Elizabeth Askew
Last time we checked in with the Warehouse, they were luring the easily jail-baited out on the town by throwing a “high school party.” Tonight, they’re giving the same treatment to the Furries with their screening of Mistress of the Apes, a film about a woman who finds love in a clan of ape men.
Robert Frank, the photographer who just may be the subject of the National Gallery of Art’s Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans, worked alongside Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac in deconstructing America’s idea of itself in the 1950′s. Though “derivatives” do most of the heavy lifting in depantsing America these days, Frank is still around [...]
Ching Ching Cha is a delightful little restaurant that provides several things rarely found in tandem in Georgetown: cheap food, healthy food, and peace and quiet. Oh yes, and it also has loose leaf tea by the elephant ton.
Mayor Fenty takes a break tonight from arming DC in exchange for some lousy “vote” and personally unemploying city workers to perform the most sacred duty of public office: bestowing arts honors upon the citizenry. His lost time is our gain, because tonight’s 24th Annual Mayor’s Arts Awards has entertainment, feel-good philanthropy, and no cover!
Buying art can be a dicey undertaking in our new economy, fraught with worries of how you’ll pay your mortgage or your bail bondsman if you purchase that lovely painting. Fortunately, such concerns are minimized with the new Workbook exhibit opening tonight at Flashpoint. For $50, you get a print by one of the two [...]
If you are currently sloppy drunk from kegs and eggs and planning on driving over to America’s Puke Fountain for Wonkette’s photo contest, here’s a tip: don’t. Embittered police, who don’t “have a problem with people celebrating their Irish heritage,” are really proving it by setting up drunk driving checkpoints all over creation. But don’t [...]
Reason.tv threw itself a party this weekend to watch “Bailouts, Big Spending, & Bull,” a 20/20 documentary based on Drew Carey’s video collaborations with Reason.tv — and your Wonkette was invited. It was filled with illegal drugs and piles of cash flung about with abandon, and the party was pretty fun too! Party CRASH! pictures [...]
America’s longwinded celebration of St. Patrick’s Day is really almost over. And here are your last opportunities to guzzle discounted chocolate stouts and see actual live elephants walk through town, for Ireland.
Okay, so it’s been there for a few weeks, but Abraham Lincoln: Final Casualty of War is still one of the creepiest museum offerings around. The National Museum of Health and Medicine’s exhibit provides an anatomical look inside Lincoln on his last living day — there is the lock of hair, plus bits of his [...]
Local advice dispenstress Andrea Rodgers is hosting an employment-fest at Lotus Lounge tonight, complete with headhunters, recruiters, and job opportunities for all! Or maybe just pink cocktails and sushi, but at least there’s hope.
Winter will end, one day, and when it does, you should go to Tabaq’s rooftop lounge to enjoy the lovely weather. The whole bar is wrapped in glass, with a retractable roof (!) they close in case of rain. Don’t let the stout buildings of its U Street locale fool you; Tabaq has one of [...]
Mi Ami’s sound is variously described as dub-punk, funk, Afro-pop, minimal techno or just “banshee yowls,” depending on who’s doing the describing. Improbably, Mi Ami actually is all of these things, and will be playing at the Velvet Lounge tonight for anyone curious to see how they do it.
