Duck Dunn, R.I.P. [New York Times]
Michelle Obama lives in D.C., does D.C. things. [New York Times]
Those things that look vaguely like dresses in the windows of the convention center, explained. [The Style Blog]
Oneohtrix Point Never's "I Only Have Eyes for You," discussed. (See it live tonight.) [Pitchfork Tracks]
The American Institute of Architects is coming to D.C., and USGNN.com—that's the USGlass News Network, rubes—has visited the Hirshhorn and its sculpture garden. [YouTube]
Whither Robert Weingarten at the National Museum of American History? Ask the public! [Style Blog]
Backseat installation art with Eiko and Koma [Style Blog]
Writer-director Zai Batmanglij and writer-actress Brit Marling chat about Sound of My Voice. [Style Blog]
Lots and lots of words about what it's like to be a Helen Hayes Award judge. [DC Theatre Scene]
D.C. has a nascent menswear scene and Pink Line is on it. [Pink Line Project]
NoMa Summer Screen, Bryan Weaver, the Mayans, and the end of the world. [DCist]
A brief on Robert Williams, the 1970s-era producer behind many of D.C.'s forgotten soul acts [NPR]
Dance Place, GALA Hispanic Theatre, and University of Maryland's Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center receive funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. [Style Blog]
Pink Line Project invited Marion Barry to Saturday night's Cherry Blast party in Anacostia—via Twitter, of course. How twaggin'. [Twitter]
A survival guide to Coachella, written post-Coachella. "Smoke mad trees" not included. [Style Blog]
Memoryhouse's gear stolen in outside of D.C. [Tumblr]
Levon Helms, R.I.P. [Post]
David Bowie?! In someone's living room in Silver Spring?! In 1971?! [Flickr]
Matt Groening reveals the location of the real Springfield to Smithsonian magazine. Hint: The dream of the '90s is alive there. [Smithsonian]
Meeping about Veep. [DCist]
A book explaining how to get your book published got published. It's called The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book [...]
Count among the special releases for Record Store Day a cover of Fugazi's "Waiting Room" by Misfits Records artist JuiceheaD and Osaka Popstar (known properly as filmmaker and onetime Misfits collaborator John Cafiero).
From the press release: "'I reached out to Dischord (Fugazi’s label) about covering the song and eventually had the pleasure of speaking [...]
As promised, everyone partied like it was 1992 Friday and Saturday night at Artisphere for the 20th anniversary of chickfactor, the indie-pop zine founded in D.C.—in fact, by Washington City Paper staffers—back when indie didn't connote NPR adoration and Billboard placements. Erica Bruce took some pictures. And this is what we learned.
Between most songs in [...]
Artisphere is broke, and Arlington County—and its taxpayers—aren't pleased. The beleaguered cultural center has been given two options: make money, or close up shop. [Sun Gazette]
Yesterday in memes: Texts from Hillary Clinton! Clinton's made out to be a boss bitch in most of the images, which the meme's creators say is meant to be a [...]
Andy Rooney's desk has been donated to the Newseum. Former City Paper staffer Andrew Beaujon notes that he can probably secure for the institution the Fuego/Frio whiteboard, an equally critical piece of journalistic history. [Style Blog, Twitter]
It's not the LACMA rock, but the Smithsonian as of today is home to a life-size replica of the [...]
