Last April I sold my elderly car for a few hundred dollars. I was tired of the expense of repairs, gas and insurance, no longer needed a vehicle for work, and the wide availability of car-sharing services in the D.C. metro area made the switch to no longer owning my own car seem easy and obvious. I hadn’t regretted my decision for a minute — until I got the following press release in my inbox…

>> Akron/Family’s folk-influenced jams will pour out of the Rock and Roll Hotel tonight, with Greg Davies, Raleigh’s Megafaun, and Stamen and Pistils. $12, 8 p.m. doors. >> The awards have already been announced, so it’s a good time to check out the end of the D.C. Shorts Film Festival now that they’re offering one of several “Best-Of” collections screening at 10 p.m. tonight — odds are good you won’t have to sit through…

Once, they call it. There’s a song by that name in the film, but the title could just as well be writer/director John Carney’s private joke about how often this premise can be expected to work: Two talented musicians, one of them very young and not yet famous; the other no longer young and probably as famous as he’s likely to become, meet cute on the streets of Dublin and spend a couple of…