Washington City Paper: Contents for Apr. 21

Lost at See
Has Filmfest DC lost touch with international festivalgoers? Not if they really, really like hip-hop documentaries.

Cover Story

Screenings take place at the AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue, 4000 Wisconsin Ave. NW; American University’s Greenberg Theatre, 4200 Wisconsin Ave. NW; the Avalon Theatre, 5612 Connecticut Ave. NW; the E Street Cinema, 555 11th St. NW; the Embassy of Canada, 501 Pennsylvania Ave. NW; the National Gallery of Art’s East Building Auditorium, 4th and Constitution Avenue NW; and the Regal Gallery Place, 701 7th St. NW.

Admission is $9 unless otherwise noted. For more information, call (202) 628-3456 or visit filmfestdc.org.

Filmfest DC is 20 this year, a landmark that has been greeted with—well, more of the same. And perhaps not even that. It’s impossible to be certain without viewing all of the films—the Washington City Paper’s critics were able to see only about half of the 69 programmed features—but 2006 does not seem destined to be one of Filmfest’s better years.... Continued

Issue of Apr. 21 - 27, 2006

News and Features

Lost at See
Has Filmfest DC lost touch with international festivalgoers? Not if they really, really like hip-hop documentaries.
Cover Story By Louis BayardBrent BurtonJoe DempseyHuan HsuMark JenkinsIan MartinezJustin Moyer, Tricia Olszewski and Joe Warminsky
From Tap to Scrap
Who's absconding with hundreds of used beer kegs?
The City By Rachel Beckman
Good Hope Seafood
1521 Good Hope Road SE
The City By Rachel Beckman
Washington Hebrew Congregation
Cathedral Heights
The City By Aaron Leitko
The Paper of (Broken) Record
The Mail By Bill Black
Lemon Law and Order
The Mail By Jim McCabe
Robot a Boy
The Mail By Brian Ottens
Robot a Boy
The Mail By Janet Lathan
Correction
Correction
Correction
Correction
Corrections
Correction

Columns

Another Lose-Lose Situation
In the Duke lacrosse fiasco, shades of a D.C. sex scandal
Cheap Seats By Dave McKenna
BAD BLOOD
Loose Lips By James Jones
Savage Love
Savage Love By Dan Savage
Channel Serf
A Week of Subsistence in TV's Vast Wasteland
Television By Mario Correa

Eats

Raw Deal
Young & Hungry By Tim Carman

Movies

Oh Bondage, I'm Yours!
Film Review By Tricia Olszewski
Marginal Gloss
Film Review By Mark Jenkins
Friendly Fire
Talking Pictures By Mark Jenkins

Music

Playing With Water
Music Review By Sarah Godfrey

Theater

Manicures and Monuments
By Vicki Caroline Cheatwood
Theater Review By Nick Green
Life in Prison
Theater Review By Trey Graham
Trading Lightly
Theater Review By Bob Mondello