DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Harold and Maude This cult classic was light years ahead of its time, a huge commercial flop and reviled by many critics at the time of its release before eventually...

The Washington Kastles — defending World Tennis Team champions , mind you — announced a big move today: both Williams sisters, Serena and Venus, will play for D.C.’s WTT outfit this summer. “The historic opportunity to have both Serena and Venus on our team is a thrill, both...

Aaron.DeNu ’s ” Rooftop Rocket ” comes to you as a result of the annual Search for Smiling Faces. In the midst of downtrodden expressions and backbreaking hassle , a happy woman standing on a chair on a rooftop in heavy wind gusts should brighten everyone’s mood. EXIF . View...

Photo by Scott Ableman Not even three feet of snow can stop the Racing Presidents. The Washington Nationals will host tryouts for the popular large-headed mascots at the ballpark on Saturday, despite current conditions on the ground. If you’re thinking you’d like to tryout, it’s too...

Wow! Our contributing photographers are amazing. They have been out all weekend taking photos of the snomgasm, and our flickr pool is full of great shots. They are more reliable in poor weather than the Post Office! Take this photo from Nivad for example, he has risked life, limb, and camera to get...

Craig Wallace and Jeff Allin in Round House Theatre’s production of ‘Permanent Collection’. Photo by Danisha Crosby “You can’t be on both sides.” So says Sterling North (Craig Wallace), the new director of a private suburban art museum in Thomas Gibbons’ trenchant,...

This weekend’s weather got you down in the dumps? How about a brief peek into the future: sunshine, the glorious combination of hot dogs with beer, and wooden cracks preambling the pop of gloves and clouds of dust as the home team runs the bases. Ahhh. So while Saturday’s snow may have left...

Photo by Edward Hoover We’re going to play devil’s advocate here. On Sunday, the Washington Post dramatically unveiled new polling results that found that Mayor Adrian Fenty isn’t a terribly popular guy. In fact, he’s amazingly unpopular , especially among the District’s...

Robert Parsons, Rick Foucheux and Sarah Zimmerman in “The Rivalry.” Photo by T.Charles-Erickson. It was a classic case of the lanky, brainy, agitating underdog versus the stouter, more experienced, more appeasement-minded line-tower. But must we reopen O’Brien v. Leno while the wounds...

              Videographer Rob Parsell hosted a screening for the trailer of his forthcoming documentary about famed Bad Brains–singer H.R. last night at DC9, but didn’t know until late that he would be joined by a special guest: old Human Rights himself....