Eric Althoff

‘Be Well Weekend’ at Omni Bedford Springs Resort teaches health, diet secrets

We place so much emphasis on success and completion of tasks, and not enough on taking care of ourselves. This weekend's "Be Well Weekend," held at the Omni Bedford Springs Resort in Bedford, Pennsylvania, featured speakers and experts touching upon all manner of subject from healthy eating to mindfulness and music as a tool of community-building.

September 13, 2015

Catfish and the Bottlemen experiencing a mini-Beatlemania

The road to fame has been one that the members of Catfish and the Bottlemen, who will play at the District's iconic 9:30 Club Wednesday night, wouldn't trade back. The Welsh rockers, whose debut album "The Balcony" is out now, have been performing together since 2007.

September 13, 2015

CD REVIEW: Devon Allman channels family legacy on ‘Ragged & Dirty’

Bluesy and raucous, as befits any artist with the surname "Allman," Devon Allman gets down and dirty on "Ragged & Dirty." Mr. Allman, the son of legendary Allman Bros. Band founder Gregg Allman, continues the good family name on this release for Ruf Records.

September 13, 2015

CD REVIEW: Kix kicks back into gear with ‘Rock Your Face Off’

You remember Kix, don't you, the rockers responsible for the power ballad "Don't Close Your Eyes"? Well, if not (shame on you, for one), the boys from nearby Maryland are back with "Rock Your Face Off," an appropriately titled throwback to '80s power rock that proves that nostalgia for the era of high hair, outrageous glam outfits and attitude to match remains a potent force in music.

September 10, 2015

Sonny Knight & the Lakers to perform at Rosslyn Jazz Fest

Sonny Knight is hoping to take the name "Lakers" back from the eponymous basketball team, who moved from his city of Minneapolis to Los Angeles in 1960. It's a tall order, and he knows it. His band will perform this weekend at the Rosslyn Jazz Fest Saturday at 2:20 p.m.

September 9, 2015

New Jersey school installs 9/11 memorial made with flags

Cedar Grove High School in Cedar Grove, New Jersey, is memorializing the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington in a very unique visual manner. The school is installing 2,977 flags on its front lawn -- one for each victim. The flags flown will be those of the home countries of each of the victims killed in the terror attacks.

September 7, 2015

‘Learning to Drive’ actress Patricia Clarkson on ageist, sexist Hollywood

Much like her character in "Learning to Drive," actress Patricia Clarkson has adapted to the life without a car. The New Orleans native has called New York home for many years, where very few own their own vehicles in the nation's most populous city.

September 5, 2015

Steve Jobs still mysterious in Alex Gibney documentary

It's been a busy year of peering behind the curtain for Alex Gibney, the agit-documentarian whose "Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief" for HBO raised the hackles of the celebri-cult religion this spring. Mr. Gibney now takes on the cult of personality of a different kind in the personage of late Apple founder and serial tyrant Steve Jobs.

September 3, 2015

Frank Sinatra’s son to pay homage to father’s centennial with Wolftrap concert

One hundred years ago, Alexander Graham Bell made the first transcontinental telephone call, Babe Ruth made his pitching debut for the Boston Red Sox — and on Dec. 12, 1915, a pop singer by the name of Francis Albert Sinatra was born in Hoboken, New Jersey.

September 1, 2015

Grace Potter on ‘Midnight’ solo album, tour

Grace Potter has packed arenas for years with her band, the Nocturnals, behind her, while continually churning out a unique sound that is part rock, part funk and all-around magnetic. With five albums to her band's credit already, Miss Potter has just released her first solo record, "Midnight," for Hollywood Records.

September 1, 2015

Wes Craven, ‘Nightmare on Elm Street,’ ‘Scream’ director, dies at 76

Film director Wes Craven, who directed the original "A Nightmare on Elm Street" and all four of the "Scream" films, died Sunday of brain cancer, according to The Hollywood Reporter. He was 76.

August 30, 2015

Gourmet Symphony’s unique pairing to feed homeless

D.C. charities have found creative ways to bring food to the city's hungry and homeless, but one enterprising partnership has an inspired plan to bolster the souls of Washington's neediest.

August 30, 2015

Tim McGraw Camden concert includes hits and new tunes

Country superstar sensation Tim McGraw unleashed his high-spirited performance on this venue on the banks of the Delaware for a two-hour show that displayed the 48-year-old's virtuosity with not only his music genre of choice but also in the sub-variances within country -- and his reaching out beyond the confines of country music itself.

August 30, 2015

Paul Weitz, ‘Grandma’ director, on first-rate performance of Lily Tomlin

Paul Weitz, the director of the 1999 teen sex romp "American Pie," is these days often referred to as a feminist filmmaker -- a designation Mr. Weitz, 49, appears to politely demure. "It wasn't conscious on my part that almost all of the characters would be female; it just happened," Mr. Weitz told The Washington Times of his new film, "Grandma."

August 27, 2015

Jiesi Zhao, Young America’s Foundation leader decries Obama on economy

Jiesi Zhao, Director of Young America's Foundation's Center for Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise, has decried President Obama for what she views as the president's lack of understanding of free market forces.

August 26, 2015

Savion Glover to appear in Washington, D.C.

The Howard Theatre will host three performances from dancer Savion Glover Thursday, Friday and Saturday in Northwest.

August 26, 2015

CD REVIEW: Delta Saints album ‘Bones’ offers alternative Nashville sound

An off-kilter sound comes to the District courtesy of the alt band The Delta Saints of Nashville.

August 23, 2015

Helena Bonham Carter on working mother of ‘The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet’

"It's nice to have women that have two identities," the twice-Oscar-nominated actress Helena Bonham Carter told The Washington Times from Europe. This is more satisfying, she said, than merely "playing a woman who's just there because she's the mother of the protagonist."

August 20, 2015

CD REVIEW: Grace Potter’s ‘Midnight’ next step in singer’s evolution

The silky-voiced Vermont songstress Grace Potter embarks on her first solo release -- minus her band, the Nocturals -- for Hollywood Records and produced by Eric Valentine.

August 20, 2015

Kelly Clarkson announces onstage she is pregnant with second child

Singer Kelly Clarkson announced during a performance at the Staples Center in Los Angeles Wednesday that she is expecting her second child with husband Brandon Blackstock, the Los Angeles Times reported.

August 20, 2015