Stupid Hurricane/Tropical Storm.
Arlington Arts, the good people behind the annual Rosslyn Jazz Festival, have just announced that the "predicted severity of Tropical Storm Hanna" has resulted in the festival's cancellation. No rain date or anything...just flat canceled.
If you were planning to head out to Gateway Park on North Lynn Street to see and hear pianist [...]
Shockapella report, RNC edition: Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello and Zack de la Rocha made a ruckus on Minnesota's capital lawn after the fuzz 86'd their planned appearance onstage. The shenanigans went down on Tuesday; videos thereof appeared yesterday on Above the Fold.
Watch below to see what happens when a couple of scalawags [...]
A few weeks back I was traveling through Cleveland and decided to make a more focused visit to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I wanted to avail myself of the exhibits and memorabilia that had a District angle. Wandering from floor to floor in the massive and often impressive space, however, I realized [...]
I admire Britannica for doing more online, especially now that the entire world is literally conspiring together to put the encyclopedia publisher out of business. But if it keeps blogging nonsense like Robert McHenry's post today, they get everything they deserve. McHenry is the former editor-in-chief of the encyclopedia—surely the job of a fearsomely intelligent [...]
Harp magazine is back. Kinda. The Silver Spring-based music magazine, which ended its run in March, has relaunched as an online-only publication, Blurt, that includes a "digizine"—a digital magazine that includes all the contents of a typical music magazine. Accessing new content is easy! If you want to read EIC Scott Crawford's editor's note about [...]
Before Barack Obama took the stage in front of a crowd of 75,000 in Portland yesterday, the Decemberists played a stacked set concluding with a mass singalong on "Sons & Daughters," with its drawn-out chorus of "Here all the bombs fade away." The song, a rallying cry for hope, peace, and...mouthfuls of cinnamon, seemed [...]
Time spent at the concert: 1 hour, 10 minutes.
Time spent in the car getting to and from the concert: 6 hours, 50 minutes.
Cost:
2 tickets – $66.50 each.
1 parking ticket for the only available (metered) space in my neighborhood when I got home at 1:30 am – $30.
1 ruined pair of shoes.
1 even more ruined pair [...]
"The whole thing seems designed not to let Sonny talk," said my companion last night at the event that Washington Performing Arts Society advertised as "A Conversation with Sonny Rollins." Perhaps the more accurate "An Evening of Jazz Scholar/XM Radio Host Dick Golden Telling Irrelevant, Self-Serving Stories and Occasionally Asking Sonny Rollins to Respond to [...]
