Two films playing at this year’s AFI Docs caters to your inner foodie.
There’s a new city rising on the American lanscape to counter the economic and cultural might of New York, and it’s, well, us.
Georgetown Cupcake has exported its cupcakes and long lines all the way to Los Angeles.
With the Los Angeles Galaxy playing its full roster of starters and D.C. United opting to bench some of its own, the black and red had little chance against the defending MLS champions during a road game on Sunday.
Far be it from me to fully understand why Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa felt the need to dump all over the District this morning. But, hey, it wouldn’t really be fair to people like Spike Mendelson if we didn’t call him out on it.
If George Orwell and Steve Jobs joined forces, they likely would have come up iWatch, the new anti-terrorism initiative rolled out this week by the Metropolitan Police Department.
X: Exene Cervenka, Billy Zoom, Jon Doe, and D.J. Bonebrake, pictured sometime well in advance of their current 31st anniversary tour. As unabashedly retro, amphetamine-spiked rocksoulpunkabilly two-fers go, you’d be hard-pressed to do better than pioneering Los Angeles punkers X, with garage-rock archeologists the Detroit Cobras on the undercard. Billed as X’s 31st anniversary tour, (though their recorded career began with 1980’s Los Angeles) this greasy double bill pulled into the 9:30 Club Wednesday…
When the once dominant Rawkus Records, and the East Coast generally, fell on hard times earlier this decade, hip-hop’s underground-loving backpack brigade was left without a label to champion. Perfectly positioned to pick up the slack was an imprint from Los Angeles led by a guy who called himself Peanut Butter Wolf. Wolf (aka Chris Manak) started Stones Throw Records in 1996 when he released an album he’d recorded three years prior with his close…
The cold weather – and holiday festivities – descended upon Gothamist. The Rockefeller Christmas tree was lit, Broadway stagehand finally ended their strike, and NASCAR decided to run their victory lap through Times Square. There were disturbing photographs revealing the working conditions in which many city manholes are produced and ninjas were also a hot topic, either robbing homes or entering into alibis. But the city was really rocked by how Rudy Giuliani’s visits…
>> The Black Cat’s backstage is going to be pumping out the punk noise tonight as Antelope stops by, with Thank You and The Andalusians. $8, 9 p.m. >> DC Scores, a local nonprofit that provides innovative after-school programming to Washington kids, is hosting its 10th Annual Poetry Slam tonight. The event will feature 300 of the District’s public elementary and middle school students competing for the coveted Golden Mic trophy — obviously it…
