Check out the sweaters on sale at Macy's—the '90s are in. The entire winter wardrobe at most department stores looks like an unintentional tribute to Kurt Cobain lately. It's time for flannel, Matador LPs, Reality Bites on VHS, and most importantly, smoking a joint while putting together a zine. Rad self-made chapbooks have been lost [...]

The new Ken Loach film, Looking for Eric, was set to open this week at E Street Cinema. Now we learn it won't be coming to D.C. after all, which means there's no point to running my review in this week's issue. For posterity, here it is:

There’s a socialistic current running through the filmography of [...]

Washington Post music critic David Malitz and I have our quarrels, but they tend to be relatively benign—mostly involving Pavement records and rides to concerts. There's no serious beef.
But tonight we're manufacturing a rivalry—because there are no worthy basketball games to watch, because I wanted a reason to change out of my pajamas, and because [...]

Since moving to Washington D.C. in 1999 I bought countless records at Olsson's Dupont Circle location. In tribute to the local chain, which went out of business last week, I've selected a few highlights from over the years.
Abba—The Album
Not my favorite Abba record, but my first. Arguably, Abba was a singles band, they didn't have [...]