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Further proof this year's awards season is on something akin to performance enhancing drugs? Michael Cieply's piece in the New York Times about the historical accuracy of presumed Best Picture front-runner "12 Years A Sl...

Nobody expected Godspeed You! Black Emperor to show up at the Polaris Music Prize Gala on Monday night -- which their album "Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend" wound up winning in one of the Canadian music award's ever-unpre...

"New Plays From Spain," a collaboration among Spain Arts & Culture, Studio Theatre, No Rules Theatre Company and Theater Alliance, will bring the newly translated work of Spanish playwrights to the District.

The applications are in for the City of Philadelphia's next poet laureate. The two-year term of Sonia Sanchez, the city's inaugural poet laureate, concludes at the end of 2013. The appointment of the next poet laureate i...

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From Will Cotton's studio. All pictures courtesy of Sarah Trigg.

Word to the wise: Careful when parking at the Swiss embassy. After the annual "Soiree Suisse" in Woodley Park, some of the 1,300 guests found $100 tickets on their windshields. We're told that during the party, three D.C...

Vanessa Redgrave is headed to ABC's "The Black Box." According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Oscar winner has joined the series as Dr. Hartramph, psychiatrist to Elizabeth Black's (Kelly Reilly) renowned neuroscientist,...

Sept. 24 was Jim Henson's birthday. Were he still alive, the puppeteer extraordinaire would have turned 77. Though the brilliant creator of The Muppets, "Sesame Street" and "Fraggle Rock" is no longer with us, his vibran...

The Metropolitan Opera opened its new season last night with a champagne gala inside the house, a packed Lincoln Center Plaza to watch on TV outside, and angry protests both inside and outside against Russia's oppression...

Lifetime has cancelled "Army Wives," ending the series after seven seasons. To wrap up the series, Lifetime will air a two-hour retrospective special to air early next year. "There is no denying how special 'Army Wives' ...

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Cote de Pablo's mysterious exit from "NCIS" has been one of the strangest TV stories of the summer. CBS CEO Les Moonves has said that they offered de Pablo "a lot" of money to stay, but they weren't able to reach a deal....

It has been 13 years since Metallica took on Napster in a landmark moment for music, and the band's drummer, Lars Ulrich, says that while he still believes in his position in the dispute, he never expected the battle to ...

RETURNING SHOW: Last year, on the finale of "Revolution" (NBC at 8 p.m.), the group was able to turn on the power after journeying to the tower -- but as they'll see in the second-season opener, that move has big consequ...

NEW YORK -- NEW YORK (AP) -- Sony Pictures will make a raunchy, R-rated animated film written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg titled "Sausage Party." The project was announced Tuesday by Sony, which is co-financing the f...

Did Zach Braff ruin crowdfunding for you? Well, it's time to get over it, because there are plenty of truly independent artists and entrepreneurs out there using it in brilliant ways. Need proof? Take a look at the new s...

He's done it before at various appearances over the years, but now at least we can show you Bono's impression of his pal Bill Clinton, as demonstrated today at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York. It is at least as...

Three years after the Kings of Leon's last record, the edgy, gravely rock foursome return in top shape with "Mechanical Bull." The album takes the band's unique sound – the recognizable longing guitars and Caleb Follow...

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A few months ago, a former student of mine contacted me. At the Rhode Island School of Design, my conversations with her had been lively and positive, and revolved around honing her technique while also developing her id...

Kanye West recently took time to chat with Zane Lowe, a DJ for BBC's Radio 1, touching on everything from his latest album "Yeezus" to the animated film "Wreck-It Ralph." The second part of the interview made its way onl...