Stories from the February 15, 2007, Print Edition
Remember that whole intelligent design controversy a little while back? If you don't, it might be worth it to take some time and reflect. This Thursday, for one night only at the Avalon Theatre, you can catch a screening of "Flock of Dodos," a documentary about the so-called controversy.
"Shit, someone just gave me a bottle of booze, sweet!" I was on the phone with Buz McGrath, one of two guitarists from Unearth. The Boston-based metalcore band had been on the road for six days touring with metal legends Slayer. "So far the tour has been going great," Buz told me over the phone while standing outside of the Sacramento, Calif.
Meat Market - sounds like another metro-sexual commercial space trying to appear edgy and raw (pun intended, one assumes). The narrow 17th Street venue is actually a former butcher shop. Interestingly enough, the work of Christopher L. Williams' "Carniceria" and J.
If you have $5 Keep it and take a trip to Anacostia, Md., and head to the Honfleur Gallery at 1241 Good Hope Rd., S.E. Up until Saturday, the gallery will be featuring an exhibit called "No Scratchers" that focuses on the work of local tattoo artists. Honfleur seems to be looking to examine the myriad canvases on which art can exist, even when those canvases happen to by human bodies.
A couple of weeks ago, what began as a few Thursday drinks at an L Street bar ended with my friends and I getting offered a snort of coke by a guy who claimed to be a lawyer (we declined it), a phone number by a guy who claimed to be the bartender's roommate (we deleted it) and a threatening knife by a guy who claimed we had stolen one of his darts (we might have done it - who can remember?).
Jennifer O'Connor, a New York-based singer-songwriter, adapts her songs to both folk and Indie rock aesthetics with seemingly equal ease. Always a lover of music, she sang as a little kid, but it wasn't until she graduated from college that she began writing her own songs.
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