WTOP is reporting that D.C.'s streetcars arrived at the Port of Baltimore over the weekend, and are now awaiting customs clearance before being moved to their new home at the Greenbelt Rail Yard. more ›

On Tuesday, the District Department of Transportation released the above images of the city's three streetcars being loaded up for shipping. That's good news, considering D.C. taxpayers have been paying to store the streetcars in the Czech Republic for over four years now. DDOT says these images show the streetcars being loaded onto flatbed trucks in the Czech Republic and then arriving in Hamburg, Germany. They are expected to make it to D.C., by ship, in mid-December. more ›

At the outset of Lost Holiday, a charming, funny, and almost unintentionally political documentary out of the Czech Republic, director Lucie Králová rather cheekily declares the film, via the opening credits, to be a "detective documentary." It's a touch that borders on precious, and a tone that continues in the often wry intertitles that mark time throughout the "investigation" that is the film's subject. What they're trying to detect are the identities of six men who they know only through photographs. A man that Králová meets through an art project in which she was involved happened upon a suitcase in a dumpster in a run-down neighborhood near Sweden's Göteberg airport. Inside there was nothing but a plastic bag containing 22 rolls of undeveloped film. He had them processed, and found himself with over 700 photos of six Asian men on what appeared to be a holiday throughout Scandinavia. What Králová wanted to know is if it's possible, in the interconnected world we now live in, to track down these men based solely on what they can glean from their photographs. more ›

DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Repertory: The 400 Blows Expect to see plenty of French New Wave retrospectives over the next year or so, as 2008 represents the movement's 50th anniversary. If Claude Chabrol's 1958 Le Beau Serge lit the fuse, François Truffaut's 400 Blows was the first in a subsequent series of cinematic explosions that announced France's new generation of... more ›

>> Tickets are still available to see Argentine-Swedish songwriter and solo classical guitar player José González, he of the awesome indie cover songs (and a bunch of originals, too) play the 9:30 Club. Doors 7:30 p.m., $20, with James Blackshaw. more ›

MONDAY >> At the ripe young age of 24, Patrick Wolf has already achieved a lot: three albums of brooding electronica and orchestral pop, modeling campaigns for Burberry, headlines in the British tabloids and at least one on-stage altercation that found the lupine violinist attacking his strung-out drummer with a cymbal. Drama notwithstanding, Wolf's latest, the surprisingly upbeat The Magic Position, is undoubtedly one of this year's best. Come see what all the fuss is... more ›

Once, they call it. There’s a song by that name in the film, but the title could just as well be writer/director John Carney’s private joke about how often this premise can be expected to work: Two talented musicians, one of them very young and not yet famous; the other no longer young and probably as famous as he’s likely to become, meet cute on the streets of Dublin and spend a couple of... more ›

Last week the Wizards signed former GW forward Mike Hall to a 10-day contract, making him the second Colonial from last year's team to make it to the NBA. The first was Pops Mensah-Bonsu, who scored the first points by a GW player in the NBA since Yinka "the Stinka" Dare in 1998. Neither look to play much this season, but it got us thinking - where are all the other players from local colleges?... more ›

On Monday, the U.S. suffered a sobering 3-0 loss to the Czech Republic. Monstruous forward Jan Koller scored in the 5th minute of play, putting the U.S. on its heels. The Czechs did not look back, out-hustling, out-muscling, and out-classing the U.S. for the remainder of the game. How does a team maintain a positive attitude coming from a game in which it was so thoroughly beaten? Apparently with a rededication to the original... more ›

As Monday's opener with the Czech Republic draws nearer, U.S. Men's National Team Coach Bruce Arena had this to say to reporters yesterday: "you can't believe everything you read in the papers". Although Arena was referring to reports that the Czechs would be without the services of their injury-ridden star players, the statement could well serve as a mantra for his squad throughout this month's World Cup. The U.S. has the misfortune of being... more ›

The world's most popular sporting event, soccer's World Cup, gets underway tomorrow in Germany. Unlike 2002 when matches took place in the wee hours, this year's start from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Eastern time, meaning it's a lot easier to hit a bar or two and watch a game. Some DC area bars and restaurants are opening early for the fans, including Pour House on Capitol Hill, Lucky Bar in Dupont, and Fado... more ›

Most D.C. restaurateurs knew him simply as “Vas,” but at Washington-area farmer’s markets he was known as Pennsylvania farming powerhouse Mark Toigo’s right-hand man at Toigo Orchards. Unfortunately, what should have been a quick trip home to the Czech Republic and visa renewal for food fixture Vaclav "Vas" Trnka became a messy citizenship fiasco. more ›

ButterReality? Buttershtick? Maybe he's big enough for Wikipedia standards, but does Butterstick have his own reality show? No. But the gorillas at the Prague Zoo do, challenging the 'stick in a competition for the hottest eye candy to hit an international zoo. After Czechs decided they'd had their puke-worthy share of American reality television, they came up with "Unmasking", their own satirical spin-off. Contestants aren't thrown onto a desolate island. They're not running around... more ›