DJS YELLOW FEVER and LOVE! AMERICAN STYLE! 07.10.07

: What does DJs Yellow Fever look for in a dog?
A: Tenderness!

tonight Brian, Nick & Kalani pretend to DJ reggae, dancehall, acid folk, garage, soul, groove, hip hop, and the best in adult contemporary!

ALERT!!!!!****** The DCScene (part of NBC4) is coming down to document the
genius that is Yellow Fever. Look good, come early, stay late, get famous... ly
drunk

TONIGHT!!!!! FREE AIR CONDITIONING!
>>>>> DJs YELLOW FEVER (Manila Ice & Poo Poo Platter/ToolboxDC)>>>>>
w/ their trusty manservant: THE PUNANI SOUNDSYSTEM (Gypsy Eyes Records/ESL
Music)

St. Ex: TUES 7/10/07 10pm-close
Tonight & every other Tuesday @ Cafe St Ex.(@ overly gentrified 14th/T St
NW DC!)
NO cover. NO weekend warriors. NO EXCUSES!

FORT RENO THIS WEEK!

Monday, 07.09.07
GREENLAND
STATEHOOD
KITTYHAWK

Thursday, 07.12.07
MARY TIMONY
MEDICATIONS
THE CHARM OFFENSIVE

fort reno
Always fun, always free! Come say hi to my little sister, it’s her first Reno! Awwwwwwwwwwwww….

AERIALIST. Sunday at the Cat! 07.08.07

low key. low fi. a lil' low to blow your mind.
Black Cat/backstage
9P/$7
w/the Hold Up
Sunday/Funday.


listen!
aerialist

Frida! A selection of Photos & Letters at NMWA

OPENS TODAY!!!

Frida Kahlo: Public Image, Private Life. A Selection of Photographs
and Letters
July 6, 2007 - October 14, 2007

"Celebrating Kahlo’s 100th birthday, the exhibition includes the museum’s prized possession, Kahlo’s Self-portrait Dedicated to Leon Trotsky, 23 photographs of Kahlo by various artists, 10 of Kahlo’s unpublished personal letters to family and friends from The Nelleke Nix and Marianne Huber Collection: The Frida Kahlo Papers and 12 never-before-seen photographs of Kahlo’s private bathroom at the Casa Azul. Among the photographs will be a new collection of images by Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide of Kahlo’s private bathroom at the Casa Azul and its contents, which were sealed until fifty years after her death. The combination of these materials will provide a stimulating context for exploring the relationship between Frida’s colorful, mexicanista image and the difficult realities of her personal life."


national museum for women in the arts

Black Cat tonight! DC gets SORTED!!! 07.06.07

Have you recovered from the 4th yet? Wanna burn off those beers and burgers you sucked down this week? Philly brings it (LARGE) to the Cat tonight, with SORTED (a Philadelphia DJ Nite fave for my dancemakers up I-95).

TONITE/9P-Lights on!

STEREO FAITH
Strobelights and Seizures (This is Computer Music) tracklist

SHAWN RYAN
Hurrah June Mix (06.19.07) tracklist
Disco, house, and other tweaked-out, ass-shakin Hurrah delights.

Ritalin Felony Charges (12.06.06) tracklist
An improvised dance mix to make Laura Miller "work it" in the rain.

SpazzPowerOldies (01.14.07) tracklist
Old post-punk type goodies prepared for the January Hurrah.

SICKO in theaters now.

I know this came out last week, but I've been preoccupied with all of the things I constantly write about.

"If you want to stay healthy in America, don't get sick. Following on the heels of his controversial, award-winning features Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine, director Michael Moore sets out to investigate the American health care system, and the 45 million Americans who have no health care despite living in the richest country on earth. Sticking to his tried-and-true one-man approach, Moore sheds light on the complicated medical affairs of individuals and local communities alike—and is every bit as illuminating as in his previous films."


SICKO is now showing at Landmark's Bethesda Row AND E Street Cinemas.
Landmark Theaters

official website:
SICKO

Bellman Barker, Bang! A Wonderland Proclamation 07.04.07

For those of you still able to stand after making the rounds at today's bbqs o'plenty (I'm speaking for myself here...), swing on by the lovely Wonderland Ballroom. Bellman Barker will be crooning country covers and Kat will be slinging spirits...

wonderland ballroom
10PM
FREE

happy 4th!!!

brazilian beat brooklyn

wednesday is a federal holiday.

you dont work on federal holidays.

ergo, you dont work on wednesday, july 4th.

you should celebrate this mid-week reprieve with a tuesday night celebration.

come on, youve earned it!

when: tuesday, july 3

where: eighteenth street lounge

come for dj neville c (spinning 9-11pm), stay for brazilian beat brooklyn.

celebrate your freedom by parting into the night.

fort reno funday: f*cked up, got ambushed, zip in

fort reno: exterminating your case of "the mondays" since 1967.

this week: faux fugazi reunion

monday: the evens and joe lally

time: 7:15 - 9:30 pm

what to bring: friends, babies, dogs, whole foods picnic

what not to bring: booze, 'tude

it'll be like this:

(fugazi, fort reno 1997)

except not at all.

Planet Unicorn, Heyyyy

"That's back to better."

art in heat

Join an eclectic mix of 18 emerging and established artists from theDC area, as well as The Lobsterboy Revue for Art in Heat! Opening night festivities are June 30, 7pm, at the Warehouse and will run late into the hot summer night. Lobsterboy will be on hand at 8pm and 11pm with his "Tiki Party from Hell." DJ Adam will be keeping the party-going in the upstairs gallery.

The selected artists represent the best of DC's Outsider, Lowbrow, and Pop Surrealist artists. They're notable for creating work that's fun,twisted, sexy, and just plain wrong. Featuring: Ed Bisese, Chris Bishop, Scott G. Brooks, Lisa Brotman, Anna U. Davis, Jared Davis,Alan Defibaugh, Margaret Dowell, Dana Ellyn, Gregory Ferrand, Linas Garsys, Laurel Hausler, Candace Keegan, John Lancaster, Emily Greene Liddle, Albert Schweitzer, Matt Sesow, and Ben Tolman.

Art in Heat will unofficially kick-off this year's second annual Capital Fringe, which opens July 19th along the 7th Street corridor.The Warehouse is a popular venue and meeting place for Fringe, and Art in Heat is the perfect appetizer.

what: art in heat, The Lobsterboy Revue presents "Tiki Party from Hell"

when: opening reception, saturday june 30th

time: 8 and 11 pm

where: warehouse arts complex, 1021 7th st n.w.

The French say: "Electro-mix happy hour" 07.28

i.e., good music & drinking with redeeming qualities such as super-sweet cutting-edge dance performances by a member of CityDance ensemble, Kyra Green.















Come out to Eyebar (1716 I Street NW) on Thursday (pre-Modernist Society!) to mingle with the most charming of all accented-English-speakers, the French.

I asked my friend Sylvain, who is the founder & coordinator of these events, what made an ipod battle (part of the evening's festivites) so special - we've had them here before... To which he replied that this ipod battle was being conducted by "fancy-naked francophones". Judging from his grasp of English, I don't this they will actually be naked, but they will definitely be fancy.

Soiree Carte Blanche

dylanesque. bryan ferry. new music tuesday! 06.26.07

he's an icon.
he is also an icon.
Bryan Ferry, the unassuming perfection of Dylan personification...The Roxy Music fans of the eighties never would have never imagined the hip, dance, stylized vocals could convey political disillusion so well... It's like Ferry is singing in the closet, only to be discovered by us! looking down upon him, crosslegged on the floor with a microphone and a 45. Sheepish and adoring... singing his heart out. Its what we've always wanted. The perfect amalgamation of early eighties synth-rock-sound with the desparate bleat of the beat of sixties frustration and call for awareness. It's two great tastes that taste great together.


DYLAN. FERRY.
FEEL IT.
DYLANESQUE. available now on amazon

new music tuesday. BAD BRAINS!!!!!

i hate assholes. I hate people that feel so bad about themselves that they have to hate on you. those people are the polar opposite of bad brains.

brains.
you've empowered me since I was a wee lass.
was it 14?? 13? when you came into my life and destroyed every perception of hardcore that I had come to know? Everything strong, everything that couldn't be expressed in words, was felt with a dr. know riff and the knowing, heart wrenching vocals of HR. you soothed me. to this day, I wince at "Youth are Getting Restless, live at the Paradiso"... feeling all of the angst and joy and pain that I knew you had endured; you were my youth and you were my future.

the brains are back.

"Build a Nation is the eighth proper full-length studio album from hardcore punk and reggae pioneers Bad Brains. Produced by Ad Rock of the Beastie Boys & released on June 26, 2007.

Along with being available on CD the album will also be released on a yellow, green, and red multi-colored vinyl record."

DON'T SLEEP.

MODERNIST SOCIETY is back!!! 06.28.07

The Modernist Society: re-invented, recharged and redoubtable!

New location, new format, new attitude.

On the last Thursday of each month, The Modernist Society gathers for an evening of drinking, dancing, and discourse. Early evening chats with our favorite movers and shakers soon give way to djs D-Mac and Neville C, spinning soul, funk and international future classics.

Brought to you by themodernist.com

We're off to a splashy start with Vice Magazine's travel correspondent Trace Crutchfield, who's reported on some very unique destinations. Paparazzi is expected so be ready to make the scene. Help us enter this new modernist era with momentum!

Thursday, June 28 at 8pm
a conversation with: Trace Crutchfield Vice Magazine / VBS.TV / viceland.com
[complementary HENDRICK'S cocktails from 8-9pm]

Bourbon
2321 18th Street NW
Washington DC
202.332.0800
bourbon dc

for our Philly brethren! TUGBOAT/Photo exhibit 06.28.07

JUNE PHOTO NIGHT OUT / PHILLY 2007!

This Thursday (June 28) at 8 p.m. Ted Adams will be showing a series of photographs that he took aboard tugboat Nancy McAllister over the course of the past year.

WHERE?
It's happening at The Pen & Pencil Club
1522 Latimer Street, Philadelphia

The event is sponsored by The Philadelphia Conference photojournalism organization. For information, check out this link: philadelphia conference

(You don't have to be a member of P&P -- just ring the buzzer in the foyer and someone will let you in. Tell them you're there for the photography event.)



JUNE PHOTO NIGHT OUT
FEATURING TED ADAMS and JOSEPH VAN BLUNK
8:00 PM, Thur., June 28, 2007
This series of photographs taken aboard tugboat Nancy McAllister started as a collaboration between photographer Ted Adams and filmmaker/writer Joseph Van Blunk. In Van Blunk's Second Street neighborhood, long famous for Mummers and politicians, the lore and employment provided by the Delaware River waterfont have created a backdrop for residents' lives since the 18th century. Van Blunk himself works as a longshoreman -- and thanks to his brother Bob, Captain of tugboat Nancy, they were able to shoot this series.

The presentation evokes feelings of life on the river rather than the nuts-and-bolts documentation of operating a tugboat, but also provides plenty of material for those who are interested in boats from a technical perspective. Members of the tugboat crew will also be present to answer questions.

tonight!! Yellow Fever at St. Ex! 06.26.07

Q- What do you get when you cross a Chinese cat with an alley cat?
A- A Peking Tom!


!tonight!
Brian, Nick & Kalani pretend to DJ reggae, dancehall, acid folk, garage, soul, groove, hip hop, and the best in adult contemporary!

TONIGHT!!!!! FREE AIR CONDITIONING!
>>>>> DJs YELLOW FEVER (Manila Ice & Poo Poo Platter/ToolboxDC)>>>>> w/ their trusty manservant: THE PUNANI SOUNDSYSTEM (Gypsy Eyes Records/ESL Music)
ALSO w/ DJ Extra-Special-Super-Secret-Guest!

St. Ex: TUES 6/26/07
10pm-close
Tonight & every other Tuesday @ Cafe St Ex.(@ beyond overly gentrified 14th/T St NW DC!)

NO cover. NO weekend warriors. NO EXCUSES!

Fort Reno this week! 06.25 & 06.28

THIS WEEK:

Monday, June 25, 2007
LeJeune, Pup Tent, Engine Room

Thursday, June 28, 2007
Mess Up the Mess, The Sentiment, Julie Ocean

SHOWS BEGIN PROMPTLY AT 7:15 AND END AT 9:30
FREE!!!
YES: DOGS, BABIES, FRIENDS
NO: BOOZE, DRUGS OR GLASS BOTTLES

fort reno 2007

RUN FOR COVER VI PICTURES are posted!

We sang along to our favorite songs, we raised our fists with smiles on our faces... The air in the Black Cat was thick with nostalgia last night.... and love.


thanks to all of the bands that played this year, you guys ruled!

I've uploaded all of the pictures that I took last night to my flickr account. They are in order and completely unedited. enjoy.

RUN FOR COVER VI PIX!

UNSANE. RnRHotel. TONIGHT! 06.23.07

also tonight!
UNSANE
400 BLOWS
MOUTH OF THE ARCHITECT
WOOLY MAMMOTH.
If I weren't already going to Run for Cover, I'd be at this show. Hell, I might send my clone over. JHOCK, MH and I took a rock-n-road trip to Philly last month and were fortunate enough to see this exact line up (sans Wooly Mammoth). The boys ripped it and 400 Blows made my jaw drop.

ROCK AND ROLL HOTEL
1353 H St NE
the low, low price of $10 ($2.50 per band. cheap!)
9:30
rock and roll hotel