Many know the beautiful downtown building that use to host the Woodward & Lathrop department store, known as Woodies. The building's tenants now include Forever 21, Madame Tussauds, and Zara and the fabulous facade has never looked better. Lesser known, but still a wonderful building is Woodward & Lothrop's warehouse on 1st and M Streets NE. more ›

On Friday, Warehouse will have another "Free-For-All" event where they'll offer tons and tons of furniture, kitchenware and appliances, storage racks and more, all for free to the first-comers. Doors open at 5 p.m.; get there early and park around back behind the theater on the street, then you can pull around back once you've claimed your take. Former DCist Sommer and I tried to hit up this event last time and arrived at 5:30 p.m. to see every single thing claimed except a couple pieces of wood from the theater backdrops. Check their blog here for most of the available items, which looks heavy on the cooking and serving supplies this time -- stock your cabinets with glasses, or a commercial microwave for when your party guests get those intense Totino's pizza roll cravings, or even a full-size fryer for, well, everything! The event and all the takings are free, but Warehouse will also have a donation box out to support their efforts in making Dupont Underground a reality. more ›

A bar patron's ability to develop a relationship with his bartender will invariably dictate a better imbibing experience, whether it's at a fancy cocktail place or the local dive bar. That is perhaps what makes the name of the much anticipated new bar from brothers Tom and Derek Brown, The Passenger, particularly apt. Going back to a time when travel wasn't about being corralled through metal detectors like cattle, The Passenger, which opens tonight at 5 p.m., is trying to put some first class luxury and leisure in your drinking journey. This is apparent throughout the decor, which features church pews, intricate wrought iron tables, and the building's original floors. more ›

Three weeks ago, we met up with Civilian Art Projects' Jayme McLellan to see their progress as they made the move from their previous space above Apartment Zero in Gallery Place to their new 7th Street location in the old Warehouse Arts Complex. At that time, the road ahead of them seemed long, with the walls still peeling and piles of work ahead of them before their grand opening in the new space tomorrow from 7 to 9 p.m. more ›

Many people I know have been urged to see a campfest is to sell her short - this is a show with real soul. more ›

The Art of Change was the sort of anti-ball to all the hoopla at the nearby Washington Convention Center. Trying to gain entry through the barriers, closed roads, volunteers and police was just as convoluted and difficult, but it had little else in common with the other balls. Barack Obama only made appearances in the artwork. Celebrity appearances were nil. And the dress code was the funkier the better... but preferably non-flammable. more ›

Yesterday we told you about FLUX, the umbrella group of arts organizations proposing to turn Cook Elementary into a multi-use art space. During our discussion with Warehouse's Paul Ruppert, we also got some more information about a separate push to convert the unused space underneath Dupont Circle. Ruppert, along with Adam Griffiths from the Washington Project for the Arts, and Julian Hunt, an architect with Hunt Laudi Studio, have formed an "ad hoc committee" as part of the new Artist Coalition for Dupont Underground. more ›

At the end of the 2007-2008 school year, 21 schools in the DCPS closed for good. During the summer, the city put up a request for proposals for ways to reuse the buildings, and via the Bloomingdale blog, it looks like some of our local arts supporters grabbed on to the opportunity. more ›

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Nowhere but the Warehouse can we imagine such a gritty, diverse and inflammatory group exhibit blending so well with its environs. Upon entering End of Nature, one is taken aback by its exhibition statement, which begins, “Have humans become a form of cancer? We certainly behave like one,” and continues by asking, “after the end of nature … will we be alone, just people and the bacterial cultures required to sustain us, or will we manage to keep a few souvenir species alive for company?” Not exactly subtle. more ›

Whether you’re an art school grad looking to get back into figure drawing, a practicing artist needing reference for your next figure-based series, or you just want to do some sketching, open figure drawing sessions are a low cost, low commitment option for artmaking. more ›