Rush, the legendary rock trio, is on tour to celebrate its 40th anniversary and paid a visit to Jiffy Lube Live on Saturday night.

Rush is touring behind Clockwork Angels, it’s most ambitious album in decades. DCist reviews last night’s stop at Jiffy Lube Live.

After hearing that their music was playing in the background while Rush Limbaugh called Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke a “slut,” Rush, the band, is threatening the radio host with legal action.

Back in my high school days — the early 1990s — young musicians who were picking up instruments and forming their first bands fell into one of two categories: Rush Lovers and Rush Haters. Standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the former, and like so many drummers who picked up sticks between the mid-’70s and mid-’90s, I spent countless hours in the basement learning the drum parts to Rush‘s many prog rock classics. While my tastes have changed since then, it was with that journalistic bias that I drove up to Baltimore last Friday to check in with bassist/vocalist Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson and drummer Neil Peart as they played the 1st Mariner Arena in the band’s only area appearance on the second leg of its Time Machine Tour.

The Washington Performing Arts Society (WPAS) is presenting an exciting double bill of adventurous piano-based jazz this Sunday at Lisner Auditorium. Performing will be The Bad Plus (pictured right) and pianist Jason Moran (pictured below), two acts who consistently refuse to be limited by traditional notions of what a jazz performance should or should not be. Moran and The Bad Plus have played together on the same bill before and, unsurprisingly, their common outside-the-box approach…

The nicer the weather gets, the busier we get across the Ist-A-Verse. But we like being busy. Here’s a peek at what we’ve been up to since last week! Chicagoist had an interview with Audrey Niffenegger, whose popular book, The Time Traveler’s Wife, was based in their fine city. They also had a heated discussion about Rush Limbaugh’s controversial Barack Obama parody, talked about whether Uncle Julio’s Hacienda is a good place to get…

At the end of the first installment of Francesca Zambello’s American Ring Cycle, last year’s Das Rheingold premiered at Washington National Opera, the gods went into Valhalla on what looked like the gang plank of a cruise liner, clinking their champagne flutes. Richard Wagner adapted the libretti of his four-opera cycle from German mythology, and Zambello’s idea was to exchange the German myths in the operas for American ones. The gold-hungry Alberich became a…

Not since 7′ 7″ Gheorghe Muresan guarded the paint for the Bullets from 1993 to 1997 has an enormous dude played basketball regularly for a D.C. area team – sorry Roy Hibbert, 7′ 2″ doesn’t cut it. For those fans looking for another behemoth to cheer on, the Maryland Nighthawks of the American Basketball Association have announced that they’ve signed 7′ 8 3/4″ Sun Ming Ming, supposedly the tallest person to ever play professional basketball….

Hey D.C., watch where you step. It’s still icy out there, but today’s temps should reach the 40’s, melting the remaining ice for at least a while. Some kids are still in luck with a few school delays this morning, mostly in the Virginia suburbs. Here’s hoping the warmer conditions mean drivers can stop acting like it’s locusts, not snow, crunching under the tires. Chief Inspector Also Convict: Clearly D.C. doesn’t have any problem with…

When architects, developers, and laborers set about transforming the former Columbia Hospital for Women into the massive Columbia Residences complex at the intersection of 25th Street, L Street, and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, they placed the area within a protective cocoon of chain-link fences. Inside the fences, just across L Street from the back door of Marcel’s restaurant, went a little-known monument commemorating a joint international agreement to reduce military forces patrolling the Great Lakes. With…