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Jul 14, 2006

Out and About: Weekend Picks

FRIDAY: >>Today is Bastille Day, which commemorates the Fête de la Fédération of 1790, held on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille July 14th, 1789 — basically it’s all about sticking it to the man and rising up as a French nation. But as all noble foreign holidays seem to be celebrated in America, we’ve turned it into an excuse to eat and drink too much. Last year we put together a…

Jun 02, 2006

Out and About: Weekend Picks

FRIDAY: The Mozart Year is almost halfway over — the man’s birthday was January 27 — but classical concert programming continues to celebrate it. Opera Lafayette gets in the game tonight and tomorrow (June 2 and 3, 7:30 p.m.) with a concert performance of Mozart’s first important opera, Idomeneo, at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center in College Park. The vocal cast promises to be excellent, including an up-and-coming young singer named Millicent Scarlett, who…

 
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