Classical music has come back from summer vacation, and that means you actually have a choice of concerts this week. Most importantly, many of the city’s leading groups are opening the season with glittering events. Look for reviews next week. >> Washington National Opera is opening its fall season with one of the most popular operas in the repertoire, Puccini’s La Bohème (September 15 to 30). For all its audience-pleasing qualities, this opera is a…
Go home. Tell your boss it’s for your own safety. Maybe it’s the heat or people who are waiting to go on summer vacation, but it seems that there’s madness in the city. I should have known it was getting bad when I spotted this tree with a ring of cheese curls around it. The madness certainly seems to have infected Todd Kliman of Washingtonian. If you didn’t catch his chog this week, you…
The Wizards and Capitals are on summer vacation. The only Redskins news prominently features Ron Mexico and is not related to sports at all (well, human sports anyway). Despite these non-developments, this weekend has some intriguing aspects regarding actual Washington sports. >> Boxing comes to the District as the brothers Peterson square off in co-featured bouts at the D.C. Armory. Lamont and Anthony Peterson are a combined 42-0 with 25 knockouts between them. Anthony will…
The Labor Day weekend is just around the corner, and with summer vacation heaving its last gasp, we’ve got slim pickings as far as area author events go. MONDAY Jennifer Egan’s latest novel, The Keep, blends meta-fiction, intimations of revenge, high-tech weirdness and claustrophobic creeps in a story of two cousins who reunite in Eastern Europe to refurbish an ancient castle. One of the characters in the book can apparently detect the presence of Wi-Fi…
Even as the stores sport back to school sales (which depress us, even now), summer lingers on your friends the -ists. This week’s collection of links provides some of the best, worst, and oddest bits of summer fun. So, bring your laptop up onto the roof, make yourself an umbrella drink or ten, and enjoy this week’s choice posts from across the Gothamist network. Torontoist (where it’s 75 degrees F as of this writing)…
Editor’s Note: In the coming months our contributor Jason Linkins (who recently completed acting in the Rorshach Theater Company’s production Behold!) will be collaborating with new contributor Missy Frederick to cover D.C.’s vibrant local theater scene for DCist. Though several local companies use the summertime as a hiatus in production, July 2005 will nevertheless be an active period on the D.C. stages, with many well-regarded favorites from last month sticking around to a host…
While a small wine bar and restaurant on the beach in South Carolina may have very little to do with Washington D.C., it was this DCist’s summer vacation destination. A unique behind the scenes experience and extensive conversation with the head chef of 11 Center Street Wine and Gourmet (full disclosure: owned by this DCist’s mother) proved the source of much inspiration. This tapas restaurant on Folly Beach has been kicking out upscale small plates…
People of D.C.! What were you doing crowding the metro this morning? DCist would like to remind you that NEXT week is the big get back to work week. This week is still summer vacation. Did the Sept. 1 date throw you off? You really shouldnt surprise an unsuspecting person on the metro by filling a train during a week that is traditionally one of the lightest of the summer. Even WMATA thinks it is…