The plot thickens for the Montgomery County-Live Nation concert hall deal. In September the county signed a non-binding letter of intent with concert promoter Live Nation for a Fillmore concert hall in Silver Spring, which would give the company $8 million in state and county funds, rent well below the market rate, and other perks. But now, county council members, groups of residents, and even the Howard County executive are questioning the county’s deal and…

We missed this when it happened a couple of weeks ago, but is it really ever too late to point and laugh at New Yorkers? We didn’t think so. So, people are probably aware that Five Guys franchises are proliferating across the Eastern U.S. like nuclear weapons in central Asia. The greasy, peanut-laden fingers of our locally born burger stand have spread as far as Delafield, Wisconsin; Nashville, Tennessee; and Miami, Florida. They’ve even broken…

Back in January, when WHFS morphed suddenly and without ado into El Zol, it seemed rock radio in the Washington area was all but dead. Such old media rock listeners as still existed were forced to take in the corporatized nu-metal of DC 101 or static-y bursts of college radio, while the rest of us bought XM receivers and loaded our iPods with downloaded tracks, ‘casts, and mashups. Conventional wisdom has become that, in a…