By DCist contributor Abby Lavin If you weren’t at Unbuckled last Thursday, your only excuse is that you were over at the 6th and I St. Synagogue checking out rising Israeli hip hop stars, Hadag Nahash (Snakefish). Listening to rap in a synagogue, engulfed in a mob of 15-year-olds, we felt like we were at the coolest bar mitzvah we’d never been to. A little bit Bob Marley, a little bit Rage Against the Machine,…

Well, the classical music season is drawing to its end. Yes, there will be things to hear over the summer, but many of the major organizations will be shutting down at the end of May, or going into their reduced summer schedules. If you wanted to take in a production at Washington National Opera, for example, you had better do it soon. If you like the spectacle of musicals, opera should be right up your…

Time again for the week in crime. We want to emphasize once more that we take crime very seriously, and we will never make light of a situation where someone has been hurt. Thanks, as always, to the Post and the MPD. This Week in Vehicles of Purses: D ST., 1400 block, 3:20 p.m. Feb. 19. A gunman in a vehicle robbed two people in another vehicle of purses. Your Regularly Scheduled Crime Report…

Emergency officials set up a triage area in Edward R. Murrow Park today after 20 to 30 people in an I Street office building were overcome by pepper spray. There was a bit of confusion at first as to the source, but it appears that a juvenile with the irritant is to blame. The building in question is 1919 I St. NW. The intersection of I and 19th streets, where the Farragut West metrorail station…