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... »
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... »
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 ... »
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... »
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 ... »
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... »
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... »
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... »
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... »
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... »
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... »
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... »
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... »
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 ... »
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... »
