Publication: Washington City Paper

First Reported May 26 2012 - Updated May 26 2012 - 1 Documents

Last Chance: Theater Alliance’s Hum, Reviewed

For the first 30 minutes of the world-premiere play Hum , Theater Alliance challenges Synetic Theater in the race to create the best dialogue-free drama in D.C. There’s well-crafted choreography, an engrossing electronic soundscape, and attractive actors ... [ Published May 26 2012 by Washington City Paper ]

Entities: Synetic, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Margaret Atwood, Terry Gilliam

First Reported May 25 2012 - Updated May 25 2012 - 1 Documents

A Guide to Outdoor Movies in the D.C. Area

Even if the weather's been screaming summer for a while, Memorial Day tells us the season's arrival is official. Summer in D.C. means a slower pace, a seemingly infinite reservoir of scandals, and swarms of godforsaken mosquitoes and interns. But more ... [ Published May 25 2012 by Washington City Paper ]

Entities: Bethesda (Maryland, United States), Arlington (Virginia, United States), Potomac (Maryland, United States), Rockville (Maryland, United States), Potomac River

First Reported May 25 2012 - Updated May 25 2012 - 1 Documents

Ai Weiwei

Silverdocs Slate Includes Films About Bad Brains, Ai Weiwei

This June marks the 10th iteration of Silverdocs, and for the second year in a row, the film festival seems to have placed a special emphasis on music: The annual celebration of documentary film opens on June 18 with Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey's ... [ Published May 25 2012 by Washington City Paper ]

Entities: Silverdocs, Ai Weiwei, Ginger Baker, Joe Berlinger

First Reported May 25 2012 - Updated May 25 2012 - 1 Documents

Channel 50 Airs Chuck Brown Interview at Uline Arena

On WDCW-TV, Mark Segraves devoted his entire NewsPlus show this week to a 2010 interview he did with the late Chuck Brown at Uline Arena. Uline, which is no longer open, was where Brown started working as a shoe-shine boy when he arrived in D.C. as a ... [ Published May 25 2012 by Washington City Paper ]

Entities: Chuck Brown, Petey Greene, Mike Madden

First Reported May 25 2012 - Updated May 25 2012 - 1 Documents

Chuck Brown

Chuck Brown’s Public Viewing, Memorial Set for Next Week

D.C. will get the opportunity to send off the Godfather of Go-Go next week, the mayor's office and Brown's family announced this evening. A public viewing of Chuck Brown 's remains will take place Tuesday, May 29 at the Howard Theatre from 11 a.m to 10 ... [ Published May 25 2012 by Washington City Paper ]

Entities: Chuck Brown, Donations, Education

First Reported May 24 2012 - Updated May 25 2012 - 1 Documents

Shirley Manson

Photos: Garbage @ 9:30 Club

Not too many bands could take off seven years between releases and still have a big fan base. But Garbage — Shirley Manson , Butch Vig , Duke Erikson , and Steve Marker —are mostly playing as tight as they ever did, and they were rewarded with a sold-out ... [ Published May 24 2012 by Washington City Paper ]

Entities: Shirley Manson, Steve Marker, Duke Erikson

First Reported May 25 2012 - Updated May 25 2012 - 1 Documents

Afrika Bambaataa

Afrika Bambaataa: Young Rappers Need Teachin’

Hip-hop is all about bragging rights: who's got the biggest chain, the iciest wrist, and the best rhymes. So how's this for a brag: Afrika Bambaataa helped create hip-hop , a perch only a few can claim.His use of electronics not only crystallized hip-hop's ... [ Published May 25 2012 by Washington City Paper ]

Entities: Afrika Bambaataa, Chuck Brown, TI Group, James Brown

First Reported May 25 2012 - Updated May 25 2012 - 1 Documents

ToDo ToDay: Memorial Day Weekend Edition

The Half Street Fairgrounds, a collection of shipping containers circled around a fallow parking lot across from Nationals Park, failed in its first attempt at becoming a destination for pop-up retail: Jewelry and clothing didn’t mix well with booze and ... [ Published May 25 2012 by Washington City Paper ]

Entities: Afrika Bambaataa, Woolly Mammoth, Ian Svenonius, Bard College, Chris Robinson

First Reported May 25 2012 - Updated May 25 2012 - 1 Documents

Arts Roundup: In Memorium Edition

Old photos of Memorial Day 1942, mostly involving a parade around the White House. Historic eye candy! [ DCist ]R.I.P. Hal Jackson , who broke color barriers across many Washington radio stations. [ New York Daily News ]Protect-U on its start in D.C., ... [ Published May 25 2012 by Washington City Paper ]

Entities: Hal Jackson, White House

First Reported May 24 2012 - Updated May 24 2012 - 1 Documents

D.C. Does Moogle

Yesterday would've been the 78th birthday of Robert Moog , the inventor of the Moog analog synthesizer, aka one of the coolest-sounding instruments in the history of music. As it often does on the birthday of a famous weirdo, Google created a "doodle" ... [ Published May 24 2012 by Washington City Paper ]

Entities: Robert Moog, Ian Graham, Galaga

First Reported May 24 2012 - Updated May 24 2012 - 1 Documents

Vitamin A: David Haxton’s “Painting Room Lights”

Still from "Painting Room Lights," © 1980, David HaxtonIn which one of our art critics highlights a favorite work on view in a local gallery.A couple months ago, when the Smithsonian American Art Museum unveiled its video game show , a little gallery ... [ Published May 24 2012 by Washington City Paper ]

Entities: Vitamin A, Peter Campus, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Hedgehog, Sonic

First Reported May 24 2012 - Updated May 24 2012 - 1 Documents

ToDo ToDay: Cynthia Connolly’s America

As a kid growing up in Los Angeles, Cynthia Connolly watched art-deco signs whiz by from the backseat of her mother’s car. Her exhibit at Civilian Art Projects captures the years she later spent tracking down fascinating signs, traveling to places in ... [ Published May 24 2012 by Washington City Paper ]

Entities: Cynthia Connolly, Camilo José Vergara, Dot Dash Recordings, Louis Jacobson

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...Matthew Heineman and Susan Froemke "s Escape Fire attempts to diagnoise what ails the American healthhealth care system; another film, Peter Nicks " The Waiting Room , centers on a single ER in Oakland, Calif...

Silverdocs Slate Includes Films About Bad Brains, Ai Weiwei [Washington City Paper - May 25 2012]

..."There’s a certain vibe you feel when you walk inside here," Brown told Segraves. "And I’m always reminiscing. I love to reminisce and remember things. Those things I could never forget." He also reminisced in the interview about D C radio legend Petey Greene , who Brown met while they were both incarcerated at Lorton

Channel 50 Airs Chuck Brown Interview at Uline Arena [Washington City Paper - May 25 2012]

...I'm like, "Oh, you hip-hop? Where's your Miami bass? Where's your electro-funk? Where's your hip-house? Where's your go-go music? Where's your DJ breakbeat records? Where's your James BrownBrown and Kraftwerk ?" All those sounds made hip-hop

Afrika Bambaataa: Young Rappers Need Teachin’ [Washington City Paper - May 25 2012]

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