Meet the Folk-ers
A dizzying array of music, food and art, the three-day Richmond Folk Festival emphatically puts the life into folklife by celebrating local, national and...
California Dreamin’
On a cool Monday night in West Hollywood, silver stars light the sky as I snuggle under a fur throw to screen a thriller....
The Other Shore
Saturday night, and the restaurant is so jumping it’s all my wife, Jill, and I can do to snag the last two seats at...
Stormy Weather
At Washington, D.C.’s newish Pineapple & Pearls, you'll find not only sophisticated cuisine, artful coffee drinks and intrepid cocktails, but also a striking work...
Vampires of South Beach
It is a sunny Friday morning in South Beach: Parakeets perch above me in swaying palms as I sink into an easy chair and...
City Smart: New York City
Woot! When you consider that Whoopi Goldberg is a respected actor on both large and small screens—as well as a theater thesp—but also (quite...
City Smart: Philadelphia
Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins turned America on its head in 2014 when his OBIE Award-winning play, “An Octoroon,” debuted. “An Octoroon” reboots the plot of...
City Smart: Washington, D.C.
Prepare to rock harder this month when AC/DC and The Who both descend upon the Verizon Center (albeit separately—the early-to-rise capital probably couldn’t handle...
Jax to the Max
When my dad moved to Jacksonville, Fla., in 1999, to take a job, my stepmother and younger sisters in tow, it was like many...
City Smart: New York City
Linda Lavin—an accomplished triple-threat actress in film, television (who, over 35, can forget “Alice”?) and theater—returns to the stage in the world premiere of...