With point guard Antonio Daniels out for 2-4 weeks with a sprained knee, the Washington Wizards were more than shorthanded going into Saturday night’s game against the visiting Sacramento Kings. Rookie Nick Young started in Daniels’ spot in the back court and scored five of the team’s first seven points, but it was the hot hand of DeShawn Stevenson that led the Wizards to a 92-79 win. Stevenson played over 44 minutes and connected…

With unseasonable weather descending upon much of North America, schools getting ready to reconvene, and sports seasons getting exciting, it’s a busy time of year for us here in the Ist-a-verse. Luckily, even with all the things we have to do, we still managed to get together to let you know what we’ve all been up to. After cooling down from a hot weekend of many badass Sunset Junction Street Fair photo dispatches, LAist asked…

>> We’ve already said a ton of great things about rising local band Le Loup, so odds are good you’re already planning on heading over to the Rock and Roll Hotel tonight to check ’em out. Brightest Young Things has a fun interview with the recently-Hardly Art signed band over at their site. They open for Raleigh’s The Rosebuds, along with Bowerbirds. $10, doors at 8 p.m., music starts at 9. >> Smithsonian American Art…

Things were going according to plan for the Wizards last night when disaster struck. Almost. Comfortably up 17 points with just over eight minutes remaining against the visiting Sacramento Kings, the Wiz saw their lead diminish rapidly due to turnovers, sloppy play and a red hot Mike Bibby. Bibby, who many thought would be wearing a Cleveland Cavaliers jersey before the end of the day, celebrated staying with his current club by hitting four…

As clubgoers stood in line outside the 9:30 Club on a chilly Monday night, a car slowed and eventually came to a stop. Down came the window and two girls yelled out, “Who’s playing tonight?” “The Deftones,” came a response. “What do they sound like?” “They’re heavy,” shot back a fan. That’s about as good as you can get in describing the Deftones without getting too far into mixed genre terminology — they’re heavy. The…

Watch carefully in the coming weeks and you may see them. People roaming the streets of Chinatown, Adams Morgan, Mt. Pleasant. They’ll stop to check their cell phone, punch the keys, wait, check again, then move walk down the street looking with strange interest at empty buildings, houses and random Starbucks. Yellow Arrow’s Capitol of Punk tour, which we previewed in May, kicked off this week, turning D.C. streets into an impromptu museum for a…

We have an oft-repeated complaint about unwilling dancers: it’s all in your head. It’s clear people don’t dance at shows have never given it a serious chance. Or they haven’t been forced to. That’s where !!! (pronounced chk chk chk) comes in, with silky beats and drum circle percussion; where frontman Nic Offer grinds against you like some creepy, beautiful stranger. Releasing the seminal dance-punk single “Me and Giuliani Down by the School Yard”…

Ever had your bicycle stolen? Want to know what comes of it? One District resident did. Yesterday the City Paper reported on the efforts of Chevy Chase resident Evan McAnney, who was looking for ways to end a streak of thefts that had denied him of five bicycles in three years. His plan was to install a small radio transmitter into a bicycle, leave it unattended, and allow police to track it when it was…

Too often, the words “Washington, D.C.” and “public schools” are the precursor to another bout of bad press for the District. Not today – for the first time in the contest’s history, a teacher from the District of Columbia has been named Teacher of the Year. The lucky winner is Jason Kamras, 31, math teacher at John Phillip Sousa Middle School. Kamras received his Bachelor’s Degree from Princeton University and his Master’s from Harvard. His…

Yeah, it’s raining (this DCist left his umbrella at the office, super!) and there are weather-related problems all over the region, including flooding. And look at the traffic from this D.C. traffic cam looking at the Suitland Parkway approach to the Frederick Douglass Bridge in Southeast. And it’s going to be in the 20s tomorrow morning. Summer was bound to end sometime. And there are 15-minute delays on the Yellow and Green lines in…