The Houston Dynamo won a second consecutive MLS Cup on Sunday at RFK, besting the New England Revolution in a come-from behind 2-1 victory. The Revolution lived up to their tag as the league’s nearly men, losing yet again in the championship match. This loss had to be especially painful for the Revs as they opened the scoring in the 20th minute. Veteran playmaker Steve Ralston found space on the right and crossing perfectly…

Our beloved D.C. United may have crashed and burned (again) in the MLS playoffs this season, but life goes on. Also, the playoffs go on — right in our backyard, in fact. Many moons ago, Washington was picked to host the 2007 MLS Cup this Sunday at noon, at RFK. Time to put aside your grieving and check out the game. Tickets start at $30, maybe even less on Craigslist. When else are you going…

With two years since their last area shows and a new album to tour behind, Jimmy Eat World had nothing but good expectations to fulfill. Unfortunately, last night’s show to a capacity crowd was uneven at best and flat at worst, with new songs failing to capture the imagination and many of the old songs lacking energy. Kicking off their set with the anthemic “Big Casino,” the first single from their most recent effort,…

In last Sunday’s Post Magazine, the newspaper’s retiring rock critic David Segal described what he called the “great Live Concert moment.” He wrote: It’s about music, but it’s also about an experience that’s ephemeral and communal, that you share for a couple of hours with a bunch of strangers who, at some level, you feel like you know because they have the same idiotic glint in their eye when the lights come up. It’s…

It’s not often that a venue can be the undoing of an artist’s performance, but that was the very case for emo-rockers Jimmy Eat World’s otherwise energetic show at American University’s Bender Arena. While the Arizona-based band tightly maneuveured their way through songs spanning a long career, one could hardly help but feel the dissonance between performance and place. It may have been the basketball arena’s bleachers, it may have been the banners touting the…

There’s lots going on this weekend. What are you up to? FRIDAY: — “Team America: World Police” opens tonight at theaters everywhere. Reviews from the NYT, Post, Rotten Tomatoes — Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players at Iota in Arlington, $12 — Grand opening of Eclipse, an “electro, industrial, darkwave, alternative” dance night slated for the second Friday of the month at Between Friends (11th and U St). Resident DJs include Dirty B, MindCage, MissGuided, and Ras…