Carolina Chocolate Drops, photo by Julie Roberts The American folk music tradition runs deep, and is as diverse and eclectic as the country itself. Old-time music , a catch-all term for folk music that pre-dates what we now refer to as bluegrass or country, is part of this fabric. And while this genre...

Carolina Chocolate Drops, photo by Julie Roberts The American folk music tradition runs deep, and is as diverse and eclectic as the country itself. Old-time music , a catch-all term for folk music that pre-dates what we now refer to as bluegrass or country, is part of this fabric. And while this genre...

If you watched that Good Morning America segment with accused White House crasher Carlos Allen and his D.C. attorney, A. Scott Bolden, you saw an image of the “invitation” Allen provided to the show as proof that he “got an actual invite in the mail” to the Nov. 24 state dinner....

Last week’s premiere of The Real World D(upont) C(ircle), was marginally tolerable. That tolerance quickly wore off with yesterday’s episode. The highlights, such as they were, bullet-point style: Real World XXIII: Washington DC - MTV Shows Last week, we thanked the show’s producers...

Design by Lynne Venart; photo by Angela Kleis You only have a few more hours to submit your photos to the 2010 DCist Exposed Photography Show . We can already tell our judges are going to have a tough weekend trying to pick just a handful of these fantastic photographs to exhibit in our fourth annual...

Callie, Ashley, Ty and Emily at the Metromix Real World D.C. premiere party last night. Photo by emilygoodstein . More than a few of us dutifully watched the premiere of The Real World D.C. last night, ready to pounce on any slights or rush to correct any common misconceptions made by the show’s...

Girls @ the Black Cat. Photo by Holly Le. You’d be forgiven for thinking that the Real Estate / Girls show Tuesday night at the Black Cat was an extended tribute to The Clean, an open-mic homage to the under-known but influential Kiwi punk band. Hell, the show might have been a two-set-long cover...

Comedian David Cross, of Arrested Development and Mr. Show fame, (he also recently published a book! ) is coming to D.C. on Wednesday, Oct. 21 for a special night of stand-up at the Warner Theatre. And Live Nation is offering DCist readers an exclusive chance to win one of two pairs of tickets up for...

Photo by Andrew Wiseman Tips started rolling in Tuesday afternoon: cast members of The Real World D.C. were spotted variously loading luggage into large SUVs and driving off, or being filmed slowly walking away in dramatic fashion from their Dupont neighborhood house . NBCWashington.com has since filed...

Photo by * Chris D Members of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 689 are encouraging their members who operate Metrobuses to do every single little thing by the book this week. The push comes in the wake of two recent incidents which saw bus drivers plow down pedestrians in the District. Unsuck DC Metro...