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Slate music writer Jonah Weiner has been getting a tremendous amount of ribbing on the internet for his latest counter-intuitive pop rock piece, "Creed is Good: Scott Stapp's nu-grunge foursome was seriously underrated." Weiner penned a similar defense of Limp Bizkit earlier this year, in fitting with his publication's overall reputation for being contrary just for the sake of it. For us, all of this is really just an excuse to link back to former DCist staffer Jason Linkins' classic Scott Stapp concert review, which if you've never read, you should do so now. Click here.

Your mission, should you choose to accept: With only one week, adapt a randomly-chosen Brothers Grimm Fairy Tale into a compelling stage production.

Written by Jason Linkins MONDAY Vertigo Books and the TransAfrica Forum’s Writers Corner are bringing three great authors together for a special reading event: Kwame Dawes (She’s Gone), Helon Habila (Measuring Time) and Dinaw Mengestu (The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears) come together at the Charles Sumner School, 1201 17th Street NW, 6:30 p.m. TUESDAY It’s a father and daughter fest at Politics and Prose tonight, as John McPhee, author of Uncommon Gardens joins Martha...

FRIDAY: >> Print out this PDF and take it to Local 16 between 6 to 9 p.m. tonight to receive a free drink, courtesy the Not For Tourists Guide to Washington, DC 2007. They'll also be giving away free copies of the Guide. >> Local rockers The Pharmacy Prophets are brewing up a high-concept hootenanny at Iota tonight. When the band takes the stage, they'll simultaneously be filming live concert footage for a multimedia project...

Take a little Neil Gaiman, add a healthy dose of Jasper Fforde, infuse with a serious shot of Shakespeare and pepper with clever literary references throughout (and a refreshing amount of silliness), and you have Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's , now being showcased by Rorschach Theater as part of the Shakespeare in Washington festival.

You have to give Steven Pearlstein credit. It's easy to be wrong about stuff: to call Tysons Corner a choice address, to fault Reston for not having bums and graffiti, or to assert that building churches is a better use of public money than constructing a tunnel for the Orange Line extension. Anyone can pen those garden variety inanities. It takes balls to compare Route 7 to Midtown Manhattan. That's some grade A crazy; we're...

Quite a few interpretations of Mary Shelley's have been gracing the D.C. stages lately. Round House Silver Spring has a take, and we were impressed with the lyrical, atmospheric vibe that Synetic Theatre's production captured in September.

FRIDAY: >> Seems like everyone's talking about the new nightlife options on H Street NE these days, thanks almost entirely to local bar Tsar Joe Englert. Englert's latest creation, Showbar Presents the Palace of Wonders (though we hear a lot people refering to it simply as the Freak Show Bar) has been open for a few weeks already to mixed buzz — the decor is cool, the drinks are standard, and the food is...

The summer concert season is well under way, and few surprises remain, which makes concert news that cuts through the humidity all the more exciting. Here are a few new blips on the radar that we noticed, despite our holding pattern as we await the official VFest announcements this weekend.

FRIDAY: >> There ain't nothin' remotely unfun about hanging out with North Carolina's trailer park heroes, Southern Culture On The Skids, who will be playing the 9:30 Club — or as it's more pretentiously known, "Nightclub 9:30" — tonight with Jumpin' Jupiter. If you're good enough to treat SCOTS to some fried chicken, maybe they'll indulge us locals with a Link Wray cover or two. $15, doors at 9 p.m. (Jason Linkins) >> Do your...

Those of you that hang around here at DCist fairly often, and I certainly encourage the behavior, may have noticed that nothing generates a huffy, neverending comment thread like a good turf battle. We see tiffs between the central municipalities and the exurbs, between Washingtonians east and west of Rock Creek, and especially between D.C. and Arlington (an epic struggle indeed). Mainly good fun for, as our own Jason Linkins pointed out recently, cities are cool because there are lots of different areas to visit; only a total goober would really get vein-popping mad over whose side of the river was better.

You may have noticed a suspicious absence yesterday, this being the last week of the month and Tuesday being the usual Three Stars kick off day. Sadly, this month we're a star short, at no fault of the D.C. music community, but more at the fault of my car that wouldn't start when I was to travel from the burbs and into the city last Thursday to see The Daybreak Line. So this month we...

This Monday will bring the first installment of the F.W. Thomas Performances, and you, gentle DCist readers, are largely to blame. The series, which bills itself as a "monthly literary variety show featuring live presentations from area writers, artists and musicians," was started in part because of the great turnout for a reading by writers John Hodgman, Adam Mazmanian and others here in D.C. in December — an event that we're told DCist readers showed...

Written by Jason Linkins Editors Note: We have changed the title of the post to reflect the fact that the witness did not see the killing itself happen. The Post reported as early as Wednesday that the Metropolitan Police Department is still looking for any information that could lead to an arrest in the slaying of Damon Ward, who was shot early Sunday morning, February 26. Ward, an architect from Arlington, Virginia, was apparently an...

This is the third entry in this week's Three Stars local music roundup. Check out Tuesday's piece on Death By Sexy and yesterday's take on Barakus. Today Jason Linkins spreads the news about Full Minute of Mercury. Pictures are from Full Minute of Mercury and Earlash, respectively.

Editor's Note: In the coming months our contributor Jason Linkins (who recently completed acting in the Rorshach Theater Company's production Behold!) will be collaborating with new contributor Missy Frederick to cover D.C.'s vibrant local theater scene for DCist. Though several local companies use the summertime as a hiatus in production, July 2005 will nevertheless be an active period on the D.C. stages, with many well-regarded favorites from last month sticking around to a host...

-- If you haven't had enough fun playing around with the Los Angeles Times' wiki-enabled interactive editorial, take a look at John Daniszewski's dispactch from Tehran about charges of official manipulation in the recent elections ... and saying that "[n]ew doubts and divisions have come into view" regarding the Iraq war, Paul Richter tracks conservative North Carolina Rep. Walter Jones Jr. and his shifting stance on Iraq and how that's playing back home ......

By now you're probably seen the Post's cover story today on preparations in the region for a potential nuclear attack. The Post concludes Two closely held government reports obtained by The Washington Post -- one by the White House's Homeland Security Council, the other by the Energy Department -- describe in chilling detail the effects of a nuclear detonation, using the scenario of a strike on Washington. They make clear the need for split-second execution...

DCist was critical of new Dupont "restolounge" Cloud before, noting that the white-on-white, bar with beds theme was feeling pretty tired. But owner Savino Recine didn't stop there. In fact, he's taken the bed theme to its logical conclusion. Beginning Sunday, May 8th, Cloud is encouraging patrons to come to their Sunday brunch service clad in their pajamas.

>> Wins on Friday against the free falling Cleveland Cavaliers and on Sunday against the Charlotte Bobcats coupled with an Indiana Pacers loss at Miami have moved the Wizards into 5th place in the Eastern Conference playoff race with just two games to go. The Wizards overall record now stands at 45-35 and the team has won four in a row since their five game losing streak. With the Pacers two games back with only...

Well, D.C. It seems that we're almost through Inaugural Week. Though thousands of out-of-towners, constituents and other party-goers will be still around today and into the weekend, the city should be getting slowly back to normal. A quick question to those out there who are experienced travelers ... Considering the gargantuan number of fur coats brought in for Inauguration festivities, how do you pack a fur coat into one's luggage? It seems that if fur...

When we announced that we'd be hosting our second-ever DCist happy hour, we thought it'd be good to resurrect the DCist trivia challenge.

Once again DCist is happy to bring you the football coverage of Jason Linkins aka The DCeiver. There are NFL teams that you know have the capability to walk onto the field and pitch and catch their way down your throats. The Minnesota Vikings, the Green Bay Packers — Mike Martz this weekend opened with what? 300 straight passing plays? But the Redskins are built differently. They are built on the foundation of running the...

Once again DCist is happy to bring you the football coverage of Jason Linkins aka The DCeiver.

Once again DCist is happy to bring you the football coverage of Jason Linkins aka The DCeiver. In the annals of sport, the great teams are often supported by the great on-field partnerships. Tinker to Evers to Chance. Montana and Clark. Stockton to Malone. Connected only through the bond of sport, these collaborators brought glory to their teams even as they ascribed their own legend. Well, prepare to add another set of names to the...

Once again DCist brings you our Redksins coverage from Jason Linkins (aka The DCeiver) Time and again the Redskins have looked at their schedule and found there’s been one team in the league that has always stepped up and offered themselves up for defeat. Call them the Detroit Sacrificial Lions. We’ve won 24 of the last 34 meetings with Detroit. And as a playoff opponent, they make the bye week look scary. Heck, if a...

DCist is happy to announce that Jason Linkins (aka The DCeiver) has agreed to take over our football coverage and bring his weekly "Passion of the Gibbs" column over to our bandwidth. I gotta tell you, DC…we was robbed! Defeat was snatched from the jaws of victory this weekend at “Snyders of Landover” (as my buddy Josef V. calls it) when the seemingly miraculous Clinton Portis touchdown was called back on an illegal motion penalty...

With the biggest sports story of the week already written, returning to another Sunday of the NFL regular season may seem a little anti-climactic. Perhaps more so when you consider the Redskins upcoming home game against the Green Bay Packers—both teams started out with big wins, fell into long losing streaks, got mired in the basement of their respective divisions, and only now are showing some signs of life. Both teams are enduring some...