The founders hope the Valley Place Arts Collaborative will give artists from wards 7 and 8 a reliable platform to showcase their work.
David Gonzalez With Earth Day just around the corner, this month will see a flurry of activity focused on environmental issues. As one would expect, artists are also stepping up to the plate, adding their voices to the chorus of people calling for a societal shift that gives more attention to how human activity affects the natural environment. This Saturday, storyteller/poet David Gonzalez will team up with a group of multi-media artists at the…
Henry Rollins remembers when this used to be a good neighborhood. Photo by Ben Swinnerton. Black Flag frontman turned globetrotting hilari-phizer Henry Rollins has been captivating audiences with stories of his travels for a quarter-century now. The onetime Henry Garfield first toured the country in his early 20s as the fourth and final singer of iconic punk outfit Black Flag, and has continued to write and perform music with various lineups of his Rollins…
>> British chanteuse Holly Golightly is at DC9 tonight, with Texans The Brokeoffs and local bluegrass act The Starlingtons. $12 at the door. >> MotherTongue, the monthly women’s spoken word event held at Black Cat, celebrates its 9th anniversary tonight in the Backstage. $8, 9 p.m. >> You’re running out of chances to catch the new documentary about the abortion debate, Lake of Fire, at the AFI Silver Theater. 6:45 p.m. tonight, and then…
A man walks out on stage. He sets down a bottle of water on the floor. Grabs the microphone, wrapping the cord around his hand a few times before clenching his fist around it. He then begins to speak, and continues to do so for almost three solid hours. Without a break, without even bending down to sip from the bottle of water he’d brought with him. And that’s a Henry Rollins spoken word show….
>> Plácido Domingo conducts the orchestra and selected singers of the Washington National Opera in a special concert performance in the Music Center at Strathmore. A few tickets in the orchestra section remain at the box office, if you are looking for a last-minute luxury date. $68, 8 p.m. >> Time is running out to catch this year’s Shakespeare Free For All, Love’s Labor’s Lost, at the Carter Barron Amphitheater. The final performance is…
TUESDAY >> DCist favorites the Vita Ruins are playing this very night at DC9 for $8. You’re tired of barbequing and sitting around on your back porch by now, aren’t ya? >> Love them? Hate them? Secretly listen to them while you take a nice warm bath and have a good cry? Keane performs to a sold out crowd at the 9:30 Club tonight. WEDNESDAY >> DCist’s own Sriram Gopal will be playing some…
The Lede has only been around the D.C. area since 2004, producing self recorded demos featured on their MySpace page and shifting through various rotations of band members. It may seem like these local alt-rockers are still working out the kinks and getting acclimated to the scene, but their mature and innovative sound tells a different story. You need a strong lead to hook the reader (or in this case, the listener), and that they…
It’s a slow beginning to the week as every venue in our purview seems to be dark Monday and Tuesday, but it’ll give us all a good chance to refuel before the ’07 concert season kicks into high-gear later this week. If you’ve got any tips for musical destinations this week, particularly tonight and tomorrow, let us know in the comments. WEDNESDAY >> Emily Haines of Broken Social Scene and Metric comes to the 9:30…
Everyone must be finishing up their holiday shopping this weekend, because arts events are a little few and far between, but we’ve got your weekend warm-up for you: >> If you haven’t yet trekked to one of the many local venues that have featured artist Amy Lin, it’s time to clear your Friday evening schedule and head down to the DCAC in Adams Morgan. The space will show Obsession, curated by Anne Collins Goodyear, an…
