Posted Click Click: Kurt Vile @ Black Cat to DCist
Every so often a songwriter emerges who captures something about the city he calls home. Elliot Smith was as Portland as fixies and strollers. There is something free and unmistakably flyover about Omaha, Nebraska's Conor Oberst. Kurt Vile -- who finished a tour to support his latest record (and first release on Matador Records), Childish Prodigy, at the Black Cat on Thursday -- is making his claim as a lo-fi laureate of Philadelphia. Mr. Vile...
Posted Looking for an Investor With a Dremo to DCist
The Dremo never dies, so long as people long to play flip-cup and watch weird movies in an eclectic taphouse -- assuming there's money for it. Home of the Night of 101 Elvises and the much-missed Psychotronic film series, Dr. Dremo's is looking at a new home. According to an email from manager Andrew Stewart, the backers behind the former Arlington landmark seek to raise $200,000 to build out a location in Clarendon. It's unclear...
Posted Too Much H1N1 Vaccine? Or Too Many H1N1 Vaccine Clinics? to DCist
Photo by Bullneck WUSA9 has it that parents and kids waited hours to get the H1N1 vaccine in Cheverly, MD. Yet the Washington Business Journal reports that 55% of Washington-area adults don't plan to inoculate, nothing that a full "one-third of parents with children living at home do not plan on getting the vaccine this year." So is there a lack in supply or in demand for H1N1 vaccine? Yesterday, Sommer reported that the...
Posted Saturday Fort Hood Represent Photo: November 7, 2009 to DCist
Here philliefan99 has captured this tribute to the Fort Hood shooting incident, whose local connection the Washington Post explored yesterday. NBC Washington further notes that Maj. L. Eduardo Caraveo, among the victims in the shooting, was a Woodbridge, VA, native. President Barack Obama (pictured here, kind of) ordered that flags fly at half-mast staff until Veterans' Day, calling the shootings "crimes against our nation."...
Posted As the Real World Turns to DCist
A net importer of fame-seeking twits for the 2008–09 season, the District of Columbia has the opportunity to turn that around today, as MTV is hosting casting auditions for the Real World: [Next City] in Adams Morgan. What then, area douchebag, are you doing at home reading your computer? The auditions are happening now, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Town Tavern. Yeah, yeah, I know, the Real Worlders are real people, too; they...
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