Will Lennon

2 weeks ago | washingtoncitypaper.com | Christina Smart |Brandon Wetherbee |Will Lennon |Allison R. Shely

Thanks for being a member of City Paper! It’s been nearly 20 years since Peter Bjorn and John’s “Young Folks” came whistling into our lives, turning into an ubiquitous hit spawning more than a few imitators (I’m talking about you, Foster the People with your “Pumped Up Kicks”). Now the Swedish trio are hitting the road in celebration of Writer’s Block, the 2006 album that spawned the hit, playing the release in its entirety.

1 month ago | washingtoncitypaper.com | Steve Kiviat |Will Lennon |Brandon Wetherbee |Allison R. Shely

Thanks for being a member of City Paper! Since the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979, women have been banned from performing solo concerts and performing for mixed gender audiences in the country. Born in the 1970s, Iranian sisters Mahsa Vahdat and Marjan Vahdat grew up in a house with parents who loved the country’s music and poetry.

1 month ago | washingtoncitypaper.com | Will Lennon

Thanks for being a member of City Paper! The media was saturated for decades with bad faith hyperbole about the dangers of cannabis. But now that more than 17 million people say they use cannabis of one kind or another on a daily basis (or near daily basis), it’s fair to say that the pendulum has swung in the other direction. Weed can’t hurt you, it grows in the dirt. It’s medicine. Anyone who tells you otherwise is pilled on conservative propaganda. Right? Not exactly.

2 months ago | washingtoncitypaper.com | Rebecca Ritzel |Mary Manning |Will Lennon |Brandon Wetherbee |Allison R. Shely

Thanks for being a member of City Paper! DMV choreographers are always moving. Blame the transient nature of D.C.’s job market, which too often pulls artists in and out with their spouses, or area universities that draw MFA students who depart when they graduate. Nejla Yatkin may have moved to Chicago more than a decade ago, but whenever she brings a project back to Dance Place in Brookland, this formerly local dance icon deserves a homecoming party.

2 months ago | washingtoncitypaper.com | Pat Padua |Steve Kiviat |Brandon Wetherbee |Matt S. Siblo |Alan Zilberman |Will Lennon | +1 more

Thanks for being a member of City Paper! Director Nagisa Oshima’s bold 1968 film operates on a devastating premise: What happens when a Korean man sentenced to death in a Japanese court somehow survives the execution? With a title like Death by Hanging and an opening sequence that lays out a case against capital punishment, one braces the emotions for what must inevitably be a laborious two-hour ordeal. Would you believe the movie is absolutely hilarious?