Sep 11, 2007
About Tonight
>> Don’t miss our full preview and interview with Bonde do Role, playing tonight at the Black Cat with Plastic Little and local experimental audio/visual artist Edie Sedgwick. $10, 8 p.m. >> >> DC9’s got The Daybreak Line and The Beanstalk Library, who we recently profiled in a Three Stars piece, and Athens, GA’s The Winter Sounds. $8, 9:30 p.m. >> I have vivid memories of watching the significantly creepy 1960 TV version of…
Jul 30, 2007
Book Review: Near Wild Heaven
One rule of writing is that your best material tends to come from your experiences. If this isn’t true about Dominic Cicere’s Near Wild Heaven, then he’s damn good at faking it. Cicere’s book — which contains a collection of poems, a short story and a screenplay — provides some wonderful flashes of the sort of affection that exists between a writer and what they know, especially in the short story “Split Decision,” in which…
May 18, 2007
Imagination Takes Flight in Arena’s Peter & Wendy
Written by DCist contributor Chris Klimek Arena Stage’s Peter & Wendy is so swollen with visual and musical marvels one might undervalue the performance of Karen Kandel, narrator of this hypnotic take on Peter Pan. She plays Wendy, along with every other speaking part, but this is no one-woman show. Sharing the stage are seven white-hooded puppeteers, and a company of dolls they bring to such astonishing life that it’s hard not to think of…
Feb 15, 2007
Morning Roundup: Watch Your Step Edition
Many schools are still closed and roads and sidewalks still dangerously icy this morning as the region struggles to dig out of the winter storm that passed through earlier this week. Most of the really bad news continues to come out of the suburbs, where many homes are still without power, and injuries and at least one death have been reported. The Post has a good rundown of the extent of the metro area’s ice…