DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Repertory: Labyrinth Jim Henson continued to indulge the darker doors of his mind that he'd thrown wide open with The Dark Crystal in this, regrettably his last feature film. How a film made by Jim Henson and George Lucas, and starring David Bowie managed to tank as badly as this did upon release is a mystery,... more ›

Sadly, the video the url printed on the boxes points to is a pretty unsatisfying teaser hyping the release of the stamps (and make sure you add "www" to the beginning -- leaving it off leads to a dead link). Not that anyone has accused George Lucas of being behind anything remotely satisfying in the last, oh, ten years or so. But we can still appreciate the fun in having these mailboxes around town. Have you seen anymore? more ›

Ah, the halcyon days of summer in the District. more ›

Kriston Capps over at Grammar.police takes a look at two very different pieces of District architecture, the Italian Embassy on Massachusetts Avenue and the Mies van der Rohe-designed Martin Luther King Jr. library downtown. The Italian Embassy has always been a favorite of this DCist, sort of Florentine villa-meets-George Lucas fantasy type of deal, if such an architectural intersection is permitted. more ›