Sponsored Interested in a career in the Federal Government? Develop your English skills with EHLS! We train advanced English speakers to be strong candidates for Federal Jobs. Home | City Lights | Best Of D.C. Washington City Paper has big plans for 2024. Your contributions will help us execute them. By supporting District Line Daily, you show your commitment to independent journalism. Thank you for your continued support. Support Washington City Paper and our newsroom! If you’re not one of the more than 34,000 people in D.C. who hasn’t cast their vote in the Democratic primary, this newsle ..read more

You’ll find more than a few throughlines among the 10 films being screened at the 2024 edition of Spanish Cinema Now, the annual festival that showcases the best in Spanish films. Revenge is a recurring theme, especially in dark comedy Something Is About to Happen and in Hugo Ruíz’s nightmarish character study One Night With Adela. Abortion, which is legal but strictly regulated and contentious in Spain, is at the center of both touching dramedy Mamífera and of Jaione Camborda’s The Rye Horn. You’ll find numerous musical groups, a few films set during Franco’s Spain, and at least two significa ..read more

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With the growth of cryptocurrencies, various new industries have emerged around them. Among them are the crypto betting exchange platforms. You might be asking, what is a crypto sports betting exchange? These are platforms where players do not have to bet online by using fiat currencies but rather use tokens. Thus, the name. One of these revolutionary tokens is the BSGG token by Betswap.gg. Betswap is an online platform that revolutionized online gaming with its original approach. This is a platform where you, players, can enjoy decentralized gambling and sports betting. This means complete an ..read more

D.C.’s all-important Democratic primary is just a few days away on June 4 (and mail-in/early voting is already underway). In a perfect world, you’d have read each and every one of City Paper’s riveting stories on the top races on the ballot throughout this election season. But in case you haven’t, we are trying to sum up everything you need to know about each one, as well as the wildest and weirdest tales from the campaign trail. Catch up on our previous coverage here, here, and here.  The races to stock the District’s shadow delegation generally don’t get much attention, considering that ..read more

Sponsored Interested in a career in the Federal Government? Develop your English skills with EHLS! We train advanced English speakers to be strong candidates for Federal Jobs. Home | City Lights | Best Of D.C. Washington City Paper has big plans for 2024. Your contributions will help us execute them. By supporting District Line Daily, you show your commitment to independent journalism. Thank you for your continued support. Support Washington City Paper and our newsroom! What comes to mind when you think of D.C.’s music? Go-go, obviously. Jazz, certainly. Punk, most definitely. Country? Not ..read more

The flaws in Ezra are obvious despite its quest to not sound like a typical dramedy. The characters are foulmouthed, and yet they resort to familiar platitudes at the exact moments you would expect. Director Tony Goldwyn and screenwriter Tony Spiridakis set up a scene and do not always go for the obvious payoff, and yet there are several saccharine moments that barely resemble actual human behavior. The cast is impressive, full of heavy hitters who don’t typically appear in fare like this, and yet this is the kind of film that makes you think they should fire their agents or get better taste ..read more

D.C. is a city of many musical modes. You can listen closely for its proud go-go heritage, its rich history in jazz, and its genre-defining punk movement. But if you lean in closer, you can also hear country music announcing itself in its own equally potent line. Enter D.C.-based band Heaven Forbid, making what they call “country music for city people.” Since the group formed in 2019, members Baby Bry Bry (guitar), Tennessee Dave (pedal steel), Tommy “The Chillbilly” Sherrod (lead guitar), “Lazy Adam” Stern (drums), and Xaq Rothman (bass) (all vocalists) have brought deep country traditions to ..read more

D.C.’s all-important Democratic primary is just a few days away on June 4 (and mail-in/early voting is already underway). In a perfect world, you’d have read each and every one of City Paper’s riveting stories on the top races on the ballot throughout this election season. But in case you haven’t, we are trying to sum up everything you need to know about each one, as well as the wildest and weirdest tales from the campaign trail. Check back each day this week for a story on another race, and catch up on our previous coverage here and here. At-Large Councilmember Robert White and Ward 8 Council ..read more

Friday and Saturday: Brazilian Guitar Masters Festival at Miracle Theatre and Catholic University This weekend offers an opportunity to hear Brazilian masters of guitar from two different generations, who each bring their own unique songcraft touches: Yamandu Costa and João Bosco. Costa, 44 is a Latin Grammy-winning instrumentalist who plays a seven-string acoustic guitar rather than the customary six-string model. Raised in the southern grasslands area of Brazil, not far from Uruguay and Argentina, Costa, who initially was taught by his dad, has become acclaimed for his speedy, high-pitched f ..read more