Bruce: In Tuesday's Washington Post, Bruce Springsteen's introduction to journalism professor Dale Maharidge and WaPo photographer Michael S. Williamson's latest book, Someplace Like America: Tales From the New Great Depression, is repurposed for the Style section. Springsteen writes that Maharidge and Williamson's previous book, Journey to Nowhere, inspired him to pick up his pen: "I had [...]

Ned Martel is pissed he's waiting an extra week to see Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
In Sunday's Washington Post Outlook section, the former editor of Style and occasional Washington City Paper punching bag took a deep dive on a frequent complaint of local filmgoers—that New York and Los Angeles get all the good movies first.
Back in [...]

Washington is about to lose one of its veteran dance critics. George Jackson, 80, a Southwest resident, has announced he’ll be giving up dance reviewing this month. Since 1972, Jackson has been taking in and commenting on Washington dance performances for local papers like the now-defunct Washington Star and the Washington Post, as well as national [...]

Last Wednesday, I compiled a few narratives from current and former WMUC DJs involved in the rediscovery of a once-lost live session by indie-folk legend Elliott Smith, which contained a previously unreleased song called "Misery Let Me Down."  The story had gone viral two days earlier, when the Washington Post's David Malitz first wrote about it. The [...]

...but you'll have to wait till tomorrow night to read our review. It's on the cover (!) of this week's Washington City Paper.
Reviews are starting to trickle out. In The Washington Post, Chris Richards praises Wale's big hometown hit from the summer:
“Bait” has become Washington’s latest local anthem, spilling out of car stereos and nightclub [...]

What's the role of a dance critic?
I’ve been asking myself that question ever since reading the lead article in Tuesday’s Washington Post Style section. The piece confirmed a hunch I’d had for a while: Sarah Kaufman, the paper’s chief dance critic, is making an occupation of not writing about modern dance.
Oh, she’s writing about movement, [...]

Getting There: With a handful of works by black women being produced on the big stage this season, Washington Post theater critic Peter Marks posits that right now is "a time of seemingly unprecedented exposure for black female playwrights on Broadway." Some artists he speaks to cautiously agree that the Great White Way does seem more [...]

Local labor groups have plenty of experience battling governments and executives. But this year, organizers of the annual D.C. Labor Film Fest encountered surprising opposition from people in their own camp.
Some local union supporters weren't too happy with the festival's decision to show All the President's Men, Alan J. Pakula's 1976 film about the Washington [...]

 
Which is to say: It's pretty impressive that this Kickstarter campaign, for an upcoming exhibition and book of Lucian Perkins' photographs of early D.C. punk shows, has raised more than $5,000 of its $7,000 goal in one day.
The book and travelling exhibition is called HARD ART DC 1979, and it features photographs from the year the future [...]

Closer to the River: The Post's Capital Business Blog reported late Friday that some of the major movie theater trains are interested in building a multiplex on the site of Uline Arena, aka the Washington Coliseum. Though that would creep into the portion of D.C. where movie theaters have long been absent, it's still well [...]