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Set your alarms and start cutting coupons: it's time for Black Friday. The yearly celebration of shopping is here again, which means long lines at stores, insanity at malls, and deals on top of deals. In preparation for ...

Reggie "Polo" Burwell, the pioneering local musician responsible for popularizing the "bounce beat" go-go sound, died on Tuesday morning at Saint Thomas More Medical Complex, a nursing and rehabilitation center in Hyatts...

"Glee" star Lea Michele has revealed the title of her debut album and the name of the record's first single. Michele took to Twitter to unveil the news: The single, written by Sia, is called "Cannonball," while the album...

There comes a time in our lives where the responsibility to prepare and present a holiday feast for family and friends falls onto our shoulders. Some, in fact, may take on the daunting task of carving their first Thanksg...

I am not one to ordinarily write theater reviews, but I have just seen a play that is so worthy of acknowledgment that I feel compelled to call attention it -- particularly as it is a smaller, less publicized production ...

Eminem has released the music video for "Rap God," the third single off his recent album, "The Marshall Mathers LP 2." The video serves as a tribute to Max Headroom, the fictional artificial intelligence TV host, who was...

The sign on the doorknob said "Privacy Please," and yet the turkeys had none. Visitors were regular. Photos were incessant. Woodchips spilled into the hallway, and if that wasn't a giveaway, then the occasional gobblegob...

Catalyst Projects, in Brookland's new Monroe Street Market, is not a big place. But its current show, "Exposure: Experiments in Photography" covers a lot of territory. It includes six artists, four of them local, whose w...

Evan Rachel Wood co-stars with Shia LaBeouf in "Charlie Countryman," an indie drama that earned an R-rating from the Motion Picture Association of America because of "some brutal violence, language throughout, sexuality/...

One Direction, "Midnight Memories" (Columbia) What's the mother of the average American tween to do as the holidays approach? Miley has twerked her way out of the stocking, for sure. Justin Bieber invites too many questi...

The breakout star of the National Zoo, the recently born female giant panda cub, is finally getting a name. Millions of people have tuned into the zoo's ever-popular online "panda cam," and more than 115,000 people cast ...

The Scandinavian region of the world is famous for its Northern lights and snowy winter scenes, synonymous with Christmas. While Scandinavian design can come across as stark and modern, there's also a cozy, bright side t...

The Greek economic crisis, is, among other things, a crisis of confidence. Investors, worried about the country's finances, pulled out their capital, and in doing so drove up interest rates and drove down the Greek econo...

    For art lovers, there was more depressing news out of Detroit last night. The Detroit Free Press reported another move on the chaotic chess board of the Detroit bankruptcy case, this time one that could affect the ...

Who knew Baryshnikov was a theater kid? Growing up in Riga, Latvia, little Misha was introduced to the world of drama by his culture-vulture mom, Alexandra. "When I was 5 or 6, my mother used to drag me around to the the...

Washington is rich in art museums, but with one salient gap, the want of what is known as a kunsthalle. The German word means literally art gallery but the meaning is more specific: A space used not for a permanent art c...

If you absolutely loved "The Hobbit" and also "Mean Girls," well, then you have very wide-ranging and eclectic tastes in movie genres. More specifically, though, if you loved both (and even if you enjoyed only one), then...

With awards season kicking into higher gear, even movies like "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues" want a slot in the golden derby. As first noticed by Indiewire's The Playlist, Paramount Pictures' awards site has "Anchor...

Imagine this: It's Thanksgiving morning and you've probably just embarked on what will be a marathon day of chopping, slicing, stuffing and basking until the sweet smells of roasted turkey (or tofurkey) float through you...

The week of Thanksgiving is in full force here in the United States, so we imagine that many of our readers are currently in the process of preparing for an enormous, multi-course meal surrounded by friends and family of...

"Creativity is no longer an elective. It's the future," says Adobe. Not long ago Adobe released an international research study revealing the state of creativity in education, and the economic consequences for business a...

If I had it my own way, the television would be off throughout all holidays, then we'd sneak in a late movie: something elegant and classic, and preferably black and white. This however, is a very unrealistic view of how...