Paul Simon, One Last Time at Wolf Trap
Photo: Bryan Murphy, courtesy of Wolf Trap It was about the middle of Paul Simon’s set at the Wolf Trap Tuesday when the news alert came across phones — Simon…
The Jayhawks at The Lincoln Theatre
There is a steadiness and reliability to the Jayhawks’ music — melodic, often wistful, with jangly guitar, keening harmonies and a solid beat. While frontman Gary Louris is fiddling more…
Theatre Review: ‘Static’ at Source Festival
“Static” is just the kind of play you might expect from a former longtime sound theatrical sound designer. But author Tom Horan is also an accomplished playwright, which sort of…
The Heavy’s Night Off at The 9:30
It’s not easy being an opener on a big arena tour — the act nobody came to see, playing a fraction of your set to a half-empty barn as people…
Rock Review: Petty Returns to Mudcrutch
It’s interesting to speculate what inspired Tom Petty to go back to his original, unsuccessful Gainesville band. Nostalgia for the old days? A pang of guilt at leaving his buddies…
Review: Iris DeMent, Loudon Wainwright III
Iris DeMent’s career had already been something of a miracle: a clear voiced Southern gospel wail from a woman who wasn’t even that sure of her religion, whose vocal power…
Stage Review: ‘The Body of an American’
When the foreign correspondent Paul Watson snapped a grisly photo in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1993, he’d receive both a prize and a curse. He got a Pulitzer Prize for capturing…
Opera Review: ‘Ring’ Lout ‘Siegfried’
In the third installment of the Washington National Opera's mammoth staging of Richard Wagner's "The Ring of the Nibelung" at the Kennedy Center, a new Brünnhilde awakens, Fafner's dragon turns…
Opera Review: A Sub for ‘The Valkyrie’
Ten years of planning and $10 million in production costs couldn't prevent the Washington National Opera from pleasing all the gods in its ambitious staging of all four operas in…
At the Kingman Island Bluegrass Fest
The Kingman Island Bluegrass and Folk Festival started seven years years ago as a kind of harbinger of spring in D.C. but also to raise funds and awareness for Living…