Surging interest in vinyl records is fueling an industry, and Alexandria’s Furnace Record Pressing is betting the craze is here to stay.
The week ahead promises more March-like weather
The most consecutive 80-degree days in early May.
Many are bemoaning Record Store Day, but local store owners still say it’s a good thing.
Vinyl + Vino started as a small gathering of friends around a record player with libations in an apartment and has grown into a venue-packing event of acetate lovers featuring some of the District’s finest DJs.
We had basically no snow in 2012, but Mother Nature more than made up for it by giving us an oddly hot and violently windy year.
When they were little kids, if Andrew Baker and his sister were misbehaving, their father would drag them to the King Street Metro station and they would ride the trains for a while to settle down. Crossing the Potomac on the Blue or Yellow lines, Andrew’s face would be glued to the window.
I’ve long wondered why anyone would buy tickets for D.C.’s Mega Millions lottery. The odds of winning are virtually identical to the multi-state Powerball, but the jackpots are almost always much smaller. That’s changed lately: Friday’s Mega Millions drawing is now set to feature a jackpot of $224 million, which is the largest in the history of the D.C. Lottery. If you take it all in cash, the estimated jackpot would still be $138.1…
Late Thursday afternoon, DJ Hut announced via Facebook that it will be shuttering its store in the upstairs portion of 2010 P Street NW. A little over a year ago, we heralded its return after a damaging fire, but the economic downturn coupled with the music industry’s move further down the MP3 road appears to have ultimately made DJ Hut’s physical location no longer viable. The notice, sent to DJ Hut’s Facebook group, declared…
