Apparently these thirst DC events are "like TED but with music and booze." That's another way of saying that they're happy hours where people get up and talk. And everybody has to pay $15 to get in! That's a tough sell, whether you're a TED person or not. In situations like this, an organization's About [...]
Star Wars fans are a notoriously aggrieved bunch. And for good measure—sequels, rereleases, and an intellectually fickle creator will do that to you. Some of them have even made their own movies about their plight, and those movies in turn have received special fêtes at important local film festivals during which the obsessives can play [...]
When you think of cartoonists, what comes to mind: sitting around with a fancy pen, sketching shapes in solitude? Adjusting black-rimmed glasses and cross-hatching for hours? OK, those are probably true most of the time, but not tonight! Super Art Fight is in town, and that means war. At SAF, cartoonists draw with live-audience participation [...]
On the cover, Maura Judkis tracks down a painting of a mushroom cloud erupting over Washington, D.C. that went missing for nearly 30 years. Andrew Noz talks to D.C. rapper Kingpen Slim about his cinematic, meditative collaboration with New York's Jim Jones. Leor Galil reviews a new retrospective from the disbanded Carissa's Wierd, a precursor [...]
After the lights came up following Alexandre O. Philippe’s The People vs. George Lucas at Silverdocs on Friday night, a crowd of festivalgoers mingled in the AFI lobby for a postscreening happy hour. Though, with a crowd abuzz from a film celebrating “Star Wars” arcana, the conversations were probably less Alex Gibney and more Admiral [...]
Nerds rejoice. (Let's hope the vinyl skews a little rarer than '80s Kinks and Wes Montgomery LPs!) I'm sure the record fair is going to be well stocked. After all, the fair is being sponsored and promoted by some fine and discerning local tastemakers—Som Records, the Vinyl District, and DC Soul Recordings.
And amazingly, Mingering Mike [...]
