Philippe Petit performed on a high wire some 50 feet above kids at the National Building Museum.

The expansive renovation to the Logan Circle theater is slated to be done in early 2022.

The money will support restaurants, hotels, entertainment businesses, and retail businesses, city officials say.

The club helped bring about the resurgence of jazz on U Street in the early 2000s.

The sports and conventions authority is primarily funded by dedicated taxes on restaurant orders and hotel stays.

Find a new appreciation for the accordion, take the kids to a jazz concert just for them, and find the summer evening series for you.

Beyond the usual suspects.

Sad news to pass along from the world of radio: Joe Barber, the entertainment editor at WTOP who spent 20 years as a film and theater critic for various broadcast and print outlets, was found dead at his Washington home today. According to WTOP, Barber died of natural causes; he was 53.

Jay Mathews, a staff writer who covers education for the Washington Post, took the time “to discard any pretense of research and instead vent on a subject too insubstantial for a serious education writer”: why those kids on Glee aren’t ever shown on screen studying. Let’s all facepalm together!

The annual visit of the Mariinsky Theater’s traveling opera troupe from St. Petersburg came a little early this year. The themes that unite the Kennedy Center double-bill of Verdi’s Otello and Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades are self-destructive obsessions and tenor heroes who become villains. Who better to perform The Queen of Spades than the Mariinsky Theater, which hosted the world premiere of The Queen of Spades on December 19, 1890? The opera is thoroughly Russian,…