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2 weeks ago | 
washingtoncitypaper.com | Serena Zets |Pat Padua |Allison R. Shely |Brandon Wetherbee
Thanks for being a member of City Paper! When Dean Spade wrote his newest book, Love in a F*cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together, he didn’t predict just how fucked up the world would be by its 2025 publication.
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3 weeks ago | 
washingtoncitypaper.com | Steve Kiviat |Will Lennon |Brandon Wetherbee |Allison R. Shely
Thanks for being a member of City Paper! Since the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979, women have been banned from performing solo concerts and performing for mixed gender audiences in the country. Born in the 1970s, Iranian sisters Mahsa Vahdat and Marjan Vahdat grew up in a house with parents who loved the country’s music and poetry.
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4 weeks ago | 
washingtoncitypaper.com | Douglas Corzine |Serena Zets |Allison R. Shely |Stephanie Rudig
Thanks for being a member of City Paper! In his 1917 short film The Immigrant, Charlie Chaplin presented his iconic Little Tramp as a penniless immigrant coming to America by boat. Chaplin’s shorts showcased his ability to celebrate underdogs and imbue the silent film era’s slapstick humor with a new emotional depth, laying the groundwork for full-length masterpieces like Modern Times and one of our favorites here at City Paper, City Lights.
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2 months ago | 
washingtoncitypaper.com | Rebecca Ritzel |Mary Manning |Will Lennon |Brandon Wetherbee |Allison R. Shely
Thanks for being a member of City Paper! DMV choreographers are always moving. Blame the transient nature of D.C.’s job market, which too often pulls artists in and out with their spouses, or area universities that draw MFA students who depart when they graduate. Nejla Yatkin may have moved to Chicago more than a decade ago, but whenever she brings a project back to Dance Place in Brookland, this formerly local dance icon deserves a homecoming party.
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Feb 12, 2025 | 
washingtoncitypaper.com | Serena Zets |Stephanie Rudig |Allison R. Shely |Steve Kiviat
Thanks for being a member of City Paper! Comedian Abby Govindan has been on a sharp, and funny, ascent for the past seven years. If you don’t recognize her name, you’d probably recognize some of her many viral tweets.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
washingtoncitypaper.com | Allison R. Shely
Thanks for being a member of City Paper! With an opening number that promises “Comedy Tonight,” so begins A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Stephen Sondheim’s swords-and-sandals, play-within-a-play musical farce.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
washingtoncitypaper.com | Allison R. Shely
Thanks for being a member of City Paper! Filing into the auditorium for the opening night of Theater J’s Prayer for the French Republic, this reviewer, who is married to a Jew, thought that perhaps this three-hour Jewish family saga about exile and persecution was not the most soothing choice for the night before the 2024 election.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
washingtoncitypaper.com | Steve Kiviat |Stephanie Rudig |Louis Jacobson |Allison R. Shely
Thanks for being a member of City Paper! South Bronx-raised pianist Eddie Palmieri established his musical reputation decades ago by innovatively combining the Afro Caribbean dance music he heard growing up in the 1950s with African American jazz. Now 87, Palmieri continues to love performing live where he often enthusiastically shakes his head and smiles while energetically pounding his fingers and sometimes his forearms and elbows on the keys.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
washingtoncitypaper.com | Allison R. Shely
Thanks for being a member of City Paper! “Welcome, friend: You’re right on time.”This is the motto of Cranberry, a small town in upstate New York, 40 miles from Rochester and worlds away from the bright lights of Manhattan. It’s a motto that seems to mock shy, single Kenneth (Julius Thomas III), who spends his evenings exclusively at Wally’s, a tiki bar, where he exclusively drinks mai tais, exclusively in the company of his one friend, Bert (Frank Britton).
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
washingtoncitypaper.com | Allison R. Shely
Thanks for being a member of City Paper! In a world chock-full of expanded cinematic universes, reboots (gritty or otherwise), and spin-offs, an original premise is hard to find. Soft Power is nothing if not original—but it is also so much more. With Tony-winning team of David Henry Hwang (Yellow Face, M.
