FRIDAY: >> Octogenarian fiddler Joe Thompson (at right), said to be the last black traditional string band player, plays a free show at The Kennedy Center’s The Millennium Stage with fellow folk musicians Wayne Martin on fiddle and Bob Carlin, a clawhammer style banjoist. 6 p.m. >> Space rockers The Gulf sold out their D.C. show in April, and are coming back to play at the Red and the Black with the Joonies, Twin Earth,…

In just a few months, fans will finally get a glimpse of the new $611 million baseball stadium rising in Southeast. No longer will they simply be looking at an artists rendering — they’ll get to see the new concourse, the stands, the suites and the field for themselves. And today the Post’s Marc Fisher poses an interesting question — beyond the bricks and mortar, what should the team’s owners offer inside the stadium? After…

While everyone seemed to enjoy what was going on inside RFK Stadium for the Nationals opening day goings on, there was much strife outside (and we aren’t talking about the stadium funding/voting rights protests). As if getting into the stadium wasn’t difficult enough (as you can see from this photo from Catherine Andrews’ Flickr photostream), getting to the stadium campus itself was a struggle. As has been reported by the Post, metrorail was packed to…