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Jul 19, 2024 | 
washingtoncitypaper.com | Brandon Wetherbee |Christina Smart |Sarah Marloff |Colleen Kennedy
Thanks for being a member of City Paper! Pinky Lemon’s Pinky Hell is over long before you can get tired of that much pink. The six-song EP, which came out June 27, avoids what most every shoegaze and shoegaze-adjacent band does by wrapping things up quickly. Every track is under 4 minutes, 35 seconds long, most songs are near the 3-minute mark, and each has the potential to be twice as long. The “long” song on the record is actually two songs that share a track.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
washingtoncitypaper.com | Colleen Kennedy
Thanks for being a member of City Paper! “Nine artists, nine composers, nine choreographers, one GMCW” is how Thea Kano, the artistic director of the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, introduces the group’s almost-Olympic undertaking for its upcoming performance Portraits. The groundbreaking and multidisciplinary project is a nine-movement oratorio, featuring commissioned visual artworks brought to life by original music and dance performances.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
washingtoncitypaper.com | Serena Zets |Will Lennon |Colleen Kennedy |Christina Smart |Heidi Pérez-Moreno
Thanks for being a member of City Paper! City Lights welcomes you to Pride Month. As per usual you’ll find our regularly scheduled event previews below, but if you’re looking for something a little—or a lot—more queer, check out Blvck Hippie below along with the first half of City Paper’s 2024 Pride Guide. For parade and festival lovers, this is the weekend. You can get all the details for Capital Pride at capitalpride.org.
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May 29, 2024 | 
washingtoncitypaper.com | Stephanie Rudig |Steve Kiviat |Colleen Kennedy |Brandon Wetherbee |Michael West |Heidi Pérez-Moreno
Thanks for being a member of City Paper! This weekend offers an opportunity to hear Brazilian masters of guitar from two different generations, who each bring their own unique songcraft touches: Yamandu Costa and João Bosco. Costa, 44 is a Latin Grammy-winning instrumentalist who plays a seven-string acoustic guitar rather than the customary six-string model.
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May 20, 2024 | 
dctheaterarts.org | Colleen Kennedy |Maryland. Previously
Everyman Theatre closes its season with an enchanting and jubilant adaptation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Expertly directed with pizzazz by Associate Artistic Director Noah Himmelstein, this must-see production’s novel concept by adapter Gavin Witt is brilliantly realized through the thoughtful work of dramaturg Robyn Quick. The induction scene begins as four folks (three Resident Company members, Deborah Hazlett, Bruce Randolph Nelson, Jefferson A.
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May 15, 2024 | 
washingtoncitypaper.com | Brandon Wetherbee |Colleen Kennedy |Christina Smart |Dora Segall
Thanks for being a member of City Paper! Jeff Draco’s newest single, out May 31, begins in the same vein as MACHINA-era Smashing Pumpkins before segueing into a War on Drugs meets Vampire Weekend radio-friendly shifter. There’s some guitar layering that leans in to the atmospheric but there’s also quite a bit of pop radio shine that has the potential to get Draco on Spotify playlists with fellow DMVers SHAED.
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May 8, 2024 | 
washingtoncitypaper.com | Serena Zets |Heidi Pérez-Moreno |Colleen Kennedy |Brandon Wetherbee |Hannah Docter-Loeb
Thanks for being a member of City Paper! Even as the world becomes increasingly digital, zines (small-circulation magazines) persist as a common method of information dissemination and storytelling. In recent years, political movements have used zines to counter online disinformation and surveillance tactics and people across the globe have turned to zine creation to document their experiences with the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
washingtoncitypaper.com | Ella Feldman |Michael West |Joe Warminsky |Christina Smart |Colleen Kennedy |Brandon Wetherbee
Thanks for being a member of City Paper! Though I haven’t had the pleasure of confirming this, I imagine HARDC0RE DR3AMZ is best listened to while wearing a bikini and drugged-up on a dance floor, preferably in a Berlin nightclub or, if possible, aboard a cruise ship.
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
washingtoncitypaper.com | Steve Kiviat |Coley Gray |Colleen Kennedy |Serena Zets |Allison R. Shely
Thanks for being a member of City Paper! The 50th annual DC History Conference will offer presentations from historians, journalists, graduate students, and current and former area residents with specialized knowledge on the myriad aspects of D.C. life from the 1700s to the present. Thursday night, April 4, the event kicks off with a discussion on the 1968 uprising following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. between the Atlantic’s senior editor Vann R.
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Mar 24, 2024 | 
dctheaterarts.org | Colleen Kennedy |Maryland. Previously
A love of literature, a sense of community and collegiality, a few glasses of wine and a cheese board: these are the essentials of a good book club, but they don’t necessarily make for good drama. But in DC playwright Karen Zacarías’ The Book Club Play directed with warmth and good humor by Laura Kepley, now onstage at Everyman Theatre in Baltimore, the addition of a documentary camera and a new member creates chaos and comedy.
