Washington City Paper - D.C. Arts, News, and Events

January 29, 2009

Changing Rooms

Is a restaurant ever the same after it moves?

Young & Hungry By Tim Carman

Good Night, Sleep Tight

But what if the bedbugs eat you alive?

Cover Story By Audrey Dutton

Young Man, There's a Place You Can't Go

New AdMo bar seeks top-shelf clientele, mainly chicks.

The Sexist by Amanda Hess

That Erie Feeling

Developer Dennis Lee's transforming Champlain Street with million-dollar condos. But where are the buyers?

Housing Complex by Ruth Samuelson

Death by Wager

Fairfax SWAT team vs. low-level bettor.

Cheap Seats By Dave McKenna

An Insomniac’s Eulogy

Heath Ledger, one year later.

Film By Tricia Olszewski

A Dead Beat

Washington Post Appreciations: R.I.P.?

Dept. of Media By Erik Wemple

Notes from the Pro-Life Underground

The Sexist opens her mail.

The Sexist by Amanda Hess

The Little Dog Laughed and The Seafarer: Faustian Jargon

Sharp dialogue and dirty deeds in the backrooms of Hollywood and Dublin

Theater Review By Trey Graham

The Apartment Ball
Kalorama building party becomes a real ball.
By M. Riggs and E. Wemple

How to Crash a Ball!
Lessons from the Kentucky Bluegrass Ball
By Amanda Hess

Front Row to History
Was it possible to be too close to Obama?
By Mike DeBonis

Leaving The Mall: Hopeless
For many, getting home meant thinking outside the box.
By Jason Cherkis

Denzel, Dustin, and Tyra: You Know You Want to Know Where They Ate
By Tim Carman

The Pedicab Driver
Joe Temp: Chronicling the inaugural working class
By Bobby Allyn

Looking at Sasha and Malia Obama Exhausts Me
By Ruth Samuelson

Clinical Depression
Catania takes on Whitman-Walker
Loose Lips By Mike DeBonis

Record Time
The clock is ticking on Leo Rechter’s chapter in a long-running saga: Who owns the Holocaust?
Cover Story By Paul Morton

In Loco Parentis
How to get stuck in the foster system for generations
Cover Story By Arthur Delaney

A troubled man needed help. He got shot instead.
David Kerstetter was killed by D.C. police in his own bathroom. How did that happen?
Cover Story By Jason Cherkis
When the Rebar Hits the Road
The fate of Super Salvage: Just one example of the city scrapping its industrial core
Cover Story By Amanda Abrams
Middle Kingdom Meets Elementary School
Can a D.C. charter tackle the world's toughest language?
Cover Story By Marina Koestler Ruben
The Battle for the Mid-Atlantic!
Regional lowlights from Obama v. McCain
Cover Story By Franklin Schneider

Death by Wager
Fairfax SWAT team vs. low-level bettor.
Cheap Seats By Dave McKenna

Clinical Depression
Catania takes on Whitman-Walker
Loose Lips By Mike DeBonis

A Dead Beat
Washington Post Appreciations: R.I.P.?
Dept. of Media By Erik Wemple

Changing Rooms
Is a restaurant ever the same after it moves?
Young & Hungry By Tim Carman
Socks on Porn Stars: Saddlebacking?
Dan assumes the position on multiple positions.
Savage Love By Dan Savage
A Proper Christian Dinner
Cecil chomps on the whole Romans-feeding-lions thing.
The Straight Dope By Cecil Adams
Hot Shot
This isn't your father's T-shirt cannon.
Cheap Seats By Dave McKenna

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I Set My Friends on Fire
Thursday, Feb. 5, at the Rock and Roll Hotel
Epitaph signed screamo-electronica act I Set My Friends on Fire last summer on the strength of its campy screamo cover of Soulja Boy’s “Crank That,” which the band independently produced and then...
"Orchids Through Darwin's Eyes"
Sunday, Feb. 1, at the National Museum of Natural History
As we celebrate Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday next month, the world is likely to see a good deal of controversy regarding the man’s legacy. Those who go in for science will find themselves choked...
Carol Wagner Greenwood and Dame Darcy
Civilian Art Projects to Feb. 7
It did not take Carole Wagner Greenwood quite as long as Odysseus to find her way home. The local artist’s exhibition—her first solo show in six years—easily bests Odysseus’ 10-year epic journey, the...

2008 Music & Arts In Review

Hoods & Services: Your Guide to D.C.'s Communities

Canine Intervention: Wendy & Lucy and Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
A sad masterpiece and a decent bit of schlock
Film Review By Tricia Olszewski
An Insomniac’s Eulogy
Heath Ledger, one year later.
Film By Tricia Olszewski
Distended Animation
Waltz With Bashir animates the 1982 Lebanon War; Inkheart shows Brendan Fraser at his...best.
Film Review By Tricia Olszewski

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Changing Rooms
Is a restaurant ever the same after it moves?
Young & Hungry By Tim Carman
The Beerspotter
Drink it with everything. But let it get warm first.
Beerspotter By Orr Shtuhl

The Feed: Restaurants, Briefly

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Loose Control
Jazz pianist Matthew Shipp gets free. Kind of.
Music Review By Michael J. West
One Track Mind
This Week: Face Accidents' "Bite My Lip"
Music By Bobby Allyn
Into the Wild
Merriweather Post Pavilion's big expansion.
Music Review By Aaron Letiko

The Little Dog Laughed and The Seafarer: Faustian Jargon
Sharp dialogue and dirty deeds in the backrooms of Hollywood and Dublin
Theater Review By Trey Graham
Step into the Leitmotif
Reviewed: The Cherry Orchard
Theater Review By Glen Weldon
Tire Iron Curtain
Reviewed: How Theater Failed America
Theater Review By Trey Graham

An Insomniac’s Eulogy
Heath Ledger, one year later.
Film By Tricia Olszewski
Pain by Numbers
In 2008, D.C.'s museums had a hard time sculpting greatness in a down market.
Cover Story By Jeffry Cudlin
Optimist Opportunities
Shepard Fairey wasn't the only person selling hope in D.C. galleries this year.
Cover Story By Maura Judkis