Oct 01, 2007
Reader, Meet Author
TUESDAY: Tomorrow is a treasure trove for science and sci-fi junkies. Our reviewer raved about The Dead Travel Fast: Stalking Vampires from Nosferatu to Count Chocula. Hear author Eric Nuzum muse on the undead at Wonderland Ballroom, 1101 Kenyon St. NW, which will offer drink specials, while Olsson’s will have books for sale at the bar. Fangs and capes encouraged. 7 p.m. Over at Politics and Prose, author Ira Flatow will discuss his lengthily titled…
Sep 24, 2007
Hate Crime Being Investigated Near Be Bar
WTOP is reporting that D.C. police are investigating a weekend attack near Shaw nightclub Be Bar as a hate crime. The victim, an intern who works for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Human Rights Campaign, was first shouted at by his assailant with a derogatory term for homosexual, and then beaten up. The victim was taken to an area hospital and has since been released. The incident took place at 10th and O Streets NW in…
Aug 06, 2007
What is The Space?
Looking around the web site for The Space, the new private club and concierge service that’s opened recently across 9th Street from the Washington Convention Center, you get the sense that its proprietors want you to think it’s a stuffy lounge space reserved for the wealthy — there’s the wedding invitation-style scroll fonts, the vague descriptions of what exactly this place is trying to be (“For those who love traveling, living, dreaming and discovering,”) and…
May 04, 2007
Supple @ Warehouse Gallery
Curator J. T. Kirkland couldn’t have landed a better location for his new exhibit, Supple, on display upstairs at the Warehouse Gallery. Sometimes a state of surprised desperation can work in one’s favor. As we noted last week, he originally planned to have the show at relatively unknown The Space at 9th and N Sts. NW. While he initially deemed the owners “extremely generous,” The Space cancelled on Kirkland just short five days before the…