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Record Store Day: About That Free Rare Essence Single at Joint Custody…

Remember the Rare Essence 7-inch mentioned on Arts Desk yesterday? Adams Morgan vintage shop Joint Custody is giving away copies of a single by the classic go-go band for free, as part of its Record Store Day happenings tomorrow. "It is just stock copi... »

What D.C. Shops are Doing for Record Store Day

You should visit some local music shops this Saturday, the sixth annual Record Store Day. Then again, you probably should visit a record store every weekend. But let's not get ahead of ourselves: Record Store Day began in 2007 as a celebration of brick... »

DCRA Lightens Up on Record, Used Book, and Vintage Shops

The local stores that were busted last week for having the wrong class of business license got some decent-to-good news today: While record stores with some used inventory, used book stores, and vintage and antique shops do have to obtain a secondhand ... »

Rereleased ArtAround App Maps D.C.’s Public Art

Walking down Calvert Street NW in Adams Morgan, it’s not too hard to spot the neo-Fauvist contortions of Laurenellen McCann’s favorite mural in the District: Juan Pineda's “A People Without Murals Is a Demuralized People,” perched prominently on the si... »

Why Is the District Busting Record Stores and Vintage Shops?

Should stores that sell records, vintage clothes, and used books be regulated in a manner similar to pawn shops? The District code seems to say so—which is what some small-shop owners found out, rather unpleasantly, earlier this week. On Wednesday, an ... »

ToDo ToDay: What Would 20-Somethings Do?

It's kinda gray and rainy for a bar hop, but bear with me: Tonight's got the makings of a classic 20-something Ward One booze triangle. Here's how it goes: Start in Mount Pleasant at Marx Cafe, where DJ Mark Williams is hosting Soundclash, his long-goi... »

Arts Roundup: Wonderwall Pastiche Edition

Streetscape improvements haven't been easy for business owners in Adams Morgan. [Post] Sixteen members of the world's largest pop group will perform at the Cherry Blossom Festival. [Style Blog] So many shooting-star noises: Here is a new song by all-Am... »

Heat Wave: Edie Sedgwick Goes to SXSW, Day 3

We wake up in Cleveland and drive to Chicago. Due to unremarked-upon tectonic movements neglected by earth scientists more interested in studying sexier faults like the one that caused Japan's 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster, these two ci... »

Heat Wave: Edie Sedgwick Goes to SXSW, Day 3

We wake up in Cleveland and drive to Chicago. Due to unremarked-upon tectonic movements neglected by earth scientists more interested in studying sexier faults like the one that caused Japan's 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster, these two c... »

Tonight: Members of Zieti Perform Ivorian Afropop

D.C.-based Chopteeth guitarist Michael Shereikis is best known for playing funky Nigerian Afrobeat. But from 1997 to late 1999,  Shereikis lived in Côte D'Ivoire, where he met singer Yeoue Narcisse and guitarist/vocalist Tiende Laurent. They formed a g... »

Washington National Opera’s Così Fan Tutte, Reviewed

The first discrepancy you’ll notice in Jonathan Miller’s production of Così fan tutte, supposedly set in present-day D.C., is that nobody in D.C. dresses that well. Miller’s Washington is populated by strange, dapper creatures who wear waistcoats and m... »

In the Details: The Many Lives of Crime Novelist David Swinson

David Swinson wasn’t supposed to be a cop. Not for 15 years, anyway. When Swinson joined the Metropolitan Police Department in 1994, it wasn’t for the paycheck, and it wasn’t out of civic duty. It was supposed to be more of a boho diversion, the latest... »

Tyler Perry to Shoot in D.C. Sunday…From the Sky

Look to the sky Sunday, and you might see Tyler Perry. Well, maybe. According to the D.C. Film Office's production alerts page, a crew will shoot a sequence in Georgetown for the director's upcoming film The Marriage Counselor—from a helicopter. The ch... »

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You may have noticed today that we've changed our email newsletters. Here's the deal. Loose Lips Daily and D.C. in 10 Links have morphed into The District Line, a morning compendium of news and opinion from all over Washington City Paper's website, as ... »

What’s in This Mural?

I walk by this mural in Adams Morgan several times a week, and I usually notice something new. It turns out that was the intention of artist Cita Sadeli “Chelove,” who executed the piece last summer as part of the MuralsDC program. "I was thinking of a... »

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