Best of Friday:
Steve Kiviat writes:
Tel Aviv power-rockers Monotonix are not celebrated for their albums. Just like previous efforts, last month's Steve Albini-produced Not Yet blends hookless shouting with self-indulgent guitar riffs, and the result sounds like an unsuccessful MC5-Led Zeppelin hybrid. But live, the trio compensates with pure spectacle. Singer Avi Shalev leaps into the [...]
In a chilling cover story for this week's Washington City Paper, Rend Smith revisits the death of Ali Ahmed Mohammed following an incident outside of the nightclub DC9, setting out to discover who, exactly, Mohammed was.
Trey Graham leads the arts section with his consideration of the play Black Watch, an inventive and widely praised work [...]
Morning, all. Hope you navigated your way through last night's snow okay. I'm sure some of you have the day off as a result. Whether you're off or whether you're working, hope your day's a good one.
TBD's Sarah Godfrey reports that DC9 will begin hosting concerts again in March. The club announced on Twitter that [...]
Friday:
Liz Phair, U.S. Royalty. 8 p.m. $25. 9:30 Club.
Gene Wene, The Blackberry Belles. 9 p.m. $20. Black Cat.
Free Lobster Buffet, Honey House, The Bourbon House (all sound delicious, all are just bands). 9:30 p.m. $8. Red Palace.
Bellman Barker, Megan Jean and the Klay Family Band, Alma Tropicalia, Fort Washington Band. 9 p.m. $10. Rock & [...]
Good morning, D.C.! James L. Brooks understands you!
His Broadcast News "flawlessly captured D.C. tribal rituals as diverse as the White House Correspondents' Association dinner and a suburban Sunday brunch" and now his How Do You Know has cast our city "once again as zeitgeist-signifier, metropolitan muse and supporting character in its own right," Ann Hornaday [...]
Good morning, D.C.!
TBD recaps who did what about the Portrait Gallery drama over the weekend. Maura Judkis also has this: "In a letter to Secretary Wayne Clough, President Joel Wachs stated that the Warhol Foundation has given more than $375,000 to fund several exhibitions at various Smithsonian institutions. "We cannot stand by and watch the [...]
Hey readers. I hope you're not expecting much this morning, some nine hours after I stumbled out of City Paper's holiday party. Some choice links:
Stephen Colbert has some words for Eric Cantor and art critics, points out the Post. The Post's Philip Kenticott has an essay about David Wojnarowicz, and yesterday the New York Times [...]
Good morning, D.C.! Free Weezy, though...oh wait, that was yesterday's news.
We Love DC has its review of Oklahoma! at that glass behemoth that is almost the size of the entire Southwest quadrant...uh, I mean, the newly renovated Arena Stage.
TBD checks in on Below the Beltway—OMG puns! Apparently, the movie is "part All the President's Men, part [...]
Good morning, D.C.! Welcome to the beginning of the end of the miserable midterm election season. Did you do your civic duty by casting your vote? Come on, how could you turn down the opportunity to sport one of those awesome ¡Yo vote! stickers? Anyway, I guess this is actually a blog about arts and [...]
This weekly assemblage is now a decagon in the aggregate, yet it retains the general shape of Week 1, in which we told you that on one side are "the deep thoughts, the innovations, the reflections, the revelations, the oddballs and the acid trips" and on the other side are "the conflicts, the punchlines, the [...]
