The New Yorker boldly takes on the Washington football team name change controversy on its new cover.
Channel 9 reporter Bruce Johnson has broken the story on the dust-up at the Washington Post this past week. Classical music critic Tim Page, winner of a Pulitzer prize, has long been one of the best writers in the Style section, making the paper’s shrinking coverage of classical music all the more shameful. In response to a mass email from the staff of Ward 8 Council member Marion Barry, which was sent to Page apparently…
>> Fort Reno has Antelope, Scanner Freaks, and OmegaBand tonight, at the usual 7:15 p.m. start time. Check out our Three Stars interview with Scanner Freaks and album review of Antelope for a preview of the show. >> The Bang — featuring Three Stars veteran Anthony Pirog — is playing at Wonderland Ballroom with Pilesar and the Quagmire, 10 p.m. >> Former Washington Post writer Jeffrey Frank, now a senior editor at The New…
>> If you’ve ever thought about having a wedding of any kind, we’d recommend stopping by Olsson’s Courthouse store tonight to listen to The New Yorker’s Rebecca Mead, whose most recent work explores the sinister workings of the $160 billion wedding industry and has been the talk of the internets of late. Tomorrow we’ll dig up information on the best ways to elope for anyone who was in attendance. Mead reads from One Perfect Day:…
An exhibit designed as career retrospective must be a daunting proposition, especially when focused on a prolific artist whose output ranged over sixty years. Too many pieces, and the exhibit becomes bloated. Too few, and the audience does not get an accurate cross section of the artist’s work. Thankfully, the curators of Saul Steinberg: Illuminations, on display at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, threaded this needle. In doing so, they have mounted a captivating and…
>> Your major opening this weekend is brought to you by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The nearly 120 piece Saul Steinberg retrospective, Illuminations, features the artist’s witty and deeply observant take on world events throughout his 60 year history with The New Yorker, as well as the many other sculpture, painting, and various artworks that get a little meta in their parsing of creative methods. DCist is going to check out the show this…
As clubgoers stood in line outside the 9:30 Club on a chilly Monday night, a car slowed and eventually came to a stop. Down came the window and two girls yelled out, “Who’s playing tonight?” “The Deftones,” came a response. “What do they sound like?” “They’re heavy,” shot back a fan. That’s about as good as you can get in describing the Deftones without getting too far into mixed genre terminology — they’re heavy. The…
(Classical music agenda by DCist contributor Charles T. Downey of Ionarts) If you are like this DCist, you are probably thinking about how to spend that big tax refund check. We suggest that an evening (or afternoon) of classical music, paired with an excellent meal if possible, is a worthy way of taking back your money from Uncle Sam and spending it on something you and that special someone can appreciate. OPERA AND BALLET: >>…
I really like mashups and would love to know if there are any djs in D.C. who have mashup nights. Something like this except in D.C. instead of Cambridge, Mass. Unfortunately DCist can’t be too much help here because as far as our knowledge extends (and the knowledge of everyone usually in the know that we consulted) there are no mashup nights in the D.C. area. The best we have to offer is stretching it…
Sometimes we wish Lockhart Steele would be down here in D.C. We think he’d have a field day analyzing this new development set to go up across the Union Station railyards in Northeast in an area we like to call NewYoFla, the area immediately to the east and west of the intersection of New York and Florida avenues near the railroad tracks. Anticipating the arrival of the New York Avenue-Florida Avenue-Gallaudet University (that’s an awful…