This Friday marks the start of D.C.’s Sonic Circuits Festival of Experimental Music, which will run through September 29 at venues around the city. The festival traces its roots back to 1993, when the American Composer’s Forum (ACF) curated a traveling program that was hosted by ACF chapters across the country and offered to any venue interested in presenting music based on electronic technology. The D.C. chapter of ACF first hosted the festival in 2000,…

Dorothy Brizill, the Executive Director of DCWatch, the ubiquitous local government watchdog group, was arrested and charged with assault yesterday after Tara Bridgett, an aide to deputy mayor for education Victor Reinoso, said Brizill grabbed her shirt and yanked the ID badge hanging from a lanyard around her neck. Brizill, who has been a local legend in D.C. politics for twenty years for her hardcharging questioning of municipal goings on, had been meeting with Reinoso…

It’s easy to dismiss yesterday’s Voting Rights March. Skeptics can point to the estimated number of participants (anywhere from 2,000 to 6,000, depending on who you ask) and claim that in a city of almost 600,000, that’s not very good turnout. They can point to the cause — a voting seat in the House of Representatives — and argue that the tough road it faces in the Senate and the veto it will likely receive…

Written by DCist contributor Salima Appiah-Kubi. Remember when we thought the Source Theatre was doomed? After public outcry from the theater community, costumed protests and several tense ANC meetings, last Tuesday it was revealed that the Source has been saved. Pursuant to an agreement between the Theatre, the Cultural Development Corporation (CuDC) and the Bedrock Management Company, the Source has been wholly entrusted to the CuDC, which will run it as a performance space for…

Once again, everyone but the U.S. government might finally realize that the denial of voting rights for District residents is an affront to democracy and human rights. We’ve received word that Timothy Cooper, Executive Director of Worldrights, a human rights advocacy organization, testified on Monday before the United Nations’ Human Rights Committee in Geneva. Cooper’s grief? The lack of voting rights for District residents. In reference to the persistent injustice we constantly harp on, Cooper…

Written by Andrew Wiseman The Logan Circle churches may have a new argument in the battle over parking enforcement: religious freedom. The neighborhood echoed with calls of “newcomers” and a lack of respect this Sunday as local pastors and politicians addressed at least 100 churchgoers in the latest salvo of the Logan Circle parking controversy. Behind a banner saying “Rally for Religious Freedom, Saving the Soul of the City” pastors and parishioners from Logan…

The weekly Ist wrap-up is written by Seattlest editor Dan Gonsiorowski. LAist tracks an award-winning TV writer who worked on Good Times to a homeless shelter and sees a Little Old Lady get a jaywalking ticket because she can’t get across fast enough (in the same post!). Poets invade Metro and an LAist contributor’s new book asks WWJB. Gothamist gets down with the immigration rally and their readers want to be heard. The anniversary of…

Everyone knows the “18th Street at 2 a.m.” side of Adams Morgan, but what about the rich and diverse history of the neighborhood? And don’t you wonder what it looks like in the daytime? This Saturday, there is a chance to learn about the “other side” of Adams Morgan with Step Back Into History: The Adams Morgan Heritage Trail Walk, the inaugural event of the fifth Heritage Trail in the District. A joint collaboration between…

You’re the mayor. Through both sheer fear and skilled negotiations the City Council and U.S. Congress bow to your every demand. Your city coffers are suddenly flush with millions of dollars in surplus. What do you do? What do you do? In yesterday’s Outlook section, the Post toyed with this quasi-realistic scenario and offered a variety of Washingtonians the chance to play God with the reported $300 million budget surplus the District is set to…

Is that the sound of cats hissing and clawing? No, it’s merely D.C. Vote and D.C. Watch, two District-based non-profit political organizations, going at each other. The two, which have usually peacefully co-existed and even complimented each other’s work, recently engaged in an online volley of arguments and accusations. On the one side, D.C. Watch’s Gary Imhoff and Dorothy Brizill, on the other, D.C. Vote’s Ilir Zherka. So far four rounds have been fought, with…