News and Features

• Elvis on the Potomac
  On March 23, 1956, Elvis played D.C. for the first and last time. The show, unlike the boat, rocked.
  Cover Story By Peter Golkin
• Brazil Nuts
  Tales of a bikini waxer
  Feature By Anonymous
• Welcome to the Clayborhood
  Phone book resurrects forgotten neighborhood moniker.
  The City By Sarah Godfrey
• Service Industry
  Rating D.C.'s Houses of Worship
  The City By Aaron Leitko
• Conventional Wisdom
  Taking You Behind the Scenes of America's Industry Confabs
  The City By Rob Tierney
• Dirt Farm
  Comics
• Ernie Pook's Comeek
  Comics
• Lulu Eightball
  Comics
• Red Meat
  Comics
• thingpart
  Comics
• The City
  Comics
• 
  Distractions
• Government Cheese
  Comics By R. Jelani
• 
  Distractions
• The Grapes of Math
  The Mail

Columns

• Gray Protects Home Court
  Gray and Fenty are fighting over the race for Gray’s Ward 7 successor.
  Loose Lips By James Jones
• Gearing Down
  A fan struggles with the new NASCAR.
  Cheap Seats By Dave McKenna
• Sappy Endings
  Savage Love By Dan Savage
• Channel Serf
  A Week of Subsistence
  in TV's Vast Wasteland
  
  Television By Jay Dyckman

Eats

• A Pot to Pitch In
  Bob’s 88 turns the tables on the restaurant experience.
  Young & Hungry By Tim Carman

Movies

• Home Is Where the Angst Is
  Reviewed: Bridge to Terabithia and Family Law
  Film Review By Tricia Olszewski
• Power Couples
  Reviewed: Breach and Factory Girl
  Film Review By Mark Jenkins
• 
  Film Reviews By Justin Moyer
• 
  Film Reviews By Mark Jenkins
• 
  Film Reviews By Mark Jenkins
• Agent Provocateur
  An interview by Mark Jenkins with Breach director Billy Ray
  Talking Pictures By Mark Jenkins

Music

• 
  Music Reviews By Emily Zemler
• 
  Music Reviews By Chris Richards
• One Track Mind
  What's new in the local music scene,
  a few minutes at a time
  Music By Joe Warminsky
• The Rake’s Prog-Rock
  Music Review By David Dunlap Jr.
• Spot the Drummer
  InDC
• The Pop Quiz: Justin Trawick
  Justin Trawick takes the Pop Quiz
  InDC
• Surrogate City
  Maybe it's wrong to vote for an album I don't consider excellent, but then the Pazz & Jop list is packed with records that I would rate as respectable but not great
  InDC By Mark Jenkins

Theater

• In & Out: Theater
  Theater
• Anyone for Doubles?
  Theater Review By Trey Graham

Arts and Events

• Bottled Up Frustration
  Noise outside a Penn Quarter club leads to an outpouring of anger.
  Show & Tell By Jessica Gould
• Speed Reads
  Reviewed: Wish I Could Be There, by William Shawn
  Book Reviews By Justin Moyer
• Can-Bangers
  Kriston Capps' profile on the Great Noise Ensemble
  Artifacts By Kriston Capps
• Shuttle Rebuttal
  Richard Cook discusses his Challenger Revealed: An Insider’s Account of How the Reagan Administration Caused the Greatest Tragedy of the Space Age
  Artifacts By Sadie Dingfelder
• In & Out: Museums
  Arts

City Lights

This week's best in Arts and Entertainment.

• Moving Pictures: American Art and Early Film
  To Sunday, May 20, at the Phillips Collection
  Arts & Events By Mark Jenkins
• 5 + 5
  To Sunday, May 13, at the District of Columbia Jewish Community Center’s Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery
  Arts & Events By Kriston Capps
• Mastodon
  Saturday, Feb. 17, at the 9:30 Club
  Arts & Events By Aaron Leitko
• Peelander-Z
  Friday, Feb. 16, at the Omni Shoreham Hotel
  Arts & Events By Justin Moyer
• “Black Expressions: Hip Hop Festival”
  Saturday, Feb. 17 and Sunday, Feb. 18, at Dance Place
  Arts & Events By Sarah Godfrey
• The Open Road
  Saturday, Feb. 17 and Sunday, Feb. 18, at the National Gallery of Art’s East Building Auditorium
  Arts & Events By Mark Jenkins
• Stateless Cinema
  Monday, Feb. 19, at 9 p.m. at the Black Cat
  Arts & Events By Jonathan York
• Barr
  Tuesday, Feb. 20, at 9:30 p.m. at the Warehouse Next Door
  Arts & Events By Aaron Leitko
• Laura Sessions Stepp
  Wednesday, Feb. 21, at 7 p.m. at Politics and Prose
  Arts & Events By Shauna Miller
• The Distance From Here
  To March 3, at the University of Maryland’s Smith Performing Arts Center
  Arts & Events By Kim Rinehimer