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Thursday, August 10th, 2006

That bag near Union Station wasn’t dangerous, but they blew it up anyway. [WaPo]
The Fort Reno PSA you won’t see on TV. [DCeiver]
Seattle must be, like, the most expensive place in the UNIVERSE. [Washington to Washington]
Behave on the Metro. The panopticon is here. [Radicalflower]
Lucky commuter will get to blow up bridge, walk away scott free. [WaPo]

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006

Sleater Kinney rescheduled. 9:30 Club. It’s sold out, but tickets are moving on Craigslist. [9:30 Club]
Hard Tomorrows, The Fake Accents & Georgie James at Fort Reno. Free at 7:15PM. [Fort Reno]
David Plotz, Jack Shafer, Emily Yoffee, Timothy Noah and Seth Stevenson present The Best of Slate. 7PM. [P&P]
The Clientele with Great Lakes at Iota. $13 at 9PM. [Iota]
20th Anniversary new 35mm print of Blue Velvet. “I had a dream. In fact, it was on the night I met you. In the dream, there was our world, and the world was dark because there weren’t any robins and the robins represented love. And for the longest time, there was this darkness. And all of a sudden, thousands of robins were set free and they flew down and brought this blinding light of love. And it seemed that love would make any difference, and it did. So, I guess it means that there is trouble until the robins come.” 9PM at AFI Silver. [AFI]

Monday, July 31st, 2006

Fiona Apple at Wolf Trap. $25-45 at 8PM. [Wolf Trap]
The Temptations with 10 piece horn section. Sunday’s show sold out, this show added. $60 at 8PM. The Historic Avalon Theatre in Easton MD. [Avalon Theater]
WP Pentagon correspondent Thomas E. Ricks writes about military critics within the military. Fiasco ” gives a gripping account of the entire Iraq fiasco, from its origins in the botched war of 1991 to the ever-more-disastrous occupation in 2006.” Free at 7PM. P&P [P&P]
The Evens and DCIC at Fort Reno. Free at 7:15PM. [Fort Reno]
Bullitt at Screen on The Green. Free at dusk. On the Mall between Fourth and Seventh streets. [WP]

Monday, July 24th, 2006

Get “really kind of freaked out” by Christian indie Danielson at the State Theatre. It’s worth a zipcar to Falls Church. $8 at 8PM. [The State Theatre] MORE »