“I was right behind Wolf Blitzer!” Don Folden notes with glee. “That was my guerrilla warfare marketing move.”

Before the Tony Awards on June 12.

The singer Morrissey is pulling out of the remainder of his U.S. tour citing multiple illnesses.

Do you have a garage? Are you going to be around on April 13? Would you mind hosting a concert by a big-time rock band and dealing with hosting a bunch of strangers and a radio station in said garage? If so, you and Dave Grohl should totally get in touch. (Just be sure to put the Glee DVDs away before the band arrives.)

It’s an old D.C. adage that regardless of the differences between us, we’ll always have the weather, the Metro and the Redskins to gripe about. But if I had to add a fourth to that list of always-pertinent subjects, I’d probably suggest water. After all, it’s a topic that affects everyone in town, and plenty of residents probably have good questions about what’s going on with the water supply. The good news is that D.C….

Twitter is absolutely freaking out right now about Conan O’Brien’s just announced “The Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour,” which will indeed be stopping in Washington, D.C., on June 8 at DAR Constitution Hall. Billed as “a night of music, comedy, hugging, and the occasional awkward silence,” we’re envisioning a sort of Conan Unplugged extravaganza, with sketches, performances and surely some special celebrity guests. In other words: yes, please. Tickets to the…

A month ago, the Washington Redskins needed to win out the rest of their season and receive a ton of help from the rest of the NFC in order to make the playoffs. And it needed to start in the short week between a Sunday’s loss to Buffalo and a Thursday night game with Chicago. And then it needed to start after Sean Taylor’s funeral. And then it needed to continue despite losing starting quarterback…

DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Foreign: 2007 Washington Jewish Film Festival The Washington D.C. Jewish Community Center’s annual film festival has become one of the largest and longest running of the local festivals. This year’s program encompasses over 40 films, from 11 countries. Nearly half of the selections are films from Israel, in recognition of the nation’s 60th year. The event…

The guitarist for the pop-punk band Hawthorne Heights passed away before the group’s show at the 9:30 Club over the weekend. Casey Calvert, 25, was found dead on the band’s tour bus at around 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, parked outside the venue in Northwest D.C. A cause of death has yet to be determined, but Calvert’s bandmates have been quick to defend against speculation that drugs were involved. They posted the following message to their…

FRIDAY: >> Local comic book store Fantom Comics is celebrating the grand opening of their new Union Station store tonight with a party from 6 to 10:30 p.m. They’ll be serving up free pizza on the early side and the comedy stylings of the Geek Comedy Tour during the second half of the night. There will also be a trivia contest with $500 gift certificates up for grabs. The party is inside the Union…