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There is only one horrible way to describe Spirit, Judy Stone’s video installation: New Age. Her videos somehow manage to combine mediation with discharging firearms, which sounds a lot like Sean Penn’s Oscar speech. Yikes. Until Feb. 27, at the Hillyer Art Space. [Arts and Artists]
You might think the Snuggie, “The Blanket with Sleeves,” would be too embarrassing to wear in the privacy of your own home, let alone out in public. Well, prepare to put aside your dignity, as the DC Snuggie Pub Crawl is coming to town.
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority now has its own fancy Facebook page. Change has come!
The Accident is basically the plot of horror flick I Know What You Did Last Summer, except instead of teen heartthrobs Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze, Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt, you have two old Jewish couples. The victim is Chinese, and the couples wonder whether it’s even worth it to tell the [...]
If you’re not a poor like 78 percent of Wonkette readers, then you might be interested in taking Chef Danielle Turner’s new food styling classes. For $100, you can learn how to arrange and garnish your food in such a way that will turn your PB&J or Lean Cuisines or whatever into works of art.
Thursday, Feb. 19: More electronic music from English group Fujiya & Miyagi (who sound a bit like Hot Chip if you’re into that) and the School of Seven Bells, a pet project of one of the members of the Secret Machines. School of Seven Bells, who have collaborated with Prefuse 73, include those megahot sisters [...]
If you need ideas of where to go for the DC Winter Restaurant Week, here’s a good one: Acadiana. Acadiana’s food has a Creole and Cajun flair, with a seafood-heavy menu and a modern take on comfort food. For example, the biscuits came with salted butter drowned in a sweet Thai chili sauce — it [...]
It seems that it’s restaurant week every other week in the DMV area, so it comes as no surprise that there’s such a thing as the DC WINTER Restaurant Week, featuring all the usual suspects: Bistro d’OC, the Bombay Club and Dante. Lunch goes for $20.09 and dinner, $35.09. Until Feb. 22. [Washington]
This is quite the lofty statement coming from a town that has the highest number of women who still wear socks and sneakers with their skirt suits and nude pantyhose-post Working Girl: This week is DC Fashion Week, featuring top international designers not from France or Italy, but Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Uzbekistan.
Sonar’s Taxlo Dance Party is on this Friday, featuring one hell of a lineup: music from Atlanta-based DJ-of-the-moment, Treasure Fingers and a live performance from Blaqstarr, who collaborates with the likes of Diplo and MIA.
“Real Machers: Portraits of American Jewish Gangsters,” an exhibit of pen-and-ink drawings by graphic artist Pat Hamou, is opening tomorrow at the Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery. Hamou’s portraits of the “machers” (Yiddish for “big shot”) are hardly threatening in their fedoras and bow ties, but you can guarantee, as Hamou does, that they have “bigger [...]
The Wrestler is a sad little story about Randy “The Ram” Robinson, a washed-up wrestler who spends his wages from his job at the supermarket on tanning sessions, hair appointments (for that fried, bleached-blond look) and the ‘roids. He devotes his whole life to the weekend, where he wrestles in local community centers and town [...]
You know the story: Jean Valjean steals the candlesticks, adopts the street rat, is harassed by Inspector Javert forever and dies. The end. Catch the Signature Theater’s production of Les Miserables before it ends on Feb. 22. [Signature Theatre]
