>> DC Arts Commission auditions for musicians who’d like to play outside metro stations start tonight, from 5 to 8 p.m. at Metro headquarters, 600 Fifth Street, NW, Washington, DC. >> Check out our Reader, Meet Author feature for a list of cup-runneth-over literary events for tonight. There’s Colin Channer at Vertigo Books, Susan Vreeland at Phillips Collection, Christopher Hitchens at Politics and Prose, and Irvine Welsh at Wonderland. >> The Rock and Roll…

We were a bit preoccupied by the accident on the Yellow Line yesterday, and are a day late with your weekly transit news and reviews. So here it is, all packaged in one tasty, bite-sized, morsel. This week: Could car-sharing be the Next Big Thing? Why are Fairfax County employees so scheisty? Big brother – coming to a road near you! Transit efforts renewed in Va., Md. Also, perhaps as an early present, Metro is…

MONDAY: >> For $15 at the 9:30 Club, you can check out the Next Big Thing Out of Sweden (TM): The Soundtrack of Our Lives, who play Beatle-esque tunes and have a clean, poppy sound. With The Dears. TUESDAY: >> Time for some more 90s-era musical nostalgia: influential Kentucky post-rockers Slint have reformed and are back on the road, hitting the 9:30 Club this evening for $25. WEDNESDAY: >> Three fun options tonight: There’s whimsical…

If there are two things we here at DCist love, it’s hunky actors and blogs. Imagine our delight when we were alerted to this story that combined the two. For the next month, actor Matthew McConaughey will be cruising across the country in a Airstream trailor and keeping a blog to chronicle his adventure. McConaughey is hitting the road not only to promote his new action adventure/romantic comedy flick “Sahara”, which co-stars Penelope Cruz, but…