Updated: Wed, May 22, 2013

ARTS IN MOTION In trying to define the unique attributes of Rosslyn, the city has hosted a discussion series called Rooms With A View. This year's focuses on Rosslyn as a center of art, technology and entrepreneurship: "a place of global business and connection." Thursday evening, arts...

Marie Gullard

Published: Wed, May 22, 2013

Both romance and high energy are hallmarks in Saturday evening's Baltimore Symphony Orchestra concert at the Music Center at Strathmore. Under the baton of highly popular Spanish conductor Carlos Kalmar, the program features Prokofiev's Selections from "Romeo and Juliet," Narong Prangcharoen's...

Published: Wed, May 22, 2013

Best Music 1. "A Prairie Home Companion": The Wolf Trap season opens with Garrison Keillor and his radio variety show cast featuring his monologue, "The News from Lake Wobegon." Where: Wolf Trap Filene Center, 1551 Trap Road, Vienna When: 8 p.m. Friday, 5:45 p.m. sharp Saturday Info:...

Scott Greenberg

Published: Wed, May 22, 2013

Last week, while reviewing delicious white wines from the state of Washington, I pointed out that the state's wine industry has been on a proverbial tear for the last several years. But Washington is not new to the wine-making game. The state's wine history can be traced back to the early 19th...

Nancy Dunham

Published: Wed, May 22, 2013

Shooter Jennings had the best relationship possible with his father, the late Waylon Jennings, but he has no need to try to reinvent himself in the country star's image. Certainly, the younger Jennings has more than dabbled in outlaw country lifestyle. He can be heard on the 2006 release "Live...

Elizabeth Larner

Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

Melissa takes on new role: Bouncer Melissa McCarthy is taking a leaf out of Donald Trump's book. The actress-turned-director -- who's co-directing her first film, "Tammy," with husband Ben Falcone, also a first-time director -- said, "You're fired!" to an extra on her movie set Monday, TMZ...

Updated: Tue, May 21, 2013

STORY OF ODDS It was only two years ago when 32-year-old Jessica Buchanan was kidnapped while working for a humanitarian NGO in Somalia. She was teaching communities how to avoid land mines and unexploded munitions when a group of Somali pirates kidnapped her at gunpoint and held her for $45...

Nikki Schwab

Updated: Tue, May 21, 2013

"It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington." - What Carol Burnett had to say upon hearing the news that she was to be awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor from the Kennedy Center. Burnett will be feted Oct. 20 in Washington, with the gala performance being...

Emily Cary

Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

When violinist Amy Schroeder and cellist Andrew Yee began thinking about a name for the quartet they founded at the Juilliard School of Music, they started with "a" in the musical dictionary. They did not search far before deciding on Attacca, which refers to the direction at the end of a...

Elizabeth Larner

Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

Paris' boyfriend is hands-on Despite his lanky frame, Paris Hilton's boyfriend, 21-year-old model River Viiperi, would make a good bodyguard. The couple had to fight through crowds of fans and paparazzi to get to a party in Cannes, France, on Friday, and when one female fan got too touchy...