FRIDAY: >> Bay Area songstress Goapele’s (pictured) musical background is almost as diverse as her ethnic background. Born to a South African political exile father and a mother whose parents survived the Holocaust, she studied at the Berklee College of Music and later would form musical partnerships with the likes of hip-hop acts like the Hieroglyphics crew and E-40. However her 2005 release, Change It All, established her as especially talented when it comes to......

FRIDAY: >> In case you missed Chapel Hill's The Old Ceremony (pictured) last time they were in town, they'll be at the Rock and Roll Hotel tonight with Junior League, Unwed Sailor and John Pringle. We've raved in the past about lead singer Django Haskins' Nick Cave-meets-Ben Folds stage presence, and since then we've picked up their 2006 release Our One Mistake. If you can't make the show, we highly suggest giving them a listen......

Do you like lovely young red headed women who write and sing beautiful songs? We thought so. Take L.A.'s A Fine Frenzy for a test drive over on her MySpace page and if you like what you hear, enter for a pair of tickets to tomorrow night's show at the Black Cat. She's opening for local folk rockers Junior League. We'll pick one lucky winner at the end of the day.......

Over in what they refer to as the “Atlas District” – known more commonly by the rest of Western civilization as H Street NE – the Rock and Roll Hotel is slowly coming into its own as a venue. They have a diverse array of solid lineups checking in over the next month or so, and last night they hosted one of their better ones, an evening of music from local act Junior League and......

The rapidly developing D.C. blogosphere was the subject of a story in today's Express, who profiled Kelly Ann Collins in an article on page 32 for their Outlook page. If you missed it, today's entire Express (PDF) is available for download from their website. In addition to Kelly Ann Collins' Washington Socialites, the article mentions DCist (or our Cinco de Mayo party at least), the Cleveland Park Men's Club, DC SOB (no URL), and the......

The city was in bloom this weekend. Near this DCist's apartment, we spied a number of tourists blocking the Connecticut Avenue sidewalk near Woodley Road to snap photos of the giant bed of tulips on the embankment of the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel. From cherry blossoms the previous weekend to now tulips ... what's next weekend's flower of choice? Over on Euclid Street, were this photo from DCist Photos was snapped, even the weeds and......

A group of friends who live in Cleveland Park recently decided to take their men's club online and into the blogosphere, launching the Cleveland Park Men's Club, where the men blog behind a variety of pseudonyms: from "The Chef" and "The Dean" to "Capo." (Two are pictured here in this early post.) In a post titled "Where have all the cowboys gone?" they lay out their raison d'être: So keep bemoaning the loss of "real......