Nov 17, 2006
Measuring a Year In Plays
Try to think of something you’ve done every day for the past year. What comes to mind? Obsessively checking email? Brushing your teeth? Buying a no-fat latte at Starbucks? Pulitzer prize-winner Suzan-Lori Parks was a bit more ambitious – she wrote one play each day for an entire year. Now, theater groups across the country will be performing those works, and DC is no exception. The event kicks off this Saturday at Studio Theater, where…
May 21, 2006
Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse
LAist has so much fun this week! They go to E3, where they overhear the timeless remark “Man, this is where nerdy girls get laid.” Is that a promise? They also give us this week’s best CDs and make us realize that LA is the best place to use Zillow. Ah, Houstonist. They’re biking to work, that is, if they can figure out how to get there. That’s right, Mapquest says “Houston had the…
Jan 30, 2006
Reader Meet Author
MONDAY Counterprogramming this week’s State of the Union Address will be activist Cindy Sheehan, who will ostensibly be discussing her book Not One More Mother’s Child tonight at All Souls’ Church tonight at 7pm. For anyone who’s either been hiding under a rock this past year or who hasn’t yet experienced the pleasure of being clouted in the forehead with a ball peen hammer by a member of the Free Republic, this reading is a…