Good, tight little encomium to Mr. Newman there, Ian. Nice work....

Her mistake-fixin' mojo is as potent as her contempt for Glen Hansard. That would be the second correction of this already-very-long-seeming week by dcgrrrl. Thanks....

Thanks for the correction, dcgrrrl. I've written about the Swell Season and Once before, making this error particularly embarrassing. I've corrected it above. "Kiddie-toucher" is pretty harsh, thou...

Point of order, Districtonian. Not that it matters, but "Singular Girl" appears on the Old 97s bonus CD that came with my copy of Satellite Rides in 2001. It's listed as an outtake, but it still did...

The way I figure it, publishing someone who knows what they're talking about and has a point of view can only help our cred, and anybody's cred. Anyway, it's never been more socially acceptable to be...

Yep. The photo was taken on June 27. PotD go up in the morning, so you can pretty much rely on them never having been shot the day they appear here on DCist. (We never claimed the photo was shot Ju...

Well, if anybody down here was gonna get superpowers, this is the lady you would want. Dr. Redacted is kind, selfless, and incorruptible. Questions about how it all works are so, so not my area. Fl...

"Ingenious and poetic." "Apeshit hilarious." " . . . you'll find your adventurous rewarded tenfold." Does it sound like I didn't like the movie? No star system here, MonkeyErotica. You gotta rea...

Nice work as always, Mr. Buckwalter. Did you see Brian DePalma's The Black Dahlia from 2006? It's grandly, memorably, laughably awful, but I think Fiona Shaw's performance in that film proves she ca...

. . . bears the distinctive stamp of a sort of Capra-esque Americana . . . That's actually how I would describe Dick Donner's 1978 Superman. Pointing out Brando's big payday for a small role -- al...

No love for New Orleans's Preservation Hall Jazz Band at Wolf Trap tonight?...

I asked Ira about the move. He said the reason was that in order to work on the TV and radio shows simultaneously, they had to be in New York. He also said he didn't believe the change in locales ha...

TAL definitely does tend to re-use the same music over and over, but I have no idea where you're coming from vis a vis "50s elevator, lounge, and skating rink music." The cues I feel like I hear all ...

The TAL live simulcast is being carried at the Ballston Regal Cinemas, among other theatres in Virgina. There are several venues closer to the District than Columbia, MD where you could catch it. I ...

Here's an NPR stream of the NP's 9:30 show from last October, with both Neko and Bejar in attendance. Reading the accounts here, I'm glad I was at that one instead of last night's....

Wow. And I thought I was such a literary pugilist just because now and then I like to head-butt some distracted fool and declaim, "Attention must be paid, Chump!" Verily, your American tragedy-style...

Perhaps the most enduring band in rock and roll? Really, now. Who would the other candidates for that title be? This looks like a great week at the movies. Gonna skip the Warhol (I watched about f...

Aw, come on, Mr. Buckwalter. It's so boring when we agree. I like the Raveonettes, but I thought their 70 minutes felt like 90 or 100 from most other bands. And even though Pretty in Black seems to...

I'm glad it was the sleek Adam West-era Batmobile and not the "Tumbler" -- the Hummer-on-roids that served as the Batmobile in Batman Begins. Though they probably get about the same gas mileage....

I credit the puns with increasing my own interest in the sport by 47 to 53 percent. And the commentators, Diamond Derby Dave and (I think) Suspenser Tracy. They're a bit like Gary Cole and Jason Bat...