They’ll be hosting a “reboot” short film fest on Monday.
The 26-year-old transgressive cinema society now has to find a new home, but that’s a good thing, the WPFS president says.
It’s been a roller coaster of a year for the Washington Psychotronic Film Society. But Dr. Schlock & friends have finally found a new (and hopefully stable) home at The Warehouse, where they’ll take up weekly residence beginning March 17. For those who haven’t been following the play-by-play of the whole saga, let’s recap. First, WPFS lost its longtime home when Dr. Dremo’s finally met with the inevitable and went condo. After spending much…
It seems like just a few weeks ago we were heralding the Washington Psychotronic Film Society’s return to the District. Wait, that actually was just a few weeks ago. After a scant six week run at The Meeting Place downtown, it seems that the film society has been given the boot by the bar. WPFS posted an understandably miffed missive online regarding their ouster:The people at the bar complained to the owner and he…
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,…
One of the unfortunate bits of collateral damage associated with the closing of Dr. Dremo’s was that the Washington Psychotronic Film Society was rendered homeless as well. WPFS has been in operation in the D.C. area for 20 years now, and housed their weekly screenings of eclectic films at Dremo’s since 2000. For my own part, I can remember discovering them around that time, as I was a frequent visitor to the downstairs pool room…
>>Dinosaur Jr. just can’t stop re-uniting. Their relatively recent comeback album, Beyond, was a solid return to form, and despite the years, these guys still bring it with their feedback-drenched power-trio jams. An odd combination of opening band names: Awesome Color and Dead Confederate. At the Black Cat, $20, 8 p.m. The Woggles — that ageless bunch of garage-dwelling retro-rockers from Georgia — plays DC9. They’ll be joined by D.C.’s terrific purveyors of garage,…
>> Dr. Dremo’s is closing in a matter of months, so take the opportunity to visit tonight for what looks to be an excellent installment of the Washington Psychotronic Film Society’s regular oddball film screenings. Tonight’s selection is Bugsy Malone, the totally bizarre but actually kind of great 1976 movie musical starring child actors Jodie Foster and Scott Baio as gangsters who shoot custard out of their guns instead of bullets. Somewhat creepily, all…
>> Terrific local volunteer organizers Greater DC Cares are hosting a happy hour tonight at Mackey’s with what looks to be free or deeply discounted beers provided by sponsor Samuel Adams. 6 to 8 p.m. Non-volunteers welcome to attend and learn more about the organization. >> The Lost Bayou Ramblers bring their Cajun dance music up from Louisiana for a free concert at 6 p.m. at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage. >> Black Cat,…
>> Vancouver rock collective They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? will play their experimental marching band/circus music backstage at Black Cat, with Ostinato and Karate Bear. If you like weird, fun and loud, you’ll want to be there at 9 p.m., $8. >> It’s time once again for the U.S. Army Band’s annual performance of Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” — complete with cannon salutes from The 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) Presidential Salute Battery….
