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June 30, 2008
Traffic signals are out in much of Brookland and around Catholic University. [WaPo] If the Comcast guy crashes his van into your house, apparently you don't even get free cable. [Consumerist] Seems like the storm drain system at the DC USA complex in Columbia Heights leaves a little something to be desired. [Greater Greater Washington] People are already setting off fireworks in the Shaw neighborhood. [In Shaw] What Angela Valdez said. [City Desk]The Fort...
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If you made it out to Mission of Burma's show at the Black Cat on Saturday night, it's likely you're still hearing those songs running through your head. If that's the case, it's probably because you can hear little else. The band may now be firmly entrenched in middle age, but don't tell them that there's a mellowing process that's supposed to go along with reaching your 50s. Saturday's show was quite possibly the loudest...
Continue Reading "Mission of Burma @ Black Cat"What is it about Bergen, Norway? The city of 250,000 is the home to numerous bands, including Kings of Convenience, Annie, Röyksopp, Sondre Lerche, and Datarock. The latter, a group of red jumpsuited goofballs, played Saturday at the Rock and Roll Hotel and did not disappoint. Half electronic, half guitar, the duo (which expands to a quartet on tour) lifts from ecclectic places, like the musical Grease ("Computer Camp Love"), Factory Records' funkier stuff ("Fa...
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Bellman Barker MONDAY >> Provided any passing storms don't interfere, Fort Reno is back tonight. Indie rockers and Three Stars alums Bellman Barker are playing in the top slot, with the countryish The Moderate and jazz-punk experimentalists Gestures kicking things off. Free, 7:15 p.m. >> Some world music acts try to throw in too many different genres. Decide whether Rupa & the April Fishes, a San Francisco band, can pull off the multi-style approach...
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MONDAY: Those of you interested in questions of population growth and its relationship to female sexual autonomy will want to catch Robert Engelman, vice president for programs at the Worldwatch Institute, as he discusses his new book, More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want, at Busboys and Poets. 6:30 p.m. Sorry folks, Salman Rushdie’s discussion and signing of The Enchantress of Florence at Politics & Prose is, sadly, sold out. TUESDAY: Bestselling author Lauren Weisberger...
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June 30, 2008
There's a slight chance of showers in today's forecast. But hopefully, it won't be anything like the downpour that Flickr user c00lmarie caught on Saturday. This Frank Miller-esque shot was enough to get us to neurotically obsess about whether or not to tote an umbrella this morning. EXIF....
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Photo from the 2007 DC Caribbean Carnival by yolamak. FRIDAY: >> Civilian Art Projects opens two group shows focused on screen printing. Prints found in Screams & Screens will show vibrant colors and bold contrasts with multiple layers of patterns and screens intending to "pop" and "scream" at you. Process & Alchemy: New Directions and Alternative Processes in Screen-printing will show work from the Hand Print Workshop International based in Alexandria, VA. Look for...
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The City Veins: Spencer Vliet (left), Aaron Tarr and Charles Gray. Photo by Darren Higgins When The City Veins first started in early 2007, they were a good band. A four piece with sincere musical ability, we took notice (and not just because one of them is also our Nats columnist). But after Adam Bayes exited the group, and left the remaining members, Aaron Tarr, Charles Gray and Spencer Vliet, to figure out how...
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"But wait...there's a second act?" When the lights go out an hour and a half into Washington Shakespeare Company's Red Noses, it's a surprise when the curtain call doesn't follow. Though not every loose end has been tied up in the play, a humorous send-up of a religious troupe who turns to comedy to combat the devastation of the Black Plague, it's difficult to figure out what else the work has left to say....
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Sorry, Flickr users, today's Photo of the Day comes from a local whose achievement in the field of biological, if not photographic, excellence dusts all y'all suckers. This is an ultrasound image belonging to friend of mine. It is not a joke; it is not a fake, and yes, of course I obtained her permission to post it here with the quite understandable proviso that I remove her name from it. Those of you...
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Martin Puryear's C.F.A.O., 2006-2007, painted and unpainted pine and found wheelbarrow. Courtesy the artist and Donald Young Gallery, Chicago. © 2008 Martin Puryear. Photo Richard P. Goodbody When Martin Puryear visited the National Gallery of Art last week for the press opening of his retrospective show, he spoke about how he grew up in Washington, and as a child would often visit the gallery. He didn’t imagine that one day the museum would host...
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An unnamed couple takes a romantic stroll among the frozen horse-heads. It'll all make perfect sense -- maybe -- after you've seen Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg. It's not really a documentary. It's not exactly a memoir. It is ingenious and poetic. Frequently it's apeshit hilarious. But, like, what the hell is this thing? Guy Maddin’s dreamy, beguiling My Winnipeg opens with the iconoclastic filmmaker employing the most loathsome directorial tactic there is: The camera fixes...
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DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. My Life to Live The AFI has returned to it's regular presenting schedule, which means that their Godard retrospective continues marching on. It's rather appropriate that My Life to Live is the first film to screen after the documentary festival: Godard infused his fourth feature with a realistic energy that came directly from the cinéma vérité...
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Editor's note: Have you missed our regular About Tonight feature over the last three days? Me too! I've been compiling our weekend and daily event picks for three years now, and am now looking for someone with a fresh take and a lot of enthusiasm to assist with these features. Are you the kind of person your friends always ask first to find out what's going on around town? Would you like to put...
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>> Saturday, the Bobby Fisher Memorial Building, opens Girlish Ways: The Next Generation of Female Artists, a selection of twelve artists under the age of 35 who investigate how contemporary lifestyles affect and re-define the women of this generation. The exhibit explores youthful and mature concerns of the women involved, as well as how these women respond to their changing environments. See local graduates from American University, the Corcoran, and Towson graduate Lauren Bender,...
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June 26, 2008
Today's photo of some passing traffic "across from the gallery" is brought to you by mzv with one of my favorite cameras, the Holga. It's the kind of camera that you never quite know what you're going to get when you take the image, and made of pretty much all plastic -- you can get them pretty cheap....
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"I wanted to do a tribute to Shirley Scott, my mentor and a good friend who was very generous with me in my younger years." That is how powerhouse saxophonist Tim Warfield describes his latest recording, One for Shirley, a warm and loving tribute to the organist who passed away in 2002 due to heart failure brought about by her use of the diet medication, Fen-Phen. Warfield, who is based out of the Philadelphia area,...
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Home to guerrilla art exhibits as well as the city's most famous art guerrilla, the Bobby Fisher Memorial Building at 1644 North Capitol Street NW is coming to a close, after tenants and landlord failed to renegotiate a lease. The dozen-member collective known as the Borf Brigade that runs the DIY community arts center, as well as their regent, John Tsombikos (aka Borf), have been unable to negotiate a lease renewal with Joe Scheve, the...
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The Smithsonian's annual Folk Life Festival begins today on the National Mall. It runs from June 25 to June 29, as well as July 2 to 6. Daytime events are open from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; special evening events begin at 6 p.m. when scheduled. Below are some of the highlights we've picked out, and we encourage you to check their full online schedule and map. This year's festival celebrates three themes: Bhutan: Land...
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All three of the songs on The Moderate's release, AM/FM, show a very strong imprint from singer/guitarist Jim Dempsey and drummer Drew Marks' home state of North Carolina. From Dempsey's twangy drawl to the songs' seemingly heat and humidity laden relaxed tempo, there's no question where this band's roots lie. The blues that they evoke on "Lost Boy", "Rock and Roll" and "Blue Eyes and Barflies" could make your puppy cry. The majority of The...
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Today's awesome catch by Flickr contributor Bullneck was taken during the Presidents Race at the Nationals game against the Angels last night. Looks like someone needs to school those guys on how to run standing up. EXIF...
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Omega Bugembe Okello >> Local mainstays The Redd Brothers, led by vibist Chuck Redd and pi