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Nov 27, 2007

About Tonight

>>Dinosaur Jr. just can’t stop re-uniting. Their relatively recent comeback album, Beyond, was a solid return to form, and despite the years, these guys still bring it with their feedback-drenched power-trio jams. An odd combination of opening band names: Awesome Color and Dead Confederate. At the Black Cat, $20, 8 p.m. The Woggles — that ageless bunch of garage-dwelling retro-rockers from Georgia — plays DC9. They’ll be joined by D.C.’s terrific purveyors of garage,…

Nov 26, 2007

Reader, Meet Author

MONDAY: Peter J. Gomes, pastor of Harvard’s Memorial Church, will be at Politics and Prose to read from his book The Scandalous Gospel of Jesus. Gomes believes Christians should be heeding the messages of Jesus, not objectifying the man. 7 p.m. TUESDAY: Washington Post literary critic Michael Dirda wants you to know it’s OK to love Fowler’s Modern English Usage. How else would you learn that the “n” in damning, when it means “fatally conclusive,”…

Nov 12, 2004

Out and About for the Gloomy Weekend

Don’t get yourselves down about the gloomy weather, fellow DC-ites. Capital Weather suggests that it’ll get sunny by tomorrow afternoon, and there are plenty of goodies to keep you occupied this weekend. FRIDAY: >> Local band Full Minute of Mercury (pictured here) plays the Velvet Lounge tonight. Read a review and see pictures over at Seeking Irony. She calls them “fun girl-fronted powerpop with a smile.” Plus, we think they’re hot. >> The Fraser Gallery…

 
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