Members of Occupy D.C. who were arrested last December when the protest group erected a barn-like structure in McPherson Square were found guilty today of disorderly conduct—along with other charges for some—by a magistrate judge in D.C. Superior Court.
The City Paper’s reports that Eric and Ian Hilton have decided against opening a restaurant along H Street NE and have sold their lease on the building at 1337 H Street.
Prince of Petworth reports that Eric Hilton’s Eighteenth Street Lounge group has filed a liquor-license application for the house on 1337 H Street. The building used to be a funeral home, and so much else.
After 25 days, performance artist and activist Adrian Parsons broke his hunger strike for D.C. voting rights with a gulp of coconut water outside Mayor Vince Gray’s house.
The protesters on a hunger strike for D.C. voting rights have an idea for a new District office that would lobby for and protect legislative and budgetary autonomy. And Adrian Parsons looks as unwell as ever.
Via WJLA, the AP reports that of the four protesters that were engaged in a hunger strike for D.C. voting rights, only one remains.
While passers-by gawk and whip out cell phones to snap impromptu photos, Director Annie Gawlak and her cohorts sit across the street in G Fine Art and watch through their window in amusement. Giant disembodied heads sit in the open commercial space like the contents of so many baskets of French royalty after the Revolution. It’s not a funeral home for the oversized though…or, perhaps it is, in a way. It’s Ledelle Moe’s exhibit, sponsored…
FRIDAY: >> While Argentinian actress and singer-songwriter Juana Molina put out her first album in 1996, most of us in the U.S. probably didn’t get hooked on her until 2004, when her sophomore effort, Segundo, was finally released. Despite such a long lag time between her debut and follow-up, since then she’s been recording like a woman on fire — this tour is support of a fourth outing, Son. She’ll be bringing her unique Latin/French/Electronica/Folk…
Written by DCist contributor Adrian Parsons. Chawky Frenn tells me to look up. I do so, and I see nothing. Chawky tells me to get on his bed. Hmmm. I lay on his bed and look up. Nothing. He jumps on the bed and points up. A poster of Pieter Bruegel’s hell looms above us. Seeing I’m sufficiently weirded out, Frenn explains, “I wake up to this painting every day to remind me of the…
FRIDAY: Canadian supergroup Stars wowed Death Cab for Cutie fans when they opened their show last year at 9:30 Club, and now they return as headliners to set the Black Cat stage on fire. Of course, this concert has been sold out for ages, and the desperation for tickets on Craigslist is palpable. We’ll see you fellow lucky bastards in what will no doubt be a breathtakingly long will-call line. For the rest of you,…
