David Guetta, one of the biggest producers in the music industry is making a rare appearance in the DC area this weekend, taking over DC’s newest venue, the 30,000 capacity Echostage. Saturday night’s show is sold out, but tickets are still available for Sunday’s party. The two-time-Grammy-winner will hit the stage at DC’s newest and […]
Category: Broadway
Demi Lovato Neon Lights Tour Review Pt 2 – Main Course
(Fairfax, VA, March 2, 2014) Demi Lovato’s Neon Lights Tour was so big and massive that I actually had to split the review in two. Demi has put together a day of girl power reaffirmation that is cleverly disguised as a regular Pop Concert. With the soundcheck party and four opening acts The Neon Lights […]
Demi Lovato’s Neon Lights Tour Review Pt1! The Appetizer
(March 2, 2014, Fairfax, Va. Patriot Center) Anyone who follows me on the Tweet Machine or Facebook knows that I recently discovered an irrational love and obsession with Camp Rock and Hannah Montana, which is especially sad considering I’m an “old” black woman and both are five or six years old. I relived my Tweenhood […]
American Idiot: Washington, DC, American Idiot Rocks DC’s National Theater!
These days it seems like Broadway is all about adapting movies, tv, or books into shows, American Idiot is the strangest of animals because it turns two popular Green Day albums – American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown into a musical.
Tools of the Trade for Would Be Poker Players
There isn’t, and can never be, a perfect poker player. A hundred years from now, when The Future has properly arrived (because that’s when The Future is), there will be no perfect PokerBot. However brilliantly a person – or a machine – can calculate odds, the human element will always ensure that anyone (or anything) […]
Shows and Eats: Vegas Rolls Out Welcome Mat for CES Attendees
And that’s a wrap. The technology gods have folded up their tents, filled their suitcases up with all their gear and hopped a flight home. Of course I caught a cold, so I’m a tad late with my CES coverage, but what can you do? Before we get to the actual gadgets from the show, […]
Theater Review (DC): ‘Flashdance The Musical’
Jillian Mueller as Alex Owens photo by Jeremy Daniel Flashdance The Musical ends the Kennedy Center’s 2013 Broadway musical season on a high, fun note. Based on the classic 1983 movie, the show successfully recreates some of the film’s most iconic moments – yes, including the famous Water and Welding scenes. Popular songs like “Maniac,” “Love […]
Porgy and Bess Returns to DC. Michelle’s Review!
Alicia Hall Moran as Bess and Nathaniel Stampley as Porgy in the The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess. Photo by Michael J. Lutch. For the first time in several decades one of the great American Operas, Porgy and Bess returns to the Washington, DC’s National Theater. The recent Broadway revival has breathed new life into this […]
Lady Gaga’s artRAVE: the ARTPOP Ball comes to Verizon Center May 15
One of the top global touring acts of our time, having sold nearly 4 million tickets during her first 3 tours, Lady Gaga is hitting the road in support of her new album ARTPOP. Lady Gaga will be performing live at Verizon Center on May 15 at 7:30 p.m.
Jersey Boys brings the Harmony to Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theater! Michelle’s Review
The timeless music and true-life story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons are the fuel that drives the Broadway production of the catchy and fun Jersey Boys. After years of waiting, the National Tour finally made a stop at Baltimore’s beautiful, refurbished Hippodrome Theatre at The France-Merrick Performing Arts Center.
WWE Returns to the Patriot Center, Jan 5th!
You know one of my newest celebrity “friends,” is former WWE Superstar Adam “Edge” Copeland. Shared drinks and interviewed him several times. Considering he’s always played the heel, he is one of the nicest guys in the world, but he never let me forget that I went completely mental on him the first time I […]