With less than two weeks before the show closes, now’s time to plan your trip to Artomatic. The annual artist-organized show has filled the former Capital Children’s Museum with art of all kinds. Today, D.C. artist Mark Jenkins’ tape men showed up at the Washington Post building asking for Blake Gopnik (see his spoof story), the author of the Post’s scathing review of the show. (To their credit, the Post did create a special feedback…

Sure, you’ve heard that after weeks of Red Line delays and weekend track work, WMATA is scheduled to finally open the brand-new New York Avenue-Florida Avenue-Gallaudet University station tomorrow. All this is well and good, but what can you get to from the new station? The most obvious destinations are of course the station’s namesake, Gallaudet University, the old Capital Children’s Museum where Artomatic is on display, and the huge hole that will be…

Don’t get yourselves down about the gloomy weather, fellow DC-ites. Capital Weather suggests that it’ll get sunny by tomorrow afternoon, and there are plenty of goodies to keep you occupied this weekend. FRIDAY: >> Local band Full Minute of Mercury (pictured here) plays the Velvet Lounge tonight. Read a review and see pictures over at Seeking Irony. She calls them “fun girl-fronted powerpop with a smile.” Plus, we think they’re hot. >> The Fraser Gallery…

The Capital Children’s Museum will close perminently on Aug. 22. Museum goers shouldn’t despair – it will re-open in 2008 as the National Children’s Museum, to be located in a massive new development at L’Enfant Plaza (See background on L’Enfant Plaza from The Washington Oculus) The Post observes that: The museum’s current complex on Third Street, once a Catholic convent and home for the poor and elderly, has been sold to a developer who plans…