I first encountered local writer/activist Hawah last fall at a Subcontinental Drift open mic night. He was performing as a member of ShantiSalaam, a collective of local South Asian American artists who toured 11 cities in India and Pakistan in late 2006/early 2007 to promote tolerance among South Asians of different religious backgrounds. The group's performance used music, spoken word, and audience interaction to address issues of intolerance between individuals and the institutional forces that......

During the 1960s the feminist movement gained momentum as it actively questioned gender norms and confronted oppressive stereotypes. By-products of the time included a number of women’s art collectives, such as the Art Workers Coalition (AWC) and the Women Artists in Revolution (WAR), all giving voice to women questioning their place and role in the world. WACK!, currently on view at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, derives its name from the various......

FRIDAY: >> Starting tonight, George Mason Stadium plays host to the region's annual D.C . College Cup. The soccer teams of George Washington, American, Howard, and George Mason will square off in two rounds of games. Though the tournament is conspicuously missing national powerhouses UMD and UVA, the event will still showcase some of the best young talent around. GW and AU kick off tonight's slate (5:00 p.m.), with Howard and GMU rounding the night......

MONDAY >> We've made no secret of our love for Benjy Ferree, and judging from the amount he seems to be playing around town, everyone else must be enjoying him as well. He's headed out into the great wide open for some of the summer touring season though, so better get over to the Black Cat backstage tonight before he hits the road. With Chicago's The 1900s. $8, 9 p.m. >> Nü metal may be......

While a couple of us on the DCist staff are still trying to wipe our minds of the image of the live circumcision performance art that happened last night at the Warehouse gallery (seriously, can you use soap on your eyeballs?), we will nevertheless try to explain that across the street at artDC ... wait, what was happening over there? Oh right, that international art show. When we told you about it last year, some......

It's not over yet folks: April is about to culminate with the biggest art weekend in recent memory. Artomatic and ColorField.remix continue to bring us a healthy helping of visual and performance art, and now we get one big, fat cherry of an art fair to top it all off this weekend, sprinkled with about a billion other shows placed to coincide with it, including one at a particular venue that deserves your attention. >>......

We can't promise you'll enjoy yourselves as much as these guys, but here are a few picks for this Tuesday night. >> Ben Katchor, a multi-talented performer, artist and author, comes to D.C. tonight with a presentation that "elevates the slide show to a form of performance art." We've seen some pretty good slide shows, but Katchor's work, which includes fantastical takes on everyday life, has drawn rave reviews. In fact, he was the......

>> Along with their still awaited Local Blogger Directory, washingtonpost.com is set to roll out a social networking function this spring. How long will we have to wait before Hank Stuever starts updating his profile every hour with cryptic messages in an elaborate attempt at online performance art? [Fishbowl DC] >> A woman was struck by a Green line train on Sunday night at the Suitland station, after falling onto the tracks. Amazingly enough,......

Past attendees of any of the F.W. Thomas Performaces, the semi-regular literary-comedic efforts of City Paper contributor Adam Mazmanian held at Warehouse, are well versed in the religion of Lowery. That's T.M. Lowery, or Mike Lowery, or Thomas Michael Lowery, depending on who you ask, the baby-faced "artist-in-residence" of F.W. Thomas and proprietor of The Argyle Academy, a collection of neurotic cartoon animal characters. Mazmanian invited Lowery to present some of his drawings at the......

DCist was impressed by the Synetic Theater’s silent MacBeth, but a new production at the Studio Theater is attempting a similarly impressive feat. The stars not only remain silent, but their characters are performed with other people’s voices. Yes Washington, Lypsinka has returned, this time as Joan Crawford. Twenty-five years ago a star was born on Christopher Street as Creator/Performer John Epperson made his theatrical debut as an amalgam of the most glamorous leading ladies......

Orange construction barrels become drums. Strong dancers spin across the stage as others walk out thumping sinks chained around their necks. It's performance art taken to another level. Watching Stomp is a bit like seeing the secret life of ordinary things: Here's what your broom can do when it isn't sweeping, here's the sound a rubber hose can make when it's tapped against something. It blends percussive rhythms and movement to create a high-energy, colorful......

Transformer isn't the only gallery putting on its little black dress and collecting alms for art these days. Those of you with a little cash in hand, looking to fill your civic duty by supporting the arts and partying the night away have two more bashes to choose from. Tonight, put on your dancing shoes and swing over to the Corcoran for ArtCentric 2006. The annual event features live music, performance art, and an auction......

FRIDAY: >> We don't usually hype big studio movies in the Picks, but when faced with a certain kind of reptile on a specific form of transportation — there's not much you can do but cross your fingers it doesn't turn out to suck and jump on the hype train (err, plane). More specifically, literally dozens of local D-list Internet celebrities will be attending the 10:10 p.m. screening of Snakes on a Plane at the......

Today at the Fringe, it's your last chance to see a pair of shows from Canada, we give you a good reason to see Atlantis Bones, and Star Wars nerds have their day in the sun. It's everything you need to know about Wednesday at the Fringe, and finding it all is just a click away. New Today: Grounded, by Andrew Ullrich We don't know what Grounded is about, and we don't know who Andrew......

This post was written by DCist contributor Salima Appiah-Kubi. Warning: Some links contain nude photographs. This Saturday some of the leading ladies of modern burlesque will be taking it off for a good cause. Warehouse Theater will present Burlesque...As It Was, a night of classic striptease benefiting the Exotic World Burlesque Museum and Hall of Fame in Helendale, California. Produced by Kitty Victorian, the force behind much of D.C.’s burlesque scene, the benefit will......

It's Labor Day weekend, and you thought everybody had gotten the hell out of Dodge City, hadn't you? Well, they probably have, and we're experiencing serious envy of anyone who's on a beach right now with a margarita in hand. But don't despair - there's still tons to do in D.C. this weekend, and we've rounded up the best of the best for you to do in a special extended version of Weekend Picks. But......