Umphrey's McGee returns to the 9:30 Club Saturday night. Their rigorous touring schedule brought them to D.C. twice in 2006, and they're back this spring in support of their brand new double album, "The Bottom Half." The waking scratch of a muttered "Hello" greets me on the phone.
Last Thursday night, HR-57 was filled with people laughing in the face of brain cancer. Perhaps I should say, in the name of brain cancer. The small venue is typically aglow with spicy jazz, but this weekend it's being set ablaze with laughter. Along with The Warehouse Theater Complex (1021 7th St.
Popular culture leads us to see the world of music through filtered glasses. Oftentimes, these filters only let through the worst of the worst. In the fray, many artists and even entire genres of music go overlooked. In 1988, a young 23-year-old in Rochester, N.
The problem with making a film about the War in Iraq is getting people to actually watch it, filmmakers Richard Robbins and Tom Yellin say. With so much political debate surrounding the ongoing conflict, it is difficult to ask an audience to understand or sympathize with the human aspect of the war.
If you have $5 Buy a snack on Saturday night and take in a movie at American City Diner at 5532 Connecticut Ave. N.W. The movie Saturday is Casablanca, the 1942 classic about Americans in Northern Africa during World War II. Humphrey Bogart plays Rick, the surly bar owner with the heart of gold for Ingrid Bergman's Ilsa.
Joe Rogan is a multi-tasking comedian, perhaps most popularly known as the host of Fear Factor. He is an announcer for Ultimate Fighting Championship and once played a sarcastic handyman with prickly five o'clock gruff constantly on the sitcom classic "NewsRadio.
Graduation looms, which means that it's crunch time to find a job, a husband, and the youth, beauty and self-respect you've wasted away in your time here at George Washington. It's also time for you to convince your parents that you've been doing more than just drinking beer for the past four years - so take them to a wine bar and show 'em you've been drinking wine, too! This past weekend, I did just that.
Ridiculous. It's the first word that comes to mind as I leave the theater with a goofy grin and my chest hurting from laughing for more than three hours straight. The airwaves are clogged with celebrities gushing about how much fun they had making their new movie, but in the case of "Grindhouse" I'm inclined to believe them.
Vol. 106
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