Now that it’s getting darker earlier, bicyclists in the city need to be more careful about riding at night. But if you’re like me, you’ve been putting off buying a safety light for oh, forever. So I’m planning on being first in line this Friday, November 2 at the Suntrust Plaza in Adams Morgan to snag free front and rear bike lights courtesy the Washington Area Bicyclist Association and DDOT. All you have to do…

Even before our scatterbrained, ADHD world began over-prescribing Ritalin, we giggled at Steven Wright’s one-liners on SNL during the ‘80s. If you’re like us, maybe you even stayed up late into the night listening to albums like I Have a Pony. His brand of comedy, as something of an intellectual punster, appealed to us as kids just as much as it does today. Jokes like, “I was walking in the woods all by myself. A…

This post by DCist Food contributor Jamie R. Liu Clearly DCist was possessed. It takes something extraordinary to get me to wake up at 5:30am on a Saturday. I was wooed by the thought of seafood; my dreams were being haunted by fresh mussels and gorgeous fillets. So I decided to take an exploratory trip to the Maryland Wholesale Seafood Market, which distributes millions of pounds of seafood every year to numerous sources along the…

I don’t spend much time listening to the radio anymore. What with WHFS having gone Latin and DC101 moving further and further towards an “All Nirvana, All the Time” format, I’ve had to turn to 94.7 The Arrow for anything approaching rock. Problem is, I’ve never much been a fan of classic rock, much less classic rock stations that promote themselves via TV ads starring a guy with a “radio in his finger.” Yeah, you…

Is it just us, or are political campaigns a little like the Christmas season? They seem to start earlier and earlier each year. The hats are flying into the ring fast and furious right now, and one candidate may have managed to kill his chances with an ill-fated public statement already. That’s gotta be some kind of landspeed record, not to mention it would have made a great Overheard had he not, well, been speaking…

Sometimes in the relentless assault of the commenters in a thread on a DCist music review, the complaint is made that the reviewer takes too many words to try to prove how much they know about the band. Well, we’re going to try to preempt that here. Going to see the Art Brut show at the Black Cat on Tuesday night, I’ll be the first to admit: I knew zero about the band, its history,…

By day Eric Boucher is a typical DC office drone but by night he is a music impresario. The audiophile’s passion manifested itself first in the music site BigYawn.net (a site I occasionally contribute music reviews to) and now is the force behind the District’s Awake Music Festival (DAM Fest). The event features more than 40 bands on four stages over three days (not counting the pre and post parties). As this is DC, there…

Washington has become all the rage in the Hollywood set; whether they’re trying to establish their public policy bona fides or soak their late husbands for millions of bucks, the beautiful people (and Michael Douglas) have been showering the District with unprecedented favoritism. So I suppose it should come as no surprise that the strangest and most untentionally hilarious of movie star trappings, the Church of Scientology, should be doing a booming Washington business. So…

MONDAY >> The 9:30 Club has enough hotness going on tonight to shut down for the rest of the week. Luckily, they’re not, but tonight will still be one hell of a night for music in its hallowed halls. Kicking things off with the early show are The Sounds, female-fronted Swedish rockers, peddling what we call indie and the rest of the world calls pop, much to the delight of reviewers ’round the Web. Touring…

Tonight’s the night, folks. Come join us this evening at DC9 if you can, where $6 gets you the music, the free stuff, and the chance to see us all drink beer and dance. Yesterday, Olivia Mancini answered a few questions for us about herself and her band; today we’re very pleased to bring you a short question and answer session with The Hard Tomorrows, who’ll be finishing the show off tonight. So, tell…