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.
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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":