“Punk is Jewish,” argues author Steven Lee Beeber in the intro to his book, The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB’s: A Secret History of Jewish Punk. To prove his point, Beeber does what any good Jew would do: He names/outs/profiles famous people who happen to be Jewish. Among the Jewboys in leather, Beeber leads with a hilarious [...]

Hey you, the guy with the white gloves whose sole job it is to handle the Stanley Cup: You might as well save yourself some time and drive that sweet silver beauty down to Washington, D.C., right now—before the puck drops in the Washington Capitals’ 2007-2008 season opener against the Atlanta Thrashers tonight. And I’m [...]

This weekend, hitting the global trail is as simple as tramping three blocks from Farragut North. National Geographic’s “4th Annual All Roads Film Festival” presents four programs of shorts, five features, and a free show by Balkan Beat Box. The opening night attractions are a film from Mexico, Super Amigos (pictured; at 7 p.m.), and [...]

You’ve got to feel for a guy like Jakub Klepis: After a stellar performance for the Hershey Bears in the 2006-2007 American Hockey League playoffs, the 23-year-old forward came into this year’s Washington Capitals training camp with no contract and very little hope of cracking the team’s 23-man roster. Klepis’ lackluster performance during the preseason [...]

Anyone who's played the last two entries in EA Sports' popular NHL hockey video game franchise knows that—after facing stiff competition from rival game company 2K Sports—the EA designers have rededicated themselves to producing a game that, in addition to being a fun waste of time, is also a realistic simulation of the sport. Because, [...]

The Washington Capitals weren’t kidding around when they announced “Change Is Coming” earlier this summer: When the Caps suit up for their home opener against the Carolina Hurricanes on Saturday, Oct. 6, a heavily upgraded roster featuring free-agent acquisitions such as Michael Nylander, Tom Poti, and Victor Kozlov will be hitting the ice—and in some [...]

As I mentioned in an earlier blog post, members of the Washington Capitals’ Guest Services department have been trying to get me to re-up my two season tickets in Section 413 of the Verizon Center for the 2007–2008 campaign. They put forth a convincing argument for a long-time die-hard Caps fan such as myself: Discounted [...]

Saturday morning I made my way to the Kettler Capitals Iceplex in Ballston to attend the second day of the Washington Capitals’ training camp. The place was packed but, luckily for me, I’m a former season-ticket holder currently undecided on whether or not to re-up my seats—so I was invited to a pre-practice “Coffee With [...]

Entirely unexpected at the time of its 1982 release, The Draughtsman’s Contract propelled Peter Greenaway from the experimental underground to the arthouse, where he did quite well before his various mania drove viewers away. The writer-director’s fixations are all on display in this film, set at an English country house in 1694. The tale of [...]

Due to an error by Editorial Assistant Aaron Leitko, the music listings for the Red and the Black are listed incorrectly in this year's edition of the Washington City Paper's annual Fall Arts Guide.
The Red and the Black listings appearing in the Fall Arts Guide were pulled from the venue’s Web site. The site’s [...]

The Washington Capitals' Rookie Camp concluded yesterday with a 5-3 loss to the Philadelphia Flyers' rookie team in an exhibition game held in Voorhees, N.J. By all accounts, the more skilled Caps squad out-skated the Flyers but was manhandled physically and had a tough time killing penalties (four of the Flyers goals were on the [...]

More authentic than Arial, more down-to-business than Comic Sans, and much more useful than Wingdings is Helvetica, the sans-serif typeface created in 1957 by Swiss graphic designer Max Miedinger. Today, Helvetica can be found almost everywhere, from iPhones to Energizer batteries to American Apparel advertisements. Released in celebration of the typeface’s 50th anniversary is director [...]

With his white hair and penchant for tie-dye, visual artist and Silver Apples co-founder Simeon Coxe resembles someone’s hippie burnout uncle more than an experimental musician who was way ahead of his time. Coxe—along with Silver Apples’ other half, the late Danny Taylor—spent the late ’60s with a homemade synthesizer making records that laid the [...]

Civilian Art Projects: “This guy knows how to live,” the Civilian Art Projects’ Web site says about the fictional subject of Erick Jackson’s “Vlad’s Crib.” The colorful bachelor pad—which includes a drum room, and arcade, and a sauna—depicted in Jackson’s paintings certainly suggest so, but also offer a stark contrast to the overexposed black-and-white photographs [...]

Tarik El-Bashir of the Washington Post writes in his blog that several Washington Capitals players—including Donald Brashear, John Erskine, Brent Johnson, Olie Kolzig, Boyd Gordon, Nicklas Backstrom, Michael Nylander, Chris Clark, Shaone Morrisonn, and Brian Sutherby—have arrived in D.C. early to get a few informal skating sessions in before training camp begins Sept. 14. Nothing [...]