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Album Review: Laura Tsaggaris' Keep Talking

Despite what they say about first impressions, in music it's the second impression that can be the most important. Call it what you want, the sophomore jinx or the sophomore slump, the second album determines whether an artist can match his or her ...

From MATT SEDLAR, DCist,  2 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Proof (musician),  Kelly Clarkson,  Clay Aiken

Update on Marissa

Last August, we wrote about Marissa, a 19-month-old baby girl living in Annandale, Virginia, who was diagnosed at two months with a rare pediatric condition called Infantile Spasms (IS). IS is a type of epilepsy experienced in infancy that causes ...

From MATT SEDLAR, DCist,  1 Jul 2009

Aliens to Invade D.C. in The Conduit

There must be a lot of angry D.C.-area commuters working as video game developers these days. In last year's Fallout 3, Bethesda Softworks turned the greater D.C. area into a wasteland, reducing a transit system closely resembling Metro to a series of ...

From MATT SEDLAR, DCist,  1 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Bethesda Softworks,  Ford Motor Company

Album Review: Things Are Getting Sinister and Sinisterer

It's difficult to describe Edie Sedgwick without using the word "strange." No, we're not talking about the actress who starred in Andy Warhol's short films in the 1960s and died of ethanol intoxication. We're talking about Antelope vocalist Justin ...

From MATT SEDLAR, DCist,  14 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Edie Sedgwick,  Andy Warhol,  Ol' Dirty Bastard (musician),  Ian MacKaye,  Angelina Jolie

Reader, Meet Author

DCist is a website about Washington, D.C. More City Paper Parent has filed for bankrupcy. what a shock! DCist,  29 Sep 2008

Related Topics: Dexter Filkins,  National Geographic

Local Family Launches Global Effort for Disease Awareness

Marissa’s infantile spasm seizures aren’t the same as a “stereotypical” grand mal seizure — they come in clusters, with each individual seizure lasting a couple of seconds. She can have as few as three or as many as fifty nine seizures per cluster. The ...

From MATT SEDLAR, DCist,  27 Aug 2008
Related Topics: Penny Arcade

DCist Book Review: The Dog at the Signpost

A simple interpretation of "Chekhov's gun," a literary device made popular by author and playwright Anton Chekhov, is that if there's a gun in a story, at some point somebody should fire it. In other words, every detail in a story, no matter how small, ...

From MATT SEDLAR, DCist,  22 Aug 2008
Related Topics: Anton Chekhov,  Chuck Palahniuk

Yet Another Local Band Calls it Quits

It is with a heavy heart that we announce this: Telograph has come to an end. We want to thank everyone for their support over the years - we will never forget the experiences we've had and the people we have met along the way. Many thanks to the ...

From MATT SEDLAR, DCist,  20 Aug 2008

Launch of D.C. Literary Site Canceled

It is with a heavy heart that I deliver news of Hitotoki D.C.'s demise. Unfortunately, we were unable to gather enough quality submissions over the last six months to muster enough for launch and the head editors have taken down removed our page ...

From MATT SEDLAR, DCist,  24 Jun 2008

Album Review: The Fairline Parkway's A Memory of Open Spaces

With June inevitably comes summer music. We're not just talking about the catchy pop singles you blast on your car radio with the windows rolled down, but also the songs that seem to drift from the speakers during those late-night talks with your ...

From MATT SEDLAR, DCist,  13 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Lou Barlow

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