The timing of this weekend's (e)merge art fair is just right for The Fridge's Alex Goldstein. He says his current Ben Tolman show is among the best exhibits he's run since opening the Fridge in 2009. So he's pleased that, at least for this weekend, D.C. will feel like a major destination for contemporary art.
Unfortunately, Goldstein says, [...]
Give the Fridge credit for eclecticism: The Fresh Produce Festival of Live Art kicks off tonight at the Barracks Row art space and venue, with a month's worth of discipline-hopping programming to follow. Tonight's event features frequent City Paper subjects Bluebrain alongside magician Francis Menotti, actress and performance artist Emma Jaster, Contradiction Dance, and cabaret [...]
Happy Monday everyone! Here’s a list of free and low cost things to do tonight through Wednesday night from Free in DC. Enjoy!
Tonight
The Constellation Theatre Company holds a free staged reading of Tales of Twisted Love at Source, 1835 14th St. NW, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets will be handed out starting at 7 p.m.
AlterNet's [...]
Happy rainy Thursday! Hope these free events from Free in DC help to brighten your day–and the weekend ahead!
Tonight
Swing by Busboys and Poets at 14th & V NW for the opening of Derek Brown's photo exhibit, "Imagining the Muslim World", from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Greater Goods, at 1626 U St. NW, hosts a Green Living Workshop on "15 [...]
This weekend may be the last chance for a while to see the artwork of John Tsombikos—aka Borf-–indoors. Since the 2008 closing of the Bobby Fisher Memorial Building, Borf-and-company’s makeshift gallery on North Capitol Street, D.C.’s best known graffiti artist (and onetime City Paper contributor) has been without a permanent home. After laying low for [...]
Erin Petty leads off this week's arts section by examining some of the neighborhood tensions faced by the outre-minded Fridge art space in Capitol Hill—tensions that came to a head last month thanks to some noisy new agers. Mike Rhode ponders what the opening of the papers of Fredric Wertham—comic books' real-life super-villain—means for comics [...]
The Fridge was never going to be an easy fit for Barracks Row. The art gallery-cum-classroom-cum-performance space opened in an alley off of 8th Street SE in September 2009, and immediately caused minor, NIMBYish ripples in its the well-heeled Capitol Hill neighborhood. Over the last year the outre-minded space has mostly enjoyed a tentative peace [...]
Happy almost-September everyone! Hope you enjoy this weekday edition of Freestylin’ DC, where I’ll share some of the coolest and most interesting free and low cost events from my site, Free in DC.
Monday
After work, take the free shuttle from Foggy Bottom Metro over to the Kennedy Center for a free performance [...]
"We're definitely profit-driven, so we're not hippies," says Nico Laget, a man who sees serious benefits in the blending of pulsing house music and real-life congas.
Laget, 37, is the chief agent of D.C.'s "Gaia" parties, which are essentially immersive, multimedia, New Age-y house-music nights. A Frenchman born and raised in Africa, he is a veteran [...]
Best of D.C.! What more is there to say?
Well, this: Our annual issue highlighting our—and your—picks for the best the District has to offer is online and in print today. Pick up a copy! Or read it here!
There's no shortage of arts-related goodies therein, and even some overlap between the readers poll and our staff [...]
