Living Social = Wal-Mart? According to some local arts organizations, yes. The deal company, whose new HQ just opened on F Street NW, is getting into the creative playtime business, and arts presenters are hatin' it. [Washington Post]
Woolly's Civilization: All You Can Eat "beat[s] us senseless with Big Allegory." [DCist]
Meanwhile, Peter Marks calls Synetic's Genesis [...]

You can take the Bible's Genesis story any number of ways, even if you don't take it religiously. Humans contaminated by knowledge? Metaphorically speaking, that could easily apply to a range of shifts in human experience, from the evolution of consciousness to society's growth from a nomadic lifestyle to an agrarian one or to simply [...]

Synetic Theater is so frequently lauded for its innovative physical performances, you could imagine the troupe getting comfortable in the (mostly silent) theatrical language it's innovated since forming in 2001.
But Synetic is still expanding its onstage vocabulary, which should be evident in its "New Movements" series launching this week. "I think that people are going to [...]

John Anderson leads this week's section with a feature about the Library of Congress' duplication services, which are no longer selling darkroom-made prints. Franz Jantzen, a darkroom printer whose freelance work for LoC has now ended, says it's our loss. Kriston Capps reviews Project 4's Agnes Bolt solo show—you'll remember Bolt is the Pittsburgh artist [...]