Craig Brewer knows that it's hard out there for a pimp, or a film director. The road leading up to 2005's "Hustle & Flow," the film that catapulted him into the big leagues, was not an easy one. When financial woes put the film in an uncertain place and anxiety attacks overcame him, he looked toward that old familiar place: music.
Have you ever heard that one guy … oh … what's his name? Well, with Mike Silverman, That1Guy is hard to forget. Now, the classical musician turned inventor has turned the world of bass on its ear with his quirky instrument, as he storms into town in support of his new live DVD, "Live in the Land of Oz.
Though "An Inconvenient Truth" won both Most Thoroughly Depressing Movie (best documentary) and Least Terrible Song From a Movie (best original song) during this year's Academy Awards, anti-Bushites still seek a unifying rallying cry. With the Thermals latest offering, "The Body, The Blood, The Machine" (Sub Pop 2006), imaginations are fired and hackles raised.
"I don't really like the place," our friend told us as we walked down U Street toward our destination. "I was really sick last time I was there, so all I could drink was water. And my back hurt from standing the whole time." When we reminded him that this experience had nothing to do with the bar itself, he replied, "I just thought I should warn you.
If you have $5 Pocket it and learn how to make a movie. Tonight at 7, you can go to Funger Hall to attend a panel discussion, "Film Your Issue," where you can learn about an international competition that invites young people to create digital shorts about issues that are relevant to them.
It may not seem like it, but spring is upon us. And with the warm weather approaching, many great bands are coming out of hibernation to descend upon D.C. in their tours this month. Tomorrow night (March 2), GW's own Jukebox the Ghost will perform at Potter's House in Columbia Heights in order to warm up for their show the following night at the famous New York City independent club/restaurant Piano's.
In the recently founded world of new age emo, a band's third release can expand or crumble their existing fan base. Jersey rockers Senses Fail, released their third album to deaf ears, ripping open their loyal fan base at the seams, while the *NSYNC of emo-pop, Fall Out Boy, have launched themselves into celebritydom, managing to hold onto their loyal fans and garnering new ones of all ages.
VIRGO: A surprise email or phone call that comes early in the day may be a key to some unexpected good fortune. While you can often be a kind optimist, the planetary energies will help you to express your dissatisfaction with the latest suspense flick "Zodiac.
While it's important to avoid sweeping generalizations, it's prudent to draw small, if not fully formed, conclusions from particular situations. For instance, last Friday, at the Arlington Drafthouse & Cinema (which was moonlighting as a comedy club on weekends), I learned from Todd Barry and Leo Allen that comedians are only funny when they want to be, which is to say, only when they're performing.
Creating a vagina-friendly world, where V-day symbolizes everything but victimization is robustly achieved through Eve Ensler's award-winning production, "The Vagina Monologues," put on last Saturday at Jack Morton Auditorium and sponsored by Health Outreach Peer Educators and the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance.
It's not very often that an artist gets to collaborate with one of his or her biggest influences, and it's even less often when those two collaborators are both legendary forces in music. This coming Saturday, March 3, bluegrass banjo prodigy Béla Fleck will be performing at the Warner Theatre with visionary jazz pianist Chick Corea.
This Friday and Saturday nights, the No Fear Tour will be reeking havoc on D.C.'s 9:30 Club. The lineup features metal bands He Is Legend, Chimaira, Dragonforce and headliners, Killswitch Engage. Chimaira just completed a new album tilted "Resurrection," which will be released on March 6 and promises to be as intense and harrowing as metal can get.
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