The pretty people are descending upon our city. A couple big movie shoots are in town, so if you're into that sort of thing, now's your chance for an Affleck or LaBeouf sighting. State of Play, an adaptation of a BBC miniseries starring Russell Crow and Ben Affleck, has been shooting for a couple of days around Capitol Hill. This movie made headlines in the fall when Brad Pitt dropped out due to an inability......

This review was written by guest poster Eric Nuzum, a local pop culture commentator and author of The Dead Travel Fast: Stalking Vampires from Nosferatu to Count Chocula. Here's the reason why there have been more than 600 vampire films produced in the past 85 years: Vampires are the perfect metaphor. Tradition says that vampires don't cast reflections. But vampires are, in fact, reflections of what terrifies or titillates us, as well as what we......

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner are in town today, thanks to Affleck having agreed to be the commencement speaker at Falls Church High School. The WaPo explains that the actor agreed to lend an unusual amount of starpower to the high school graduation ceremony thanks to his friendship with Falls Church senior Joe Kindregan. Kindregan and Affleck met when the actor was filming 1998's Forces of Nature at Dulles Airport. Kindregan has ataxia-telangiectasia, a rare......

Our friends over at the Associated Press have dug deep into a story that's weighing heavily on all of our minds today: Why is it that the National Air and Space Museum, once the proud champion of the Smithsonian's annual Awesomest Awards for Attendance, has fallen from favor with the museum-attending set. Air and Space's attendance fell below that of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History for the first time in recent memory last......

So much theater, so little time...that's what DC theater fans will lament as they view the hefty list of Beltway-bound openings this month. Enough introduction: let's leave room to showcase everything from Kushner to Capote. Not to be confused with the Jennifer Lopez/Ben Affleck disaster, there's Woolly Mammoth's The Gigli Concert, focuses on an Englishman's love for women and vodka which features a struggling Englishman in Dublin who is faced with a client with a......

The Names & Faces column in today's Post has a delightful little tid bit about some welcome visitors to town: A stealth visit to Washington by Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner -- whose unconfirmed relationship is being dubbed BenGar -- went relatively unnoticed, but about 30 members of Congress lined up to ooh and aah over the superstars Tuesday night at Charlie Palmer Steakhouse. Perhaps the Representatives heard about it here - we posted on......

(From DCist contributor Hemal Jhaveri) Is George Clooney going to the be the next Arnold? We, and every other media outlet, can only speculate. The Reliable Source gives us a heads up that the former ER doc will be hitting the Hill tonight:Washington's favorite celebrity hunk, George Clooney, is back in town. Tonight he'll be at a fundraiser at Lounge 201 on Capitol Hill for his father, Nick, who's running for Congress as a Democrat......

(By DCist contributor Hemal Jhaveri) DCist got an invite in the mail a few weeks ago to attend a big shindig being held on Sept. 21 for the AT Children's Project, a nonprofit dedicated to, according to their web site, "finding a cure for ataxia-telangiectasia, a rare genetic disease that causes progressive loss of motor control, cancer and immune system problems" in kids. Now, we're all for charitable works, but we're on a budget here......