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We're always trying to think of ways to offer you, our lovely readers, a shot at some free entertainment, and today we've got another great opportunity for you. We've paired up with Landslide Pictures to host a special preview screening of Civic Duty at the Landmark E Street Cinema on Tuesday, May 1 at 7 p.m.. Here's a brief synopsis of the story: Angry and depressed over losing his job, accountant Terry Allen begins to...

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TUESDAY Dreckifying The Shop Around the Corner notwithstanding, Nora Ephron has a solid track record of bringing the funny. Why so wistful, then, Nora? Find out tonight at Politics and Prose as she discusses I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW., 7 p.m. If you can’t make it, she’ll be making another D.C. stop Wednesday at the District of Columbia Jewish Community Center, 16th &...

reports that TV shows based in D.C. consistently have the oldest viewers. Now, considering that we here at DCist are still lamenting the end of The West Wing, we might not be your average younger viewer. Nonetheless, we think D.C. has unexploited TV potential. What’s sexier than taking low-paying jobs that look good on your resume? Or spotting George Stephanopoulos at Starbucks? Not much.

Another D.C.-based, political show bites the dust.

LAist has so much fun this week! They go to E3, where they overhear the timeless remark "Man, this is where nerdy girls get laid." Is that a promise? They also give us this week's best CDs and make us realize that LA is the best place to use Zillow. Ah, Houstonist. They're biking to work, that is, if they can figure out how to get there. That's right, Mapquest says "Houston had the...

NBC's political drama The West Wing comes to a close tonight at 8pm. While we haven't taken the time to plan elaborate viewing parties, a couple of us at DCist are feeling slightly nostalgic about the series. Since NBC wouldn't fork over the dollars for an hour long retrospective of the shows highlights, we decided to chime in with our own picks. Keep reading for our picks of the best episodes of the series and...

This week saw the official introduction of our newest service to make all of our social lives that much easier -- Last Call. For those of you that missed the news, our tech guru Tom Lee has set up a system through which you can check Metro arrival times, movies, weather and open tables at area restaurants by simply sending us a text message with your query. We're working to iron out any hiccups, so...

When you're facing six opponents for a local political race, getting attention and the necessary funds can be a bit of an uphill battle. What better way to overcome such a climb than with political gimmickry?

Although it may seem unnecessary to say so, sometimes opera can be fun. Italian comic opera can be musically formulaic, simplistic in plot, and even thin on entertainment. However, the best examples, when presented well, are irresistibly light-hearted. Washington National Opera's production of Gaetano Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore is just that. Yes, it's a silly story and the characters are flimsy, the staging is a reprise of Stephen Lawless's 1997 version -- altered in minor ways...

There is little doubt about the major event in classical music this week in Washington. On Tuesday (April 4, 8 p.m.) renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma will play a recital in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall. Not only that, but he will be playing three of the solo cello suites by J. S. Bach, works with which he is widely identified, to the point that when he appeared on The West Wing, he was playing one...

DCist is star-struck. Or perhaps we're just hoping to see some stars. Our friends at the Post's Reliable Source tipped us off to the fact that our old favorite TV show, "The West Wing," will be in town this weekend, casting extras for the series' final episodes. Gossips Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts were online this past Wednesday and reported that the show is scheduled to shoot around Cleveland Park this Saturday, but they gave...

Ahhhh, almost 60 degree weather in January. Could there be anything wrong with that? Anything? Well, beyond the fact that the human race may fast be approaching a tipping point at which global warming and its impacts will be irreparable, one really can't complain much. This week, we celebrated Georgetown's defeat of basketball powerhouse Duke, debated chatty cab drivers, and said goodbye to "The West Wing." We discussed the extension of the Yellow Line,...

We knew this day had to come. This morning, the Washington Post's witty and sardonic Lisa de Moraes clued us into the fact that this will indeed be the last season of the political drama The West Wing. NBC execs are cancelling the fictional White House drama, now in its seventh season, due to poor ratings and, we might add, totally boring story lines. The series finale is scheduled to air on May 14th with President Bartlett leaving the White House.

How many West Wing fans are left out there? For the loyal few left, this post is for you. The West Wing returned with an all new episode this past Sunday night at 8 p.m. on NBC. Due to dismal ratings last season, the show has been shuffled to the back of the pack in their lineup. NBC execs are hoping it will stand up against ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and Fox's The Simpsons, but after viewing last night's season opener, we have our doubts.

Get ready to set your DVR's and TiVo's, D.C. The major networks have already started rolling out their new line-ups, but this week there are seemingly unlimited primetime viewing options as the new fall TV season kicks into high gear. Family sitcoms are back, as are shows about aliens.

Bright and early this morning the 57th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards nominations were announced. Like the red-headed stepchild of the Oscars, the Emmys are a chance for Hollywood's lesser starlets and stars to participate in their own self congratulatory fest. ABC's campy but fun Desperate Housewives leads this year with 15 nominations. Viewers can look forward to a three way cat-fight between housewives Marcia Cross, Teri Hatcher, and Felicity Huffman for Best Actress in a...

With The West Wing in the off season, there aren't any melodramas dedicated to D.C. on the horizon. No big deal really, since we prefer the escapism provided by shows set in more affluent environs like The O.C. It's really just nostalgia for the days of 90210 coupled with wishes that a club like the Bait Shop existed when we were in high school. We wonder what such excitement would be like in the District....

(Photo of a photog let loose around the Tidal Basin from DCJohn's Flickr photostream.) We guess they're the D.C. version of the Gates. Instead of visitors in Central Park looking at saffron fabric, we have visitors in West Potomac Park admiring a blanket of pink flowers ... except that unlike Christo's public art, the cherry blossoms will return next year, assuming a swarm of beavers or northern snakeheads don't crawl out of the water...

There's a minor controversy today on eGullet in reference to Tom Sietsema's review of Pazo, which will appear in Sunday's Post Magazine. This time, the controversy isn't over the restaurant's rating (three stars), but over its location: 1425 Aliceanna St., Baltimore.

Ever wonder what pollster John Zogby is doing now that the elections are over? Zogby, famous for getting it totally wrong during the past presidential election, has enough free time these days to poll real people on who they think will win the presidential race on "The West Wing". Um, has anyone told this guy it's just a TV show? The Zogby website trumpets the following results:

Santos Favored over Vinick; Fictional Democrat Would Beat Fictional Republican, 44%-28%; Vinick Plagued by Gender Gap, Weak Showing Among GOPers, New Zogby Poll Reveals

A lot of stuff going on this week on "The West Wing." The president hosts a party for Nobel laureates, Toby tries to lower the minimum voting age, there's a secret slumber party for Democratic members of Congress, and Kate has to stop the U.S. from invading Canada. It's a busy week, so let's get to it.

In the shadow of a real Inauguration, let's turn our eyes to the fictional administration in "The West Wing," shall we? It's Leo's first day back at work, in a new office with no furniture and no secretary. Everyone rushes around trying to solve various problems, and it's not really made clear what the point of the episode was at all. If anyone can tell us, please do so. We're stumped.

We hate the fact that the best thing we can say about "The West Wing" these days is, "Well, it could have been worse." Remember when this show was actually really good?

We thought it was cool when Merriam-Webster named "blog" its word of the year. But now TIME notes that 2004 was the Golden Age of the Blog. Well, we guess it was quite a year for "the blogosphere" (this DCist hates that word with a distinct passion). Popular celebrity blogs gave way to numerous blogs-to-riches stories, including some from our own stomping grounds. Blogs even got a nice little mention on The West Wing.

Guest stars galore this week on "The West Wing." Al Bundy, James Taylor and Tim Matheson are around as the president fumbles a routine photo op right before an important Chinese economic summit causing tensions between China and Taiwan to escalate to an alarming degree.

The West Wing: Episode Three

It turns out that NBC's promos for "The West Wing" are true. It's a big season of change. Unfortunately, it's not a change for the better. This week, "The West Wing" continues it resurrection as "ER:Redux."

"The West Wing" returns for its sixth season tonight at 9 p.m. on NBC, unfortunately going up against Game 7. When we last saw our public policy heroes they were in various levels of distress, dealing with the fall out from a terrorist attack on a visiting American delegation in the Gaza Strip. The car bomb killed Adm. Fitzwallace (sniff) and various members of Congress but spared Congresswoman Wyatt (the mother of Toby's kids) and...

(From DCist contributor Hemal Jhaveri)