White House Down," this week the actress officially joined the advisory board for the nonprofit DC Greens. Gyllenhaal, who lives in Brooklyn, N.Y.,...

  • Speakeasy: Hillary Clinton unveils dream reality TV show

    By Alicia M. Cohn | 06/04/13 03:55 PM

    "[N]ow that I have some more time on my hands, I am going to be pitching Andy [Cohen] and others on a new show for Bravo, to sort of fill that gap that is so apparent to some of us. ... We could call it 'Project Pantsuit.' " - Hillary Clinton's sartorial joke at the Council of Fashion...

  • 'Nashville' stars sing for Condi Rice, Bill Russell

    By Alicia M. Cohn | 06/03/13 05:15 PM

    "Nashville" is having a moment ... in the District. Sam Palladio and Clare Bowen, singing duo Gunnar and Scarlett on ABC's country music drama, visited D.C. for the first time last weekend to perform at the annual Ford's Theatre Gala and wound up meeting President Obama and Michelle Obama at the...

  • Sightings: Bradley Cooper, Glenn Close at the White House

    By Alicia M. Cohn | 06/03/13 03:40 PM

    Bradley Cooper visited the White House on Monday for a discussion about negative attitudes toward mental illness. Actress Glenn Close, who founded Bring Change 2 Mind partly in reaction to her sister's bipolar diagnosis, was also a panelist. President Obama said in his remarks that the...

  • Ralph Nader urges D.C. statehood activists to lobby reps at restaurants

    By Alicia M. Cohn | 06/02/13 04:55 PM

    Ralph Nader's fan base is getting older, but it can still pack a bookstore. Thursday, the five-time presidential candidate read excerpts from his new book, "Told You So: The Big Book of Weekly Columns," at Politics & Prose Bookstore for a wonky, standing-room-only crowd that laughed at his...


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