FRIDAY: >> There ain’t nothin’ remotely unfun about hanging out with North Carolina’s trailer park heroes, Southern Culture On The Skids, who will be playing the 9:30 Club — or as it’s more pretentiously known, “Nightclub 9:30” — tonight with Jumpin’ Jupiter. If you’re good enough to treat SCOTS to some fried chicken, maybe they’ll indulge us locals with a Link Wray cover or two. $15, doors at 9 p.m. (Jason Linkins) >> Do your…

Written by DCist contributor Genevieve Smith. With perhaps the exception of art involving excrement or the denigration of religious icons, there are very few types of contemporary art more likely to raise the ire (or at least the eyebrow) of nonbelievers than those using found art objects. Walking into a gallery filled with readymades, one can almost hear a grumbling murmur of “my six year-old could have made that.” But while a sculpture constructed out…

This review by DCist contributor Genevieve Smith. On the last night of a three-day local music extravaganza, DC9 played host to the Orange and Blue-liners as they hip-shimmied and head-bobbed to the musical-stylings of local acts Monopoli, Hello Tokyo, No Second Troy and Mira Stella Stella Mira. If Train and Coldplay are your jam, DC9 might have been your musical Mecca Saturday. But if you’re the sort that prefers to lurk in the dark corners…

Written by DCist contributor Genevieve Smith. Tucked away in an upstairs corner at the Phillips Collection, two remarkable little watercolors, barely bigger than postcards, depict early experimentations into abstraction, decades before abstract art would really take hold in Europe. Washes of color dance across the page of Arthur Melville’s Dancers at the Moulin Rouge (at right), but the forms do not so much as hint at the shape of actual dancers. Instead, the bursts of…

Written by DCist contributor Genevieve Smith. In a deal brokered by the District government, the historic Carnegie Library will soon house the National Music Center (NMC), replacing the ill-fated City Museum of Washington and putting an end to speculation that it would re-open later this year after abruptly closing in 2004. Though Mayor Williams announced that the deal will be beneficial for both the NMC and the Historical Society of Washington (HSW), which ran the…

Written by DCist contributor Genevieve Smith. In a city better known for press conferences than literary readings, Take That Hill is a refreshing addition to the D.C. local arts scene. Friday night’s program at the Warehouse Theater merged short films from local filmmakers with a selection of readings from D.C.-based literary magazine, Barrelhouse. Works ranged in content from a comparative analysis of Godzilla versus samurai movies to a short film about competing lemonade stands. Though…