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Recess of a Journey #4, 12 inches by 10 inches, mixed media, 2005" src="http://dcist.com/attachments/John James Anderson/2007_0717_RahmanRecess.jpg" width="209" height="300" class="left"/> The most recent show at the Ellipse Arts Center in Arlington, titled Transform/Nation: Contemporary Art of Iran and Its Diaspora, explores the themes of identity, tradition, stereotype, and society that Iranian artists confront within their works. It is a show that is not about to divorce the work on the wall with the history of Iran;...

Apparently traumatized by the memory of his long lost pants, administrative law Judge Roy Pearson began to cry while testifying in D.C. Superior Court yesterday afternoon. After calling several witnesses who testified that they stopped going to Custom Cleaners after having unsatisfactory business dealings with the shop, Pearson took the stand himself, and as he recounted the story of having the Chung family try to give him a pair of pants that were not his,...

All across the Ist-A-Verse (or at least the American parts thereof), writers and editors are in the midst of enjoying their three-day weekend. But after the week we've all had, we feel like the break is not only needed, but deserved. Just look at everything we've been doing! Gothamist headed into the Memorial Day weekend with a number of tasks accomplished. They worried about Long Islanders giving New Yorkers a bad name. They tried...

>> If you didn't make it to any of the screenings of this year's 48 Hour Film Festival entries, tonight is your best, and last, bet to check out some of the highlights. At 7 and 9:30 p.m., the AFI Silver Theater will screen the "Best Of" the festival, a good way to take in the fun of the project (which asks filmmakers to create a short in only 48 hours) without too much...

This review was written by new DCist contributor, Christopher Klimek Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons, newly revived at the Keegan Theatre, is probably forever doomed to be stuck in the present. First staged in 1960, and dramatizing events that occurred more than four centuries earlier — Thomas More's refusal-by-silence to sanction King Henry VIII's divorce — the play seems contemporary, as martyr stories inevitably will. After all, who was Thomas More, if...

Santa's workshop has come a long way in the last 40 years. In the most accurate historical documentary available on the subject, as recently as the mid-60s, the elves were equipped with only the skills necessary to turn out dolls, sleds, toy cars and trains, and other fairly rudimentary wood and fabric-based toys. Somewhere along the line, the Kringles must have signed up the little people for some intensive training, because the electronics coming...

>> Okay, not technically voting news, but we're convinced that Britney Spears is filing for divorce today in order to sway the elections in some manner. Perhaps going on a campaign of "Don't Marry Total Effing Idiots"? [TMZ]

>> Robocalling — the new hotness? Over on his personal blog, DCist Tom explains just how it's done — and just how easy it is to do. Please don't try this at home. Seriously. [Manifest Density]

>> Representation: a right that even those in remote Tajik villages get to have. Meanwhile, here in D.C., we just get to sit around and be bitter. [SueAndNotU]

>> The GOP — could they possibly, POSSIBLY, be realizing the fact that the same sex marriage ban is completely and utterly embarrassing, humiliating, and totally stupid, amongst many other adjectives we could think of? Ehhh...probably not. [piece of ass]

>> Want to feel all inspired and patriotic? Check out the hundreds of "I Voted" pictures floating around on Flickr. It'll give you the warm and fuzzies. [Flickr]

>> Tired of the status quo here in D.C.? It may be a bit too late now, but consider a write-in campaign for a candidate who recommends that "Smith Point should be fire bombed." Sounds good! But on the other hand, he believes North Cleveland Park is a neighborhood. [Rock Creek Rambler]

>> We've been hearing that "I voted" stickers aren't being handed out at some polling places in the city. Which, outrage. Maybe that's what happened to the man in Pennsylvania who destroyed a voting machine with a metal cat statue. Which is the awesomest sentence we've typed in a long time. [Wonkette]

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What's new(est) with Wolf Parade? These brothers of Brock, peers of Pitchfork and travelers on the Arcade Fire turnpike are going strong. Yet they also maintain that aura of youthful poverty and subsequent spiritual wealth that's critical to their frenetic, idealism-tinged sound. Their EP drew buzz and their debut long player, Apologies to the Queen Mary, confirmed it. The group’s got almost as many side projects as members, with Arlen's AIDS Wolf and Krug's Thunder Cloud (or is it Swan Lake?) and Sunset Rubdown. Hell, they even picked up Dante DeCaro, formerly of Hot Hot Heat. These Canadians sure know how to stick together and be prolific. Speaking of which, where's the next Arcade Fire album...

Phillyist notes a fistfight between local pols that leaves one man down for the count. Jehovah's Witnesses get a Philly contributor out of bed, things get a little geeky with a film festival and geeky gets taken to a whole new galaxy when they talk with the Dragon Queen of the Dark Kingdom. Shanghaiist gets all excited this week over a new nightclub in the city unfortunately named "Snatch" and Mike Tyson is scheduled to...

No matter how good you are, you're always at the mercy of the sound system. Two very good bands, The Joggers and Georgie James worked a capacity crowd at the Black Cat backstage last night. Unfortunately both performances suffered from technical difficulties and, in the case of the Joggers, a bonus hangover. Hailing from Portland, Oregon, the Joggers make a broken bottleneck meets deliverance kind of rock. In 2003, the band released their debut LP,...

So, The United States is preparing to develop methods for generating fuel from switch grass. I don't know what switch grass is, but my gut tells me it's a lot like brush, and Bush stands to make a killing off this whole arrangement. There is a Better Way: So, Washington was host once more to the State of the Union. We continue to marvel at the fact that once a year, at a predictable time...

There must be something about this time of year that winds cultural conservatives in our fair city a bit more tightly than usual. First, Dr. James Dobson, a conservative Christian activist, suggested at an inauguration event last week that SpongeBob Squarepants was featured in a "pro-homosexual video" that was to indoctrinate school children. After much liberal snickering, it turns out the whole thing might have been an innocent mix-up over the name of a group...