Like the waves that crash upon the cliffs of Collinwood, ancestral home of vampire Barnabas Collins, I have been hitting my head against the wall trying to figure out why some...

Everyone knows whether they’re right- or left-handed. But right- or left-footed? Maybe not so obvious — until you lace on a pair of skates. Erin Weaver, starring as quirk...

The campy late-’60s soap “Dark Shadows” gets the Tim Burton treatment this week, with Johnny Depp as Barnabas Collins. Collins is turned into a vampire, then gets dug up...

Filming a documentary about the world’s water crisis was scary enough, and the fact that no one seems to care about the crisis made it even more terrifying. So it’s unders...

Though the state of arts funding in America is disgraceful and we fully encourage you to pay full price for tickets to help support Washington’s theater scene, we know money...

Reggie Watts doesn’t have a master plan. He has no plan. Period. When the 40-year-old walks onto a stage, he has nothing prepared beyond “Hello.” He may tell some jokes....

D.C. resident Richard Chartier, above, uses computers and synths to create ambient art that hums like a chorus of charged particles. Chartier’s latest release, “Built Thro...

Oscar-winner Sissy Spacek effortlessly slips into parts as varied as a psycho high-schooler (“Carrie”), country singer Loretta Lynn (“Coal Miner’s Daughter”) and a m...

I never really believed the story about how late-19th-century audiences, when they saw “The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station,” ran from the screen, afraid the cinem...

Michael Jackson’s life was often called a circus. It was inevitable that someone would take that literally. Cirque du Soleil’s touring amalgam of rock concert and circus s...

“The Avengers” comes out tomorrow, bringing together three men reprising their roles as four heroes with five movies between them. Joining the cadre of crimefighters are t...

“The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,” opening Friday, follows a bunch of retired Brits who move to India for their golden years. Things turn out to be a little more ramshackle...

Anyone who has survived grade school knows that the playground can morph into a battleground in the blink of a sullen tween’s eye. But what many adults don’t want to face ...

Abraham Inc. is here to give kids who play clarinets and accordions a chance to be cool. The group’s three main members — David Krakauer, a classically trained clarinetist...

The three members of the New York City-based buzz band Fun. are only in their mid-20s, but they’re already rock ’n’ roll veterans. “My first tour was when I was 15, i...