DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. The Amazing Mr. Bickford and Does Humor Belong in Music? Frank Zappa and Congress are no strangers. It was over 20 years ago that the musician testified before a Senate subcommittee largely representing the interests of their wives and their little killjoy club, the Tipper Gore-led Parents' Music Resource Center. Thankfully, at least one member of......

DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Paranoid Park Gus Van Sant must feel like he has a lot of artistic penance to pay. Ever since the backlash over his remake of Psycho and the tired, sickly sweet inspirational sports/school clichés of Finding Forrester, the director has retreated into a self-imposed anti-commercial exile. The three previous features he's made during the '00s have......

In Los Angeles, LAist most definitely celebrated Thanksgiving like no other. After all, one has to keep up all the energy to keep on walking the line at the Writers Strike and fighting the unfortunate return of the wildfires in Malibu, which single handedly destroyed over fifty homes within the first 24 hours. National outlets may be covering the fires, but CNN also found it is easier to buy a gun than fruit and......