LiveDC: Minus The Bear @ 930 club
One of the main benefits of revisiting a classic album like Highly Refined Pirates is that the crowd intimately knew and relished each and every song....
PHOTOS: Transformer 10 Year Anniversary
all photos: Julia Benton
Celebrating synergy and youth in DC's art world, TRANSFORMER and CORCORAN are pairing up for two companion shows this month, celebra...
PHOTOS: Brett Dennen @ 930 Club
California iconoclast Brett Dennen's music is strangely captivating. In all honesty, his voice is just pretty annoying, but yet I consider myself to be a big fa...
LiveDC: Echo and The Bunnymen @ 930 Club
all words: Jenn Bress
all photos: Julia Benton
It’s been years since I’ve seen Echo and the Bunnymen. They last time they came through DC, they played at t...
PHOTOS: 52 O Street Open Studios
all photos: Julia Benton
Last weekend the artists at 52 O Street studios opened their doors to public. Julia Benton took some photos and for more information...
LiveDC: Peter, Bjorn & John @ 930 Club
One could probably tell walking in that it was going to be a memorable night...
PHOTOS: Family Hemerlein HOT APRIL SHOWERS Edition
all photos: Julia Benton
Family Hemerlein is always a firendly affair, but this month it was a best-friendly time: BEN KRONBERG returned for the 3rd time and...
PHOTOS: Family Hemerlein Ladies Night Edition
all photos: Julia Benton
Another Family Hemerlein, another night for the ages. After a couple of months packed with testosterone (albeit, very talented testo...
LiveDC: Pat Jordache @ Black Cat
But Pat Jordache was. Holy Shit. (and then it kept getting better)...
PHOTOS: Wild Combination @ The New Place
THAT'S US is a new kid on the DC art block aiming to bring art salons to the masses and this past weekend they curated a show, first of several, featuring young DC artists ...
PHOTOS: Paisean Faisean
This past Monday, the ever plucky Irish cultural cheerleader in DC Solas Nua brought us an exclusive night of Irish (naturally) couture......
PHOTOS: Juan Tejedor’s “Standing Atop The Ladder” @ Flashpoint
using concrete facts & known data (metro routes, crime rates, migration and star charts, to name a few) to inspire footloose & fancy free improvisations of the abstract form...
PHOTOS: Anais Mitchell’s Hadestown @ Sixth & I
post-apocalyptic, depression era America meets Ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice meets your favorite indie rock stars...
PHOTOS: Rosemary Feit Covey’s “Death of the Fine Art Print” @ Morton Fine Art
When is an image no longer art?...
PHOTOS: Lauren Rice’s Heirlooms @ Transformer
People packed into Transformer last Saturday for the opening of Lauren Rice's show Heirlooms. The tiny gallery presents Lauren's installation work which referen...
