Two floods, two ruined wooden floors and a broken AC compressor later, Dolcezza's second location in Bethesda Row finally opened two weeks ago. Now that the shop has had a little time to perfect serving their Argentinean-style gelato - in addition to churning out 300 lbs of various flavors, all from locally sourced ingredients - they'll be throwing a grand opening fiesta tonight from 6 - 11 p.m. They expect "mass gelato pandemonium" as......

DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Major Release: There Will Be Blood We should have held our tongues on our top 10 for the year until the actual end of the year. Paul Thomas Anderson's new film slipped in just under the 2007 wire in limited release last week, and the director channels John Huston, Stanley Kubrick, and his own wild-eyed imagination......

DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Foreign: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Imagine writing a book when your typing speed is roughly half a word per minute. That picture of painstaking persistence only scratches the surface of the story of Jean-Dominique Bauby, the French Elle magazine editor who suffered total paralysis after a stroke that left him only able to communicate......

DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Repertory: The Third Man The AFI continues to please with yet another showing of an absolute must-see classic. Last week it was The 400 Blows, and this week it's three showings of Carol Reed's gripping British noir, The Third Man. Based on a story and a screenplay by Graham Greene, the movie is a study in......

DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Indie: The Darjeeling Limited By now, five features into his career, it's likely you already have a strong opinion on Wes Anderson. Despite his tendency to borrow liberally from his own film and literary heroes, from Kubrick to Fitzgerald to the entire French New Wave, a Wes Anderson film feels like a Wes Anderson film from......

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......

Notes on a Scandal may star two of the greatest living actresses, thespians who more often play monarchs than molls, but don’t fool yourself—the movie’s trash, not art. But it’s a kind of high trash, a thinking woman’s "beach viewing," much in the vein of the delightfully lurid 2003 François Ozon film Swimming Pool. Based on the novel What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal by the British writer Zoë Heller, Notes stars Judi......

This piece was written by DCist contributor Cynthia Rockwell. Sure, you could bask in the seasonal spirit and check out the classics this weekend, but if you're looking to escape the incessant holiday cheer, here are a few ideas for cinematic diversion: >>Attention Cate Blanchett fans, we have not one but two films starring the willowy beauty opening this week. First is the slick black-and-white espionage thriller The Good German, Steven Soderbergh's homage to film......

FRIDAY: >> We caught Echo and the Bunnymen in Lancaster, PA back in May, the night before HFStival, and it was one of the best shows we've seen all year. It's too bad singer Ian MacCulloch's voice didn't hold up the next day at M&T Bank Stadium. But we're willing to let the band off the hook for that, provided they play a great show tonight at the Black Cat. Recent European setlists have mixed......

Kayti Didriksen's notorious painting of President Bush, "Man of Leisure: King George" (which was originally part of the City Museum's "Funky Furniture" exhibition until deemed unsuitable for public display) can now be seen at Modern ARF in Clarendon. -- This evening, head to the next installment of Artful Evenings at the Phillips Collection. Elizabeth Hutton Turner, the curator of the newly opened exhibit "Calder Miró," will lead a discussion of the visual dialogue between the......

Don't know what to do this weekend? DCist has some suggestions! Check it out: FRIDAY: Seen the re-release of Donnie Darko but still not filled your cult classic quota? Fear not, Landmark's Bethesda Row Cinema is hosting midnight screenings of such cultural signposts as The Breakfast Club (this week) and Office Space (Labor Day weekend). A quick five minute walk from the Bethesda Metro, all showings are at midnight on Friday and Saturday nights, and......