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Reviewed: The Slits' Trapped Animal

The Slits fail to produce an instant hit

By Mike Kanin

This Weekend in Jazz: Christian McBride and Inside Straight
Blues Alley, Saturday and Sunday nights
By Ted Scheinman

Study: Washington D.C. Has the Strongest Commercial Real Estate Market in U.S.
By Ruth Samuelson

The Friday Limerick Review
Hannah delivers a roundup of D.C. news...and it rhymes!
By Hannah Neprash

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Friday, November 6, 2009

Young & Hungry

This Week’s Greatest Hits on Young & Hungry

Tim Carman, 8:43 pm

If there’s anything that grips Y&H readers, it’s tragedy, and it doesn’t get much more tragic than the homicide of Nori Amaya, the co-owner of Coppi’s Organic on U Street. People were obviously desperate for information on the strangulation. Even our negligible little item was widely visited. Here’s how the week shook out: Nori Amaya’s Friends and ... Read More

Housing Complex

Top Blog Posts of the Past Week

Ruth Samuelson, 5:35 pm

Okay, in truth, the following list should read Real World, Real World, Affordable Condos, Real World, Real World, First-time Homebuyer Tax Credit, Real World, Real World, Real World, Real World. It’s an unstoppable force! as I predicted. But in the name of variety and, well, a “housing complex,” I’ll leave most of the Real World posts ... Read More

Arts Desk

Something to Cock-a-Doodle-Do This Weekend: See Art Featuring Chickens

Andrew Beaujon, 5:23 pm

Koen VanMechelen loves chickens. Live chickens, stuffed chickens, videos of chickens, paintings made with egg tempera. Saturday night at Conner Contemporary, VanMechelen’s “Cosmopolitan Chicken Project (DC)” opens; it’ll run to Dec. 31. According to the press release, the Belgian artist is “systematically crossing all breeds of chickens to create a world-mongrel chicken.” Read More

Housing Complex

President Renews First-Time Homebuyer Credit

Ruth Samuelson, 4:37 pm

Today, President Barack Obama signed a $24 billion stimulus bill that included renewing the first-time homebuyer tax credit (as the A.P. reports). The National Association of Realtors has posted a Q&A about the credit, which is altered significantly in this bill, on its website. Their responses should answer all the basic questions: Who Qualifies for the ... Read More

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Arts & Events Picks

Found Footage Festival at Arlington Cineman 'N' Drafthouse

Saturday, November 7

The continued existence of the Found Footage Festival relies on two factors: First, the ’80s and early ’90s were the height of allegedly “professional” video production. Second, much of that shit is still collecting dust on VHS or Beta somewhere. Exercise tapes, cable-access...

Camilo Jose Vergara at the National Building Museum

Through November 29

"Faces of the Frontier: Photographic Portraits from the American West, 1845–1924" at the National Portrait Gallery

To January 24, 2010

Yousuf Karsh at the Canadian Embassy

To December 18

Found Footage Festival at Arlington Cineman 'N' Drafthouse

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Young & Hungry

This Week’s Greatest Hits on Young & Hungry

Tim Carman, Friday, November 6, 2009

Why Does This Steak Taste Like Bleu Cheese?

How can Bourbon Steak banish the bleu-cheese taste from its beef?

By Tim Carman

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Reviewed: The Fourth Kind and (Untitled)
A faux-vérité horror flick; a takedown of artsy pretension.
Film review By Tricia Olszewski

An Education and The Maid: Home Outgrown
Two films about surmounting the strictures of domestic life.
Film review By Tricia Olszewski

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Theater

Reviewed: Poe Double Feature: "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Tell-Tale Heart"
A ghoulish evening that you'll feel in your "sickly vapours."
Theater review By Glen Weldon

Reviewed: Angels in America: Perestroika and A Streetcar Named Desire
Two characters grapple with an era's death—and their own.
Theater review By Trey Graham

Music

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Story/Stereo Announces Two New Shows

Aaron Leitko, Friday, November 6, 2009

Story/Stereo—a concert/reading series that pairs local musicians with local writers/poets—just announced two new events. First, Asa Osborne—formerly of Baltimore gnostic/punk quartet Lungfish—will perform with his guitar/organ project, Zomes. Lisa Selin Davis will read. That’s kind of a tough gig, though, considering the last person to put words in or around Osborne’s music was Dan Higgs. Then, in ... Read More