>> Tickets are still available to see Argentine-Swedish songwriter and solo classical guitar player José González, he of the awesome indie cover songs (and a bunch of originals, too) play the 9:30 Club. Doors 7:30 p.m., $20, with James Blackshaw. >> Washingtonians are, for better or for worse, often defined by their work, so tonight at the Goethe Institut the DC Asian-Pacific-American Film Festival has a collection of shorts related to job issues called…
>> DC9’s hosting a Dubstep party featuring DJs Beatcarnival and Gavin Holland. Get your bass-heavy electro-dance Thursday groove thing on for $8. >> Novelist Porochista Khakpour to discuss her debut, Sons and Other Flammable Objects, at The Modernist Society’s event at Bourbon in Adams Morgan. Free drinks from 8 to 9 p.m., then questions from the audience until 10 p.m. >> Tickets are still available to the opening night of the DC Asian Pacific American…
DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Indie: Into the Wild Annandale native Chris McCandless had just graduated from Emory University in 1990 when he donated his substantial life’s savings to charity and set out on the road under the name of “Alexander Supertramp.” His highly publicized disappearance ended two years later when his body was found in the Alaskan wilderness, and the…
DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Repertory: The Great Punch-Out: A Hard Hitting Week of Boxing at the Pickford Theater Those of you with an interest in the pugilistic arts may want to camp out at the Library of Congress next week. The library is doing a series of boxing features, shorts, and classic fights that lasts all week long. There’s a…
>> Tonight’s Girl Talk show at Black Cat is sold-out, but if you’re desperate to go after reading our interview with opener Dan Deacon, craigslist has some options. Also White Williams, 8 p.m. >> The Hall Monitors heated up the DCist servers with their Three Stars appearance a few months back, and tonight they’ll be warming up the stage for Jon Spencer and Matt Verta-Ray’s Heavy Trash and Denmark’s pshychobilly trio Powersolo at the…
FRIDAY: >> James Wong Howe’s 1954 film Go, Man, Go! is a fictionalized account of the Harlem Globetrotters story, starring Sidney Poitier, Dane Clark and some of the original Globetrotters. And we don’t know about you guys, but we’re just never bored watching those guys do things with a basketball that seem to defy the laws of physics. Plus there’s a love story, and who couldn’t use a little more love? A free showing has…
Fall is the season of festivals, so I hope you’ve stretched properly over the last few weeks, because this weekend is chock full of ’em. >> The annual Crafty Bastards fair is this Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on 18th Street in Adams Morgan. Grab your worn canvas Trader Joe’s bag and get ready to collect all the quirky hand-sewn shirts and beaded earrings your little heart desires. After you’ve crossed everyone off…
Make sure you grab your popcorn money and that ugly purse you only carry because it’s big enough to sneak in a couple of Diet Cokes and a bag of licorice, because the film festivals keep rolling into town. The AFI Silver Theater keeps the momentum going from last weekend’s festival with the 17th Annual Washington Latin American Film Festival. Showings start tonight with the Spanish film Princesas (Princesses), featuring prostitutes with hearts of gold,…
That sudden, crisp feeling in the air can only mean one thing: the doldrums of one of the worst summer movie seasons in history are mercifully over. DCist suggests you celebrate fall by checking out a few of the many, many sharp looking film festivals starting this week. >> The gimmick is fairly straight forward — Filmmaking teams from cities all over the country compete to see who can make the best film, from script…
DC’s 2004 Asian Pacific American Film Festival is well under way. The festival features screenings of a wide variety of films at venues across the District – from the Smithsonian Castle to the Goethe-Institut. The festival runs through the 16th, when it closes with a blowout party at Panache off Connecticut. (See a Washingtonian review.) Bex Blog is attending the screening tonight at 6:30 p.m. at the Goethe-Institut of a series of women’s short films…
