The DC Traveler

Grammy-winner Cassandra Wilson was named “America’s Best Singer” by TIME magazine in 2001.
Interpreting classic jazz standards or singing her own bluesy jazz pieces is her sound today, but her background is varied, from playing in marching bands as a child to a back up singer with Joni Mitchell and  singer in funk bands.
In the 1980 she explored into the New York jazz scene and has since recorded over 20 albums, won a Grammy and was named the female Jazz Vocalist of the Year by Down Beat magazine, three years in a row.
Cassandra Wilson
Warner Theatre
513 13th Street, NW, between E …read more

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Funnyman Sinbad, originally had plans to play professional basketball. He played college ball at the University of Denver, but an injury ended his career.  So he turned to comedy.
In 1983, he was a finalist on Ed McMahon’s “Star Search” and his stand-up comedy career tool off.  Since then he’s appeared in a number of major movies including “Jingle All the Way,”  “Houseguest”  and “Necessary Roughness”.
 
Sinbad
Warner Theatre
513 13th Street, NW, between E & F St.
Washington, D.C., 20004 (map it)
Dates and Times -  Saturday, October 18, 2008, 8:00 p.m.
Tickets – $46.50 and are available online at Ticketmaster.
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makes fun of everyone, but uses his Mexican-American heritage as an anchor to his humor. After staring in 5 seasons of ABC sitcom, “George Lopez”, he’s hitting the road and stopping in Washington, DC for three shows at the Warner Theatre.George Lopez
He’s released a couple funny Grammy-nominated CDs, an autobiography entitled “Why You Crying?”, which hit the NY Times Bestseller top 20 list, and has also appeared in a dozen movies.  
He’s also had a couple rather public controversies with Jay Leno and Carlos Mencia.
George Lopez
Warner Theatre
513 13th Street, NW, between E & F St.
Washington, D.C., 20004 (map it)
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The story of big hair and winner of 8 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Hairspray, is coming to Washington, DC.  It’s the 1962 story of curvy Baltimore teen Tracy, a teen girl with big dreams and even bigger hair.
She daydreams all day at school about becoming a dancer on her favorite after-school teen dance TV program, “The Corny Collins Show”.  After auditioning and winning a spot as a dancer on the show, she is catapulted from a nobody to A-list celebrity overnight. 
In no time, Tracy becomes one of shows most likable kids, threatening the status of the station manager’s …read more

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Here’s your chance to be the next big television dancing star.  The hit Fox television show, So You Think You Can Dance, is holding open auditions for its fourth season, here in Washington, DC next week.
The show, using the American Idol format, pits great dancers from all styles of dance — ballroom to hip-hop, salsa to swing, into a weekly dance competition. The dancers include everyone from unknown amateurs to recognized national champions.   About 20 dancers from the six city audition sessions will go on to complete on the television show.  
After getting through the auditions and making it to …read more

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