Tonight: Graphic novelist Adrian Tomine at Politics & Prose, 7pm. Tomorrow: Brilliant Canadian rapper Cadence Weapon, who is sick enough to flow over bizarro electroclash beats and make it sound perfectly natural, at DC9.

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Conservative blogger Ace and I may not agree on a whole lot, but we do agree on the value of a good hand of Hold ‘Em. If you’re at CPAC this weekend and think you might be inclined to repair to the bar for a little low-stakes poker during the late-afternoon doldrums, holler.

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Ezra sez: Occasionally, I get e-mails from folks moving to DC and asking what’s worth doing. In general, I mean to reply to these e-mail with something along the lines of “never go out in Adams Morgan or Dupont Circle.” I tend to forget to do that. But Gridskipper has a good list of soul-sucking, […]

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I’m looking for a large cardboard box, one big enough for a person to fit entirely inside with a bit of room to spare—which is to say, roughly refrigerator sized. If you have such a thing (just bought an item of furniture, maybe?) and want it taken off your hands, it would be an invaluable […]

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Brooklyn’s A Place to Bury Strangers are playing the cozy Black Cat backstage on Wednesday night, for the preposterously low price of $7. You can check them out at the link above or download a mini-album gratis. If you’re planning on hitting the AFF Happy Hour with economist and terrifyingly-erudite culture maven Tyler Cowen (of […]

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My friend Emily passes along a report in The Washington Post of a highly unusual hold-up at a Capitol Hill dinner party. When an armed robber burst onto the back patio and demanded money, a woman improbably nicknamed “Cha-Cha” replied that, as they were just finishing dinner, he should join them for a glass of […]

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Well, this is about eight kinds of fucked up.

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The DC Madam’s telephone records are now available for public consumption, but not in a particularly easily-searched format. So if you’re dying to check whether a particular number is found in the Book of Life, you can go to DCPhoneList.com.

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Ron Paul supporters will be staging a short rally at the Mayflower Hotel on Friday at about 12:15, when the candidate will be recording an interview with George Stephanopoulos for The Week. E-mail this guy if you think you can make it out.

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