Plenty of narrative films released since an Anglo-American alliance invaded Iraq in 2003 have attempted to capture the psyche of returning American soldiers—perhaps none more convincingly than Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker, whose brief coda masterfully depicted the depression of an adrenaline-addicted soldier numbed by his stateside domesticity. Others, like [...]
Friday
eNVee, Stacy Brooks. Bangkok Blues. Call for price.
Leo Kottke. Birchmere. $35.
Bill Callahan (Smog), Lights. Black Cat. $15. All ages.
An Evening w/ Lynda Carter (Fri.-Sat.). Kennedy Center Terrace Theater. $45–$75.
Original Tuxedo Jazz Band (Part of the Duke Ellington Jazz Festival). Kennedy Center Millennium Stage. Free.
Apostle of Hustle, Black and Tan Fantasy Band, DJ Yellow [...]
P.O.S.: "Why Go Home"
After Limp Bizkit, everybody can pretty much agree that the grunge-rap hybrid thing didn't work out too well. But if you flip that formula around—if you go rap-grunge—the results aren't all that bad. Or at least that's how it seems on P.O.S.'s cover of Pearl Jam's "Why Go." The Minneapolis-based rapper even [...]
