With a surrealist eye and a pop-culture canvas, video artist Jeremy Blake pushed modernist art into the digital age. Blake’s videos are supersaturated, stream-of-consciousness musings on the freaky and the famous that blur the lines between art forms. One part abstract painter, one part auteur, Blake skipped readily from gallery into the mainstream: Beck used [...]
Most 9-to-5 office drones know the feeling of being trapped in a mundane existence that is punctuated by daily routines—and the only way to survive is by the blind hope that tomorrow will somehow be better. Of course, being figuratively buried in paperwork hardly compares to the plight of Winnie, the protagonist of Samuel Beckett’s [...]
DUE TO A SCHEDULING CONFLICT, PISSED JEANS IS NO LONGER ON TONIGHT'S BILL AT THE ROCK AND ROLL HOTEL. BLACK DICE, ECSTATIC SUNSHINE, PONYTAIL, AND THE METHAMPHETAMINES WILL STILL PERFORM.
A Pissed Jeans performance is probably the only time one can be in close proximity to a sweaty, shirtless dude screeching about ice cream toppings [...]
Come close, dear reader. There is something I want to tell you.
I have a Tofurkey in my freezer.
Yes, it is true. I would not lie to you about such a matter. Were you to open my freezer right now, you would find this Tofurkey. Please do not ask me from whence it came, [...]
When it comes to line combinations, Washington Capitals Head Coach Glen Hanlon likes to shake things up. You never know what the guy is going to do: play people out of position, put an enforcer on the power play, convert a forward to a defenseman then back again, or bring up some schlub from the [...]
Hey Washington Capitals fans, remember Joe Murphy? Me neither, although there’s plenty else to remember about the team during the limited time Murphy spent in Washington in the 1999-2000 and 2000-2001 seasons. Simply put, that was the last time the Caps were any good, putting up 102 and 96 points (respectively) and winning back-to-back Southeast [...]
The four members of Los Angeles folk-pop quartet Lavender Diamond are wildly in love with the notion of love. The band describes its music as “the original sound of love,” titled its debut full-length Imagine Our Love, and wrote songs with names such as “You Broke My Heart” and “Open Your Heart.” Cutesy as they [...]
At 7 p.m. tonight, the Washington Capitals will face off against the Vancouver Canucks—a team they don't get to see very often, what with the National Hockey League's current unbalanced schedule format, which has teams from opposing conferences play each other only two times every three years. The last time the two teams played one [...]
Late yesterday afternoon, as Arizona Cardinals kicker Neil Rackers sent a last-second, 55-yard-long, game-winning field goal attempt on its way, the Washington Redskins' coaching staff and the majority of the team's players sat on the sidelines nervously anticipating their latest all-but-sure-victory-turned-tragicomedic-defeat.
Miraculously, Rackers' kick—which had more than enough distance and initially seemed to be headed [...]
Choose whatever nickname you like, but—either way—one thing is for certain: The Washington Capitals' Olaf Kolzig did not have his best game last night against the New York Islanders. After going down a pair of goals in the first two periods, the Caps made a third-period comeback off of goals from Alexander Ovechkin and Tomas [...]
All right, Washington City Paper: Now I understand that, in this post-Loaf world of budget cuts and financial restraints, certain sacrifices have to be made. But, currently, this is what the City Paper has stocked in its third-floor kitchen:
34 cannisters of fine granulated sugar
22 cannisters of Coffee-Mate
3 bags of coffee
36 boxes of assorted teas (including [...]
Kites does not soar, it bores— holes. A one-man band consisting of Providence, R.I., resident Christopher Forgues, some oscillators, and whatever creepy thoughts are consuming him, Kites’ distorted electronic buzzings are powerful enough to dig shafts into the temporal bones of your skull. Suffice it to say that Forgues’ music isn’t exactly for Nickelback fans, [...]
Radar magazine, ever-vigilant on the culture, entertainment, and style scenes, brings its readers this bit of top serious news: Wowzers, a beer in the shower sure is refreshing, ain't it?
Maybe it's just the booze talking, but who the hell doesn't occasionally drink a beer or six in the shower? Whether it's to cool off [...]
In an interview with the BBC earlier this year, cartoonist Rutu Modan threw the pressures facing the still-nascent Israeli comics movement in sharp relief: “People expect me to make the Middle East situation clear in my comics, but it’s something I cannot do—it’s too complicated.” Of course, the al-Aqsa intifada looms large in Modan’s graphic [...]
Only three games into the young 2007–08 NHL regular season, the highly anticipated scoring race between the Pittsburgh Penguins’ baby-faced superstar Sidney Crosby and Washington Capitals depth defenseman John Erskine is already underway. It was expected that Crosby, the 5-foot-11, 193 lbs. franchise center drafted No. 1 overall in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft, and [...]
