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A few weeks ago Esquire ran a piece about how Clint Eastwood’s eminent manhood has transcended generations, if only because no Man had come along to displace him. May I submit Aron Ralston, the inspiration for 127 Hours, Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle’s newest joint? James Franco, no stranger to playing real-life dudes from [...]
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Update, 9:06: Would be remiss not to include WaPo's update on Dupont Down Under v2.0... although the developers confidence in their ability to lure people to an underground network of art galleries, restaurants, and wineries is not exactly inspiring.
-Lot of music on the Mall Saturday. So Cat Stevens Yusuf Islam Yusuf flew all the [...]
Last week, the owner of a spare ticket to Friday's sold-out Felice Brothers concert at the Rock & Roll Hotel held an essay contest on Craigslist to determine a worthy recipient. The winner, as it turned out, is a local journalist and longtime friend of the City Paper. I swear there was no fix, it [...]
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The mysterious purveyor of the Felice Brothers golden-ticket essay contest named a winner Friday. I’ll share the winning essay here later today, but here’s a taste of the author’s pathos at work:
I don't know how I missed out. But don't make me sit at home alone on Friday night, listening to Adventures of the [...]
The Felice Brothers, a brawling quintet of whiskeybreath folk-rockers from upstate New York, are all about reckless energy on stage. But the band members also have a literary streak, said James Felice, the band’s hefty, hirsute keyboardist/accordionist, when I interviewed him last year. “Faulkner, Hemingway, McCarthy, Thomas Pyncheon, Russian literature… Just anything we can get [...]
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Looks like D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier jumped the gun on determining the death of a man near U Street a case of “vigilante justice” on the part of five employees of the music venue DC9 (including one of its co-owners); they were arraigned on Saturday for aggravated assault and marked for release—though more [...]
How do you make the perfect pipe bomb?
Cash from strangers, and a little help from your friends. That’s how Phillips Saylor has gone about it, anyway.
When Saylor, frontman of the local alt-country band Stripmall Ballads, decided to mix his music with puppet theater, he tapped acquaintances at the Puppet Underground and friends and volunteers from [...]
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I saw The Social Network over the weekend and liked it. Some people didn’t. Lawrence Lessig, the Harvard Law professor and Creative Commons crusader, says it did a poor job conveying the “real magic” behind the Facebook story—that is how its rapid ascension exemplifies how the barriers that historically have stood between billion-dollar ideas [...]
Wet enough for you? (That’s what she said.)
WaPo has floated an interactive 3-D map of the new Arena Stage. The Kogod Cradle—reportedly the new theater’s “most daring and innovative” design feature—looks pretty sweet. It also looks like a total fire hazard.
Not in this weather though, boy!
Word’s apparently out on who will be on the [...]
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Unintentional theme of the art-weekend: Cars! Intentional theme of this roundup: Puns!
Park(ing) Day in DC—a grassroots (ha!) effort to turn metered parking spaces into temporary public parks—turned out to be a modest affair on Friday, with the green-hearted folks of ReadySetDC and Cluster Media transforming a single spot near 14th and S into a [...]
