Good news, weirdo cinéastes: After a hiatus, the Washington Psychotronic Film Society is back. The long-running repertory series—which is dedicated to oddball, cult, and genre films—was founded in 1989, and from 2009 until this May, it held regular screenings in (and nearby) the Warehouse Theater on 7th Street NW. In the spring, the society got [...]
Carl Cephas has spent the last 10 years of his life fighting his one-time employer, the Library of Congress. Last Christmas, the Library fired Cephas after placing him on unpaid leave for almost six months and 27 years as an employee. This Christmas, it rejected his appeal of his firing.
Cephas first stirred up trouble [...]
UPDATE | April 28, 11:37 a.m.: I just spoke with owner Jim McCabe. The store's landlord wants the space vacated by this weekend, so the shop will close after today. McCabe says the store still has 30-40,000 of the 60,000 titles it once sported, which he'll sell on the Video Vault website. He's not sure [...]
Carl Cephas never left a Video Vault location without having found what he was looking for. Never.
So he took the news that after 25 years the Old Town Alexandria video store is closing pretty hard. Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 < ![endif]–> [...]
As the lead library technician for the Library of Congress’ music division, Carl Cephas specialized in retrieving obscure rock and jazz materials for patrons. To a handful of his coworkers and managers, he specialized in being a major headache. There was the time he told his supervisor Mary Wedgewood, “Fuck you, go suck eggs,” after [...]
