This weekend brings that pukiest of holidays St. Patrick’s Day. Somehow the feast day for the patron saint of both Old Sod and New York City has become an excuse to drink your face off and/or eat things which normally are not green but have since been dyed green. Why? I have no idea. As an Irish […]
Okay so what do we have on tap for this weekend? Tonight at the Atlas the Great Noise Ensemble presents Mark Sylvester’s Banjo Camber Concerto and the DC premiere of Ted Hearne‘s very intense pop, jazz and hip-hop infused cantata. There’s even a number called “Heckuva job Brownie.” The concert begins at 8 p.m. and […]
As I sat down to compile the weekly ‘To Do’ list, I just could not do it. I honestly could not summon the will to yammer on about concerts and gallery openings. It still feels too superficial and silly. This is problematic because arts-related yammering is a lot of what I do for the Atlas. […]
It’s the weekend before Halloween, so this is generally the time the grown ups get to have fun, be it at a neighbor’s Halloween party or something at one of our local watering holes. Be sure to visit Backstage, as it is their last Halloween in the neighborhood. Next year, we’ll be trekking to the […]
I’m not going to make any assumptions that we have collectively healed from last Friday’s night brutal, painful and heartbreaking loss. No, my first foray into sports fandom has caused me to experience an existential crisis and I fear I can’t bear to do it all over again. Mercifully we don’t have to. Not for […]