>> DC9's hosting a Dubstep party featuring DJs Beatcarnival and Gavin Holland. Get your bass-heavy electro-dance Thursday groove thing on for $8. >> Novelist Porochista Khakpour to discuss her debut, Sons and Other Flammable Objects, at The Modernist Society's event at Bourbon in Adams Morgan. Free drinks from 8 to 9 p.m., then questions from the audience until 10 p.m. >> Tickets are still available to the opening night of the DC Asian Pacific American... more ›

DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Indie: Into the Wild Annandale native Chris McCandless had just graduated from Emory University in 1990 when he donated his substantial life's savings to charity and set out on the road under the name of "Alexander Supertramp." His highly publicized disappearance ended two years later when his body was found in the Alaskan wilderness, and the... more ›

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Fall is the season of festivals, so I hope you've stretched properly over the last few weeks, because this weekend is chock full of 'em. more ›

Make sure you grab your popcorn money and that ugly purse you only carry because it's big enough to sneak in a couple of Diet Cokes and a bag of licorice, because the film festivals keep rolling into town. The AFI Silver Theater keeps the momentum going from last weekend's festival with the 17th Annual Washington Latin American Film Festival. Showings start tonight with the Spanish film Princesas (Princesses), featuring prostitutes with hearts of gold,... more ›

That sudden, crisp feeling in the air can only mean one thing: the doldrums of one of the worst summer movie seasons in history are mercifully over. DCist suggests you celebrate fall by checking out a few of the many, many sharp looking film festivals starting this week. more ›

DC's 2004 Asian Pacific American Film Festival is well under way. The festival features screenings of a wide variety of films at venues across the District - from the Smithsonian Castle to the Goethe-Institut. The festival runs through the 16th, when it closes with a blowout party at Panache off Connecticut. (See a Washingtonian review.) Bex Blog is attending the screening tonight at 6:30 p.m. at the Goethe-Institut of a series of women's short films... more ›