Alamo Drafthouse, maybe the most awesome movie theater in America, says it is expanding to D.C. Well, close to D.C. Actually, it's set to open in Ashburn, Va., which isn't really that close at all. more ›

After announcing last week that the Lincoln Theatre would play host to a four-week run of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Mayor Vince Gray and other District officials held a press conference today on their grand visions for the 90-year-old venue, which will soon be under the District's purview. more ›

When trying to write my last Looking Back post, I couldn't find an interesting, great building to write about -- so I decided to do a Looking Back post on the last 8 months or some of Looking Back posts. more ›

Last night I went to the newly opened West End Cinema and sat next to some veterans of the independent movie scene in D.C. Listening to them reminisce about the theater options back in the day made me wonder what had happened to all of those theaters. I soon found Cinema Treasures: a great catalog of all of the theaters that had existed in D.C. more ›

Admittedly, it's been quite a while since I was in the lower level of Union Station, but I was pretty surprised to read in this Washington Post story that the Union Station 9 movie theater only finally closed on Oct. 12. Weren't we talking about this place shutting down over a year ago? I honestly didn't realize it was still open up until this month, but like I said, I really haven't been down there in a while. I'm sure regular denizens of the downstairs food court will happily tell me all about it. more ›