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Nibbles and Sips Around Town – May 26, 2014

Jordan Wright May 26, 2014 all photo credit to Jordan Wright Special to DC Metro Theater Arts

Taberna del Alabardero Celebrates 25 Years, Toro Toro Opens, New Farmers Market Opens in Mosaic District, Cassatt/Degas Exhibit at the National Gallery of Art, Great Taste of Tyson’s, and “Fed Up” Makes the Case Against Sugar

Twenty-Five […]

Spring Cookbooks and a Sensational First Novel from Ruth Reichl

Jordan Wright May 20, 2014

Delicious! A First Novel from Ruth Reichl

When seasoned food writer and four-time James Beard Award-winner Ruth Reichl debuts her first novel (two more are planned), foodies everywhere sit up and take notice. The former restaurant critic, first at the LA Times – – later a six-year stint at the […]

Three Men In A Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) – Synetic Theater

Jordan Wright May 9, 2014 Special to The Alexandria Times

Photo by Koko Lanham. Tim Getman as George, Rob Jansen as Harris, Tom Story as Jerome, Alex Mills as Montmorency

In a departure from the dance-centric, laser-lit, sexy productions I’ve come to expect from Synetic, along comes Three Men in a Boat […]

Smokey Joe’s Café – Arena Stage

Jordan Wright May 12, 2014 Special to The Alexandria Times

Kara-Tameika Watkins in Smokey Joe’s Café—The Songs of Leiber and Stoller – Photo by Teresa Wood

Smokey Joe’s Café The Songs of Leiber and Stoller gets off to a slow easy roll. Forty-two of the most beloved songs from the pantheon of […]

Come Fly with Me to Boeing, Boeing at The Little Theatre

Jordan Wright May 5, 2014 Special to The Alexandria Times

Joshua Rich (Bernard) and Kathleen Doyle (Gloria) – Photo credit Doug Olmsted

Boeing Boeing is a riotous tale about Bernard, an American architect whose Paris flat has become a way station for his “international harem” of flight attendants or, as they were […]

The Threepenny Opera – Signature Theatre

Jordan wright April 29, 2014 Special to The Alexandria Times

Photo of Mitchell Jarvis by Christopher Mueller.

Is capitalism and corruption as pervasive today as when Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill wrote The Threepenny Opera in 1920’s Germany? They certainly thought so then basing their theme on John Gay’s 1728 The Beggar’s […]