June 22, 2006
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The small but intense Alexandria Guitar Festival is coming up next month, just outside of DC; mark your calendar for July 22, when the phenomenal Ricardo Cobo will be playing at The Old Presbyterian Meeting House. His recital last year -- featuring Leo Brouwer's "Black Decameron" -- was a feast of poetry and dark roiling dreams. Other artists in the seven-concert series (which starts July 19) include Stephen Aron, Nicholas Goluses, Julian Gray, Tracy Anne Smith and others.

And, because we've loved her to distraction ever since hearing her unleash the tape-head violin at The Kitchen in, um, 1983? The irresistible Laurie Anderson waltzing with William S. Burroughs and performing "Language is a Virus" from the 1986 film, "Home of the Brave":