Drake Announces 41-City North American Arena Tour with Special Guest Miguel – Date Set for Oct. 31 at Verizon Center

The WOULD YOU LIKE A TOUR? Kicks-Off  Date Set for October 31st at Verizon Center with Special Guest Miguel

Tickets Go On-sale Beginning Friday, June 21 

CONCERT REVUE: KORN, Are You Ready?!

 

I remember in the mid to late 90’s there was a resurgence of metal music. Alternative music slightly tapered off and all sorts of various hip hop influenced metal bands started emerging. Bands like Korn, Deftones, Slipknot, Rage Against the Machine and Limp Bizkit. You can almost say that it all started with Slayer back in the 80’s, they were signed to Def Jam Records after all. Korn in my opinion was one, if not thee most significant band from the nu-metal era. When I heard they would be playing at The Filmore in Silver Spring I did a double take; what?!

MOVIE REVUE: Not Your Average Gatsby

One day when the light is glowing
I’ll be in my castle golden
But until the gates are open
I just want to feel this moment

The song “Feel This Moment” by Pitbull featuring Christina Aguilera is not from the highly anticipated blockbuster The Great Gatsby, but it perfectly captures the spirit of a gorgeous film that breathes fresh air into F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel about life’s evanescence and the folly of trying to force fantasies of the past into reality.

BOOK NEWS: Maryland Deacon finds solution to marital woes

 

New book teaches how to save marriages by learning from biblical couples

Awesome Con D.C. is 2 Weeks Away

Awesome Conventions LLC welcomes Billy West, Ernie Hudson, Phil LaMarr,  to the Washington Convention Center for the first annual Awesome Con D.C. on April 20-21, 2013. Recently added to the guest list Theodus Crane & Nicholas Brendon.

DC Author Explores Moving Forward, Breaking Boundaries, and Reinventing Yourself

 

Beautiful, fit, happily married, and successful, Linda Crill was – and saw herself – as the kind of woman who could make things happen. But after losing her husband at 57, the identity Crill held closely no longer seemed to fit. For the first time in her adult life, she felt unsure and unable to move forward. Like many of us, she found herself asking, “What now?”

Kyle Donnelly directs OTHER DESERT CITIES April 26-May 26, 2013

 

 Hidden secrets are unearthed and family tensions fly high in Pulitzer Prize nominee Jon Robin Baitz’s contemporary family drama Other Desert Cities, hailed by the New York Times as “the best new play on Broadway” in 2011. Helen Hayes Award winner and former Arena Stage Associate Artistic Director Kyle Donnelly returns to direct the D.C.-area premiere of the show with a cast that features Tony Award nominee and two-time Helen Hayes Award winner Helen Carey as matriarch Polly Wyeth and two-time Tony Award nominee Larry Bryggman as patriarch Lyman Wyeth. Rounding out the cast are Emily Donahoe  as daughter Brooke Wyeth, Scott Drummond as son Trip Wyeth and Martha Hackett  as their aunt Silda Grauman. Other Desert Cities runs April 26-May 26, 2013 in the Fichandler Stage.

Jillian Michaels: “Maximize Your Life” at the Warner Theatre

 

Promising an evening of inspiration that will forever motivate and change lives, America’s health and wellness guru Jillian Michaels is set to launch her first ever “Maximize Your Life” tour this spring. Kicking -off April 4th in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the tour touches down in 35 cities across the United States and Canada, it will hit DC Wednesday, April 24th

Woolly Mammoth Presents American Utopias by Mike Daisey

 

MASTER STORYTELLER ARTFULLY WEAVES TOGETHER
THREE STORYLINES EXPLORING AMERICAN VISIONS OF UTOPIA

Nick Offerman American Ham Tour 2nd Show Added!

 

Live Nation welcomes Nick Offerman to the Warner Theatre inWashington, DC on Friday, February 15, 2013 for a second show at 10:30pm. The 8pm show is sold out.