Going Out Gurus - D.C. Entertainment Dispatches - July 15, 2007

Restaurant Week Tips

In yesterday's Got Plans? chat, a reader hungering for some food deals wrote in with this question: Arlington, Va.: Some friends and I are hoping to take advantage of Restaurant Week, but one member of the group is a vegetarian....

By Erin | July 20, 2007; 5:45 PM ET | Permalink | Comments (2)
Categories: Restaurants
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New Music From Local Bands

In the latest installment of this irregular series, find out about (and listen to) new local music. This edition features Baltimore's finest roadhouse rockers, J Roddy Walston and the Business, Maryland hip-hop crew Educated Consumers and promising post-punkers Zulu Pearls....

By David Malitz | July 20, 2007; 11:15 AM ET | Permalink | Comments (0)
Categories: Music
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Uptown Rumors to Rest ... For Now

Washington, D.C. movie lovers were ready to throw their popcorn in protest after hearing rumors that Fairfax County's McLean Bible Church would soon purchase the beloved AMC Loews Uptown. Turns out those rumors are not true; the projectors will continue...

By Jen Chaney | July 19, 2007; 2:12 PM ET | Permalink | Comments (0)
Categories: Movies
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Nightlife Agenda Pick of the Week

Rock'em Sock'em Robots is one of the coolest toys ever -- the 1960s version of "Mike Tyson's Punch Out." The robot-shaped boxers have been making a comeback lately -- seen those Dodge Ram truck ads? -- and Mattel has reissued...

By Fritz Hahn | July 19, 2007; 11:00 AM ET | Permalink | Comments (1)
Categories: Bars and Clubs
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News to Digest

There's a lot of food to be excited about this week. Chocolate-lovers can embrace the return of decadence -- or at least its cooler cousin -- at the Ritz-Carlton, while several places are cooking up magical treats for Harry Potter...

By Erin | July 18, 2007; 3:33 PM ET | Permalink | Comments (1)
Categories: Restaurants
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MySpace and the Movies

Time to kick someone out of your top 8. Omnipresent social networking site MySpace is teaming up with Sony Pictures to offer a preview screening of "Superbad," the soon-to-be-released comedy about the ever-popular film topic: high-school nerds trying to get...

By Julia Beizer | July 16, 2007; 5:06 PM ET | Permalink | Comments (0)
Categories: Movies
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