For a guy who doesn’t live in one, Mark Stein sure knows a lot about states. The D.C. resident’s book, How the States Got Their Shapes, delves into the geographic biographies of the 50 messed-up pieces of land that made the cut——with the District’s wonky diamond thrown in for good measure. The book promises to [...]
The boy-and-his-dog tale at the heart of David Wroblewski’s debut novel, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, is deeply observed, as symbolically deep as any epic, and most surprising of all, devoid of easy sentiment. After all, the rough outlines of the novel would be perfect for a three-hanky affair: Edgar Sawtelle is a mute adolescent [...]
Washington Capitals all-star winger Alexander Ovechkin's trophy case is getting a little crowded.
During last night's NHL Awards Show, Ovechkin picked up both the Hart Trophy (Most Valuable Player) and the Lester B. Pearson Award (Players' choice for the most outstanding player). Two weeks ago, Ovechkin was awarded the Maurice "Rocket" Richard Trophy (NHL's top goal [...]
“Summer Camp Film Series”
Special-effects legend Ray Harryhausen crafts campy creepy-crawlies and marauding saucer men with an imagination unmatched in modern cinema. From the famous skeleton swordfight of Jason and the Argonauts to the expressive apes, centaurs, snake ladies, and Gorgons of Clash of the Titans and the Sinbad series, Harryhausen’s stop-motion masterworks quiver with an [...]
Right below the band’s name on the online promotional poster for Band of Annuals’ five-week tour is the phrase “Over America.” Whether that’s simply a reference to the band’s tour schedule—which takes the Salt Lake City-based six piece from Spokane, Wash., to New York and back—or an indication that they’re just done with the U-S-of-A [...]
Russian-born Icelandic conductor and pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy will be moving from Japan to Australia to direct the Sydney Symphony, but not before closing out his two week stint in Washington, D.C., with Norway’s greatest, Edvard Grieg. Peer Gynt remains Grieg’s best-known work, far outshining the Henrik Ibsen play he composed the piece to accompany, though [...]
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They're saying "Love Ovechkin," right?
In fact, it actually looks a LOT like Hershey Bears defenseman (and recent Washington Capitals minor-league callup) Sami Lepisto. You be the judge.
Alexander Ovechkin:
The Alexander Ovechkin bobblehead:
Sami Lepisto:
Not that I'm complaining. I got this sweet beauty for free at the Caps' last regular season game right before they kicked ass and made the playoffs, and [...]
Well, how do you like that? After 81 games—which included an early-season meltdown followed by an improbable comeback—the Washington Capitals found themselves in a win-and-you're-in, lose-and-you're-out playoffs situation during their final game of the regular season. (Okay, technically, they could have lost in overtime and still made the playoffs, but my way sounds much more [...]
There has to be a sick clown car of psychosis constantly doing doughnuts inside the mind of Dirty Projectors mastermind and Ivy League dropout Dave Longstreth. How else would he get the idea to re-imagine the Black Flag anthem "Rise Above" as a multilayered tapestry of soothing vocals and loungy loops? At this point, the [...]
How many viola players can brag that they’ve worked with Jay-Z and Kanye West? At least one: Marla Hansen. Her anomalous association with the hip-hop world is, however, not her only claim to fame. Hansen’s list of credentials including backing the New Pornographers, the National, and pretty much any other vaguely indie-flavored band that has [...]
An ongoing chronicle of douchebaggery on the road
Hey, idiot. Yeah, you—the one behind the wheel of 5,000 pounds of steel on 18th Street NW. Come here. There's something I want to say to you.
No, come closer. It's a secret. It's an important secret meant only for you. Are you ready?
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK YOOOOOOOOOOU!
OK, I lied. It's [...]
Not since Queen’s “Bicycle Race” has an artist been so fixated on the two-wheel mode of transportation. But now we have Paul Fattaruso’s latest book, Bicycle, which falls somewhere between prose and poetry, with one sentence, one thought, per page, accompanied by an occasional sketch by Adam Thompson. It is, above all else, an ode [...]
If David Fischoff tends to look a little pasty, well, there’s a reason. Namely, he’s a guy who probably doesn’t see the light of day much—and the cold glare of a MacBook screen is a poor substitute for sun. Fischoff would rather seclude himself away in his basement apartment in Chicago or—according to his Web [...]
The “he” and “she” of Amy Sillman’s “Third Person Singular” describes the couples the New York artist sketches and then, on a separate canvas, reduces to abstraction. These black-and-white drawings inspire her bold-hued paintings with touches of cubism, color field, and strong lines that keep the eye darting around the canvas. For Sillman, the observation [...]
