DC Punk Documentary 6:30pm Thursday, June 24 at Affinity Lab in Adams Morgan
Thanks for the info H-DC!
Dance of Days: A Visual History of Punk in DC
Affinity Lab
2451 18th Street, NW
Washington, DC
The history of D.C. punk and hardcore is littered with legendary bands that most music fans have heard of — the Bad Brains, Minor Threat — but broke up in the early ’80s, or seminal acts that formed in the late ’80s or early ’90s but haven’t played together in years (Fugazi, Bikini Kill). Get a multimedia history lesson — or a walk down memory lane — tonight at the Afinity Labs, where Marc Andersen, the author of the scene biography “Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation’s Capital,” will be hosting a video presentation with 70 minutes of classic concert footage and offering commentary about important musical acts from Rites of Spring to the National of Ulysses.
Throw in DJs from Smash and Crooked Beat spinning D.C. bands and free light refreshments and you’ve got one heck of an evening. As D.C. concert-goers might expect, this is a benefit, raising money for We Are Family, a charity that provides groceries, transportation and other assistance to low-income seniors. A $8 donation is suggested.
Cultural Tourism DC’s FREE Walking/BikingTown DC this weekend; May 22 & 23
Wash Syndicate
This weekend Cultural Tourism DC will be holding their Spring 2010 WalkingTown DC and BikingTown DC which in totality includes more than 100 unique, individualized, and speciality tours of our great city.
A full list of all the tours HERE!
FREE tours will be offered on Saturday morning, Saturday afternoon, Sunday morning, and Sunday afternoon throughout the city.
Some select examples of the walking tours are:
Sunday, 10 am – 12 noon ; Tree Tour: Discover Massachusetts Ave. – Union Station to Congressional Cemetery, Meet at Union Station Fountain, center of Union Station traffic circle. End at Congressional Cemetery, 1801 E St., SE.
Sunday, 1 – 3 pm; “If This Street Could Talk” L’ Enfant’s Eighth St. SE and Tour of Marine Barracks Washington 8th and I Sts. 1801– 2010, Meet at Eastern Market Metro Plaza at the top of the escalators. End at Eighth and G Sts., NE
Sunday, 1 – 3 pm; Boom, Bust, and Boom along the Columbia Heights Heritage Trail; Meet and end at 14th and Irving Sts., NW in front of CVS.
Sunday, 2 – 3:30 pm; The United States Capitol Grounds – Olmsted Landscape Tour, Meet at First St. and Independence Ave., SE, outside Library of Congress, Jefferson Bldg. End at First St. and Maryland Ave., SW.
Sunday, 3 – 5 pm; Women’s History in the Shadow of the White House, Meet at National Museum of Women in the Arts, New York Ave. and 13th St., NW. End at Vietnam Veteran’s War Memorial.
Sunday, 4 – 5:30 pm; Beyond The Lost Symbol – Considering the Mall’s Symbols, Meet at Freedom Plaza, opposite the National Theatre, 1321 Pennsylvania Ave., NW. End at 15th St., NW. / Fitness: Moderate
Sunday, 5 – 7 pm; Around the U.S. Capitol, Meet outside Capitol South Metro station. End at U.S. Grant Memorial,
Cultural Tourism will also offer a range of bike tours offered from the “Anacostia: The Ridge and the River” to “The Battle of Fort Stevens, June 1864: From Fort Reno to Fort Totten.”
A full list of all the tours HERE!
Do you remember the Knickerbocker Storm of 1922?
As the snow begins to accumulate The Washington Syndicate takes a look back more than 88 years ago when the apocalyptic Knickerbocker Storm blizzarded and ravaged the metro area and entire eastern seaboard in 1922.
The snow which began on Jan. 26 did not stop until the morning of January 29, with an official snow depth of 28 inches, a single storm snowfall record for Washington, D.C. that still stands today. A snow depth of 33 inches was measured in Rock Creek Park, three miles to the north of Washington’s official weather station, according to weatherbook.com.
On January 28 at 9pm EST during an intermission for the 1916 silent film Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford the flat roof of the 1,700 seat Knickerbocker Theatre at 18th & Columbia Road NW collapsed resulting in 98 deaths and 133 injuries. The rescue effort swelled to more than 600 people by 2:30am. Among the killed in one of the city’s worst tragedies was States Congressman Andrew Jackson Barchfield, a republican from Pennsylvania.
The original theatre was built in 1917 and was then rebuilt in 1923 and christened the Ambassador Theatre by psychedelic shows for hippies and up and coming national rock-n-roll acts which included the Jimi Hendrix Experiance in July 1967. The Ambassador was razed in September 1969.
How will we remember our current storm so as to not confuse with last March’s ”Day of the Ugg Boots 2009?”
Also from: NY Times (PDF circa 1922 article), Capital Weather Gang, Topper Shutt, DCist, Washington Kaleidoscope (great pictures), BiblioMarket, Park View DC (rare vintage youtube video of Knickerbocker), DC Public Policy Examiner, The Hill is Home
Special thanks to Matt Gilmore & H-DC listerv for several of the great above links!
Soldiers removing dead and injured from the Knickerbocker Theatre, after its roof collapse, January 28, 1922. Courtesy of Historical Society of Washington.
Scene after the January 28, 1922 collapse of the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre at Columbia Road and 18th Street NW. Courtesy of Historical Society of Washington
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