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(10/05/06 4:00am)
Positive Force DC, a group that has promoted radical social change and youth empowerment since it formed in 1985, will highlight the connections between punk rock and activism this weekend at the All Our Power conference. Billed as a punk-activist conference aiming to educate, mobilize and connect the punk community, All Our Power will hold free workshops about a variety of issues at St. Stephens Church.
(09/11/06 4:00am)
There's something so innocent, so soothing and adorable, about the voice of a child.
(09/11/06 4:00am)
When a friend offered Brendan Canty, former member of Fugazi, a chance to put on a show in his Bethesda house marked for demolition, he created a project of monumental proportions. Capture a cross-section of a city's music scene in one day in a house that is going to be destroyed, burn it down and then repeat for cities across the United States. "Burn to Shine" was born.
(08/31/06 4:00am)
It's hard to believe that the tinny, Casio-beat soundtracks of the Nintendo Entertainment System could inspire an entire genre. But with nostalgia being the hot commodity that it is, from old Nickelodeon series on DVD to the continuing popularity of the theme party, it's understandable where these bands, and fans, are coming from.
(08/21/06 4:00am)
By now, you've probably got your Fugazi poster slathered up on your dorm room wall and your "20 Years of Dischord" playing softly in the background as you settle into your cozy prefabricated nook of a dorm room and begin to plan your attack on the D.C. music scene. We here at The Eagle have preordained your desires and fears and offer as a helping hand this handy guide to D.C. artists and show listings. From brutal grind to saccharine anarcho-pop punk, things here in the District have changed significantly since Revolution Summer. So sit back and read on, young padawan, for we were in your Vans slip-ons not too long ago.
(08/21/06 4:00am)
While D.C. is no New York or Philadelphia when it comes to live music, and though many major tours skip over this little malarial swamp, your college years will still be filled with great live music. From U Street to AU's own campus, the District offers up a variety of venues, showcasing local acts (see guide to the local music scene) as well as touring bands on major and independent labels. Here's a list of some of the more obvious (and not so obvious) places to catch a show.
(06/19/06 4:00am)
Summer in the District comes with the smell of sweat and a sea of rattails, as a fanny pack-clad America comes to bear witness to its swampy capital. For students who find themselves mired in tourists and retail jobs, there is one easy way out: road trips. Nothing says summer like the open road, besides maybe firecrackers or corn dogs. Luckily, there are myriad art exhibitions, festivals and historic battlefields that are a car ride and a mix CD away. From feral horses to Civil War ghosts, there is a tri-state area of mystery at our doorstep to cure that summer malaise.
(04/13/06 4:00am)
For 20 years, They Might Be Giants has served as a funhouse mirror to popular music, borrowing from all types of genres to create their own quirky, accordion-heavy nerd rock. With two children's albums already in their library, releasing an experimental record isn't something new to the band. But "Venue Songs," their latest DVD, with a companion full-length CD, pushes the boundaries, even for them.
(04/10/06 4:00am)
College radio has always been the lifeblood of indie rock, giving artists whose talents fell below the stony gaze of the Top 40 a chance to be heard by America's multitudes of graphic design students. The Mid Atlantic College Radio Conference, or MACRock, has been fostering that relationship for ten years.
(03/09/06 5:00am)
A shaggy dog story is a sort of long-winded and ultimately anticlimactic tale, where the joke lies less in the punch line but more in the absurd and irrelevant events leading up to it (think "The Aristocrats"), The historic shaggy dog story ends with someone remarking that the talking shaggy dog, promised to appear throughout the story, isn't that shaggy at all. Get it? Me neither.
(02/16/06 5:00am)
Top 10 historical groups that will never have the same pop culture importance as pirates, ninjas or robots:
(02/13/06 5:00am)
Remember those calendars they used to sell at the mall, where every month was a picture of a different puppy? Frank Marshall and Disney's latest, "Eight Below," is two full hours of that - on the big screen. What's being sold as a tale of adventure and friendship is lost in a sea of cute huskies rolling around in the snow.
(01/26/06 5:00am)
Donnie Wahlberg has never had a successful film career like his younger brother, Marky Mark, of New Kids on the Block fame. And Donnie's role in the navy/boxing/coming-of-age drama "Annapolis" isn't going to bring him out of his brother's Calvin Klein billboard shadow.
(01/19/06 5:00am)
Hardcore punk is as regional a genre of music as the accents that its vocals are shouted in. Boston, while not the birthplace of the subgenre, has nurtured its scene to have a unique identity from New York, Los Angeles or D.C. For 15 years, Boston's punks have been playing it loud, hard and fast. While the tempo may have changed over the years, Boston hardcore is still as violent as ever, spawning the film series "Boston Beatdown," profiling the fights started, and usually won, by Boston's F.S.U. crew (worth checking out to see Moby get pulled out of a limo and beaten up). Here are five bands, spanning Boston hardcore's history, that have defined the subgenre.
(12/08/05 5:00am)
There are many things that make Christmas in America special. From the 24-hour TV marathon of "A Christmas Story" to claymation portrayals of favorite wintry characters, the American media knows how to usher in the holiday spirit. Perhaps an even more treasured memory than an awkwardly animated Rudolph leading Santa's sleigh one foggy Christmas Eve is watching ballet dancers move gracefully to Tchaikovsky's magical score.
(12/01/05 5:00am)
A widowed Coast Guard Admiral, Frank Beardsley (Dennis Quaid) meets his likewise widowed high school sweetheart, Helen North (Rene Russo), in a restaurant. Not ones to question serendipity, the pair hopes to pick up where they left off in high school. What they forget is that they have eighteen children between the two of them and that they each have their rising careers to worry about.
(10/27/05 4:00am)
When British-born DJ Aphrodite, the irrefutable "Drum 'n' Bass King," comes to D.C. on Friday for his CD release party, listeners can expect, in the words of the King himself, "good groves, lots of energy, and great bass lines."
(10/17/05 4:00am)
There's something holy about the relationships between girls and their fathers. Even beyond Freud's Electra explanation, there's a fascination and idolization among young girls of their father figures. The same worship among girls at the elementary level surrounds horses. In our collective memory there is a girl in the back of the classroom, her eyes a million miles away, dreaming of ponies and unicorns. These fascinations are celebrated in John Gatins' "Dreamer."
(09/22/05 4:00am)
Will the web replace everything as a medium?
(09/08/05 4:00am)
Who is "the man?" Is it Eugene Levy's lovable Andy Fidler, the dental supply salesman caught up in a game he never wanted to play? Is it Derrick Vann (Samuel L. Jackson), that same street-tough, quick talking bad boy we all learned to love in "Pulp Fiction"? Is it the Internal Affairs agents who think that Vann killed his former partner? Or perhaps "the man" is inside all of them and indeed everyone? This is the question director Les Mayfield ("Blue Streak") tries to answer in his most recent study of the human drama, "The Man."