Chaos, hostility, and murder. The three items that Werner Herzog believes are the common denominators of the universe, according to the narration of his 2005 documentary, Grizzly Man. And the subject of his own obsession, expressed again and again in the choking jungles and obsessives heroes of his films. In Rescue Dawn, Herzog stabs at yet another heart of darkness, another soul driven to desperation in pursuit of a seemingly impossible goal. In this case,…
MONDAY At Chapters, they’re mad for mystery writers on Mondays in March, and for alliteration at all other times. Today, they have a fine guest: Laura Lippman, who’ll be reading from her latest, What the Dead Know. 445 11th Street, NW, 1 p.m. TUESDAY Tom Bissell and his father, an ex-Marine who served in the Vietnam War, travel back to Vietnam on a journey that retraces both national and personal history. He’ll be in town…
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund announced yesterday that their proposed Visitor Center received the final go-ahead from the National Capitol Planning Commission, which oversees the approval and design of monuments and memorials in D.C. The privately funded, $100 million complex will supplement Maya Lin’s 1982 Memorial Wall, with exhibits and programs to tell the story of the Vietnam War and commemorate the soldiers who fought it. The Visitor Center will be built just west of…
Appearing this afternoon at a Pentagon near you, Gary Sinise will be performing with the Lt. Dan Band as part of the America Supports You program, a “nationwide initiative to showcase and communicate Americans’ support of the Armed Forces,” according to Reuters. We at DCist wish we were joking with the band name, but it really is called the Lt. Dan Band. For those of you not familiar with Lt. Dan, he was Forrest Gump’s…
An Election Special As part of our Election coverage, Gothamist’s Ben Chappel interviewed Oscar Award winning filmmaker, Errol Morris, who has been working with MoveOn PAC on a number of video and paper advertisements in advance of next week’s elections. Morris’ “Fog of War” — a sobering and uncomfortable look at Vietnam War and Cold War philosophy through a blunt and eye-opening interview with Robert McNamara — captivated DCist. And with the upcoming opening of…
