Archive for June, 2011
We Love Arts: Dylan Koehler of the Baltimore Rock Opera Society
All photos by Heather Keating, courtesy of Baltimore Rock Opera Society
At last summer’s H Street Festival just beyond the hand dancing demonstration, and right before the zoot-suited swing band, lay the Brothership, an art-car manned by a half dozen members of the Baltimore Rock Opera Society (BROS). With their ornate hats, righteous shredding techniques, [...]
We Love Music: This Will Destroy You @ Rock and Roll Hotel, 6/5/11
All photos courtesy of This Will Destroy You
This Will Destroy You is one of my favorite groups in the post-rock scene right now. I feel like they’re creating music specifically for me. It has the pleasant, sometimes melancholy soft-loud dynamic of bands like Mogwai or Jakob. Yet they’ve taken a turn for the dark side [...]
The Winning Ticket: Daniel Lanois’ Black Dub
As a way to say thanks to our loyal readers, We Love DC will be giving away a pair of concert tickets to one lucky reader each week. Check back here every Wednesday morning at 9am to find out what tickets we’re giving away and leave a comment for your chance to be the lucky [...]
More »We Love Arts: Don Quixote
There is nothing on stage in Synetic Theater’s Don Quixote more expressive than Dan Istrate’s eyes. Which is odd, because they are actually anything but – wide, unseeing, unblinking eyes focused anywhere else except on reality. Matched by his frozen arms in an almost wooden stance, his mad foolhardy knight is like a marionette or [...]
More »DC Street Art Scene: G40 Summit is Just the Beginning
When I first introduced myself as the newest We Love DC arts writer to Lauren Gentile, Director at Irvine Contemporary art gallery on 14th Street, she warned me that I would struggle to find works that would meet my “street art” beat. At the time, I was researching the P Street Shepard Fairey mural, [...]
More »June Happenings at SAAM
Looking for some great things to do over the summer while the tourists flood in? There are several great programs (free!) being hosted by the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) in Penn Quarter this month. Take some time to check them out!
Opening Night of the IV BrazilDocs Documentary Film Week: Santiago
June 9, 7 p.m.
The Smithsonian [...]
Featured Photo
‘US Capitol Dome’
courtesy of ‘ep_jhu’
Photography is such a versatile art form. Not only is there a wealth of subjects and topics to shoot, but the way the image is exposed, manipulated, or processed can give an otherwise plain image an amazing life. And then there is the color to play around with: do [...]
Smithsonian Snapshot: Parachute Wedding Dress
This week, in honor of the 67th anniversary of the D-Day landings AND the onset of wedding season, the Smithsonian Snapshot brings you an interesting artifact that ties both World War II and weddings that is currently not on display. This wedding dress was made from a nylon parachute that saved Maj. Claude Hensinger during [...]
More »We Love Arts: Bootycandy
Photo by Stan Barouh
Bootycandy playwright Robert O’Hara breaks it down in a vignette in the middle of the show entitled, “Conference”. The skit presents a moderator questioning the four “playwrights” that wrote the previously presented vignettes in the show. The moderator cross-examines each author, trying to pigeon hole his or her work into his stereotype. [...]
Drinks Special: SAVOR
SAVOR added a second night for its 2011 event, as 72 breweries displayed their wares at the National Building Museum on June 3 & 4, 2011.
More »Harry Thomas referred to the US Attorney
‘Councilman Harry Thomas and BNCA President Caroline Petti’courtesy of ‘tbridge’
The District’s Attorney General Irv Nathan revealed a report this morning that alleges significant malfeasance on the part of sitting Ward 5 councilmember Harry “Tommy” Thomas Jr. The report alleges that Councilman Thomas “converted” $300,000 in taxpayer funds to funds for personal use, and the complaint [...]
Weekend Flashback: 6/4-6/5
‘Summer Kiss’ by K’s Clicks
Well well well, it looks like Monday has snuck back upon us, and the memory of the weekend is all that remains. Wait, there are also photos… quick, to the flickr pool!
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The Winning Ticket: Glee Live! 2011
‘glee live! at the Honda Center in Anaheim’
courtesy of ‘Loren Javier’
If you’re a Gleek in DC then you know the live show is coming to the Verizon Center THIS Thursday. Thanks to our friends at Chevrolet, we have a couple tickets to giveaway to our fine readers this week!
All we need from you for your [...]
Saturday Memorial Concert for Adam Hosinski and Rory Weichbrod
On October 9th, 2010, Adam Hosinski and Rory Weichbrod, were crossing Rockville Pike in North Bethesda, when they were struck and killed by a driver who was later arrested on DUI charges and convicted of manslaughter.
This Saturday, from 2-7pm, friends and family will gather at The Bullpen, across from Nationals Stadium, to celebrate the lives of these two men, [...]
Friday Happy Hour: 3 Stars Syndicate
With all the excitement about the recent launch of DC Brau you could be forgiven for missing the slightly-quieter drop of a second DC based beer company, Three Stars Brewing – but, if so, it is high time you found out.
Debuting with their Syndicate saison, brewed in collaboration with Evolution in Delaware, the seasonally-appropriate style [...]
We Love Arts: BOBRAUSCHENBERGAMERICA
(L-R) Michael Dove, Chelsey Christensen, Maboud Ebrahimzadeh, and Cliff Williams in Forum Theatre’s Bobrauschenbergamerica (photo Melissa Blackall)
Chelsey Christensen, friend and new head of Marketing/PR for Forum Theatre, wanted me to make sure that I disclose that the performance I attended last night of Bobrauschenbergamerica was the opening night preview.
What she didn’t tell me was that she [...]
