After all the hype and hope, the seeds are planted and the brackets are being filled out: it’s March Madness. Seven (!) area teams made the Big Dance: Georgetown, GW, Maryland, Virginia, Virginia Tech, VCU and ODU. We’ll preview the field in the coming days and also announce our first-ever DCist Reader-Staff Pool. In the meantime, we’re salivating (and we assume local bar owners are too). There’s a potential second round Maryland-Old Dominion matchup,…

This week you could be a busy classical listener, and hearing a concert almost every day, sometimes twice, without paying anything. The problem is that not all free concerts are equally strong, but who can complain about hearing music for free? MONDAY: >> The women of the Salem Academy Glee Club will give a free lunchtime concert (February 26, 12:10 p.m.) at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. The program will consist of…

Earlier this week, the Washington Post ran an article enumerating a list of suggestions that the team might take to improve their 2-4 standing. In the wake of handing the Tennessee Titans their first win, it looked like a lot of the old “rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic”–although, in those deck chairs’ defense, the Post failed to mention that there have been times this season that some strategically placed deck chairs might be…

Bummed that you couldn’t get tickets to the sold-out Interpol show tonight? Fear no longer, intrepid concert goers, because the D.C. scene is offering up something much more interesting. Actress-turned-rocker Juliette Lewis (yes, she’s a double threat), famous from endeavors such as “Natural Born Killers,” and “The Way of the Gun,” and “Starsky & Hutch,” brings her band the Licks to the Black Cat this evening. “I live for the sweat I drip on stage,”…