While City Paper's punk cred appears to be well intact, the same can't be said of our singer/songwriter cred. Last month, I looked back at the paper's print music coverage in 2011, in the hopes of copping to our biases and identifying genres I felt deserved more of our attention:
Our music coverage remains heavily titled [...]

Shawn Belschwender honed his cartooning chops in D.C. in the '80s, beginning in George Washington University's student newspaper and then moving over to City Paper. Now he's back. Belschwender's Clowntime Comics stars his character Refrigerator Johnny; which is fondly remembered by many Washingtonians, and will not be appearing in the Post any time soon, at [...]

I fielded an interesting call last week from a theater in the D.C. area: What, the theater wanted to know, was my policy on critics tweeting?
This was the impetus: One of Washington City Paper's critics saw a play there, reacted strongly during the first act, tweeted about it during intermission, and then sat down for [...]

This week, Nevin Martell leads the section with "The Devil in Kalorama," for which he toured the well-heeled neighborhood with noted photographer John Gossage—who after realizing he lived near Donald Rumsfeld decided that Kalorama was, in fact, hell. For One Track Mind, Erin Petty talks to Carolyn Malachi about her relationship anthem "Orion," in which a [...]

Ben Claassen III has been creating a regular comic strip for Washington City Paper for years now; he also illustrates stories and created the logo for our annual Crafty Bastards Arts & Crafts Festival, where he's also been an exhibitor. Ben is speaking this Saturday at the D.C. Public Library's free event "Graphic Content: A [...]

See that handsome grey lady? That's today's edition of the Chosun Ilbo, a Fairfax-based Korean-language daily that figures prominently in Mike Paarlberg's story this week about a controversial four-day Kennedy Center concert featuring the Little Angels, the children's song and dance troupe that has been the cultural arm of the Unificification Church since the 1960s. [...]

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 [...]

D.C. newspapers have devoted less space to comics in recent years.
Ladies and gentleman,
As we take stock of this great nation of ours, it is evident that one group is suffering—a surprising group given its mission. Cartoonists are under siege in this great capital of ours.
If we examine who was appearing in our newspapers in [...]

This past weekend, we learned that former Washington City Paper music critic Rickey Wright had died. I put together a tribute of sorts made from Wright's blog posts and WCP pieces, tributes from friends and colleagues and family.
On Saturday afternoon, I had the fortune of talking with Nicole Arthur. Arthur served as Washington City Paper's [...]

Former Washington City Paper music critic Rickey Wright is dead.  Wright passed away at 4:31 p.m. on February 19 in Seattle after suffering from a series of small strokes. At the time of his death, he was working on a book about John Lennon's "Imagine."
Wright was probably one of the most prolific talents the Washington [...]