The Capital Fringe Festival gets started in earnest today, with offerings all over town. Highlights include sci-fi dating, middle school antics, Canadian exports, songs for the deaf, a day-long performance piece, and spoonbending. It could be a little overwhelming if DCist weren't here to guide you through it, no? So before we get into it, let us first introduce OUR AWESOME FRINGE FESTIVAL MAP, which details the locations of all Fringe venues, by date. Special thanks to DCist Tom for putting that together. You can go directly to all of DCist's coverage of Fringe here. more ›

We've been excited about the first ever Capital Fringe Festival, which kicks off all over the city on July 20, for months. So you'll forgive us if we've spent nearly all morning today checking out the Festival's entire line-up, which was just put up on their web site in a spiffy, sortable interface. Neat. more ›