Macbeth’s climax rests on a witchy technicality that has always felt like it belongs more to 20th-century screenwriting than 17th-century drama: Its power-mad, prophecy-enabled protagonist, having already slain his king and arranged the murder of his comrade in arms, is emboldened to order the deaths of rival Macduff and the man’s wife and children after being assured by the soothsaying weird sisters that “none of woman born shall harm” him. It’s a big reveal two acts later when Macduff, a few lines before cutting off Macbeth’s head, indulges in a bit of autobiography, declaring to Macbeth tha ..read more

Let’s go, queers! The 2024 lineup for the All Things Go Music Festival just dropped, and the lineup is filled with massive pop performers, most of whom identify as queer.  The independent music festival returns to Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia on Sept. 28 and 29, for the 10th anniversary of All Things Go. Clearly the organizers at I.M.P. have gone all out with their eclectic lineup in celebration of the event.  Headliners for the festival include pop princess Reneé Rapp (who just performed on the mainstage at Coachella this weekend), indie darling Hozier (fresh off his sold ..read more

Across the DMV, theater fans are buzzing with the anticipation of what will take center stage in the 2024–25 season. Programming for the current season (2023–24) will run through the early summer, but several local theaters have already made grand gestures to announce and promote their upcoming season. This year features world premieres, Broadway transfers, and more than one noteworthy name in the process. Last year, we highlighted some of the key takeaways for the current season, noting that D.C. theaters were gearing up for a “long journey ahead” to recover from the pandemic. In September,&n ..read more

With less than two months until the Ward 7 Council primary wraps up, Wendell Felder has been hit with more than his fair share of slings and arrows. But he doesn’t mind. “As the front-runner, with all this momentum, more attacks are starting to come my way,” he tells Loose Lips. That might sound bold, but Felder probably has reason for optimism. He won the closely watched straw poll run by the Ward 7 Democrats, the organization he used to chair, and the group promptly followed up with a formal endorsement. He picked up some key labor support via the influential 32BJ chapter of the Service Empl ..read more

A group of pro-Palestinian activists in Crystal City chained themselves together, and then to the lobby doors of the offices of Lockheed Martin, a security and aerospace product manufacturer that has contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense. The protesters began with a march Monday morning starting at Boeing’s corporate headquarters on Long Beach Drive in Arlington. Activists then overtook the street outside of the Lockheed Martin building on Crystal Drive to protest the defense contractor and its contracts with the U.S. military. The action was part of other similar demonstrations a ..read more

In the early morning of Dec. 30, 2023, 18-year-old D.C. resident Dekhota Evans was fatally shot in an alley on the 500 block of Florida Avenue NW. Evans’ murder was the District’s final homicide of 2023, marking the end to the deadliest year in D.C. in more than two decades. D.C. ended the year as an outlier on violent crime among major U.S. cities. The 274 people killed last year was the most since 1997. Violent crime overall increased by nearly 40 percent, and carjackings skyrocketed.  More than 85 percent of homicides in 2023 were instances of gun violence, whereas firearms accounted ..read more

WienerAI ($WAI) is hitting its stride at the perfect moment for AI and meme coins. With the backdrop of Bitcoin and Ethereum nearing their all-time highs, AI coins pumping across the market, and new meme coins seemingly 10,000x-ing overnight–there’s a funny looking dog coin that might just make it go stratospheric in the coming weeks. While the old dogs like DOGE and SHIB seem to move in lock-step with the rest of the market, traders seem to be finding the real money in the lesser known meme coins–and AI tokens. Currently, there are 8 AI tokens in the top 100 by market cap–while there are 6 me ..read more

The crypto industry has recently seen the start of a new ICO by a classic crypto platform known as 99Bitcoins. This platform has posted educational crypto-related content for over a decade, starting in 2013. Its new crypto ICO will introduce a token named after the platform — 99Bitcoins (99BTC) — the use case of which is to provide rewards for those who educate themselves on all things crypto using 99Bitcoins’ platform. About 99Bitcoins The 99Bitcoins ICO started on April 10 at presale.99bitcoins.com, offering its token, 99BTC, for $0.001 per unit. There are 99 billion tokens in total, but onl ..read more

The Scorpion Casino (SCORP) project has distinguished itself in the market by offering immersive and lucrative gaming and casino experiences. Its remarkable success can be attributed to its prominent position within the rapidly expanding crypto casino sector. The SCORP presale, advancing swiftly, is attracting a multitude of investors with appealing incentive structures such as a substantial $250,000 giveaway and daily USDT staking. Here, we provide comprehensive details about this project, including information on the presale, the diverse reward systems, and the features of the ecosystem. Sco ..read more

Three D.C. men have been indicted on charges related to a carjacking and robbery crime spree that lasted multiple weeks and involved one of the men climbing through a McDonald’s drive-through window in a failed attempt to steal the cash register, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for D.C. The spree ultimately ended March 28, after a police shooting in Prince George’s County inside a GameStop. The three men, Kanard Bishop, 26, Edward LeRoy Brown, 24, and Khalil Boyd, 18, have all been indicted for charges related to the spree. Filed in U.S. District Court for D.C. Apri ..read more