If you're like me, you're tired of just having plain old IMAX in D.C., via the two traditional IMAX screens at the Smithsonian's Natural History and Air and Space museums. What do we want? The IMAX Experience®, of course, which just sounds sexier, and which you can get at the multiplex instead of having to go to a museum like some tourist. Well, our prayers have been answered, because we can begin experiencing® IMAX here in D.C. instead of just, oh, I don't know, watching it, starting on September 9, when a newly-outfitted IMAX-esque screen opens at the AMC Georgetown. more ›

We hope you didn't miss Look Up too much while your Space Editor was up to other things during the past month. Your weekly astronomy fix is back, however, so pull up a lawn chair and dim the porch light. more ›

News broke this afternoon that the AMC Tysons Corner theater is all set to launch its IMAX expansion. The IMAX section of the theater is scheduled to open to the public on Friday, March 5, and reporters have been invited to a pair of preview screenings, of Under the Sea 3D, this week to check it out. The Going Out Gurus noted the development earlier this afternoon. more ›

For those of you who have never had the pleasure of being right up close at a U2 concert, let me divulge a spoiler: Bono — a.k.a. Paul Hewson, a.k.a. The Fly, a.k.a Mr. MacPhisto, champion of Africa and two-time Nobel Prize nominee, debt-relief crusader and F-bomb-dropping bane of the Federal Communications Commission, the big-brained, big-hearted, big-mouthed and wholly unembarrassable front man for The (all together now!) World’s Biggest Band — is a wee, short little dude. Five-seven, five-eight, tops. When he performs — and truly, no rock and roll frontman has ever looked more at ease serenading a stadium-load of air guitarists than this guy — he wears thick-soled boots that give him an extra inch-and-a-half on the vertical plane. Every little bit helps, right? more ›