Have you ever dreamed about altering reality at will? If so, you’ll want to head to Tysons Corner this summer as that’s the theme of Cirque du Soleil’s latest extravaganza, “KURIOS – Cabinet of Curiosities,” which will will premiere [...]
If your musical taste harkens back to the Boswell Sisters or the Andrews sisters—the type of harmonious jazz that only a trio of lovely ladies can perform—then you’re sure going to want to check out YazzoZazz.
When Hillary Steel first took a weaving class in college, she had a strong reaction to it: “I hated it,” she recalls. “But I went back to it and once I started learning it, it was something I gravitated [...]
When Australian author Markus Zusak saw his novel “The Book Thief” hit the New York Times Best Seller list in its first week of publication back in 2006, he had no idea that the book would stay there for [...]
The internationally acclaimed Lawrence Atoigue, known as Naturel in the art community, has been working on a 20 foot by 78 foot mural that will be a focal point for the Silver Line Metro Station. And while snow has [...]
Blues-folk icon Chris Smither has long been revered for both his guitar prowess and his way with a lyric. To mark his 50th year in the music business, the performer released three noteworthy projects last year—a double retrospective CD, a Lyric [...]
Back in the 1950s, while other kids his age were out playing sports or kicking the can around the street, a young Marshall Crenshaw was holed up in his house being exposed to musicians like Chuck Berry and Elvis [...]
Nia Tavlarides Stratos didn’t develop an interest in art, she was born that way. “I do believe you can learn and go to school and study it, but it comes from within,” she says. “I think there are two [...]
Growing up with a diplomat as a father, Jessica Speckhard was raised abroad, moving between Belarus, Belgium, France and Greece. Regardless of what country she was in, the one constant in her life was she was always creating art, [...]
The ever-changing sprawl that is Tysons is unique in its current condition, as it’s caught mid-evolution. In the past 30 years, Tysons has gone from rustic farmland to pressing against the outer limits of suburbia. So what sort of [...]
