Filmfest DC's "Arabian Sights" festival, which kicks off tonight with 33 Days, continues through the weekend at Goethe-Institut Washington and the E Street Cinema. Closing out the Sunday schedule is Slingshot Hip-Hop, a documentary about Palestinian rappers. Jackie Shalloum spends time with a host of MCs but mainly centers on DAM, a trio living and [...]

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The Red & the Black's Web site doesn't make it very clear what's going on with tonight's "Music Is Bulletproof" show; neither does the MySpace page it points to. Details on the show below:
EVENT DETAILS: Music is Bulletproof benefit for the Victims of Violent Crime Compensation Fund
Music is Bulletproof was founded by DJ Key-K [...]

Kay Bozich Owens and Lynn Owens' new book, Lost in the Supermarket: An Indie Rock Cookbook, includes recipes from the likes of Black Dice, Belle and Sebastian, Country Teasers (still keepin' it classy with a drink called "Red Headed Sluts"), the Mountain Goats, Xiu Xiu, Sonic Boom, and more. I know practically nothing about cooking, [...]

We'll try to keep this under 140 words characters: Black Plastic Bag and City Paper music updates are now available on Twitter. (We have feeds for City Desk and the Sexist too.)

Punk legend, Blowoff DJ, and onetime City Paper columnist Bob Mould is going to publish his autobiography with Little, Brown. Michael Azerrad will assist; pub date's 2010. Mould has more info on the deal on his blog.

Tomorrow night Gordon Withers will play songs from his CD Jawbox on Cello. The show, like the CD, is a benefit for Cal Robbins; more info on the show is at Murky Coffee's MySpace page.

In this week's City Paper, intrepid reporter Arthur Delaney takes a break from his, well, intrepid reporting to voice his disappointment with DragonForce's new album, Ultra Beatdown. This, of course, has made the DragonForce fan club unhappy. Here's Robius the Horrible:

This reviewer doesn’t know jack. DF is a powerhouse of power.
But it's not all tautological [...]

Peter Margasak at our sister paper the Chicago Reader brings word that WFMU's Web site will stream the Ex and Getatchew Mekuria's recent New York gig, a bill that also included semi-locals Extra Golden and the Either/Orchestra with Ethiopian singers Mahmoud Ahmed and Alemayehu Eshete. The show starts streaming at 6 p.m. Wednesday.

If you were planning on checking out Nico Muhly's show on Thursday, you'll need to head a little farther north than planned. The show has been moved from its original spot at the Birchmere to the Silver Spring's Episcopal Church of the Ascension, 634 Silver Spring Ave. For more on Muhly, check out our review [...]