FRIDAY: >> Maybe you check in with DCist only occasionally to get a few tips on which concerts to see, but tend to stick to touring acts for the most part, and still haven’t really exposed yourself to the local rock scene. If so, confess tonight and all your sins will be forgiven. Three of the best local bands are playing a show together on the Black Cat’s main stage at 9 p.m. — catch…

The District will have one fewer place for middle-aged letches to hit on dancing college girls drinking watered-down hurricanes, when Friday night fades into Saturday morning and Lulu’s Club Mardi Gras packs up its multicolored awnings for good. Lulu’s has long been a fixture at the changing corner of 22nd and M Streets NW. Longtime owner Ulysses “Blackie” Auger sold Lulu’s years ago, and when he passed away in November 2004, his family opted to…

It was just a few weeks back that the Washington City Paper completed a long overdue overhaul to their website, and now they have followed many a mainstream media mainstay before them and jumped on the blogging bandwagon. It wasn’t long ago that the CPers were complaining about the prospect; in a March 17th piece on Washington Post blogging requirements without additional pay, City Paper editor Erik Wemple noted, “Full disclosure: The Washington City Paper…

June is finally here, and that means that this DCist can direct you to a few more concerts this week for your classical listening enjoyment (see more at Ionarts), after the lull of late May. You can plan your concert schedule for the entire month of June with our Classical Month in Washington (June), or your summer opera listening with Opera in the Summer 2005, both at Ionarts. Our activities will taper off again in…