This is how the kids were entertained on a summer evening in 1959. From the Aug. 31 issue of the Washington Post, Times Herald, curiously headlined "Park Teen":
"Annette Funicello, the Disney movie and TV discovery, is one of the teenagers singing their recording hits on the 'Show of Stars' bill opening the Carter Barron Amphitheater's [...]
And video, uh, viceroys? Country-blues-rockers the Bourbon Dynasty will be shooting scenes for a video of its song "Girl in the Checkout Line" at a free show this Thursday at Chick Hall's Surf Club in Bladensburg, Md.
Actually, the band already has it's star, a "smoking young woman" to portray the titular grocery store gal, says [...]
"Jazz brunch." Sure, the phrase may bring a sneer to hipster lips. There is the air of lounging gentrifiers smugly quaffing their champagne and quiche while lame piano tinkles in the background.
However, put the accent on the jazz, and the good news is that drummer Brooks Tegler has found a new home for his afternoon [...]
Friday night in the Sprung. Local band the Oxymorons (pictured above) are on the small stage at McGinty's Public House, sweating through the blues-based rock, doing what all local covers-plus-originals groups do: working to please the crowd.
And suddenly, a huge cheer erupts. A huuuuge cheer, with screaming and clapping and stomping. The song comes to [...]
Friday's freezing sleet shower wasn't just annoying. It threatened to wreck the Pharmacy Prophets/Welbilt show at Iota. Prophet drummer Ben Mellott got stuck in traffic on I-66. But at least he was in the same state as the gig. The guy originally scheduled to back Welbilt never got closer than the New Jersey Turnpike. Fortunately, [...]
Jon Gann wants to be on TV. Specifically, the upcoming reality show On the Lot, created by Steven Spielberg and Mark Burnett (Survivor, etc.). To that end, the filmmaker created a Web site, Put Jon on TV, excoriating exhorting people to vote for him.
The show pits filmmakers against each other for a supposed $1 million [...]
The 9th Annual BOTU Film Festival took place last Friday at the Arlington Cinema Drafthouse. How did I miss the previous eight? Well, most of them took place in organizer Rich Bernett's house. "Sometimes in restaurants," added his wife, Carmen. The 10th will undoubtedly be back at the Drafthouse, or a larger venue, because the [...]
On Saturday, what felt like half a million children gathered at McGinty's Public House in Silver Sprung for the Woodstock of kid-centric music shows, Rock-n-Romp. The joint was literally crawling with rug rats and their parents, out for an afternoon of music and bar food.
LISTENRock-n-Romp founder Debbie Lee discusses her parent-friendly music fest (MP3 format, [...]
Hey, ladies! Sunday marks the 74th anniversary of "Anti-Flirt Week," a commendable effort begun by the woman pictured at right. The caption reads:
Miss Alice Reighly, President of the Anti-Flirt Club which has just been organized in Wash D.C. and will launch an 'Anti-Flirt' week beginning March 4th. The club is composed of young women and [...]
The AFI Silver Theater's screening of The Legend of Merv Conn sold out last week, and the crowd that showed up in the middle of Sunday's snowstorm for an added screening did a fair job of filling the Silver's glorious 400-seat main room. Which suggests that Washingtonians can't get enough accordion music.
Jeff Krulik's latest documentary [...]
The Starland Cafe closed Sunday night, but don't expect bitter recriminations from the eatery's investors. Rather, the group showed their appreciation to Starland owners Bill and Joan Danoff by coughing up more dough to send the couple to Ireland for a week's stay in a country cottage, airfare included.
A brunch and live-music staple in the [...]
Woodwind was "an arts paper," as it stated on the cover, some of whose staff and contributors remain on the D.C. scene 36 years after the April 4 issue we are currently perusing. Michael Schreibman now heads WAMA. (Note: the WAMMIES are this Sunday at the State Theater.) Contributor "William Holland" leads jazz-pop band Bill [...]
Nick Curran e-mailed to alert us to an attempt to take down the never-ending theatrical juggernaut that is the Kennedy Center's Shear Madness. That so-called "out-of-touch" play will be replaced by a work better reflecting the real Washington, D.C., according to an open letter to Stephen Schwarzman and the KenCen Board of Trustees posted to [...]
City Paper circulation manager Kris Koth unearthed copies of some of our forebears in the alternative-newspaper racket. Included was the May 31, 1972, Quicksilver Times, a short-lived "underground" rag that featured headlines such as "Demonstrators Fight Pigs," and "Bury the Pigs in Yogurt." (This woman claims the White House thought the Chinese were funding the [...]
Mary Cliff is the latest longstanding D.C. media figure to be dropped from the airwaves. The gentle-voiced host of the folk-music show Traditions, heard Saturday nights on WETA-FM for nearly 34 years, was let go by the station Monday. The last “Traditions” broadcast will be this Saturday, Jan. 27.
“You'd have to ask [WETA management] why,” [...]
