After hyping up a “major concert announcement,” officials announced that Billy Joel is playing a concert Nats Park this summer. Overblown hype? Probably. But these artists playing a concert at the park wouldn’t be.

This post is from DCist Contributor Joe Viola Located in the heart of Adams Morgan is the Little Fountain Café. The menu is quaint but extremely sophisticated, the ambiance quiet but romantic, and the service is friendly but unobtrusive. There’s no elevator music while you eat. Bono, Coldplay, Billy Joel, and smooth jazz covers by Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald enhance an already private affair. Walking downstairs into the Café you pass by the little…

There was a time in the 1970s when male artists could become famous by simply writing and singing great songs. Seemingly average joes such as Bruce Springsteen, James Taylor, Paul Simon, and Elton John sold millions of records without subscribing to the psychedelia of 60s rock, the angst of punk, the glam of the 80s, or the hyper-masculinity of metal and hip-hop. Today, acts such as Coldplay and James Blunt might hint at a resurgence…

When we last caught up with Jukebox the Ghost, we left hoping we’d hear from them again. Soon. Their unpretentious but knowing mix of staples from the pop-rock canon — think Billy Joel gone quirky with a bunch of proto-new wavers as backing band — is addictive, and they proved they had the tunes to back it up. Unfortunately, Jukebox were still a kick-ass live show without too much in the way of quality recording…

Last week, Top Chef returned to the Bravo network for a second season, complete with a new host and a fresh-faced group of hungry culinary hopefuls. And one of this season’s contestants on the excellent cooking competition — which pits aspiring cooks against one another in immunity and elimination battles to win $100,000 in prize money, a feature in Food & Wine magazine, an appearance at the Aspen Food & Wine Classic, Kenmore PRO appliances,…

Hot Feet, the new musical with songs old and new by Earth, Wind & Fire making its world premiere at the National Theater, inevitably will be compared to its juke-box-soundtrack predecessors, from the Billy Joel-driven Movin’ Out to the Beach Boys bash Good Vibrations. And while those shows are frequently derided by the theater-snob community, Hot Feet’s curse is that it may not even connect with mainstream audiences: it lacks the guilty-pleasure infectuousness of a…