Weekend Plans: What to Do 3/9-3/12
THURSDAY 9
Theater: Undercurrent Festival
For their "Theatre For Now"-themed festival, Single Carrot will put on four concurrent plays in three weeks: race-based solo performance "The...
Weekend Plans: What to Do 3/3-3/5
FRIDAY 3
Art: The Nature of Reality
In The Nature of Reality, Sowebo- based wife-and-husband artists Pat Dennis and Robert F.X. Giroux explore the personal...
Pregnant Possibility
When his wife, Pamela, 41, was pregnant, Travis Bishop, 46, liked to have some fun when people congratulated them. “I would say, very deadpan,...
CeWEBrity Status
Maybe Ann Hirsch’s art should come with an NSFW (not safe for work) warning. I speak from experience—watching her video performance piece “Semiotics of...
From Flags to Riches
Maryland is not a blue state. And for a budding band of entrepreneurs, that’s a very good thing.
No, we’re not talking politics here, but...
Getting it On
In sixth grade, I often joined my friend Jenny and her parents at family group therapy. It was fascinating stuff: A group of 20...
Body Heat
“Erotic art to me is never the act,” explains seasoned painter/draftsman Cornel Rubino, who resides in Charles Village with his artist wife, Linda Gravina...
First Times
As a Female
Rahne Alexander
I experienced my first adolescence in the disease-paranoid late-’80s, fully conscious of who I was but could not risk revealing. By...
Center Stage, Act Two
“All the world’s a stage,” as Shakespeare would have us believe and, if you drove past the 700 block of Calvert Street last year,...
Obsessed with the Game
Some days I find myself praying to all that’s holy for rain—because rain is what gets my kid’s soccer practice cancelled, or that cross-country...