The 35th annual Kennedy Center Honors are on Sunday night, and chances are, you’re not going. But here are a few things to remember about the swankiest night on Washington’s cultural calendar.

The Kennedy Center announced today its latest round entertainers who will be fêted later this year at the 35th Annual Kennedy Center Honors.

It has recently come to my attention that it is pretty hard to eavesdrop on Metro during an afternoon rush hour unless volume of the conversation is particularly loud. Of course, it might be easier if I weren’t listening to my iPod. However, it also seems that many of our submissions come from people on, entering, or exiting the Metro. So, we ask you, fair people of D.C., please do not pay attention to the…

There are many ways to celebrate the holidays and a favorite DCist tradition is going to the movies on Christmas day. While almost everything else will be shuttered tight for the holiday, area movie theaters are gearing up for this year’s big releases. Coming out Christmas day are the following: The Aviator: Howard Huges biopic staring Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale and Gwen Stefani. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou: A new Wes Anderson…

(By DCist contributor Hemal Jhaveri) You loved him in Rushmore and now you can ask him whatever obscure little question you want. Of course, there’s no guarantee he’ll answer. Actor Jason Schwartzman, and director David O. Russell (Three Kings) will be online today at 12 noon for a chat on Washingtonpost.com. Schwartzman and Russell are out promoting their new movie, the existential comedy I (Heart) Huckabees, which also stars Jude Law, Dustin Hoffman, Lily Tomlin,…