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Where future Opera stars and fans come from??
Would you believe The Wolf Trap Opera Company?!?! It is considered one of America's top residency programs for emerging young professionals hoping to make it in Opera. And now Wolf Trap Opera has announced it's 2013 summer season and the line-up of Filene Young Artists and Studio Artists. The diverse roster includes 36 up-and-coming singers selected in a comprehensive nationwide audition tour. The season will feature three new productions, including Verdi's masterpiece La traviata; Rossini's The Journey to Reims and Verdi's Falstaff. Tickets go on sale at 10am March 16th and can be purchased online by clicking here, by calling 1(877) WOLFTRAP or at the Wolf Trap Box Office located at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts at 1551 Trap Road, Vienna, Virginia.
Not talk! Actual cars!
New ideas are driving people to the 2013 Washington Auto Show! Among them green car technologies, including clean diesel, CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) and hydrogen. And there is a chance to take a road trip back in time. The Washington Auto Show runs thru Sunday, Feb 10th at the Washington Convention Center
Wed. 12:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Thur. 12:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Fri. 12:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Sat. 10:00 am - 10:00 pm
Sun. 10:00 am - 7:00 pm
Walter E. Washington Convention Center 801 Mount Vernon Place, N.W.
Macho military men on oogle parade
The GI Film Festival partnered with Sip With Socialites to hold an exciting military bachelor auction hosted by the Embassy of Austria. It was to raise funds and awareness for the upcoming GI Film Festival 2013, taking place May 6-12 throughout the DC area. The highest bidders won a dinner date with some of DC's most eligible military bachelors at one of DC's Top restaurants. The ringer for this first ever event for the GI Film Festival actor Scott Elrod, recently seen in the film Argo and soon to appear in Lone Survivor alongside Mark Wahlberg. Son of an F-16 pilot, Scott followed in the footsteps of his father and served in the United States Air Force as an air traffic controller from 1994-2000.
Coming soon -- lotza laffs!
With Washington's Only Original Political, Satirical Musical Comedy
Revue: HEXAGON 2013: A
Raucous Caucus It's all fun and all volunteer and all for charity.
Hexagon selects HEXAGON 2013: A
Raucous Caucus It's all fun and all volunteer and all for charity.
Hexagon selects ALS
Association-DC/MD/VA Chapter as beneficiary for 2013
Silver Spring, MD — Montgomery College Community Arts Center: 3/1
— 3/16
Arlington, VA — Thomas Jefferson Community Theatre: 3/21 —
3/23
Baltimore bars full of purple as fans cheer team
Giddy Baltimore Ravens fans are hugging, cheering, and pouring into the streets following the 34-31 victory of their team over the San Francisco 49ers.
New app 'Bang with Friends' draws criticism, concern
It's called 'Bang with Friends,' a new Facebook app meant to connect people for casual sex. The app only launched a week ago and is receiving a flurry of criticism, however it already has 20,000 users.
Its an honor to be nominated!
And while everyone wants to win, the nominees for theatreWashington's Helen Hayes Awards (April 8th)are very excited to have been nominated. You can see the full list here. or if you wish you may watch how things unfolded in the Helen Hayes Gallery of the National Theatre with the webcast of the evening which WTOP's Bob Madigan co-hosted with Rebecca Sheir of WAMU. And for a quick break down of the numbers listen to the two clips below.
Tue Jan 29th, 2013
Len Bias' mother shares her perspective on drug abuse
As teens across the country prepare to take part in an anti-drug awareness program, the mother of a well known athlete is telling her story of loss in an effort to get through to kids.
Eat Meat. Repeat
That is the motto of nationally celebrated Meat Week. It is 8 days of celebrating everything Bar-B-Que leading up to the Superbowl. Meat Week DC has tons of tasty treats and you can check them out by clicking here New this year is the Barbecue Food Truck Face-Off on Friday (2/1) 6:30pm (Hosted by Living Social) BBQ Bus, Carnivore BBQ, Curley's Q and PORC will face-off at LivingSocial's 918 F Street space!
The ROAR of the greasepaint and the CASH of the crowd!
Live theatre in the greater Washington area is a major fuel for the local economic engine. With 80 professional theatres, they produce the second highest per-capita number of theatre productions annually — second only to New York City's Broadway. One reason for that impressive statistic is because of the prestige that comes from the Helen Hayes Awards. Monday, January 28th theatreWashington will announce the 29th Helen Hayes Awards nominees, in the National Theatre's Helen Hayes Gallery. This year, for the first time, theatre lovers in Washington and around the world can watch the nomination announcements live via webcast. Click here to connect or learn more from theatreWashington. The webcast begins at 6:45 pm.
Bad habits behind the wheel apparently lead to more bad habits
WTOP's Hank Silverberg reports.
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