After playing their first concert in D.C. last Wednesday—a sold-out show with Washed Out at the Black Cat—buzzy Canadian dream-pop band Memoryhouse had thousands of dollars worth of equipment stolen from their van.
"The total cost is about $4,500 [to] $5,000," Denise Nouvion, Memoryhouse's vocalist, writes in an email. "We're doing our best to replace it as [...]
This Saturday, Jeopardy! will be in town to tape episodes for "Power Players" week. What's a power player, you ask? Judging by the slate of contestants selected to play, it's someone with smarts and critical recognition among their peers — or an absolutely unstoppable sky hook and some Rec Specs.
This year’s Power Players feature some [...]
Ever dream of seeing your name in lights? How about the soft blue light of a laptop instead?
There’s a D.C. casting call out for House of Cards, the David Fincher-led political drama based on a BBC series of the same name that’s due to premiere on Netflix later this year. It’s “the largest Hollywood project [...]
David Swinson wasn’t supposed to be a cop. Not for 15 years, anyway.
When Swinson joined the Metropolitan Police Department in 1994, it wasn’t for the paycheck, and it wasn’t out of civic duty. It was supposed to be more of a boho diversion, the latest stop in an eccentric life. He wanted to be a writer.
“At [...]
This weekend, local nonprofit Yachad hosts the fifth annual Our City Film Festival, part of the organization's hefty mission to "break down racial, economic, and religious barriers, and encourage understanding between communities that are often disconnected.”
If One Punch at a Time and Porchfest are any indication, the fest is two steps closer to achieving its goal.
The [...]
Released To Life, a short documentary about criminal rehabilitation, laid claim to being Washington's "Best Film" today—or at least, according to the city's Office of Motion Picture and Television Development and SnagFilms, a Ted Leonsis-owned joint.
Life was made by students at GWU's Institute for Documentary Filmmaking, who were on hand for an on-campus event today to [...]
Everybody remembers Heavy Metal Parking Lot, Jeff Krulik's seminal rock documentary about tailgaters outside a Judas Priest concert at the Capital Centre in 1986. But most probably haven't seen Heavy Metal Picnic.
Krulik's other documentary about an outdoor heavy metal concert in suburban Maryland premiered in 2010, years after metalhead Randy Childs initially gave him footage he shot [...]
Remember the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema slated to open way out in Ashburn? It eventually may get some local company.
The group of investors behind the Ashburn theater, operating under the name Cojeaux Cinemas, plans to open two more Alamos in the D.C. area in the next five years. "We bought franchise rights for the entire D.C. metropolitan [...]
It may be a skip and hop away from D.C., but Loudoun County's "One Loudoun" mixed-used development just announced news sure to delight movie geeks—it's getting a 34,000 square-foot Alamo Drafthouse Cinema.
While the Alamo is known for its (really, really great) custom-made movie posters and enforcing strict policies about texting and talking, it's also widely [...]
Earlier today, GALA Hispanic patrons got a worrysome email: Thanks to "the loss of some public funding," the Columbia Heights theater had to postpone its production of i put the fear of Mexico in 'em, an English-language play by Matthew Paul Olmos about immigration. According to GALA co-founder Rebecca Medrano, though, the changes aren't a [...]
