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There have been many great performers in Music Land, for example Bono, Freddie Mercury, and Madonna, just to name a few. There are also many folks who go out of their way to exude cool via ironic t-shirts purchased at Urban Outfitters and meticulously unkempt hair. It’s one thing to dance with a pretty girl in the audience, but how many rock stars put a guitar in her hands and then proceed to wrap their...

While there are many blogs out there that are little more than self-indulgement ramblings or highfalutin attempts at taste-making, according to a post I just read on Boing Boing, we can actually use this populist technology to engender social change, or something like that. So if you were as bewildered and disappointed as we were by the results of the Post's Best Bets poll last year, we ask that you rally behind a noble cause and help us ensure that the world knows that DC has more to offer than Ikea and Fuddruckers.

Saturday Night Live’s recent “Lazy Sunday” short film has given me an intense craving for cupcakes. The ones featured, from New York City’s Magnolia Bakery, brought to mind the following question: where can you find high-quality cupcakes in D.C.? “I don’t think this cupcake thing is at its height,” a bakery owner told New York magazine this past fall. With our northern neighbor's Buttercup Bakery in the process of franchising nationally and Warren Brown’s outfit...

A layer of snow has covered much of the Washington area for two weeks now, today the mercury barely poked above freezing, and on Thursday it looks like it might be a Rick Moody kind of day. December has been a veritable winter wonderland, and by wonderland, we mean that we “wonder” how often we're going to “land” on our ass before all this white stuff disappears. Aside from the slushy sidewalks, one of our biggest cold weather complaints is the lack of fashion and function afforded by various outerwear garments (i.e. Randy in “A Christmas Story”).

This is the second entry in this week's Three Stars local music roundup. Click here to read yesterday's piece on Death By Sexy, and be sure to check back tomorrow for our take on Full Minute of Mercury. Today, Amanda Mattos discusses Barakus. Barakus If we weren’t sure we were seeing a local band, it only took one sweeping glance at the audience to identify it as such. Rather than throngs of hipsters peddling for...

The recent trend toward giant beaded necklaces seems inspired by the oversized-sunglasses-clad, jumbo-hobo-bag-toting, venti-skim-latte-swilling Olsen twins’ style philosophy, or, “the bigger the accessory, the smaller you look.”

According to a recent e-mail newsletter from Councilman Jack Evans (D-Ward 2), a decision has been made about what to do with the plot of land the old convention center once occupied. Now that the site has been cleared and the place no longer looks like an urban war zone, the city is eager to let the revenue generating begin with a mixed-use project containing almost a million square feet. The Councilman's e-mail states that the site will provide:

300,000 square feet of retail space, 550,000 square feet of office space, 1,372 units of housing and at least 1,900 parking spaces. In addition, at the District's option, 120,000 square feet of the site are reserved for uses that could include apartments, stores, a new central library and/or hotel.

Those excited about having yet another potential Urban Outfitters location may have to cop their trucker hats elsewhere though, as the city has some interesting stipulations that may help prevent the place from becoming another Gallery Place-esque pseudo-mall. Rather than simply airdropping a chunk of Tyson's Galleria onto the vacant lot, the developers seem committed to building something at least somewhat unique as far as these sort of developments go.

Georgetown, a neighborhood not exactly known for a paucity of shopping options, will soon give D.C. residents a few more ways to indulge in retail therapy. Three big-name chains -- eclectic women's clothing and home accessories retailer Anthropologie (Urban Outfitters' offering for women age 30-45), Benetton Group's Sisely, and New York-based Intermix -- are alighting in Georgetown Park mall. They join the already-open Capital Segway, a generously-sized yet sparsely furnished space where people who have been enviously watching tourists tool around D.C. on the personal transport devices can try out and purchase their own model. Segway riders can burn the calories they would have otherwise used walking and get their atrophied legs into shape at the newest branch of Washington Sports Club, also located in Georgetown Park.

Add Masaharu Morimoto to the list of renowned chefs coming to the D.C. area. As part of Tysons Corner's Fall 2005 expansion, the Iron Chef will bring a new concept, an upscale Asian-Fusion restaurant called Pauli Moto's Asian Bistro, to the expansion wing of the mall. Other tenants will include the area's only Oakley store, a new Urban Outfitters and a Famous Famiglia.

DCist walked into National Treasure last weekend with high hopes. Although the Post may have maligned it as a "'Raiders of the Lost Ark' for people who slept through American history class," as a guilty fan of quasi-historical action flicks, we were expecting to be entertained. On that count the film didn't disappoint -- for the most part, the whizzes whizzed, the bangs banged, and the nonstop action was sprinkled with enough plot twists and fancy gadgets to keep our attention.

Bigger retail could be coming to the District's downtown area adding to the robust resurgence in shopping along some of the central city's main corridors. With Seventh and H streets the new epicenter for downtown shopping (the newly opened Benetton, Urban Outfitters, Ann Taylor Loft, et al) and Hechts and H&M over toward Metro Center, the Post took a look at the status of the rebirth of downtown Washington's shopping. Some critics might say that the shopping options aren't all that varied, but it's a start.

DCist was in Gallery Place/Chinatown/East End/Penn Quarter (take your pick) last week to take a look at the massive soon-to-be-completed building at the southeast corner of Seventh and H streets. Already, Urban Outfitters and Benetton have opened their doors. A movie megaplex will open soon, along with some more retail, infusing the Seventh Street corridor with more pedestrian traffic.