The $60 million venue is slated to open on October 12, 2017.

Toshi Reagon and Allison Miller road tested Strathmore’s new club space, AMP, and DCist was there to tell you about it.

Venerable D.C. music venue the Black Cat announced today that it will stop selling advance tickets through Ticketmaster, instead switching to competitor Ticket Alternative. The change will become effective September 25, so all shows that are taking place after that date are already on sale via Ticket Alternative. In a strongly worded release, the venue made plain the reasons for the switch: Ticket Alternative’s service charges are lower, typically $2.50 or less for the…

Washington Psychotronic Film Society’s Incorrigible Dr. Schlock—a.k.a. the Society’s board president Carl Cephas—has announced plans to return the venerable purveyors of the bizarro cinema back to this side of the river, reports City Desk. As we mentioned last week, the Society is celebrating its 20th anniversary tomorrow night, and nearly half of those years were spent at Dr. Dremo’s, before the tap house’s closing rendered WPFS homeless. The non-profit moved to the Old Arlington Grill,…

Written with DCist contributor Amy Maxmen As we’ve mentioned before, big changes are underway at the Velvet Lounge, the hole-in-the-wall music venue near the corner of 9th and U Streets NW. Soon change will also spread next door, to the burnt-out remains of the after-hours bar formerly known as Kingpin (not as an extension of the Velvet Lounge as was originally rumored, but as a separate, new bar). But rather than profiting off the wave…

The newest addition to World TeamTennis will begin play this season, which opens July 3. First they will have to find a venue somewhere around town and draft players on April 1.