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Grace Potter & The Nocturnals
Grace Potter has a killer voice she’s a small-town girl from upper Vermont (she has a locally…
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Petty Party
Combining peanut butter and chocolate was a great idea. So too is making sure to have a beer…
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DJ Pauly D
Guidos and guidettes, get ready to beat up the beat: Jersey Shore reality television star Pauly D is…
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The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger
A few years ago, model and musician Charlotte Kemp Muhl met a young fellow with a familiar-sounding last…
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Duel of the Linguist Mages
In Scotto Moores new sci-fi comedy, two corporate market researchers have discovered the extraordinary potential of “morphemes,” the…
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Crooked
In Catherine Trieschmanns 2004 London and off-Broadway crowd-pleaser, the small world of a slightly deformed girl, her mother,…
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Ming Wong: Life of Imitation
The central conceit to young Singapore artist Ming Wong’s video installations in Life of Imitation sounds like the…
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The Barber of Seville
Seattle Opera offers two Count Almavivas in its two casts performing Rossini’s classic. Lawrence Brownlee sings his coloratura…
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Secretary
Based on a 1989 short story by Mary Gaitskill, Secretarys oddly affirmative tale is one of private pathology…
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Bright Star
Set in the bucolic suburbs of early-19th-century London, as fresh and dewy as a newly mowed lawn, Jane…
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The African Queen
In The African Queen, you get Katharine Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, their little boat, and a very hokeybut very…
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Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
When Balagan Theatre nabbed the rights to Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog last year, the fringe troupe felt lucky…
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Cedar Rapids
Until he pulled out his own tooth as the repressed dentist in The Hangover, Ed Helms wasn’t a…
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Steven Spielbergs 1977 sci-fi flick Close Encounters of the Third Kind still holds up pretty well. Some find…
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In the Mood for Love
In Wong Kar-wais lushly romantic 2000 portrayal of adultery in early 60s Hong Kong, the actual moment of…
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The A.W.A.R.D. Show!
From Queen for a Day to Dancing With the Stars, we love the crass combination of culture and…
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Tom Rachman
The Imperfectionists portrays a group of English-language journalists at a declining Italian newspaper and begs several questions: Is…
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The K of D, an Urban Legend
In her Ohio ghost story, first staged two years ago at Balagan Theatre, playwright Laura Schellhardt’s storytelling prowess…
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Edmund Morris
In their post-presidential retirements, George W. Bush has written a memoir and Bill Clinton redeemed himself as a…
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Dwelling on the Past
The cutest art exhibit there ever was, Dwelling on the Past features artists who often appear on Etsy.com…