Tennessee Williams’ “Small Craft Warnings,” now being performed through May 10 at Crystal City’s Clark Street Playhouse by the Washington Shakespeare Company, is one of Williams’ most self-revealing works, a gritty, unyielding pastiche of raw nerves and downtrodden lives taking place in a beach-side dive bar. The current staging of […]
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Nicholas F. Benton: The Palin Caper
American presidential politics went from the sublime to the ridiculous within little more than 12 hours last week.
Picking Splinters: Sharing St. Andrews
Minced onions, oatmeal, suet, spices, salt and a sheep’s heart, liver, lungs and stomach. That’s what’s in haggis. I know that because I ate it, not because I had been stuffed into one.
Northern Virginia Art Beat
The 16th Annual Capital Jazz Festival Friday through Sunday, June 6 – 8, at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia MD. Peformers include Average White Band, Chris Botti, Jonathan Butler, Randy Crawford and Joe Sample, Brian Culbertson and the Funk Experience, Down to the Bone, Roberta Flack, Ken Ford, Four80East, Howard […]
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National Cherry Blossom Festival Parade, Starting 10 a.m. at 7th and Constitution Ave. NW and going to 17th St., Saturday, April 10, followed by the launch of the new “Library of Congress Experience.”

Local Skaters Seek to Make Mark at Upcoming U.S. Championships
As the 2008 U.S. Figure Skating Championships in St. Paul, Minn., draw closer, Ashley Wagner of Alexandria is feeling the excitement. Senior ladies skate their short programs on Thursday, Jan. 24, at the Xcel Energy Center. After third-place finishes in the junior ladies competition at the 2007 U.S. Championships and […]
Maureen Dowd: Deign or Reign?
AMES, Iowa — Edith Wessel, an 80-year-old white-haired retired nurse, moved slowly up the aisle with her walker after listening to Hillary make her pitch.

For Mason High Wrestlers, Season Starts with Success
Steve Parks of George Mason High School is a man on a mission, and it is one of the toughest in high school sports. As he begins the 2007-2008 wrestling season, Parks has set his sights on the state title that eluded him last year at the Single A […]