"You sing along at home. There's no reason why you shouldn't do it here, all right?" said a slightly marble-mouthed Jeff Mangum Friday night as he introduced "Holland, 1945," one of the most fondly remembered eccentricities of his cult band, Neutral Milk Hotel. But it took the crowd at the Lincoln Theatre a few moments [...]

The Lincoln Theatre will show The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo for an additional week, the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities announced today. Yesterday's co-presentation with the Embassy of Sweden was supposed to be the film's final night at the U Street NW venue, but DCCAH says the film has been so popular, they're [...]

I had a good time seeing The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo last night at the Lincoln Theatre—so much gloomier than Downton Abbey!—and I'm still convinced that booking the four-week run was a good move for the struggling, often-empty U Street NW venue. The D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities took over the theater [...]

In a press conference inside the Lincoln Theatre this afternoon, Mayor Vince Gray and D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities Executive Director Lionell Thomas elaborated—a little bit—on what the venue's future could look like once DCCAH officially takes over Jan. 1.
Gray says that $1 million will be committed to physical upgrades to the theater. [...]

Last week, Landmark Theatres announced that it would host a four-week run of David Fincher's wildly anticipated The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo at Lincoln Theatre. All proceeds will benefit the ailing venue, which, come Jan. 1, will be managed by the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
But forget all that: Where do we buy [...]

It's a Christmas miracle for the Lincoln Theatre! Per DCmud, the city is expected to announce today that:
Landmark Theatres will sponsor The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, David Fincher's $150-million Hollywood adaption of the wildly popular book, one in a trilogy of novels by the late Swedish writer Stieg Larsson. [...]

In a press release sent this afternoon, the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities announced it is taking temporary control of the troubled Lincoln Theatre. The venue's current operator, the U Street Theatre Foundation, will remain in place—along with the theater's day-to-day staff—until Dec. 31. "DCCAH is basically mangaging the process of finding an artistic [...]

Huffington Post D.C. contributors have not quite wrapped their heads around the Lincoln Theatre.
Recently, DC Advocates for the Arts chair Robert Bettmann beat a familiar drum on the issue of the theater's still unsolved fiscal crisis: Throw more public money at it. Last week, Eli Lehrer, a vice president of the libertarian think tank Heartland [...]

There's still no word on whether the Lincoln Theatre will get the public cash infusion it needs to stay open through the rest of the year. But the U Street Theatre Foundation—the nonprofit that runs the theater—is supposed to have met with Deputy Mayor Victor L. Hoskins, according to Councilmember Jim Graham's media director (who told [...]

There was a lot of blame swirling around at today's press conference outside the Lincoln Theatre. Okay, the blame wasn't exactly swirling—it was pointed directly at Mayor Vince Gray.
Without an immediate source of funding, the historic theater on U Street may be forced to shut down—and soon. "Shame on the District for knocking the theater [...]