‘Lawless’ Offers Mild Quaff of Gangster-Era Cocktail

When you’re in need of a stiff drink, you want the real thing and not a cheap off-shoot. Of course, living in a certain time and place when that’s not possible, sometimes you just have to settle. In the same way...

From Baby Steps to Long Pants

If you’re smart enough and talented enough to boot, it doesn’t take that long to grow up. Constellation Theatre Company’s bright revival of Taking Steps by Alan Ayckbourn at Source in Washington, DC is a case...

‘The Words’: It Seemed Like A Good Idea On Paper…

We all have something to say. However, precious few of us have lived experiences unique enough to be recounted and fewer still have the perspicacity to express their innermost thoughts and desires into significant...

The Essence of Contemporary Today

“What makes this work contemporary?” is a question I went to the 2012 San Diego Contemporary Art Festival prepared with — an effort to extract the essence or principles behind what we call “contemporary...

Tbilisi at Night: When the Lights Go Down, A Silk Road City Comes Alive (Part 2)

Summer Movies: The Delightful and the Dismal

Summer is a time of popcorn movies, and while the buttery goodness of a bag of salty snacks is nearly always worth the added price of concessions, the feature itself often is not. Whatever your cinematic preferences,...

From Denver with Love: Designer Mondo Guerra Challenges Fashion Conventions, One Stitch at a Time

In the pantheon of fashion meccas, New York, London, Milan and Paris are typically the first places that come to mind. Denver, Colorado, is usually an afterthought.

Artist of the Week 9/12-9/18: Wilma Hurskainen Recreates Her Childhood Photos

Have you ever wished you could go back in time to a moment that was forever encapsulated in a worn-out childhood photograph with its ripped, brown edges – a moment of subliminal innocence and delight that held no...

Fly Me to the Moon: A Horse to Bet On

If you think Fly Me to the Moon is a swinging ’60s ballad, you’re getting close, but if you guess it’s a winning black comedy by Northern Irish playwright Marie Jones about a race horse aptly named after the...

While Barnstorming Through Black Sea Turkey, Remembering the Tea and Biscuits (Part 1)

“Inshallah, we will make it,” said my driver, Abdul. “But first we must stop and take tea.”