Chris Klimek

"Mankind is in the house!" declared Bono at the Corporate Name Stadium Where the Baltimore Ravens Play last night. Look, you can't stop him talking like that. Larry Mullen, Jr., U2's ever-scowling drummer, has tried. And mankind was, empirically speaking, present in large part, to the tune of roughly 80,000... continue reading on DCist

O, Colin Meloy! How your cherubic visage and reedy vox rather astoundingly do not stoke within me a zealous ardor to curl the fingers of mine hand into a mightie ball and hurl it with an urgencie most awesome and terrible straight at the furry vortex from whence issues... continue reading on DCist

The organizers of Saturday's Virgin Mobile Free Festival saved the best for last. LCD Soundsystem -- manifested onstage by brains-and-vox-of the outfit James Murphy-plus-six -- closed down the sprawling 11-hour, three-stage, one-ferris wheel, no-T.I. music bazaar with an 85-minute blast of sweaty 21st-century dance-rock that felt taut and commanding after... continue reading on DCist

A brilliant, pioneering jurist; an ingenious futurist; a beloved Cuban crooner. Biopics are usually fodder for the colder months at the cinema, but DC theaters are greeting swimsuit season with a raft of shows dramatizing the lives of historical figures, along with new plays from Ireland, (more) speechless Shakespeare,... continue reading on DCist

Elvis Costello has written a lot of great songs since 1977, but one of his very best ingeniously likens a disloyal lover to a spy unfaithful to any nation — “Man Out of Time.” He skipped that one at the Warner Theatre last night, but more than ever, it... continue reading on DCist