The firehose of DMV hip-hop videos at D.C. Mumbo Sauce sometimes spurts out a hidden gem, like Ike Da Kid's "Fast Life," which, beyond its big-ass beat and general good-natured-ness, left us with more questions than answers. So we posed five of them directly to Ike himself, a recent University of Maryland graduate and Hyattsville [...]
Talk about feast or famine. There’s a couple other interesting dance events going on tonight besides Velocity DC. The first is a thesis concert by two University of Maryland MFA candidates. The show leads with Vaudevival: Old is the new New, a piece by Emily Oleson. I caught a brief glimpse of the performers in [...]
The Vogue Line State: Writing in today's Washington Post, Ned Martel attempts to dissect the very mixed reaction to the University of Maryland football team's new "Maryland Pride" uniforms that feature several images of Maryland's flag. Some Maryland alumni, like Oprah Winfrey sidekick Gayle King, told Martel that "it seems like there’s three different things going [...]
Two weeks ago, as the University of Maryland’s student-run radio station WMUC-FM faced its worst funding crisis in recent memory, it had a peculiar this-is-real moment: a tweet from Weezer, surely one of North America’s least serious bands. “[It’s] wrong,” advised the four-piece to its nearly 400,000 followers. “read, help.”
WMUC, founded in 1937, is resolutely [...]
The financial future—well, the future in general—of the University of Maryland-College Park's student radio station, WMUC, is a little less bleak than it was last Thursday.
The university's student newspaper, The Diamondback, reported on Friday that following outcry on campus, the executive board of the school's Student Government Association met Friday to discuss how to find [...]
"WMUC" is currently trending on Twitter in Washington, D.C., which is probably a first for the student-run radio station at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Unfortunately, the circumstances that have propelled WMUC into such company as "#welcometothedmv" and the promoted tag "#JackDanielsHoney" are frustrating at best and devastating at worst: A severe budget slash from [...]
A Family Affair: Yesterday we reported that Phil Kennicott, the Washington Post's architecture/sometimes classical music/sometimes arts critic has been hired as the paper's new arts critic. The Post has been searching for a critic since Blake Gopnik left in December.
Wallowing in the Muck: WaPo's Dan Zak and TBD's Amanda Hess attended the icky Charlie Sheen [...]
Recently, I was organizing some of my Washington, D.C.-produced comics and ran across some of Josh Eiserike's minicomics. Eiserike had sold these to me at SPX in 2008, but I didn't recall seeing him at 2010's event. A quick e-mail exchange reveals that he's now on the other coast, still making comics while studying film. Anyone [...]
If you’re a serious artist, one of the best jobs you can find is working as a professor at a university. Think about it: you get to spend all of your time in an institution where ideas, rather than profits or power, are front and center. Sure, there’s pressure to produce, but you’re allowed to [...]
Robert Steibel recently let me know about Wild Life, his new webcomic. It turns out that Steibel is yet another University of Maryland cartoonist alumni and has recently returned to both the area and to comics. Steibel's going to work in the single-panel format, and writes that "Wild Life is the umbrella title for four [...]
