>> Didn’t get a chance to attend one of the Eastern Market benefit happy hours last week? The E Street Austin Grill will donate 33 percent of its food sales after 5 p.m. tonight to the Capitol Hill Community Foundation’s “Eastern Market—Keep It Going” fund. 750 E Street, NW in The Lansburgh. >> !!! (chk, chk, chk) stop by the 9:30 Club in support of their new album Myth Takes. With Canada’s Holy Fuck. $18….

Our friends over at the Associated Press have dug deep into a story that’s weighing heavily on all of our minds today: Why is it that the National Air and Space Museum, once the proud champion of the Smithsonian’s annual Awesomest Awards for Attendance, has fallen from favor with the museum-attending set. Air and Space’s attendance fell below that of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History for the first time in recent memory last…

Story and photo by DCist contributor Alexa Steinberg. The creation and recreation of art museums is a tricky enterprise. The Museum of Modern Art’s recent $425 million dollar renovation has been subject to a lot of criticism and its expense has been questioned. The Guggenheim in Bilbao, considered an architectural masterpiece, has, for so large a structure, relatively little wallspace for art, and the art on display is often drowned out by the building’s architecture….