DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Foreign: This is England After receiving accolades galore at a number of major film festivals, British director Shane Meadow’s autobiographical film is receiving a limited one week run in D.C. starting on Friday. Based on his own experiences coming of age in the UK in the early 80’s, This is England follows 12-year old Shaun, a…
To be a Neil LaBute fan, you have to be a little bit of a masochist. You know that no matter how much you’re going to enjoy the work, the overall effect is going to be more of a sucker punch than anything else. This Is How It Goes, the author’s latest work making its premiere at Studio Theater, starts off as quietly unsettling, but builds to be just as ultimately devastating as some of…
MONDAY Marla Ruzicka, who was killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq, was a dedicated peace activist who not only labored intensely for the victims of war, but sought to flip the peace movement’s entire paradigm by waging peace within the system, a move that set her apart from her colleagues, but also got results, including landmark legislation for the innocent victims of war and the respect of lawmakers on both sides of the aisle….
This week, among the city’s other offerings are those being conducted as a part of the “Fall for the Book Festival.” For more information, hit up their website. MONDAY That famous opening line of Anna Karenina has done more to fill the retail shelves with memoirs than just about anything else. Take that, opening line of Moby Dick! Alison Bechdel adds to the canon with Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. Politics and Prose, 5015…
Welcome to Day 2 of February’s Three Stars. Yesterday we spent some time with The Hint, tomorrow we’ll talk to Shortstack, and today we’re featuring The Apparitions. A slight disclaimer before we get started: The Apparitions are not exactly a D.C. band. However, their lead singer lives here and the band held their album release party here last week. Since they’re sure to be major presence at local venues in the coming months, we bring…
It’s been a…weird week for D.C. music lovers. Fur flew over the dos and don’ts of ticket sale announcements. Strange things were afoot with venue booking. We all got twitterpated about Unbuckled. Before we move on to telling you about some things to look forward to, may we just say how much awesome Nethers brought to the Black Cat’s back stage last night? This is a truly great band, D.C. or otherwise. They’ve got well…
Interestingly enough, while the Rolling Stones performed to a full house at the MCI Center last night, a band that owes much of its success to its ability to swipe some of the Rolling Stones’ swagger performed to a similarly full house over at the 9:30 Club. Last night The Black Crowes began the first of a two-day stint at the club, working their way through almost three hours of soulful Southern rock from six…