“It was a city within a city under the store.”
A group of shopkeepers have launched a petition asking the D.C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs to “stop treating record stores and vintage stores like pawn shops.”
A number of second-hand and vintage shops in Adams Morgan and 14th Street were warned this week that if they didn’t get a new business license reserved for pawn shops, they ran the risk of thousands of dollars in fines.
Crooked Beat Records on 18th Street in Adams Morgan had some bad luck this past week, flooding numerous times. In an email last night, owner Bill Daly said these were the 21st and 22nd water-related problems they’ve had at the location since 2002. Daly said they’re still open and have no plans to close, but have had enough of the flooding and are now looking for a new location. If anyone knows of a retail…
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of The Fake Accents is their ability to make their inherent contradictions seamlessly coexist. One might not expect that the same band who records and listens to their own practice sessions would also write a disclaimer on their first album that most of the songs that they’d written were actually just ripped off of other songs. Their songs are identifiable by both their catchy hooks and their noisy guitar riffs….
>> The Capitol Fringe Festival officially kicks off tonight, and we’ll have our daily picks of Fringey goodness rolling out for you soon enough. You can buy all your tickets online, by phone at 866-811-4111 Mon–Fri, 9 a.m.–9 p.m. and Sat–Sun, 10 a.m.–6 p.m., or in person at the festival box office at 507 7th Street, next to the Warehouse Theater. The festival runs through July 29, and features over 100 productions from D.C….
FRIDAY: >> What, you mean you don’t already see enough of Ian Svenonius around town? The DJ, Internet talk show host and former head of Nation of Ulysses and The Make-Up is giving you another chance to eyeball his annoying multitalentedness with a slide show presentation in conjunction with the release of “The Psychic Soviet”, a collection of essays he’s recently published. 7 p.m. tonight at Crooked Beat Records. SATURDAY: >> There is an open…
MONDAY >> As much as we’d like to crack whiplash jokes, apparently the joke is on us as thrash metal group Slayer plays the first of two sold-out shows at the 9:30 club (the second is on Tuesday). As one of many sold-out 9:30 club shows this week, we can only suggest Craigslist if you don’t have your ticket to this headbanging extravaganza. 7 p.m. TUESDAY >> Local experimental darlings Hand-Fed Babies, with their unique…
