Nick Lowe likes to keep things simple these days. Nick Lowe titled the career-spanning compilation he released earlier this year Quiet Please, and it ain’t false advertising. The softer, sadder, more introspective country-soul phase Lowe commenced with 1994’s The Impossible Bird now comprises the entire second half of his recording career, one that’s been decelerating (though not eroding in quality) for some time. 2007’s At My Age was his first disc in six years,…

Senators Obama and McCain may finally have taken the gloves off last night in the final of their three Presidential debates, but here in Our Nation’s Capital on Saturday, the tone will take a turn for the civil, at least for a couple of hours. From 2 to 4 p.m., an unknown number of hunters and, like, hunteds will play a most dangerous game of cat and mouse in a web of intrigue where there…

How bad can it be to be Nick Lowe? That shock of fluffy white hair notwithstanding, the guy seems like he doesn’t know what stress is. The onetime Brinsley Schwartz pub-rocker, seminal Stiff Records producer, and punk pioneer releases albums at a glacial pace. He enjoys critical respectability coupled with the kind of low-level semi-fame that comes from being known more for your songwriting and production work than for your singing. In addition to manning…

With Capital Weather indicating that this weekend should be quite nice, with temperatures in the low 80s with partly cloudy skies, DCist encourages you to get out, enjoy the weekend and perhaps do something new. How about exploring a maize maze near Leesburg? Or near the Capitol Reflecting Pool, there’s an outdoor exhibit from Jerusalem’s Museum on the Seam that is supposed to get viewers to think about living side-by-side. Then there is always the…