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Come On Down!
First stop: Sleepy's mattress store. Next stop: The Price Is Right.
The City By Jason Cherkis

Buyer's Market
This Week: Sold! To the lucky tenant!
The City By Ruth Samuelson

A Long Recess
Gym teacher Francis Bolden clocked by student, DCPS
The City By Dena Levitz

Buyer's Market
This Week: Now 28 percent cheaper!
The City By Ruth Samuelson
Vote 2008: In On the Joke in D.C.
Why run a real campaign when there's no real power?
The City By Angela Valdez
Buyer's Market
This Week: Don't worry about the mold, we just need it sold!
The City By Ruth Samuelson
May I Have This Dance?
Area woman looking for love, free dance lessons
Cover Story By Arin Greenwood

Children's Crusade
What kind of single father is Jack Evans?
Loose Lips By Mike DeBonis

The Martial Plan
Derrick Nowlin fights his way into film.
Show & Tell By Amanda Hess

Line Items
Queuing up for profits at FedExField
Cheap Seats By Dave McKenna

Some Kind of Zombie
Cecil gets the straight dope on killing the undead.
The Straight Dope By Cecil Adams
In Weenie Veritas
Why wine-lovers should avoid wine bars
Young & Hungry By Tim Carman
Threesome Kind of Wonderful
How not to get a third. Plus: Dan loves the word "douchebags".
Savage Love By Dan Savage
The Good Losers
For Spingarn football, winning is nowhere near the only thing.
Cheap Seats By Dave McKenna

700 Block of 7th Street NW, August 5
Page 3 Photo By Darrow Montgomery

Staff Blog: City Desk
Our Morning Roundup
Aug. 28, 2008, at 5:49 am
Music Blog: Black Plastic Bag
D.C.: Rock’s Wet Blanket
Aug. 27, 2008, at 4:41 pm

Who Went With Party Unity? Ickes, for One
These superdelegates had at one time endorsed Hillary Clinton, but ended up casting their votes for Barack Obama: Most prominently: Harold Ickes,...
Aug. 27, 2008, at 7:20 pm

"My Name Is Jason"
To Friday, August 29, at Hillyer Art Space
Meet the Jasons. Jason One, aka Jason Reynolds, is a poet who doesn’t mince words. “Art? Art.” is a series of small frames containing terse phrases that are easy to imagine the...
“The Great American Epic: Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series”
To Sunday, Oct. 26, at the Phillips Collection
Jacob Lawrence was an artist, not a writer, but the 60-painting “Migration Series” sums up the African-American struggle in its final pane with a sentence so perfectly succinct and telling of...
Diebenkorn in New Mexico
To Sept. 7 at the Phillips Collection
It’s not just color that sets Richard Diebenkorn’s New Mexico works apart from the rest of his oeuvre, though their hues could come from nowhere else. Diebenkorn, a Californian who first dabbled in...

Hoods & Services: Your Guide to D.C.'s Communities

In Search of a Midnight Kiss and Frozen River: Once More With Failing
Two movies on the extremes we'll go to for love.
Film Review By Tricia Olszewski
Germ Limits
Shane West makes a great Darby Crash. But the film is a wreck.
Film Review By Tricia Olszewski
The Sackness
Reviewed: Baghead
Film Review By Tricia Olszewski

In Weenie Veritas
Why wine-lovers should avoid wine bars
Young & Hungry By Tim Carman
Boss Sauce
The VIP condiment that isn't even close to soy
Young & Hungry By Tim Carman

Club the Right Way
Reviewed: Tittsworth's Twelve Steps
Music Review By Sarah Godfrey
One Track Mind
This Week: Rambling Shadows' "TNTH"
Music By Aaron Leitko
A Bold Vein
Reviewed: Vordul Mega's Megagraphitti
Music Review By Ben Westhoff

American Beauties
From Elizabeth I to Jerry Spring: No one is safe.
Theater Review By Glen Weldon
Mystery Meet
Strangers get stranger in Kathleen Akerley's mournful and enigmatic new play.
Theater Review By Trey Graham
Good Grief
At Olney, a family’s agony laid bare, beautifully
Theater Review By Trey Graham

The Martial Plan
Derrick Nowlin fights his way into film.
Show & Tell By Amanda Hess
What's Your Problem?
This Week: Self-Publishing Without Being a Self-Publisher
What's Your Problem? By Amanda Hess
Work Is Hell
Goth? Stuck in an office job? She can help.
Show & Tell By Amanda Hess