Mar 06, 2009
Popcorn & Candy: Green Grow the Rushes
DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. A still from Return of the Honeybee, which screens Wednesday at the Carnegie Institution. Environmental Film Festival The annual D.C. Environmental Film Festival is a massive collection of films, this year swelling to a total of nearly 140, with screenings at literally dozens of venues–places you’d expect, like E Street, the AFI, and the Avalon, but…
Oct 02, 2008
Popcorn & Candy: Gods and Legends
DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Religulous Anyone with any familiarity with Bill Maher through his HBO talk show or its previous, less profane incarnation on network TV, Politically Incorrect, probably already has a sense of whether or not they’ll enjoy Religulous. Maher has made no secret of his views on religion and what he sees as its incongruous place in a…
Feb 02, 2007
The Weekly Feed: So Many Chefs Edition
Wabeck Leaving Firefly, Chittum Leaving Dish and Notti Bianche Tom reports in this week’s Dish that John Wabeck, executive chef of Firefly just south of Dupont Circle, is departing at the end of the month. Wabeck has been plating up fantastic dishes for years at Firefly, which is why it ranks as one of my favorite places. Now he’s decided that he might want to pursue, according to Tom, either “the wine thing,” or “the…
Jan 12, 2007
Out and About: Weekend Picks
FRIDAY: >> Baltimore’s Fertile Ground return to 9:30 Club for a concert with collaborator Raheem DeVaughn called Let’s Do It Again. Also singer Anthony David. 9 p.m., $22. >> Gallery Openings of Note: Maria Friberg opens her show, titled embedded, at Conner Contemporary, reception 6 to 8 p.m. That’s embedded #4 at left. Also we checked out a preview of Colby Caldwell’s new show, Small Game, at Hemphill Fine Arts on Wednesday, and definitely recommend…