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Alan Cumming

Alan Cumming

In You Gotta Get Bigger Dreams: My Life is Stories and Pictures, the award-winning stage, television, and film actor and man-about-town shares forty-five wildly entertaining real-life stories.

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An Evening wi...

An Evening with Ta-Nehisi Coates

Coates, a national correspondent at The Atlantic, MacArthur Fellow, and the author of Between the World and Me, for which he won a National Book Award, offers reflections on American culture, race, and politics.

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Sorry, Not Sorry

Sorry, Not Sorry

Approaching the High Holidays, a time when we ask for forgiveness, Rabbi Suzy leads an interactive conversation about when women should be sorry, or not sorry, and what Jewish texts can add to our modern understanding of being a woman.

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Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras, and Ella Morton

Atlas Obscura: An Explorer’s Guide To The World’s Hidden Wonders is the definitive guide to the most astonishing, curious, unusual, off-the-beaten path destinations and secret marvels across the globe.

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Jessica Bennett

Jessica Bennett

In Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace, Bennett shares practical strategies, stealthy hacks, and much-needed camaraderie that every working woman needs to battle her way through the modern workplace.

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Livingston Ta...

Livingston Taylor

Taylor picked up his first guitar at the age of 13, beginning a 40 year career that has encompassed performance, songwriting, and teaching. The musician recorded his first record at age 18 and has continued to create well crafted, introspective, and original songs that have earned him listeners worldwide.

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Brooklyn Ride...

Brooklyn Rider & Anne Sofie von Otter

The groundbreaking string quartet return to our stage this fall with mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter for a program ranging from the Beatles to Björk.

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Get Out the Vote

Get Out the Vote

With less than a month away from the most historic election in U.S. history, Sixth & I is partnering with the Election Protection Coalition to hold a non-partisan voter registration drive in Alexandria. No prior experience necessary; training will take place on site.

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Cathi Hanauer

Cathi Hanauer

The Bitch is Back is a collection of essays about love, sex, work, family, independence, body-image, health, and aging: the critical flash points of women’s lives today.

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Bake Pink, Th...

Bake Pink, Think Pink

During Breast Cancer Awareness Month, make pink challah and learn how to be proactive about your health with Sharsheret, an organization that offers a community of support to women of all Jewish backgrounds, diagnosed with breast or ovarian cancer or at increased genetic risk. Braid pre-made pink challah dough, add fun pink toppings, and take it home to bake fresh for Shabbat.

W. Kamau Bell

W. Kamau Bell

Best known for his critically acclaimed, but criminally short-lived FX comedy series, Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, Kamau Bell is a socio-political comedian based in The People’s Republic of Berkeley, CA.

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An Intimate N...

An Intimate Night with Allen Stone

On his third full-length album, the soul artist proves himself deeply devoted to making uncompromisingly soulful music that transcends all pop convention. Made in collaboration with Swedish soul singer/songwriter/phenom Magnus Tingsek, Radius captures the warm energy of that creative connection and transports the listener to a higher and more exalted plane.

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CANCELED: The...

CANCELED: The Election and the Jews

How will Jews vote in the upcoming election? How does Jewish identity inform people’s voting choices, historically and now? The Washington Post’s Outlook editor, Adam B. Kushner, hosts a wide-ranging conversation about the role(s) of Jews and the Jewish community in this election with leading thinkers and experts.

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Man’s A...

Man’s Attempt at Thoughtfulness

Combining spirituality, psychology, modern masculinity, and good scotch, Rabbi Scott brings a group of men together to attempt some thoughtfulness about life’s more important questions.

Zakir Hussain...

Zakir Hussain with Niladri Kumar

Tabla maestro Zakir Hussain performs in duet with Niladri Kumar, a virtuoso of the sitar and of his own invention, the zitar—a five-stringed electric sitar.

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Béla Fleck &#...

Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn

It took a decade as a couple for “banjo royalty” Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn to officially team up musically on a 2016 Grammy Award–winning album and tour. It was worth the wait.

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Abbi Jacobson

Abbi Jacobson

Carry This Book is a wonderfully weird and weirdly wonderful illustrated look at the world around us—all through the framework of the things we carry—by the co-creator and co-star of Comedy Central’s Broad City.

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Mock The Vote...

Mock The Vote: Pre-Election Comedy Showcase

Lee Camp, Leah Bonnema, and Brian Parise form a comedic SuperPAC to deliver a night of politically incorrect comedy. Hosted by Andrew Knox as Donald Trump.

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NSO + Sixth &...

NSO + Sixth & I present:

The Kennedy Center Chamber Players is formed of principal and guest players of the National Symphony Orchestra. They will be performing an exciting repertoire to include: Beethoven: Duo No.1 in More +
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Carly Simon

Carly Simon

On the occasion of the paperback release of Boys in the Trees, Simon’s #1 New York Times bestselling memoir, she reveals her remarkable life, beginning with her storied childhood and on to a meteoric career in which she became the first artist in history to win a Grammy Award, an Academy Award, and a Golden Globe Award.

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Chucho Valdés...

Chucho Valdés Joe Lovano Quintet

It’s a match made in jazz heaven: Afro-Cuban piano legend, Irakere founder, and five-time Grammy-winner Jesús “Chucho” Valdés and the ever-versatile sax virtuoso and multiple-time DownBeat Jazz Artist of the Year More +
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