>> Tonight’s Girl Talk show at Black Cat is sold-out, but if you’re desperate to go after reading our interview with opener Dan Deacon, craigslist has some options. Also White Williams, 8 p.m. >> The Hall Monitors heated up the DCist servers with their Three Stars appearance a few months back, and tonight they’ll be warming up the stage for Jon Spencer and Matt Verta-Ray’s Heavy Trash and Denmark’s pshychobilly trio Powersolo at the…
Protest over national vs. regional chains, the never-ending debate over the place of cars and bicycles in our metropolises, professional sports scandals, remembering a solemn day, and being issued a search warrant – it all happened across our sites this week! Another banner week at Chicagoist started off with daily reports from food writer Lisa Shames on her attempt to eat only locally grown and raised foodstuffs all week as part of a farmers market…
Feel like your morning commute isn’t already filled with enough ads for Lockheed Martin or the anti-abortion lobby? Then the Examiner brings you good tidings, as a proposal is on the table to greatly expand the amount of space available to advertisers on Metrorail and Metrobuses. Metro General Manager John Catoe hopes the proposal will help balance the long out of whack WMATA budget without increasing fares. But just where would the ads go? Some…
There’s no doubt Naomi Klein would shake her head in disgust were she to stumble upon this. Earlier on ye olde DCist staff email list, DCist Amanda related a conversation she had with friends recently about how much they love it when a truck bearing the Metropolitan Meat Seafood & Poultry logo rolls by, for the sole reason that they have such an adorable logo. It’s just so friendly, and optimistic, the way the lobster…
(From DCist contributor Kanishka Gangopadhyay) If youre looking for something to do on this rainy weekend in D.C., you might think about putting on your finest hemp clothing and attending the DC Green Festival being held at the Washington convention center. A joint project of Global Exchange and Co-Op America, the Green Festivals are a two-day party with a serious purpose: to accelerate the emergence of a new economic paradigm that is life-affirming, inclusive and…
