Two Silver Spring residents rewrote the Passover book.
This awareness effort is an extension of the Health Department’s K2 Zombie DC.
The D.C. Department of Health is amping up its vigilance of a health scourge it says is wreaking havoc on the city’s youth.
Our roundup of a variety of Halloween options around the area this year, from a zombie party to trick-or-treating at the Zoo, scary movie fests to pumpkin carving contests.
This afternoon, the D.C. Council convened a hearing about emergency preparedness. That got us to wondering — what are the specific situations that would spark the kind of response which the city is trying to better prepare itself for?
Dawn of the Dead / Suspiria Double Feature
After an intro week that featured but one title (the original Swedish version of Let the Right One In), the AFI’s Halloween on Screen series gets underway in earnest tonight with a screening of a masscre-flick spoof, Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, that also serves as the kickoff event of the separate Spooky Movie Film Festival (which, if you have easy access to Fairfax’s Cinema Arts Theatre, where the rest of that festival takes place, has plenty of worthwhile scary programming of its own). The rest of the AFI’s Halloween schedule includes the annual Nosferatu screening and Shaun of the Dead — but Saturday night’s program is the real standout, when the theater presents a horror double feature, matching up two rarely screened and undisputed classics.
Zombie “invasions” are nothing new for D.C. As such, it was probably only a matter of time until the living-impaired began a very, very slow assimilation into the modern day world. Last year, they were learning to use NextBus; this year, this group of brain-cravers from D.C., Montgomery and Prince George’s County, Baltimore and Annapolis were more concerned with how the United States men’s soccer team fared in Rustenburg than cracking open our craniums. Sure,…
The zombie apocalypse is upon us. In fact, it has been for over 40 years now, thanks in large part to the efforts of George Romero, godfather of the modern zombie movie. As a presence on the big screen, Romero didn’t invent the zombie — those lurching, animated corpses with a hunger for human flesh (or braaaaiiinnnns) — but he did perfect their use as the vehicle for a seemingly endless stream of metaphors…
DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. 12 Angry Men Berlin’s annual film and media festival, The Berlinale, celebrated its 60th anniversary this year. The festival is the largest in the world, selling nearly a quarter of a million tickets to nearly 400 films, and that doesn’t even get into the film trade show that’s part of the event. To wish the festival…
DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. A still from Valery Todorovsky’s ‘Hipsters’, tonight’s opening night film for FilmFest DC. FilmFest DC The 24th annual FilmFest DC gets underway tonight with an opening night screening of Russian filmmaker Valeriy Todorovskiy’s, Hipsters, a brightly colored musical comedy piece about a group of jazz & western-culture obsessed youths in the Soviet Union in the mid-1950s….
