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I Spy—Photography and the Theater of the Street
At Washington’s National Gallery of Art

Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
by Charlene Giannetti on Playing Around

Before cell phones and security cameras invaded our privacy, photographers were capturing images of people who, going about their everyday lives, were unaware that their

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Cabaret Honors Its Own

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around

In a year when the cabaret community has taken some major hits (the passing of Donald Smith, founder of The Mabel Mercer Foundation and its

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Ellen Kaye Sings Ice Wine: Songs for Dark Winter Nights

Friday, March 2nd, 2012
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around

Ice Wine is purportedly about getting through the long. “tough” winter to hopeful spring. “Sort of from (Woody Allen’s) Love and Death to (Ingmar Bergman’s)

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The Obamas—Jodi Kantor’s Book Creates a Firestorm

Monday, January 16th, 2012
by Charlene Giannetti on Reading Around

In the acknowledgement portion of The Obamas, author Jodi Kantor thanks many of her friends for their support including Shira Stutman, adding: “Shira insisted that

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What Parents Can Learn from Beavis and Butt-head

Sunday, October 30th, 2011
by Charlene Giannetti on Living Around

Beavis and Butt-head are back. The cartoon aired on MTV from 1993 to 1997 and had parents up in arms. These were the days before

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Farenheit 451: Keeping the Flame Alive

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
by Winnefred Ann Frolik on Playing Around

I was the consummate bookworm as a child. I ate books like the air, and so in my youth, as I plowed through the words

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You’re Gonna Love Me: Miranda Sings! at Birdland

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
by Alicia Schaeffer on Playing Around

It’s not easy being perfect, but it’s a bowl of laughs if you only think you’re perfect. So is the case for Miranda, the fictitious

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Amy Winehouse—Beautiful Voice Silenced Too Soon

Thursday, July 28th, 2011
by Jordana Landres on Living Around

I remember the day I first heard Amy Winehouse. It was 2006. I was flipping through TV channels with my remote and stopped on VH1.

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