The Arctic Monkey’s first record, “Whatever You Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not,” was a concept album about being bored out of one’s mind in Sheffield, England, and with tales of dance floor ennui and pseudo-cosmopolitans at the corner shop, it resonated well beyond Yorkshire, to any town in the world that offers nothing […]
Todd Snider “Peace, Love And Anarchy (Rarities, B-Sides And Demos Vol. 1)” Oh Boy Records Todd Snider writes songs. That’s it. He does it damn well, though. Nothing extravagant here – they’re funny and sweet and a little heartbreaking sometimes, but mostly they’re just pretty little packages, sparse and unadorned. Tracks such as “East Nashville […]
If you have $5 As is so often the case, you can pocket the cash and go do something free, in this case attend a birthday party, specifically one for William Shakespeare, being held from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday at Folger Shakespeare Library at 201 East Capitol St., S.E. If you want to be […]
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into […]
If you have $5 Get one more and go to Sixth and I Historic Synagogue at 600 I St., N.W. tonight at 7 p.m. to see Franklin Foer interview Thomas Friedman. Friedman is a New York Times columnist and author, and Foer is the editor of The New Republic and the author of How Soccer […]
“This is how riots start,” Regina Spektor laughed. This is probably an overstatement of her effect on campus arts dialogue (or not a statement at all- she was actually talking about mic difficulties), but some tension did surround her set. Logistical problems, eg rain, conspired to keep people away from this year’s event, and for […]
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 […]
If you have $5 Go to Politics and Prose at 5015 Connecticut Ave., N.W. today at 7 p.m. to see Christopher Buckley promote his new book, “Boomsday.” The son of conservative icon William F. Buckley and the author of “Thank You For Smoking,” Buckley has written his new book about generational conflict between the young […]
If you have $5 No money is required to enjoy a beautiful day. Spring is here, and you can celebrate the blooming of some of D.C.’s most famous residents by going out on Saturday for the beginning of this year’s National Cherry Blossom Festival. From 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the National Building Museum […]
If you have $5 Pocket it and head to Marvin Center Continental Ballroom Sunday at 7 p.m. for a screening of “Blood Diamond.” Honestly, we’re rather sure that this film speaks as eloquently to the issue of conflict rocks as, say, Kanye West or Lupe Fiasco (everybody knows “Diamonds from Sierra Leone (Remix),” but check […]