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Anne Hathaway Caps Her Prolific Year With Verity, a Darkly Funny Erotic Thriller (opens the original)
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Anne Hathaway has had quite a year. So far she has played a fashion journalist, a pop star, a queen in ancient Greece, and a suburban mom battling dinosaurs. Her prolific output in 2026 continues with what might be her juiciest role this year, a bestselling crime novelist hiding dark secrets. In Verity, an adaptation of the popular book by Colleen Hoover, Hathaway finds herself in an erotic thriller, a genre that today is often maligned but still has seductive power. Michael Showalter, who got h
MAHA and Monkeys Betrayed: RFK Keeps the Lights on at Harvard Primate Lab (opens the original)
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Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) just unveiled a shiny new website touting its progress “ending taxpayer-funded animal experiments.” There’s just one problem: One of its biggest boasts appears to be false. The government site claims HHS “cut funding to a Harvard University lab for studies that included sewing the eyes of young monkeys shut.” Since May 2025, establishment animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has also
Carryout Critic Discovers a French Toast Sandwich, Breakfast Platters, and Chicken Tenders at Norma’s Homestyle Breakfast (opens the original)
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Native Washingtonians Marcus and Dawn Smith talked about opening a breakfast restaurant when they first started dating. Some 25 years later, the right opportunity came along and the husband-and-wife duo opened Norma’s Homestyle Breakfast in January 2023. As part of their plan, they always knew they wanted to be open on Sundays when many other spots are closed. The best way to describe Norma’s, which sits next to a Mobil gas station off of Minnesota Avenue NE, just a few blocks from Benning Road
The Journey of Mosaic’s Somewhere Over the Border Is For the Dreamers (opens the original)
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The American dream may be a myth, but a dream of a better life is not. Mosaic Theater Company’s production of Brian Quijada’s new musical Somewhere Over the Border merges the myth and the dream with the bitter reality many of its seekers’ face. The result is a dynamic story that overcomes a slow start to pack a powerful punch. The musical, a twist on The Wizard of Oz as the name suggests, is a love letter to Quijada’s mother, who immigrated to the U.S. illegally in the 1970s. The play opens on 1
August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Ratchets Up the Anxiety (opens the original)
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Bethesda’s Round House Theatre mostly puts on straight plays, while Olney Theatre Center mostly puts on musicals; for the fifth collaboration between Round House—opening its 50th season—and Olney, they’ve chosen a work that toes the line between the two camps. August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is a show that is propelled by music and features a few numbers, but couldn’t be mistaken for a true musical. Loosely inspired by the titular real life blues maven, Wilson’s classic uses the singer
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