Asking people to stay up late on a school night is never an easy sell. However, The Rapture played to a packed U Street Music Hall on Sunday night and made the venue jump.

In all honesty, it’s tough to wholeheartedly recommend going out on New Year’s Eve at all. We love the spirit of the holiday, but paying around $100 a person for a regular night of dancing dressed up with champagne is enough to make anyone feel like a schmuck. It’s a safe bet most of us at DCist will be hitting various house parties to ring in the new year with friends at a more reasonable…

As a rather fervent concert goer, I’ve been watching my October Outlook calendar with alternating excitement and dread as my concert calendar gets more and more crowded. This all came to a head yesterday as I started putting in the DAMfest schedule and noticed a whole bunch of scheduling conflicts in the making. Area indie rock fans are going to have some tough choices to make the last full week of October. Thursday, Oct….

Good morning, Washington. Today will be mostly cloudy and chilly – highs in the 60s. Matthew Bradley posted this photo to DCist photos, taken at the Dalai Lama’s talk yesterday at the MCI Center. The W. Times has a short story about the talk where they report the 1-hour talk was on “compassion”. Did you attend? What else did the Tibetan leader speak on? Changes on 14th Street: The Post today explores in depth the…

FRIDAY >> Start the night off right at the DCist Happy Hour at 51st State. We’ll all be there to celebrate our nation’s veterans in the traditional manner: by drinking heavily. >> Who doesn’t love a DJ who posts iPod playlists on the Internet so you can recreate a great night of dancing anytime, anywhere (especially when those playlists include choice selections like Kaiser Chiefs, The Rapture and James White and the Blacks)? Come celebrate…